Testing Bits – 5/7/17 – 5/13/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 5/7/17 – 5/13/17.

Articles & Blogs

• 5 Major Sins of Working With Testers and Developer – Marcin Sikorski – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/five-sins-of-working-with-testers-and-developer/
• Accessibility WTAmericas #WTBlitz Session: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/accessibility-wtamericas-wtblitz.html
• An Ode to Jason Becker: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/an-ode-to-jason-becker-30-days-of.html
• Auditors and testing – a rant justified by experience – James Christie – https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/auditors-and-testing-a-rant-justified-by-experience/
• Bend Your Reader To Your Will: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/bend-your-reader-to-your-will-30-days.html
• Do Not Be Tester’s Police – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/do-not-be-testers-police/
• Interview with Mark Winteringham – Nicola Owen – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2017/05/interview-with-mark-winteringham.html

• Out Go The Lights: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/out-go-lights-30-days-of-accessibility.html
• Q&A with David Greenlees – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.com/2017/05/10/qa-with-david-greenlees/
• Read All About It: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/read-all-about-it-30-days-of.html
• Remember what your tests are trying to verify – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/remember-what-your-tests-are-trying-to-verify/
• Rise of the Machines – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/rise-of-the-machines/
• Take Away the Pictures: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/take-away-pictures-30-days-of.html
• Test Data Management: What is Test Data and How to Design It – Vijay Shinde – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/tips-to-design-test-data-before-executing-your-test-cases/
• Test Environment Management: The Secret Ingredient For DevOps – Nikhil Kaul – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/test-environment-management-the-secret-ingredient-for-devops/
• Test Mutation – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/05/09/test-mutation/
• The Changing Landscape of the Role of Testers: An Interview with Melissa Tondi – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/changing-landscape-role-testers-interview-melissa-tondi
• The Hermit of the Spring – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/guardian-of-the-spring/
• The Keyboard Challenge: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/the-keyboard-challenge-0-days-of.html
• Thoughts about Testing in a Mob – Elisabeth Hocke – http://www.lisihocke.com/2017/05/thoughts-about-testing-in-a-mob.html
• Three styles of automation – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2017/05/three-styles-of-automation.html
• Tools are not Judges: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/tools-are-not-judges-30-days-of.html
• TOTE Model For Testers – Test, Operate, Test, Exit – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/05/tote-model-for-testers-test-operate.html
• What happens when you ask the Twitterverse: “How Can a Manual Tester Switch To Automation?” – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/05/what-happens-when-you-ask-twitterverse.html
• Who’s Using Your App? Examine Logs for Testing Insight – Josh Grant – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/who-s-using-your-app-examine-logs-testing-insight

Tools/Programming

• Selenium WebDriver – Working with the windows registry(C#) – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/05/selenium-webdriver-working-with-windows.html
• Testing in Arquillian with Docker Containers – Alex Soto – http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/testing-in-arquillian-with-docker-containers/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Learning from rejection: Getting proposals accepted – Lisa Crispin – http://lisacrispin.com/2017/05/09/learning-rejection-getting-proposals-accepted/
• Resolutions and Trends in Software Testing Xebia Meetup – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/05/resolutions-and-trends-in-software.html
• The future of testing is distributed – Alister Scott – https://watirmelon.blog/2017/05/08/the-future-of-testing-is-distributed/

Miscellaneous

• Books: How the “Digital Quality Handbook” Was Born – Eran Kinsbruner – https://mobiletestingblog.com/2017/05/10/how-the-digital-quality-handbook-was-born/
• Podcasts: 151: Say Goodbye to Traditional Script-based Frameworks with Jeff Fillegar – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/151-codeless-frameworks/
• Podcasts: AB Testing – Episode 58 – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – http://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/?p=204
• Podcasts: Episode #25: Could we have more in-database machine learning please? – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/25/could-we-have-more-in-database-machine-learning-please
• Podcasts: Performance Quick Attacks – Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley – http://www.perfbytes.com/2017/05/day-1-on-performance-project-getting.html
• Podcasts: Security and Privacy – Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/security-and-privacy

Items of Interest

• Takeaways from Scott Berkun’s “The Dance of the Possible: The Mostly Honest Completely Irreverent Guide to Creativity” – Jason Ogayon – https://onesoftwaretester.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/takeaways-from-scott-berkuns-the-dance-of-the-possible-the-mostly-honest-completely-irreverent-guide-to-creativity/

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