Testing Bits – 10/01/17 – 10/07/17

Here is this week’s collection of the best articles, blog posts, and announcements coming from the software testing community covering the days of 10/01/17 – 10/07/17.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 Strategies for an Efficient Mobile App Testing Project – Thomas Raynott – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/3-strategies-efficient-mobile-app-testing-project
• Accessibility and HTML: Accessibility for Everyone: Long Form Book Review – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/10/accessibility-and-html-accessibility.html
• Asking Better Questions for 4 Different Purposes – Kevin Cui – https://krazycavin.github.io/2017/10/03/ask-better-questions-for-four-different-purposes/
• Best practices in testing and Galenic medicine – Viktor Slavchev – http://mrslavchev.com/2017/10/02/best-practices-in-testing-and-galenic-medicine/
• Content and Design: Accessibility for Everyone: Long Form Book Review – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/10/content-and-design-accessibility-for.html
• Discover the Mobile Testing Pyramid – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/2017/10/05/mobile-testing-pyramid/
• Ninja skills of a tester – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/ninja-skills-of-a-tester-c87d891fb9c0

• Planning for Accessibility: Accessibility for Everyone: Long Form Book Review – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/10/planning-for-accessibility.html
• Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing – Nelson Elhage – https://blog.nelhage.com/post/property-testing-is-fuzzing/
• Scripting 05: What About Variables – Senor Performo – https://www.srperf.com/scripting-05-variables/
• Speed vs. Quality- Which is Preferred? – Alex McPeak – https://blog.smartbear.com/cross-browser-testing/speed-vs-quality-which-is-preferred/
• Test Automation Myth-Busting – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2017/10/01/test-automation-myth-busting/
• The 5 Competencies of a Mobile Testing Specialist – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/the-5-competencies-of-a-mobile-testing-specialist/
• The Future of Software Testing – Josh Grant – http://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/166118387875/the-future-of-software-testing
• Unconventional Wisdom V11: Overcoming Traditional Software Quality Assurance Weaknesses – Robin Goldsmith – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/unconventional-wisdom-v11-proactive-software-quality-assurance-sqa-overcomes-traditional-sqa-weaknesses/
• Using Equivalence Partitioning in Software Testing – Anne Mette Hass – http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/using-equivalence-partitioning-in-software-testing/
• Visualization: Your secret weapon in testing – Anna Tsibulskaya – https://techbeacon.com/visualization-your-secret-weapon-testing
• Writing Automation is Easy – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/10/04/writing-automation-is-easy/

Tools/Programming

• Automated API Testing Made Easy With Karate – Amir Ghahrai – https://www.testingexcellence.com/automated-api-testing-made-easy-karate/
• Automation tests for iOS app using Appium (Part 3) – Darjan Djamtovski – http://blog.darjan-dzamto.com/automation-tests-for-ios-app-using-appium-part-3/
• Page Objects- Partial Classes Page Sections- WebDriver C# – Anton Angelov – https://automatetheplanet.com/page-objects-partial-classes-page-sections-webdriver/
• Pioneering Appium with Ruby for Mobile Test Automation, Part 2: OSx software – Martin de Haan – https://www.spritecloud.com/2017/10/pioneering-appium-with-ruby-for-mobile-test-automation-part-2-osx-software/
• Tools Like Selenium – In Search Of The Selenium IDE’s Successor – Rai Kou – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/tools-like-selenium-in-search-of-selenium-ide-successor/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Barcamp Experience – Sessions and Outlook for 2018 – Maik Nog – http://hanseatictester.info/barcamp-experience/
• My STPCon 2017 Experience – Corina Pip – https://iamalittletester.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/my-stpcon-2017-experience/
• Quest for Quality 2017 conference Dublin – Maja Schreiner – https://testmotion.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/quest-for-quality-2017-conference-dublin/

#30Daysoftesting

• 30 Days Of Agile Testing! Day Twenty-Six. – James Espie – https://www.supertestingbros.com/blog/2017/10/2/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-twenty-six
• 30 Days Of Agile Testing! Day Twenty-Seven. – James Espie – https://www.supertestingbros.com/blog/2017/10/2/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-twenty-seven
• 30 Days Of Agile Testing! Day Twenty-Eight. – James Espie – https://www.supertestingbros.com/blog/2017/10/4/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-twenty-eight

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: “A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps” (Katrina Clokie) – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/a-practical-guide-to-testing-in-devops-katrina-clokie/
• Book Review: Software Development – A Sisyphean Task? – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2017/10/software-development-sisyphean-task.html
• Podcast: 32: David Hussman – Agile vs Agility, Dude’s Law, and more – Brian Okken – http://testandcode.com/32
• Podcast: 172: Mobile Testing Pyramid with Kwo Ding – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/172-mobile-testing-pyramid-kwo-ding/
• Podcast: Ep 15: WarGames – Neil Studd, Dan Billing – http://screentesting.libsyn.com/ep-15-wargames
• Podcast: Ep 88: There’s a hack for that – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2017/10/05/ep-88-theres-a-hack-for-that/
• Podcast: Episode #46: Spicy lecture notes and unicorn console spinners – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/46/spicy-lecture-notes-and-unicorn-console-spinners
• Podcast: Testers’ Island Discs Ep 1 – Alex Schladebeck – Neil Studd – https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/testers-island-discs-ep-1-alex-schladebec

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