Testing Bits – 12/24/17 – 12/30/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/24/17 – 12/30/17.

Articles & Blogs

• Create an Accurate Test Estimation Model: An Interview with Shyam Sunder – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/create-accurate-test-estimation-model-interview-shyam-sunder
• How to survive a Startup as the only tester – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/startup-tester-survival-guide
• If You’re Human, You Test … – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/12/if-youre-human-you-test/
• Tame Your Monster and Make Better Decisions – Matthew Heusser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/tame-your-monster-and-make-better-decisions
• Testers Guide to Myths of Unit Testing – Ash Winter – http://testingisbelieving.blogspot.com/2017/12/testers-guide-to-myths-of-unit-testing.html

Tools/Programming

• Experiences with the Kong API Gateway – Grig Gheorghiu – http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2017/12/experiences-with-kong-api-gateway.html
• Favorite Browser Extensions for Test and Quality – Matthew Heusser – http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/favorite-browser-extensions-test-quality/

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/17/17 – 12/23/17.

Articles & Blogs

• API Testing Tutorial – Part 2! Frequently Used API Code Snippets – Prashant Hegde – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/api-testing-api-code-snippets/
• Fear Factor – Alan Page – http://angryweasel.com/blog/fear-factor/
• Go Encourage! Lessons Learnt From Encouraging People – Simon Tomes – https://www.qeek.co/blog/go-encourage-lessons-learnt-from-encouraging-people
• How to make the transition from test automation engineer to craftsman – Greg Paskal – https://techbeacon.com/how-make-transition-test-automation-engineer-craftsman
• How to run Amazing Meetings – A Blazing Simple Guide – Rob Lambert – http://cultivatedmanagement.com/run-amazing-meetings-blazingly-simple-guide/
• Impersonal Development – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2017/12/impersonal-development.html
• Kaizen on Test Strategies – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2017/12/kaizen-on-test-strategies.html

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/10/17 – 12/16/17.

Articles & Blogs

• A new model for test strategies… (An update to the Heuristic Test Strategy Model). – Dan Ashby – https://danashby.co.uk/2017/12/13/a-new-model-for-test-strategies/
• Automated UI Test Heuristic: Sleep and Wait – Chris McMahon – http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/automated-ui-test-heuristic-sleep-and.html
• Dear tester! Others care about quality, too. – Lina Zubyte – https://letmetrysoftwaretesting.wordpress.com/2017/12/14/dear-tester-others-care-about-quality-too/
• Develop Your Communication Skills – Boost Your Career – Rob Lambert – http://cultivatedmanagement.com/5-reasons-developing-communication-skills-can-boost-career/
• Experts’ Insight: Why Testing Matters – Alex McPeak – https://blog.smartbear.com/testing/experts-insight-why-testing-matters/
• How to define the right workload model for your performance tests – Lior Avni – https://techbeacon.com/how-define-right-workload-model-your-performance-tests
• How To Do Performance Testing: Part 5 – Power To The Teams! – Bart Withaar – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/performance-testing-part-5-integrate-performance-testing/

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/3/17 – 12/9/17.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 Test Design Techniques and When to Use Them – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/3-test-design-techniques-and-when-to-use-them/
• A/B Testing – James Espie – https://www.supertestingbros.com/blog/2017/12/6/ab-testing
• Compare Testing – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2017/12/compare-testing.html
• End to End Testing and Integration Testing Revisited – Pete Walen – http://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/12/end-to-end-testing-and-integration.html
• How Should Testers use AI? – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/12/07/how-should-testers-use-ai/
• How to overcome the challenges of testing in the cloud – Jess Ingrasselino – https://techbeacon.com/how-overcome-challenges-testing-cloud
• How to start a new project effectively – Robert Lambert – http://cultivatedmanagement.com/start-a-new-project-effectively/

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 11/26/17 – 12/2/17.

Articles & Blogs

• 6 new books every software testing engineer should read – Meaghan Lewis – https://techbeacon.com/6-software-testing-books-every-engineer-should-read
• A Search for Clear Assignments – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-search-for-clear-assignments.html
• Black Friday – the best performance live testing ever – Kinga Witko – https://kingatest.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/black-friday-the-best-performance-live-testing-ever/
• Camps of testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2017/11/camps-of-testing.html
• Circles – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/11/27/circles/
• Do Tools Matter? – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2017/11/29/do-tools-matter/
• Hindsight lessons about automation: Start automating – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2017/11/29/hindsight-lessons-about-automation-start-automating/