Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 4/9/17 – 4/15/17.
Articles & Blogs
- Continuous Mobile Testing – Joe Schulz – http://eyeonquality.com/continuous-mobile-testing/
- Development Lessons Ported to Testing – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/04/development-lessons-ported-to-testing/
- Don’t be an Automation Miser – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/04/12/dont-be-an-automation-miser/
- Overcome Test Automation Plateaus with Service Virtualization – Alexander Mohr, Cynthia Dunlop – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/overcome-test-automation-plateaus-service-virtualization
- Our Team’s First Mobbing Session – Elisabeth Hocke – http://www.lisihocke.com/2017/04/our-teams-first-mobbing-session.html
- The Four Hour Tester – Interpretation as a Team Exercise – Ash Winter – http://testingisbelieving.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-four-hour-tester-interpretation-as.html
- Trust Your Testing Team and Stop Leading from the Front: An Interview with Bob Galen – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/trust-your-testing-team-and-stop-leading-front-interview-bob-galen
- Unit Test! – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/04/13/unit-test/
- What do I look for in a candidate – Always Fearful – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2017/04/what-do-i-look-for-in-candidate.html
- What Skills #MakeATester – The Results – Simon Prior – https://priorsworld.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/what-skills-makeatester-the-results/
- Words and Meaning: A Mobius Relationship – Part 1 – Damian Synadinos – http://www.ineffable-solutions.com/single-post/2017/04/11/Words-and-Meaning-A-mobius-relationship-Part-1
- You Say Test I Say Check. On We Go. – Richard Bradshaw – http://www.thefriendlytester.co.uk/2017/04/you-say-test-i-say-check-on-we-go.html
Tools/Programming
- Are You Still Looking For A Test Automation Framework? – Hari Charan – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/still-looking-test-automation-framework/
- Beyond BDD with Cucumber – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/beyond-bdd-with-cucumber/
- Don’t Eat Stale Automation – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/dont-eat-stale-automation/
- How to use locators with parameters – Alex Siminuic – https://seleniumjava.com/2017/04/15/how-to-use-locators-with-parameters/
- Running Gatling through Gradle – Complete Beginner’s Guide – James Willett – http://james-willett.com/2017/04/running-gatling-through-gradle/
- Want to be a testing guru? Use reachability graphs (Part 2) – Mario – http://ortask.com/reachability-graphs-part-2/
Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training
- Lego automation workshop by Richard Bradshaw – Bhagya Perera – https://bhagyagdm.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/lego-automation-workshop-by-richard-bradshaw/
- Pakistan Software Quality Conference 2017 – Majd Uddin – https://knowledgetester.org/2017/04/11/pakistan-software-quality-conference-2017/
- SeConf2017: Rethinking Appium’s Code Base, Notes – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/04/even-though-i-have-been-qa-engineer-for.html
- SeConf2017: Security Testing, Dockerizing Tests using Appium, Notes – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/04/seconf2017-security-testing-dockerizing.html
- SeConf2017: Microsoft is automating Windows, Intuit automating Mac Apps, all with Appium! – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/04/seconf2017-microsoft-is-automating.html
Miscellaneous
- Magazines: #20 April 2017 – Testing Trapeze – Katrina Clokie – http://www.testingtrapezemagazine.com/magazine/april-2017/
- Podcast: 148: Foundations of Modern Software Testing with Rex Black – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/148-foundations-modern-software-testing-rex-black/
- Podcast: Exploring Roles in and Around Testing – Matt Heusser – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/exploring-roles-in-and-around-testing
- Podcast: Episode #21: Python has a new star framework for RESTful APIs – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/21/python-has-a-new-star-framework-for-restful-apis
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