Testing Bits – 4/23/17 – 4/29/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 4/23/17 – 4/29/17.

Articles & Blogs

• A Stupid Bug and a Plea for Help – Matthew Jones – https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/a-stupid-bug-and-a-plea-for-help/
• A test is… – John Stevenson – http://steveo1967.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-test-is.html
• Accessibility Testing: Four Tips for Doing It Right – Melissa Tondi – http://thinktesting.com/articles/accessibility-testing-four-tips/
• Automation That Teaches – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/04/25/automation-that-teaches/
• Bad Meaning Good – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2017/04/bad-meaning-good.html
• Epic Fails – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/epic-fails/
• Experimenting with a Zero Bug policy – Kim Knup – https://devblog.songkick.com/experimenting-with-a-zero-bug-policy-3281490dbc8b

• Five reasons your software testing career is harder than necessary – Amy Reichert – http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Five-reasons-your-software-testing-career-is-harder-than-necessary
• How To Test Web-Based Applications – Tim Ebie – http://testdemy.com/how-to-test-web-based-applications/
• Joining a CD Team the experience report – Kim Knupp – https://punkmiktests.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/joining-a-cd-team-the-experience-report/
• Problem-Solving in Software Testing: A Conversation – Ajay Balamurugadas – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/problem-solving-software-testing-conversation
• Q&A with Cassandra H. Leung – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.com/2017/04/24/qa-with-cassandra-h-leung/
• Test for Real Life – Alister Scott – https://watirmelon.blog/2017/04/27/test-for-real-life/
• Testers: We are more than our job title – Lee – https://thegrowingtester.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/testers-we-are-more-than-our-job-title/
• The Unique Discipline of Testing – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/04/the-unique-discipline-of-testing/
• We’re the voice – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/were-the-voice/
• Where is Testing …?  – Simon Morley – http://testers-headache.blogspot.com/2017/04/where-is-testing.html
• Why Your Automation is Never “Done” – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/why-your-automation-is-never-done/
• Words and Meaning: A Mobius Relationship – Part 2 – Damian Synadinos – http://www.ineffable-solutions.com/single-post/2017/04/24/Words-and-Meaning-A-Mobius-Relationship-Part-2

Tools/Programming

• A Quick Intro To BookMarkLets – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/04/a-quick-intro-to-bookmarklets.html
• Do you know what your framework is doing? A quick use of WebPageTest. – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/04/do-you-know-what-your-framework-is.html
• Parallel Mobile Testing with Appium – Part 1: Android – Software Testing Magazine – http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/parallel-mobile-testing-with-appium-part-1-android/
• Using JsonPath and XmlPath in REST Assured – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/using-jsonpath-and-xmlpath-in-rest-assured/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Cambridge Lean Coffee – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2017/04/cambridge-lean-coffee.html
• Looking Back at Quality Jam ’17 – Jeff Perkins – https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/software-testing-conference-quality-jam-17/
• Peer conferences, part 1 – Erik Brickarp – http://erik.brickarp.se/2017/04/peer-conferences-part-1.html
• Peer conferences, part 2, checklist – Erik Brickarp – http://erik.brickarp.se/2017/04/peer-conferences-part-2-checklist.html
• Selenium Conference 2017 Recap – An Introverts Guide – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/2017/04/25/selenium-conference-2017-recap/
• SWET8 – A Brief (?) Summary – Hannes Lindblom – https://testinpeace.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/swet8-a-brief-summary/

Miscellaneous

• Books: Best software testing books – Sławomir Radzymiński – http://www.awesome-testing.com/2017/04/best-software-testing-books.html
• Magazines: Women Testers April 2017 Edition – Jyothi Rangaiah – http://www.womentesters.com/women-testers-april-2017-edition/
• Podcast: 149: Moving From Selenium Grid to the Cloud with Anshul Sharma – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/149-selenium-cloud-anshul-sharma/
• Podcast: Dark Patterns – Matt Heusser – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/dark-patterns
• Podcast: Episode #23: Can you grok the GIL? – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/23/can-you-grok-the-gil

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