Testing Bits – 5/14/17 – 5/20/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 5/14/17 – 5/20/17.

Articles & Blogs

• A Certain Shade of Green: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/a-certain-shade-of-green-30-days-of.html
• Being Reminded of All the Phases I’ve So Far Had in Writing Automated Checks – Jason Ogayon – https://onesoftwaretester.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/reminded-of-all-the-phases-ive-so-far-had-in-writing-automated-checks/
• Beyond the Agile Testing Quadrants – Adam Geras – http://thinktesting.com/articles/beyond-agile-testing-quadrants/
• Checking the List: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/checking-list-30-days-of-accessibility.html
• Coding is key to a test automation career: Are you prepared? – T.J. Maher – https://techbeacon.com/coding-key-test-automation-career-are-you-prepared
• Don’t call it exploratory testing (if it’s not exploratory testing) – Nicola Owens – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2017/05/dont-call-it-exploratory-testing-if-its.html
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017 – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2017/05/global-accessibility-awareness-day-2017.html

• In Sharper Contrast: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/in-sharper-contrast-30-days-of.html
• Lights will guide you home and ignite your bones….. – Chris Armstrong – https://christestarmstrong.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/lights-will-guide-you-home-and-ignite-your-bones/
• Stupidity – More Than A Feeling – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/stupidity-more-than-a-feeling/
• Testing and Model Building – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/05/testing-and-model-building/
• Too Many Tests? – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/05/18/too-many-tests/
• The Art of Doubting – Anders Dinsen – https://asym.dk/2017/05/15/the-art-of-doubting/
• Using Logs for Performance Testing – Majd Uddin – https://knowledgetester.org/2017/05/15/using-logs-for-performance-testing/
• Watch and Learn: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/watch-and-learn-30-days-of.html
• We need to talk about test data –  James Sheasby Thomas – http://rightsaidjames.com/2017/05/improving-test-data/
• We’re Not All Ears: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/were-not-all-ears-30-days-of.html
• What Are Words For? 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/what-are-words-for-30-days-of.html
• When You Can’t Get a Grip: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/when-you-cant-get-grip-303-days-of.html

Tools/Programming

• 9 GitHub Lists for Testing – Chris Kenst – http://www.kenst.com/2017/05/9-github-lists-for-testing/
• 14 Open Source API Testing Tools For REST & SOAP Services – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/2017/05/16/12-open-source-api-testing-tools-rest-soap-services/
• 30 Second APIs… – Danny Dainton – https://dannydainton.com/2017/05/15/30-second-apis/
• Build a Basic Appium Framework: Design a Basic Test, Examining Mobile Elements – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/05/basic-appium-framework-part-two.html
• Build a Basic Appium Framework: Install and Launch an App Using Desired Capabilities – T.j. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/05/build-basic-appium-framework-install.html
• Build a Basic Appium Framework: Review How to Inspect Mobile Apps with Appium Desktop – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/05/basic-appium-framework-part-one.html
• Correct and incorrect ways of creating page object classes – Alex Siminuic – https://seleniumjava.com/2017/05/20/correct-and-incorrect-ways-of-creating-page-object-classes/
• How to create and launch an Android emulator from Android Studio – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/05/launch-android-emulator.html
• How to handle mouse and keyboard events in Selenium WebDriver – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/05/how-to-handle-mouse-and-keyboard-events.html
• How to use explicit wait in selenium webdriver – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/05/how-to-use-explicit-wait-in-selenium.html
• How to use JavaScript Bookmarklets to Amend Web Page Example [Tutorial Text and Video] – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/05/javascript-bookmarklets-example.html
• Postman cheat sheet – Quick guide to automating APIs – Mark Winteringham – http://www.mwtestconsultancy.co.uk/postman-cheat-sheet/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• My Experience at Romanian Testing Conference 2017 – told through photos – Nicola Owen – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-experience-at-romanian-testing.html
• Romanian Testing Conference 2017 – Roy de Kleijn – http://www.rdekleijn.nl/romanian-testing-conference-2017/
• Romanian Testing Conference 2017 was a blast! – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/romanian-testing-conference-2017-was-a-blast/
• RTC 2017 – NOT talking about testing… – Keith Klain – http://qualityremarks.com/rtc-2017-not-talking-about-testing/

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: 152: Fun With Fluent Testing with Andrew Krug – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/152-fluent-testing-andrew-krug/
• Podcast: Ep 6: Swordfish – Neil Studd, Dan Billing – http://screentesting.libsyn.com/ep-6-swordfish
• Podcast: Episode #26: How have you automated your life, or CLI, with Python? – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/26/how-have-you-automated-your-life-or-cli-with-python
• Podcast: Episode 1: Interview with Damian Synadinos – Keith Klain – http://qualityremarks.com/qr-podcast/

Items of Interest

• QASymphony’s $40 Million Series C – Dave Keil – https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/qasymphonys-40-million-series-c/
• Some Cool People To Follow on Twitter: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/05/some-cool-people-to-follow-on-twitter.html
• Which Android version should I test on? – Roelof van Asperen – https://www.spritecloud.com/2017/05/which-android-versions-should-i-test-on-3/

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