Testing Bits – 4/16/17 – 4/22/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 4/16/17 – 4/22/17.

Articles & Blogs

• Blog: Deeper Testing (2): Automating the Testing – Michael Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2017/04/deeper-testing-2-automating-the-testing/
• Cynefin and Software Testing – The Obvious – Ben Kelly – http://testjutsu.com/2017/04/cynefin-and-software-testing-the-obvious/
• Dear Developer – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2017/04/dear-developer.html
• I Don’t Like Breaking Things – Neill – http://www.belfasttester.com/2017/04/18/i-dont-like-breaking-things/
• Input -> Process -> Output : I test systems – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/04/input-process-output-i-test-systems.html
• Introducing testers to developers – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2017/04/introducing-testers-to-developers.html
• Lessons from “Platoon Leader” by James McDonough – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/04/lessons-from-platoon-leader-by-james.html

• Lessons learned in leading Testing CoP – Lalitkumar Bhamare – http://www.talesoftesting.com/blog/lessons-learned-in-leading-testing-cop
• Prune Your Automation! – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/prune-your-automation/
• Stop sweeping your failing tests under the RUG – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/stop-sweeping-your-failing-tests-under-the-rug/
• Testing Microservices – A Beginner’s Guide – Amir Ghahrai – http://www.testingexcellence.com/testing-microservices-beginners-guide/
• The complete guide for Software integration testing – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/04/the-complete-guide-for-software.html
• The Evolution of Test Automation, from Record and Playback to Object Mapping – Krishnan Govindarajan – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/evolution-test-automation-record-and-playback-object-mapping
• Two new…schools? – Alan Page – http://angryweasel.com/blog/two-new-schools/
• What is software testing according to the “others” – Viktor Slavchev – http://mrslavchev.com/2017/04/18/software-testing-according-others/
• What (Soft) Skills Does A Test Engineer Need? – Aleksandar Coristic – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/what-soft-skills-for-software-testing/
• Where do our flaky tests come from? – Jeff Listfield – https://testing.googleblog.com/2017/04/where-do-our-flaky-tests-come-from.html
• Your Automation is Making You Less Agile – Dave Westerveld – https://agiletestingdays.com/blog/your-automation-is-making-you-less-agile/

Tools/Programming

• Assuring REST with Serenity – Alexander Romanov – https://alexromanov.github.io/2017/04/22/serenity-rest-assured/
• Enhanced Selenium WebDriver Page Objects through Partial Classes – Anton Angelov – https://automatetheplanet.com/webdriver-page-objects-partial-classes/
• How To… SoapUI: Using Docker To Execute Tests – Brendan Connolly – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/how-to-soap-ui-with-docker-using-docker-to-execute-tests/
• How To Do Penetration Testing – A Guide On Essential Tools For PenTesting – Hari Charan – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/how-to-do-penetration-testing/
• Learning Appium Desktop: Find the Desired Capabilities: appPackage and appActivity. Bug in AAPT if giving just appName – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/04/learning-appium-desktop-find-desired.html
• Learning Appium Desktop: How to Connect To Your Android Device Using the Android SDK, the Android Command Line Tools, and the Android Debug Bridge (adb) – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/04/learning-appium-desktop-how-to-connect.html
• Learning Appium Desktop: Setting up Android Emulators with Android Virtual Device Manager, choosing Android operating system version – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/04/learning-appium-desktop-setting-up.html
• Learning Appium Desktop: Setting up remote devices through WiFi – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/04/learning-appium-desktop-setting-up_18.html
• Performance testing .NET applications secrets to success – Matt Heusser – http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Performance-testing-NET-applications-secrets-to-success

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Ministry of Testing – Atlanta and Llewellyn Falco crash a MoT-Boston Lean Coffee! – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/04/ministry-of-testing-atlanta-and.html

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: Ep 4: Ex Machina – Neil Studd, Dan Billing – http://screentesting.libsyn.com/ep-4-ex-machina
• Podcast: Ep 77: The sonic screwdriver won’t get me out of this one – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2017/04/20/ep-77-sonic-screwdriver-wont/
• Podcast: Episode #22: PYTHONPATH considered harmful – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/22/pythonpath-considered-harmful

Items of Interest

• Melbourne startup Bugdojo launches bot-powered QA tool – Tas Bindi – http://www.zdnet.com/article/melbourne-startup-bugdojo-launches-bot-powered-qa-tool/
• New findings: The State of Online Retail Performance [Spring 2017] – Tammy Everts – https://www.soasta.com/blog/spring-2017-online-retail-web-performance/

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