Testing Bits – March 25th – March 31st, 2018

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/