Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of April 22nd – April 28th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• 4 Ideas for Growing Your Testing Skills – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/growing-testing-skills/
• 7 Signs That You Should Switch to Contracting – Kim Engel – http://www.womentesters.com/7-signs-that-you-should-switch-to-contracting/
• A Look at the Software Tester Career Path – Erik Dietrich – https://blog.gurock.com/software-tester-career-path/
• A Plea for Testability – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/04/a-plea-for-testability/
• An Emotional Journey – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2018/04/an-emotional-journey.html
• An Ode to Testability, Part 1 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/04/an-ode-to-testability-part-1/
• An Ode to Testability, Part 2 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/04/an-ode-to-testability-part-2/

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of April 15th – April 21st, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 Reasons Automated QA Is A Pox On Our House – Jonathan Ross – http://warptest.com/2018/04/automated-qa-pox-house/
• 5 Test Tools I Use Every Day – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/test-tools-every-day-use/
• AI in software testing has arrived. Here’s why robots rule. – Valerie Silverthorne – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/AI-in-software-testing-has-arrived-Heres-why-robots-rule
• Guidelines For Running a Bug Bash – Conor Fitzgerald – http://conorfi.com/software-testing/guidelines-for-running-a-bug-bash/
• Manual Testing – Finally dead – Happy Is the man who Fears – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2018/04/manual-testing-finally-dead.html
• Organizing Your API Tests – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/04/organizing-your-api-tests.html
• Risk-driven Testing vs. Risk-based Testing – It’s the Thought that Counts – Trevor Atkins – http://thinktesting.com/articles/risk-driven-testing-vs-risk-based/

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of April 8th – April 14th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 ways to improve your testing group – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/3-ways-to-improve-your-testing-group
• A 10-Step Guide To Making Your Best Technical Talk Yet – Matthew Jones – https://exceptionnotfound.net/a-10-step-guide-to-making-your-best-technical-talk-yet/
• A Simplified Agile Test Strategy for Cross-Environment Testing – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/agile-cross-environment-testing/
• Are Some of Us Doing it Wrong? – Simon Prior – https://priorsworld.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/are-some-of-us-doing-it-wrong/
• Continuous Delivery Using Crowdsourced Testing – Maja Schreiner – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/continuous-delivery-using-crowdsourced-testing/
• How To Overcome Challenges Encountered While Doing Automation Testing – Claire Mackerras – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/how-to-overcome-challenges-encountered-while-doing-automation-testing/
• I want promotion! – Andy Carrington-Chappell – http://www.carrington-chappell.co.uk/blog/testing/i-want-promotion/

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of April 1st – April 7th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• Adding Postman Assertions –  Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/04/adding-postman-assertions.html
• Does Testing Fit into DevOps? – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/04/does-testing-fit-into-devops/
• How Manual Testers are Evolving into Automation Engineers: An Interview with Jennifer Scandariato – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/how-manual-testers-are-evolving-automation-engineers-interview-jennifer-scandariato
• Keeping It Simple as a Tester – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/keeping-it-simple-as-a-tester
• Make IT Accessible – Kinga Witko – https://kingatest.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/make-it-accessible/
• Real-time Collaboration – Janet Gregory – https://janetgregory.ca/real-time-collaboration/
• Seeking more robust and purposeful automated tests – Unknown – http://blog.bettersoftwaretesting.com/2018/04/seeking-more-robust-and-purposeful-automated-tests/

Here is this week’s Easter edition of our curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of March 25th – March 31st, 2018.  No fooling.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 Tips to Become a Technical Tester – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/technical-tester/
• A Developer’s Idea of Exploration – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-developers-idea-of-exploration.html
• A typical day of Testing – Chris Kenst – https://www.kenst.com/2018/03/a-typical-day-of-testing-2018/
• An outline of testing – Sean Cresswell – http://chippietester.blogspot.com/2018/03/an-outline-of-our-testing.html
• Confirmation and Exploration: two testing cultures – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.com/2018/03/29/confirmation-and-exploration-two-testing-cultures/
• Confirmation Culture (and how to challenge and change) – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.com/2018/03/29/confirmation-culture-and-how-to-challenge-and-change/
• Designing Test Scenarios for Social Media Mobile Apps – Krishnan Govindarajan – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/designing-test-scenarios-social-media-mobile-apps