Testing Bits – 7/23/17 – 7/29/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 7/23/17 – 7/29/17.

Articles & Blogs

• ‑‑BDD; Automation without Collaboration – Andy Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2017/07/26/bdd-automation-without-collaboration/
• A Look At Test Automation and ‘Test Automators’ – Inspired From Alan Page’s Tweets – Richard Bradshaw – https://thefriendlytester.co.uk/2017/07/a-look-at-test-automation-and-test-automators
• ABCs of Test Automation – Tim Ebie – http://testdemy.com/abcs-of-test-automation/
• Agile Hiring – A Practical Example – Maik Nog – http://hanseatictester.info/agile-hiring-a-practical-example/
• BDD‑‑; Collaboration without Automation – Andy Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2017/07/26/bdd%E2%80%91%E2%80%91-collaboration-without-automation/
• Best Practices Reviewing Requirements for Testability – Richard Ellison – http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/best-practices-reviewing-requirements-for-testability/
• Boredom – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/07/27/boredom/

• Chatbot Testing with SBTM and Mike Talks – Cassandra Leung – http://www.cassandrahl.com/blog/chatbot-testing-with-sbtm-and-mike-talks/
• Continuous Testing and Open Source Integration: An Interview with Alex Martins – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/continuous-testing-and-open-source-integration-interview-alex-martins
• Could have turned left, could have turned right….. – Chris Armstrong – https://christestarmstrong.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/could-have-turned-left-could-have-turned-right/
• Exploring the top of the testing pyramid: End-to-end and user interface testing – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2017/07/exploring-top-of-testing-pyramid-end-to.html
• Improving Performance Reviews – Stephen Janaway – http://stephenjanaway.co.uk/stephenjanaway/management/improving-performance-reviews/
• On including automation in your Definition of Done – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/on-including-automation-in-your-definition-of-done/
• Pathway Exploratory Testing – Marcel Gehlen – http://thatsthebuffettable.blogspot.com/2017/07/pathway-exploratory-testing.html
• Q&A with Danny Dainton – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.com/2017/07/25/qa-with-danny-dainton/
• Reflections:: Persistent Learning – Rahul Verman – http://www.rahulverma.net/reflections-persistent-learning/
• Scripting02: Bring Them in Pairs – Senor Performo – https://www.srperf.com/scrpting-02-bring-pairs/
• Talking vs Communicating – Aaron Hodder – http://testerkiwi.blogspot.com/2017/07/talking-vs-communicating.html
• Testing and monitoring in production – your QA is incomplete without it – Cody Reichert – https://assertible.com/blog/testing-and-monitoring-in-production-your-qa-is-incomplete-without-it
• Testing in Continuous Delivery: Shift Left – Łukasz Rosłonek – https://testdetective.com/testing-in-continuous-delivery-shift-left/
• The Standard you walk past….. – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/the-standard-you-walk-past/
• This shouldn’t work – Amit – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2017/07/this-shouldnt-work.html
• Top 10 Benefits of automated testing – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2017/07/top-10-benefits-of-automated-testing.html
• Two Types of Bad Testing – Josh Grant – http://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/163390921565/two-types-of-bad-testing
• What Testers Need in Their Accessibility Testing Toolkits – Albert Gareev – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/what-testers-need-their-accessibility-testing-toolkits

Tools/Programming

• GitHub for Testers –  Ben Linders – https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/07/github-testers
• Pacumen – Exploring Testing and AI – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/07/pacumen-exploring-testing-and-ai/
• Page Objects- Partial Classes Fluent API- WebDriver C# – Anton Angelov – https://automatetheplanet.com/page-objects-partial-classes-fluent-api/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Greedy Speakers are the Death of conferences – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2017/07/greedy-speakers-are-death-of-conferences.html
• How to successfully submit to a Software Testing Conference – lessons learned the hard way – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2017/07/how-to-successfully-submit-to-conferences.html
• Learning from the other side: Thoughts on conferences, workshops, learning and test ideas – Dan Billing – https://thetestdoctor.co.uk/2017/07/25/learning-from-the-other-side-thoughts-on-conferences-workshops-learning-and-test-ideas/
• Survey: “Take my Testing Survey today!” – Mike Lyles – https://mikelyles.wordpress.com/2017/07/22/testing-survey/
  —-> Let’s try and help him out, it only takes a few short moments!

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: 162: Shift Left Mobile Application Testing with Satyajit Malugu – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/162-shift-left-mobile-application-testing-satyajit-malugu/
• Podcast: Ep 83: Learn to fly – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2017/07/27/ep-83-learn-to-fly/
• Podcast: Episode 6 – Seven Types Of Testers – James Espie, Dan Barrow – https://www.supertestingbros.com/podcasts/2017/7/23/episode-6-seven-types-of-testers
• Podcast: Episode #36: Craft Your Python Like Poetry and Other Musings – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/36/craft-your-python-like-poetry-and-other-musings
• Podcast: July 28, News of the Damned! – Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley – http://www.perfbytes.com/2017/07/july-28-news-of-damned.html
• Podcast: QR Podcast – Anne Marie Charrett – Keith Klain – http://qualityremarks.com/qr-podcast-anne-marie-charrett/
• Podcast: Testing in the Pub Episode 42 – Breaking Into Agile Testing – Stephen Janaway, Dan Ashby – http://testinginthepub.co.uk/testinginthepub/podcast/testing-pub-episode-42-breaking-agile-testing/

Items of Interest

• An Idea Please, Bob- James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2017/07/an-idea-please-bob.html

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