Testing Bits – 12/31/17 – 1/6/18

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/31/17 – 1/6/18.

Articles & Blogs

• 4 New Year’s Resolutions for Testers – Paul Merrill – http://beaufortfairmont.com/2018/01/02/4-new-years-resolutions-for-testers/
• Continuous Testing Principals for Cross Browser Testing and Mobile Apps – Eran Kinsbruner – https://mobiletestingblog.com/2018/01/07/continuous-testing-principals-for-cross-browser-testing-and-mobile-apps/
• How To Think Like a Software Tester – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/think-like-software-tester
• My Automation’s Not Finding Bugs, But That’s OK – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/my-automations-not-finding-bugs-but-thats-ok/
• My hope for Testing in 2018… – Steve Watson – https://stevethedoc.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/my-hope-for-testing-in-2018/
• Requirements Mapping Using Business Function Test Suites – Balazs Schaffhauser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/requirements-mapping-using-business-function-test-suites
• The Prevalence of Parallax – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/01/the-prevalence-of-parallax/

• Their Art’s in the Right Place – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2018/01/their-arts-in-right-place.html
• What Testers Need to Know about Continuous Testing –  Wayne Ariola – https://www.stickyminds.com/better-software-magazine-article/what-testers-need-know-about-continuous-testing
• Where and Why we Automate – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/where-and-why-we-automate/
• Why Bug Reporting Is More Important than Ever Before: An Interview with Sam Kaufman – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/why-bug-reporting-more-important-ever-interview-sam-kaufman

Tools/Programming

• How To Selenium: Page Objects- Partial Classes Base Pages – Anton Angelov – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/selenium-page-objects-partial-classes-base-pages/
• Learning Ruby – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2018/01/learning-ruby.html
• Notes on Franklin Webber’s webinar, The Ruby Behind Chef – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2018/01/the-ruby-behind-chef.html

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• REST Assured Fundamentals: Udemy Course – James Willett – http://james-willett.com/2018/01/rest-assured-fundamentals-udemy-course/
• State of Testing Survey 2018 – Coming Soon! – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2018/01/02/state-of-testing-survey-2018-coming-soon/
• Wrapping Up Agile Testing Days 2017 – Lisa Crispin – http://lisacrispin.com/2017/12/31/wrapping-agile-testing-days-2017/

Miscellaneous

• Book Review – Humans vs Computers by Gojko Adzic, 2017 – Janet Gregory – https://janetgregory.ca/book-review-humans-vs-computers-by-gojko-adzic/
• Magazine: What’s in the Winter 2018 Issue of Better Software Magazine – Ken Whitaker – https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2018/01/whats-winter-2018-issue-better-software-magazine
• Podcast: 34: TDD and Test First – Brian Okken – http://testandcode.com/34
• Podcast: 184: Sneak Peek 2018 Automation Guild 2018 Online Conference – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/184-sneak-peek-2018-automation-guild-2018-online-conference/
• Podcast: Ep 94: Sound Effects and Overdramatics: The retrospective – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2018/01/04/ep-94-sound-effects-and-overdramatics-the-retrospective/
• Podcast: Episode #59: Instagram disregards Python’s GC (again) – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/59/instagram-disregards-python-s-gc-again
• Podcast: The Evil Tester Show – Episode 004 – New Year 2018 – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/01/evil-tester-show-podcast-004-new-year-2018.html
• Podcast: The Testing Show: CodeNewbie With Saron Yitbarek, Part 1 – Matt Heusser – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-codenewbie-with-saron-yitbarek-part-1

Personal Reflections & Goals

• 10 Things I Rocked in 2017: A Year End Review of XCBlog – Shashikant Jagtap – http://shashikantjagtap.net/10-things-i-rocked-2017-year-end-review-xcblog/
• 2017: That was Awesome! – Kristīne Corbus – https://testretreat.com/2018/01/03/2017-that-was-awesome/
• Getting Through 2017 – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/01/getting-through-2017.html
• Some of My 2018 Learning Goals, and Free Resources to Help in Yours – Paul Maxwell-Waters – http://testingrants.blogspot.com/2018/01/some-of-my-2018-learning-goals-and-free.html
• Where Does that Highway Go To? – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2017/12/where-does-that-highway-go-to.html