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
- Eliminating Mobile Test Automation Flakiness and More – Eran Kinsbruner – https://continuoustesting.blog/2018/03/26/eliminating-mobile-test-automation-flakiness-and-more/
- Get up and share! A Shout-out to the Community – Elisabeth Hocke – http://www.lisihocke.com/2018/03/get-up-and-share-a-shout-out-to-the-community.html
- Given, When, Then…Mental Indigestion – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2018/03/31/given-when-then-mental-indigestion/
- Hindsight lessons about automation: Layers of automation – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2018/03/30/hindsight-lessons-about-automation-layers-of-automation/
- How did you find that bug? Are we sitting comfortably, then I’ll begin. – Pete Houghton – http://www.investigatingsoftware.co.uk/2018/03/how-did-you-find-that-bug-are-we.html
- How to be a failure as a software tester – Sławomir Radzymiński – http://www.awesome-testing.com/2018/03/how-to-be-failure-as-software-tester.html
- HTTP Basics for Software Testers – Amir Ghahrai – https://www.testingexcellence.com/http-basics/
- Introduction To Software Testing Life Cycle – Phases And Process – Alex Jones – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/software-testing-life-cycle-phases/
- Let’s Broaden Our Testing Wisdom – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/03/lets-broaden-our-testing-wisdom/
- Manual Testing Deniers – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/03/manual-testing-deniers/
- Quality Metrics 101: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/03/26/quality-metrics-101-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
- Quality Metrics 101: Test Quality – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/03/28/quality-metrics-101-test-quality/
- Re-engineer Your Development to Stop Creating Defects: An Interview with Jennifer Scandariato – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/re-engineer-your-development-stop-creating-defects-interview-jennifer-scandariato
- Tester Horror Story: Omission – Kamila Mrokek – https://dragonqa.blog/2018/03/29/tester-horror-story-omission/
- Testers Diary – Reprioritizing Testing, Part 2 – Carol Brands – https://blog.gurock.com/reprioritizing-testing-2/
- The Joy of Getting Rid of Automated Tests – Josh Grant – http://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/172421046605/the-joy-of-getting-rid-of-automated-tests
- The Power of Doubt in Software Testing – Ben Linders – https://www.infoq.com/articles/power-doubt-testing
- This 8 min routine has made me a more accurate and productive tester! – Joel Montvelisky – http://qablog.practitest.com/this-8-min-routine-has-made-me-a-more-accurate-and-productive-tester/
- Top 5 Habits Automation Engineers Need to Break in 2018 – Kirsten Aebersold – https://blog.smartbear.com/testing/top-5-habits-automation-engineers-need-to-break-in-2018/
- What is Interface Testing? Know Its Types, Strategy and Tools – Prathibha – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/what-is-interface-testing/
Tools/Programming
- Architecting iOS XCUITests for iPhones and iPads – Shashikant Jagtap – http://shashikantjagtap.net/architecting-ios-xcuitests-for-iphones-and-ipads/
- How To Do Automation Web Testing Using Katalon In 3 Easy Steps – Alex Jones – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/automation-web-testing/
- How to install cURL on Windows – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/03/how-to-install-curl-on-windows.html
- Introducing the TestProject Framework! – Mark Kardashov – https://blog.testproject.io/2018/03/27/testproject-journey-beta/
- Starting a Selenium Grid using AWS + SeleniumHQ Docker images + Docker Compose – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2018/03/starting-selenium-grid-using-aws.html
Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training
- Conference Week – March 2018 – Ali Hill – https://edinburghtester.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/conference-week-march-2018/
- Tech Develops – A day dedicated to YOU! – Gareth Waterhouse – http://www.testingthewaterhouse.com/2018/03/tech-develops-day-dedicated-to-you.html
- UKSTAR 2018 – 11 Takeaways From The Conference – Sowmya Ramesh – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/uk-star-2018-final-reflections/
- UKSTAR 2018: A Retrospective – Richard Paterson – http://rcpaterson.co.uk/blog/test/ukstar-2018-a-retrospective/
- Ultimate survival in the UKstar 2018 – recap – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2018/03/28/ultimate-survival-in-the-ukstar-2018-recap/
Miscellaneous
- Podcast: 39: Thorough software testing for critical features – Brian Okken – http://testandcode.com/39
- Podcast: 196: Rapid Software Testing with Michael Bolton – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/196-rapid-software-testing-michael-bolton/
- Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 79: The Modern Tester Goes to Testbash – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – http://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/?p=350
- Podcast: Episode #71: We can migrate to Python 3, careful please – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/71/we-can-migrate-to-python-3-careful-please
- Podcast: One Key Idea: Two Simple, Useful Defect Metrics – Rex Black – https://rbcs-us.com/resources/podcast/one-key-idea-two-simple-useful-defect-metrics/
- Podcast: QAInsights Podcasts – First Episode – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – http://qainsights.com/qainsights-first-episode/
- Videos: BDD in Devops: Extending Test Driven Development with BDD | Whiteboard Friday – Ryan Yackel – https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/bdd-devops-extending-test-driven-development/