Testing Bits – 7/17/16 – 7/23/16

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 7/17/16 – 7/23/16.

Articles & Blogs

• 4 Software Quality Lessons from Pokemon Go’s Wild First Week – Priyanka Tiwari – http://blog.smartbear.com/performance-monitoring/pokemon-go-software-quality-lessons/
• An approach to test your user interface more efficiently – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/an-approach-to-test-your-user-interface-more-efficiently/
• Calling automators good testers – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/07/calling-automators-good-testers.html
• D is for Dauntless (My A to Z of Software Testing, Part 11) – Colin Cherry – https://itesting.com.au/2016/07/18/d-is-for-dauntless-my-a-to-z-of-software-testing-part-11/
• Developing and Testing Games with the Internet of Things: An Interview with Jane Fraser – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/developing-and-testing-games-internet-things-interview-jane-fraser
• Do Testers Need to Code – Justin Rohrman – http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/testers-need-code/
• Get Smart about Your Regression Tests’ Value – Leanne Howard – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/get-smart-about-your-regression-tests-value

• First Impressions: Session Based Testing – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/first-impressions-session-based-testing/
• How we Communicate at Automattic – Alister Scott – https://watirmelon.com/2016/07/22/how-we-communicate-at-automattic/
• Improvisation And Testing – Unscript Yourself – Robert Strauch – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/improvisation-testing-unscript/
• Making Luck – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2016/07/making-luck.html
• Modern Testing and the Artifact Crutch – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2016/07/modern-testing-and-the-artifact-crutch/
• Modern Testing and the Lucid Approach – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2016/07/modern-testing-and-the-lucid-approach/
• My Definition of Context Driven Testing – Curtis Stuehrenberg – https://cowboytesting.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/my-definition-of-context-driven-testing/
• On Community, Faith and Belonging – Pete Walen – http://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2016/07/on-community-faith-and-belonging.html
• Origin stories – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/07/origin-stories.html
• Surprising Secrets of Giving Feedback – Matt Heusser – http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/surprising-secrets-giving-feedback/
• We test REST even if it isn’t REST – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2016/07/we-test-rest-even-if-it-isnt-rest.html
• What Are Test Oracles? – Kim Engel – https://isitgoodenoughyet.com/2016/07/24/what-are-test-oracles/
• What do we mean by testers learning to be technical? – John Stevenson – http://steveo1967.blogspot.com/2016/07/what-do-we-mean-by-testers-learning-to.html
• What has the CDT Community ever done for me? – Duncan Nisbet – http://www.duncannisbet.co.uk/what-has-the-cdt-community-ever-done-for-me
• Why I’m a Context Driven Tester… – Andrew Morton – http://testingchef.blogspot.com/2016/07/why-im-context-driven-tester.html
• Why you Should Attack Your Systems – Before “They” Do – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2016/07/why-you-should-attack-your-systems.html

Tools

• 3 FREE API Security Test Tools – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/2016/07/19/3-free-api-security-tools/
• 113 app sec vendors: A guide to commercial application security products – Mike Perrow – http://techbeacon.com/113-app-sec-vendors-guide-commercial-application-security-products
• Appium – a very short getting started guide – Alan Richardson – http://seleniumsimplified.com/2016/07/appium-a-very-short-getting-started-guide/
• Catching java script errors with WebDriver – Tarun Kumar – http://www.seleniumtests.com/2016/07/catching-java-script-error-with.html
• Create Hybrid Test Framework – Testing Framework Driver Controls – Anton Angelov – http://automatetheplanet.com/hybrid-test-framework-testing-framework-driver-controls/
• AUTOMATION 16 – GUI 4, Selenium WebDriver Installation – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2016/07/automation-16-gui-4-selenium-webdriver.html
• AUTOMATION 17 – GUI 5, Setting up a Selenium project – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2016/07/automation-17-gui-5-setting-up-selenium.html
• AUTOMATION 18 – GUI 6, Running our first Selenium WebDriver script – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2016/07/automation-18-gui-6-running-our-first.html
• AUTOMATION 19 – GUI 7, Resources for exploring WebDriver commands – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2016/07/automation-19-gui-7-resources-for.html
• How to investigate and debug a Selenium WebDriver `@Test` error – Alan Richardson – http://seleniumsimplified.com/2016/07/how-to-investigate-and-debug-a-selenium-webdriver-test-error/
• How to investigate pytest-warnings – Shivahari P – https://qxf2.com/blog/how-to-investigate-pytest-warnings/
• Project Aardvark: Script 1 – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2016/07/project-aardvark-script-1_99.html
• What are the reasons for robot framework not widely being used? – Mike Siminuic – http://test-able.blogspot.com/2016/07/what-are-reasons-for-robot-framework.html

Attention Ohio Testers

– No Events At This Time –

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Iterate to Accumulate – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2016/07/iterate-to-accumulate.html

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: Extending Your Tool – Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley, Howard Chorney – http://www.perfbytes.com/extending-your-tool

Items of Interest

• Apple Leads The First Ever Quarterly Decline For The Smartwatch Market – David Bolton – https://arc.applause.com/2016/07/22/smartwatch-shipments-q2-2016-idc/
• Developers Can Now Publish Final Android 7.0 Nougat Beta Apps To Google Play – David Bolton – https://arc.applause.com/2016/07/19/android-n-developer-preview-5/
• It’s Hard To Catch Them All When Pokemon Go Crashes All The Time – Dan Rowinski – https://arc.applause.com/2016/07/19/pokemon-go-bug-crashes-sentiment-analysis/
• JavaScript, Once Again, Leads The List Of Top Programming Languages – Dan Rowinski – https://arc.applause.com/2016/07/22/javascript-popularity-redmonk-rankings/