Testing Bits – 2/12/17 – 2/18/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 2/12/17 – 2/18/17.

Articles & Blogs

• 2 Ways Test Automation Can Break Your Heart – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/2017/02/14/2-ways-test-automation-can-break-heart/
• 5 simple reasons why you missed bugs and how to prevent it – Thanh Huynh – http://www.asktester.com/5-simple-reasons-missed-bugs-prevent/
• Discomfort as a Tool for Change – Dave Gladfelter – https://testing.googleblog.com/2017/02/discomfort-as-tool-for-change.html
• Fear Not True Belivers! Testing Heroes Are Out There – Mel Eaden – http://testingandmoviesandstuff.blogspot.com/2017/02/fear-not-true-belivers-testing-heroes.html
• Leverage Containers to Create Simulated Test Environments on Demand – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/leverage-containers-create-simulated-test-environments-demand
• Harness Your Ruthless Efficiency as MVP in testing and development – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/02/harness-your-ruthless-efficiency-as-mvp.html
• Meeting Our Users for the First Time – Elisabeth Hocke – https://lisihocke.blogspot.com/2017/02/meeting-our-users-for-the-first-time.html

• Mentorship – how to skyrocket your testing career – Sławomir Radzymiński – http://www.awesome-testing.com/2017/02/mentorship-how-to-skyrocket-your.html
• Mobile App Testing Certifications – Is It Worth Giving A Try? – Anurag Khode – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/mobile-app-testing-certifications-worth-giving-try/
• Not All Screen Reader Users Are Blind – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2017/02/not-all-screen-reader-users-are-blind.html
• People are Strange – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2017/02/people-are-strange.html
• Quality Engineering Role in Root Cause Analysis – Dave Guimbellot – http://eyeonquality.com/quality-engineering-role-in-root-cause-analysis/
• Should I test at the GUI Level or the API Level? – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/02/should-i-test-at-gui-level-or-api-level.html
• Software Testing Guiding Principles – Scott Acker – http://thinktesting.com/articles/software-testing-guiding-principles/
• Sun Tzu Was a Tester? – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/sun-tzu-was-a-tester/
• Taxonomy Tuesday – Cross Site Scripting – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/taxonomy-tuesday-cross-site-scripting/
• Test Manager vs. Test Coach – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2017/02/test-manager-vs-test-coach.html
• What is Automation Testing? – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/02/what-is-automation-testing-david-tzemach.html
• When your workflow is a bug – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/02/14/when-your-workflow-is-a-bug/
• Why Software Testers need to learn Data Science – Uridah Sami – https://qafrenzy.wordpress.com/2017/02/17/why-software-testers-need-to-learn-data-science/

Tools/Programming

• A few tips to mindmappers – Jyothi Rangaiah – https://chroniclesoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-few-tips-to-mindmappers.html
• Features of my Android Test Automation Framework – Anand Bagmar – https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/02/features-of-my-android-test-automation.html
• Finding my way out of bottomless pit with Appium & Android 7.0 for parallel test runs – Anand Bagmar – https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/02/finding-my-way-out-of-bottomless-pit.html
• How to Run Selenium WebDriver in Different Popular Browsers – Vijay Shinde – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-use-different-browsers-drivers-for-your-selenium-script/
• Lesson #10 – Selenium WebDriver – Finding element using the Name attribute (C#) – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/02/lesson-10-selenium-webdriver-finding.html
• Lesson #11 – Selenium WebDriver – Finding element using the Link/Partial Link text attribute (C#) – http://www.machtested.com/2017/02/lesson-11-selenium-webdriver-finding.html
• Use Selenium WebDriver UI Tests for Load Testing in the Cloud – Anton Angelov – https://automatetheplanet.com/selenium-webdriver-ui-tests-load-testing-cloud/
• Where can I find a full test automation project with Selenium WebDriver? – Alex Siminuic – https://seleniumjava.com/2017/02/13/where-can-i-find-a-full-test-automation-project-with-selenium-webdriver/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• ETC 2017, day one,two & three – Always Fearful – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2017/02/etc-2017-day-onetwo-three.html
• ETC 2017 – the Good, and that which can be improved – Always Fearful – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2017/02/etc-2017-good-and-that-which-can-be.html
• European Testing Conference 2017 – Jokin Aspiazu – http://jokinaspiazu.blogspot.com/2017/02/european-testing-conference-2017.html
• European Testing Conference 2017 – Jyothi Rangaiah – https://chroniclesoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/02/european-testing-conference-2017.html
• Testers Meetup returns to Islamabad – Majd Uddin – https://knowledgetester.org/2017/02/13/testers-meetup-returns-to-islamabad/

Attention Ohio Testers:

2/28/2017 – Dublin, OH – Software QA & Testing Meetup – Experiences at QA or the Highway 2017 – https://www.meetup.com/Software-QA-Testing-Meetup/events/237371954/

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: 140: Reinventing Performance Testing with Alexander Podelko – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/140-reinventing-performance-testing-alexander-podelko/
• Podcast: Episode #13: Python making the move to GitHub and Dropbox is stepping back from Pyston – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/13/python-making-the-move-to-github-and-dropbox-is-stepping-back-from-pyston
• Podcast: State of the Testing Practice (Part 1) – Matt Heusser, Justin Rohrman – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/state-of-the-testing-practice-part-1

Items of Interest

• #30daysofsecuritytesting – Task XVIII – Kristīne Corbus – https://testretreat.com/2017/02/14/18of30days-security-testing/