Testing Bits – 9/25/16 – 10/1/16

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 9/25/16 – 10/1/16.

Articles & Blogs

• 100+ testing interview questions for beginners to get hired – Thanh Huynh – http://www.asktester.com/testing-interview-questions/
• Accountability for What you Say is Dangerous and That’s Okay – James Bach – http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/1649
• An Anecdote and a (small) Editorial – The man who opened the door to testing for me – Aaron Hodder – http://testerkiwi.blogspot.com/2016/10/an-anecdote-and-small-editorial-man-who.html
• An Interview with Michael Bolton – Read His Advice for Upcoming Testers On How To Be Successful – Vijay Shinde – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/an-interview-with-michael-bolton/
• Clubby bonhomie or communication in QA Engineer world – Oleksii Ihnatiuk – http://adventuresinqa.com/2016/09/26/clubby-bonhomie-communication-qa-engineer-world-thoughts-inside-oleksii-ihnatiuk/
• Failure: A Software Tester Perspective – Colin Cherry – https://itesting.com.au/2016/09/28/failure-a-software-tester-perspective/
• Know WHY you are doing this – Simon Schrijver – https://simonsaysnomore.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/know-why-you-are-doing-this/

• My community – quo vadis? – Patrick Prill – https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/my-community-quo-vadis/
• My response to James Bach’s explanation of the slide incident – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/10/my-response-to-james-bachs-explanation.html
• Not Closing Down the Debate – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/10/not-closing-down-debate_1.html
• The NeverEnding Story & Why I Don’t Always Do What I’m Told – Mel Eaden – http://testingandmoviesandstuff.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-neverending-story-why-i-dont-always.html
• Test Data Management Takes Center Stage in the Race to Innovate: An Interview with Chris Fuller – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/test-data-management-takes-center-stage-race-innovate-interview-chris-fuller
• Test for the tester – Testerception – Uridah Ahmed – https://qafrenzy.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/test-for-the-tester-testerception/
• Testing the Unexpected: A Shift Right in DevOps Testing – Stefan Friese – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/testing-unexpected-shift-right-devops-testing
• Test to Put Pressure on Design – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2016/10/test-to-put-pressure-on-design/
• Tests are a form of waste? – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2016/09/tests-are-a-form-of-waste/
• The Evolution of the Testing Pyramid – James Willett – http://james-willett.com/2016/09/the-evolution-of-the-testing-pyramid/
• The Risk Questionnaire – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2016/09/the-risk-questionnaire.html

Tools/Programming

• Everyone loves a bit of Bug Magnet! – Danny Dainton – https://dannydainton.com/2016/09/28/everyone-loves-a-bit-of-bug-magnet/
• How (not) to test RESTful APIs with Selenium WebDriver – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/how-not-to-test-restful-apis-with-selenium-webdriver/
• How to Use Chrome Developer Tools JavaScript Source Snippets – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2016/09/how-to-use-chrome-developer-tools.html
• Let’s Build a Framework – Day 0 – Knick Rosevear – https://qubedapples.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/lets-build-a-framework-day-0/
• When page object returns more than one type of page object – Tarun Kumar – http://www.seleniumtests.com/2016/09/when-page-object-returns-more-than-one.html

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• 30 Days of Mobile Testing – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2016/09/26/30-days-of-mobile-testing/
• Learning to talk – Finding your voice and telling a story – Rosie Hamilton – http://testingfuntime.blogspot.com/2016/09/learning-to-talk-finding-your-voice-and.html
• On Calling People Out – Eric Proegler – http://testingthoughts.com/ericproegler/?p=976
• The purpose of testing – Simon Schrijver – https://simonsaysnomore.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/the-purpose-of-testing/
• Thinking Outside the Box: #30DaysOfTesting – Ashley Hunsberger – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2016/09/thinking-outside-the-box-30daysoftesting/

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: 23: Lessons about testing and TDD from Kent Beck – Brian Okken – http://pythontesting.net/podcast/testing-tdd-kent-beck/
• Podcast: 121: Testing Video Games Using API Automation with Amber Race – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/121-testing-video-games-using-api-automation-amber-race/
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 46 (w/ Steve Rowe) – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – http://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/?p=149
• Podcast: Testopsies – Matt Heusser – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/testopsies

Items of Interest

• I Can Manage – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2016/09/i-can-manage.html