Testing Bits – 5/29/16 – 6/4/16

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 5/29/16 – 6/4/16.

Articles & Blogs

• AMA: embedded QA specialists? – Alister Scott – https://watirmelon.com/2016/05/30/ama-embedded-qa-specialists/
• Are Test Cases Dead (…yet)? – Beren Van Daele – https://enquiretst.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/are-test-cases-dead-yet/
• Blog: The Honest Manual Writer Heuristic – Michael Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2016/05/the-honest-manual-writer-heuristic/
• Don’t Guess Your Tests—Strive for Complete Requirements – Nishi Grover Garg – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/don-t-guess-your-tests-strive-complete-requirements
• Giving a Voice to the Women Who Test: An Interview with Alison Wade – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/giving-voice-women-who-test-interview-alison-wade?page=0%2C0
• How Much Detail is Too Much? – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/how-much-detail-is-too-much/
• Interview with Maria Kedemo – Nicola Owen – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2016/06/interview-with-maria-kedemo.html

• Just because you can automate everything … doesn’t mean you should – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2016/05/just-because-you-can-automate.html
• Leave the testing to the experts! – Anne-Marie Charrett – http://mavericktester.com/archive/leave-the-testing-to-the-experts/
• Nuance on leaving testing to the experts – Anne-Marie Charrett – http://mavericktester.com/archive/nuance-to-leave-testing-to-the-experts/
• Principles of Agile Testing – Alex Kell – https://managetotest.com/2016/06/01/principles-of-agile-testing/
• Programmers make great testers – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/06/programmers-make-great-testers.html
• QA Inbreeding – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/qa-inbreeding/
• Reinventing Testers and Testing to prepare for the Future – Patrick Prill – https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/reinventing-testers-and-testing-to-prepare-for-the-future/
• Session Based Test – Setup Session – Simon Schrijver – https://simonsaysnomore.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/session-based-test-setup-session/
• Software testing is not … playing. Part 5 – Viktor Slavchev – http://mrslavchev.com/2016/05/30/software-testing-not-playing-pt5/
• Too Many Tests, Too Little Time: Managing Your Software Testing Strategy – Justin Rohrman – http://blog.smartbear.com/automated-testing/managing-your-software-testing-strategy/
• Why metrics don’t matter in software development (unless you pair them with business goals) – Steven Lowe – http://techbeacon.com/why-metrics-dont-matter-software-development-unless-you-pair-them-business-goals
• Which Android versions should I test on? – Mark Duivesteijn – http://www.spritecloud.com/2016/06/which-android-versions-should-i-test-on-2/
• Work on culture: being told and offering views – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/06/work-on-culture-being-told-and-offering.html

Tools

• Appium – Preparing for Automation – Part 2: Writing XPath to target Elements – James Willett – http://james-willett.com/2016/06/appium-preparing-for-automation-part-2-writing-xpath-to-target-elements/
• API Testing – Using SoapUI with REST Services – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/api-testing-using-soapui-with-rest-services/
• How Data Driven Testing Works (Examples of QTP and Selenium) – Sanjay Zalavadia – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/data-driven-testing/
• How to Download files using Selenium (2) – Sławomir Radzymiński – http://awesome-testing.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-download-files-using-selenium-2.html
• How To Read Data From a CSV File – Alex Siminuic – http://test-able.blogspot.com/2016/05/how-to-read-data-from-csv-file.html
• Protractor : How to implement XMLreports in protractor – Nadim Saker – http://nadimsaker.blogspot.com/2016/05/protractor-how-to-implement-xmlreports.html
• Selecting response elements with GPath in REST Assured – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/selecting-response-elements-with-gpath-in-rest-assured/
• WebDriver development environment setup with Eclipse, Gradle, Hamcrest, and ChromeDriver – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2016/06/webdriver-development-environment-setup.html
• WebDriver development environment setup with IntelliJ, Gradle, Hamcrest, and ChromeDriver – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2016/05/webdriver-development-environment-setup.html
• What’s New in UI Automator 2.0 and How to Get Started – Michal Szpruta – http://testdroid.com/tech/how-to-get-started-with-ui-automator-2-0

Attention Ohio Testers

– Watch for events coming soon –

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Meetup “Testing is a fantastic career” – Majd Uddin – https://knowledgetester.org/2016/05/31/meetup-testing-is-a-fantastic-career/
• My 4 Main Takeaways from Let’s Test 2016 – Nicola Owen – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2016/05/my-4-main-takeaways-from-lets-test-2016.html
• Return to Runö – Let’s Test 2016 – Patrick Prill – https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/return-to-runo-lets-test-2016/

Miscellaneous

• Books: Smartwatch Testing Cheat Sheet – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2016/05/30/smartwatch-testing-cheat-sheet/
• Podcast: Ep 51: Leave No Trace – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2016/06/02/leave-no-trace/