Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of Feb 18th – Feb 24th, 2018.

Articles & Blog

• Can You Have Too Many Tests? – Jeff Langr – https://blog.gurock.com/can-you-have-too-many-tests/
• Don’t Be Such a Tester – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/02/dont-be-such-a-tester/
• Considering a Career in Software Testing? – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/02/considering-software-testing-career.html
• How AI-Assisted Test Automation Can Transform the UI: An Interview with Gil Sever – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/how-ai-assisted-test-automation-can-transform-ui-interview-gil-sever
• How to Become a QA Problem Solver – Brian Hamilton – https://blog.testlodge.com/qa-problem-solver/
• Motivation MAP – Kamila Mrozek – https://dragonqa.blog/2018/02/22/motivation-map/
• On “Testing vs Checking” and other Oppositions – Dialectics and Deconstruction – Paul Maxwell-Walters – http://testingrants.blogspot.com/2018/02/on-testing-vs-checking-and-other_23.html

Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of Feb 11th – Feb 17th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• About Conference Moberators and Beneficial Mobs – Elisabeth Hocke – http://www.lisihocke.com/2018/02/about-conference-moberators-and-beneficial-mobs.html
• Designing a Valuable Stress Test – Nels Hoenig – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/designing-valuable-stress-test
• Developers Can Test, Too – Carol Brands – https://blog.gurock.com/developers-can-test-too/
• Expect Crashes – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2018/02/15/expect-crashes/
• How do you decide what to automate? – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-do-you-decide-what-to-automate.html
• How Testing Can Be Just Like Yoga: An Interview with Dawn Haynes – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/how-testing-can-be-just-yoga-interview-dawn-haynes
• Learning Pairing – Karo Stoltzenburg – https://putzerfisch.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/learning-pairing/

Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of Feb 4th – Feb 10th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• A Change in Perspective – Moving from Tech Lead to Manager – Simon Prior – https://priorsworld.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/a-change-in-perspective-moving-from-tech-lead-to-manager/
• An analogy to explain the limitations of test cases – Nicola Owens – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2018/02/an-analogy-to-explain-limitations-of.html
• Counting test cases – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/02/counting-test-cases.html
• Elemental Testing – Michael Frtizius – http://archdevops.com/2018/02/10/elemental-testing-2/
• Exploring It! – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2018/02/exploring-it.html
• Highly Maintainable and Flexible UI Test Automation Part 2 – Anton Angelov – https://automatetheplanet.com/highly-maintainable-flexible-ui-test-automation-part-2/
• Hindsight lessons about automation: Why automation? – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2018/02/07/hindsight-lessons-about-automation-why-automation/

Due to an epidemic of influenza B within the Testing Curator family, the previous edition of Testing Bits was not published.  This week enjoy a “double edition” with two weeks of curated announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of Jan 21st – Feb 3rd, 2018.

Testing Bits – Jan 28th – Feb 3rd, 2018

Articles & Blogs

• 5 Ways to Pair Developers with Testers – Jeffery Payne – https://www.stickyminds.com/better-software-magazine-article/5-ways-pair-developers-testers
• A stability strategy for test automation – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-stability-strategy-for-test-automation.html
• Aligning with the Business – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2018/01/aligning-with-business.html
• Are Gherkin Scenarios With Multiple When-Then Pairs Okay? – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/02/03/are-gherkin-scenarios-with-multiple-when-then-pairs-okay/
• Are You an Automation Hoarder? – Michael Fritzius – https://blog.testproject.io/2018/02/01/are-you-an-automation-hoarder/
• Complex, Critical Software System Testing: When Automation Is the Only Option – Jon Hagar – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/complex-critical-software-system-testing-when-automation-only-option
• Exploratory Testing using “Tours” – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2018/02/01/exploratory-testing-using-tours/