Testing Bits – 6/25/17 – 7/1/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 6/25/17 – 7/1/17.

Articles & Blogs

• 30 Days of Performance Testing, Are You In? – Rosie Sherry – https://www.ministryoftesting.com/2017/06/30-days-performance-testing/
• A quick guide to adhoc testing for beginners – Thanh Huynh – http://www.asktester.com/questions/a-quick-guide-to-adhoc-testing/
• A Refresher on A/B Testing – Amy Gallo – https://hbr.org/2017/06/a-refresher-on-ab-testing
• Building maintainable automated acceptance tests – Deepak Bhaskaran – http://qapage.com/Building-maintainable-automated-acceptance-tests/
• Cynefin and Software Testing – Disorder – Ben Kelly – http://testjutsu.com/2017/06/cynefin-and-software-testing-disorder/
• Getting Altitude on Business Logic – Michael Fritzius – https://testzius.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/getting-altitude-on-business-logic/
• Good Habits For Software Testers – Jerry Weinberg – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/habits-for-testers/

• I don’t find test-cases very useful – Amit – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2017/06/i-dont-find-test-cases-very-useful.html
• Mnemonics and Heuristics – Maria Kedemo – https://mkedemo.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/mnemonics-and-heuristics/
• Session Based Testing in Agile/DevOps Environments – Lalitkumar Bhamare – http://www.talesoftesting.com/blog/session-based-testing-in-agiledevops-environments
• Something Automated This Way Comes – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/something-automated-this-way-comes/
• Spurious Failures – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/06/26/spurious-failures/
• Tackle the hard problems first – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/tackle-the-hard-problems-first/
• Team Questions I – Jason Ogayon – https://onesoftwaretester.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/team-questions-i/
• Test Data Management Risks – Thirunavukarasu Papanasam – http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/test-data-management-risks/
• Test Management Research 2017 – Top Challenges, Recommended Practices & Technology – Ryan Yackel – https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/test-management-research-challenges-recommended-practices-technology/
• Testing the Extract, Transform, and Load Process in Data Warehouses – Matthew Heusser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/testing-extract-transform-and-load-process-data-warehouses
• The broken promise of test automation – Wayne Ariola – http://sdtimes.com/broken-promise-test-automation/
• The Core of the Testing Role – Beren Van Daele – https://enquiretst.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/the-core-of-the-testing-role/
• The Phases to an Awesome Performance Test – Senor Performo – http://www.srperf.com/phases-awesome-performance-test/
• What Makes a Great Tester? – Gil Zilberfeld – http://www.gilzilberfeld.com/2017/06/what-makes-a-great-tester.html
• Why Testers Are Starting to Look More like Developers: An Interview with Mike Faulise – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/why-testers-are-starting-look-more-developers-interview-mike-faulise
• You Don’t Have Test Cases, Think Again – Robin Goldsmith – http://qablog.practitest.com/you-dont-have-test-cases-think-again/

Tools/Programming

• An Android developer’s guide to mobile testing and tools – Aritra Roy – https://techbeacon.com/android-developers-guide-mobile-testing-tools
• Bad Use of A Good Tool – Kevin Cui – https://krazycavin.github.io/2017/06/27/bad-use-of-a-good-tool/
• Commercial vs. open-source: How to choose the best test automation tools – Joe Colantonio – https://techbeacon.com/commercial-vs-open-source-how-choose-best-test-automation-tools
• Rest Assured integration tests for jsontest.com – Sławomir Radzymiński – http://www.awesome-testing.com/2017/06/rest-assured-integration-tests-for.html
• Solution Development in Python, Part 2 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/06/solution-development-in-python-part-2/
• Solution Development in Python, Part 3 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/06/solution-development-in-python-part-3/
• What makes Katalon Studio more powerful than any other Selenium based Frameworks? – Hari Charan – https://seleniumbycharan.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/what-makes-katalon-studio-more-powerful-than-any-other-selenium-based-frameworks/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Cambridge Lean Coffee – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2017/06/cambridge-lean-coffee.html
• Notes from Zero to Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Pipeline and Blue Ocean – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2017/06/notes-from-zero-to-continuous-delivery.html
• Quality Excites me! – Kinga Witko – https://kingatest.wordpress.com/2017/06/25/quality-excites-me/

Miscellaneous

• eBooks: A curated list of the free Software Testing eBooks – Aditya Kalra – http://go-gaga-over-testing.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-curated-list-of-free-software-testing.html
• Podcast: 158: Test Conference Enlightenment with Greg Paskal – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/158-test-conference-enlightenment/
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 61 – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – http://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/?p=227
• Podcast: Ep 9: Doctor Who – The Deadly Assassin – Neil Studd, Dan Billing – http://screentesting.libsyn.com/ep-9-doctor-who-the-deadly-assassin
• Podcast: Episode #32: 8 ways to contribute to open source when you have no time – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/a32/8-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-when-you-have-no-time
• Podcast: QR Podcast – Jerry Weinberg – Keith Klain – http://qualityremarks.com/qr-podcast-jerry-weinberg/
• Podcast: Webinar: One Key Idea: Decision Tables 6/26/17 – Rex Black – http://rbcs-us.com/resources/podcast/webinar-one-key-idea-decision-tables-6-26-17/

Items of Interest

• Standard platform, operating system and browser recommendations (June 17) – Martin Cunnington – https://www.spritecloud.com/2017/06/standard-platform-operating-system-and-browser-recommendations-june-17/

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