Testing Bits – 2/19/17 – 2/25/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 2/19/17 – 2/25/17.

Articles & Blogs

• 4 Steps to Rebuilding a Testing Team: Bringing Stability to Chaos – Raj Subramanian – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/4-steps-rebuilding-testing-team-bringing-stability-chaos
• A distributed mob testing session – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2017/02/a-distributed-mob-testing-session/
• An Introduction to API Testing | David Tzemach – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/02/an-introduction-to-api-testing-david.html
• Automation Delay – And How To Prevent It – Matt Heusser – http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/automation-delay/
• Describing My Role – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/02/describing-my-role/
• IKIGAI – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/ikigai/
• Penetration Test or Vulnerability Scan – Martijn de Vrieze – https://martijndevrieze.net/2017/02/22/penetration-test-or-vulnerability-scan/

• Questions to James Bach – Hoa Le – http://howtesting.blogspot.com/2017/02/questions-to-james-bach.html
• Stop being a NON-Technical Tester! – Joel Montvelisky – http://qablog.practitest.com/stop-being-a-non-technical-tester/
• Test Outside the Box by Rooting Your Devices: An Interview with Alan Crouch — Kosiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/test-outside-box-rooting-your-devices-interview-alan-crouch
• Testers, what business are you in? – Augusto Evangelisti – https://mysoftwarequality.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/testers-what-business-are-you-in/
• Thank you for finding the bug I missed. – Pete Houghton – http://www.investigatingsoftware.co.uk/2017/02/thank-you-for-finding-bug-i-missed.html
• The 100 Day Deep Work Challenge – James Willett – http://james-willett.com/2017/02/the-100-day-deep-work-challenge/
• The Consumer Appetite For Digital Is Only Matched By Its Intolerance For Defects – David Bolton – https://arc.applause.com/2017/02/21/app-testing-requirements-rates/
• The Innovation Silo – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2017/02/the-innovation-silo.html
• The more technical tester series, part four: Learn how to code – Matt Heusser – http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/The-more-technical-tester-series-part-four-Learn-how-to-code
• The Behavior-Driven Three Amigos – Andy Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2017/02/20/the-behavior-driven-three-amigos/
• Translating “Don’t Test Thoroughly” – Cassandra Leung – http://www.cassandrahl.com/blog/translating-dont-test-thoroughly/
• Usability First – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/02/21/usability-first/

Tools/Programming

• Enhanced Selenium WebDriver Page Objects – Anton Angelov – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/enhanced-selenium-webdriver-page-objects/
• Enhanced Selenium WebDriver Tests with the New Improved C# 6.0 – Anton Angelov – https://automatetheplanet.com/selenium-webdriver-tests-csharp-six/
• Integration of Jenkins with Selenium WebDriver: Step-by-Step Tutorial – Vijay Shinde – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/integration-of-jenkins-with-selenium-webdriver/
• Lesson #12 – Finding element using the Class Name attribute (C#) – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/02/lesson-12-finding-element-using-class.html
• Lesson #13 -Finding element using the Tag Name attribute – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/02/lesson-13-finding-element-using-tag.html
• Lesson #14 – Elements search using the FindElements function (C#) – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/02/lesson-14-elements-search-using.html
• Sharing implementation of cucumber-jvm – Appium test framework – Anand Bagmar – https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/02/sharing-implementation-of-cucumber-jvm.html
• SoapUI: Configuring Rest Services Without WADL – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/soapui-rest-without-wadl/
• The Testing Kraftwerk – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-testing-kraftwerk.html

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Anything you can do, can I do better? – Always Fearful – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2017/02/anything-you-can-do-can-i-do-better.html
• CASTx17 Talk “Little Shop of Tools” – Oliver Erlewein – https://hellotestworld.com/2017/02/21/castx17-talk-little-shop-of-tools/
• Midlands Testers Meetup – Life can be testing – Lee – https://thegrowingtester.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/midlands-testers-meetup-life-can-be-testing/
• My first Sydney Testers Meetup – 20 February 2017 – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/my-first-sydney-testers-meetup-20-february-2017/
• New Ministry of Testing – Boston Event: 3/13/2017: Automated UI Testing using Apple’s XCTest/Swift @ Slalom Consulting – TJ Majher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/02/new-ministry-of-testing-boston-event.html

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

• Book Review: Lessons from Gojko Adzic’s “Specification By Example” – Jason Ogayon – https://onesoftwaretester.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/lessons-from-gojko-adzics-specification-by-example/
• Podcast: ATDD – A Collaborative Testing Approach with Jeanine Rust – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/141-atdd-collaborative-testing-approach-jeanine-rust/
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 54 – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – http://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/?p=184
• Podcast: Ep 0: Introductions – Neil Studd, Dan Billing – http://screentesting.libsyn.com/ep-0-introductions
• Podcast: Ep 73: There is no spoon! – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2017/02/23/ep-73-there-is-no-spoon/
• Podcast: Episode #14: Lots of Python style and Python 3000 is 3000 days old – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/14/lots-of-python-style-and-python-3000-is-3000-days-old
• Podcast: STP Radio: A testing chat with Anand Bagmar & Curtis Stuehrenberg – Smita Mishra – https://www.spreaker.com/user/softwaretestpro/stp-radio-a-testing-chat-with-anand-bagm
• Podcast: STP Radio: How to Improv(E) Your Requirements & More – Damian Synadinos – Smita Mishra – https://www.spreaker.com/user/softwaretestpro/stp-radio-how-to-improv-e-your-requireme
• Podcast: STP Radio: The Future of Risk-Based Test Chartering – Connor Roberts – Smita Mishra – https://www.spreaker.com/user/softwaretestpro/stp-radio-the-future-of-risk-based-test-

Items of Interest

• #30daysofsecuritytesting – Task XII – Kristīne Corbus – https://testretreat.com/2017/02/20/12of30days-security-testing/
• Standard platform, operating system and browser recommendations (Feb 17) – Martin Cunnington – https://www.spritecloud.com/2017/02/standard-platform-operating-system-and-browser-recommendations-feb-17/
• Which Android versions are most important for testing? – Mark Duivesteijn – https://www.spritecloud.com/2017/02/which-android-versions-are-most-important-for-testing/