Testing Bits – June 17th – June 23rd, 2018

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 June 17th – June 23rd, 2018.

Testing

• 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid in Agile Retrospectives – Nishi Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/mistakes-in-agile-retrospectives/
• Balancing Mobbing, Pairing and Solo Work – Jeff Langr – https://blog.gurock.com/mobbing-pairing-solo-development/
• Finding the Specialist Tester – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/06/finding-the-specialist-tester/
• How to Ruin Your Behavior-Driven Development Test Scripts – László Szegedi – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/how-ruin-your-behavior-driven-development-test-scripts
• In the Spotlight Series- Interview with Nikolay Advolodkin – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/spotlight-nikolay-advolodkin/
• Introduction to SQL Injection – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/06/introduction-to-sql-injection.html
• Is There Any Start and Stop Boundary to the QA’s Role in Scrum? – Prathiba – https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/qa-role-in-scrum/

• Lessons Learned from Scott Adams’ “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” – Jason Ogayon – https://onesoftwaretester.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/lessons-learned-from-scott-adams-how-to-fail-at-almost-everything-and-still-win-big/
• Pair Testing: Working Together to Define Quality – Alex McPeak – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/manual-testing/pair-testing/
• Software testing – how to test sooner and fix faster! – Emilio Vacco – http://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/software-testing-how-to-test-sooner-and-fix-faster/
• Testers, get away from your desk – Daniel Shaw – http://clairshaw.co.uk/blog/2018-06/testers-get-away-your-desk
• Testing Tour Stop #13: Pair Penetration Testing with Peter – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/06/testing-tour-stop-13-pair-penetration-testing-with-peter.html
• The barriers to successful agile adoption by software Testers – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2018/06/the-barriers-to-successful-agile.html
• What did 100 people say about their Tester – Developer Collaboration? – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-did-100-people-say-about-their.html
• What do I mean by ‘Quality’? – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.com/2018/06/19/what-do-i-mean-by-quality/

Test Automation/Tools/Programming

• Getting Started in Automation – Reading from Excel – Rambling Tester – https://ramblingtester.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/getting-started-in-automation-reading-from-excel/
• Good and Bad UI Test Automation explained – Inspired by Richard Bradshaw’s Tweets – Chris Kenst – https://www.kenst.com/2018/06/good-and-bad-ui-test-automation-explained-inspired-by-richard-bradshaws-tweets/
• Hindsight lessons about automation: Interfaces – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2018/06/19/hindsight-lessons-about-automation-interfaces/
• Hindsight lessons about automation: What tests to automate. – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2018/06/21/hindsight-lessons-about-automation-what-tests-to-automate/
• How Not To Get Into Test Automation – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2018/06/how-not-to-get-into-automation.html
• How to Adopt an Agile Testing Methodology – Tom Alexander – https://www.getzephyr.com/insights/how-adopt-agile-testing-methodology
• theWaiter: Wait for Webelement Text. To Equal, Contains a String with Variations – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/06/19/thewaiter-wait-for-webelement-text-to-equal-contain-a-string-with-variations/
• Using async/await with WebDriverJs – Alister Scott – https://watirmelon.blog/2018/06/19/using-async-await-with-webdriverjs/
• Why Manual Testers Shouldn’t Fear Automation: An Interview with Chris Loder – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/why-manual-testers-shouldnt-fear-automation-interview-chris-loder

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Another EPIC TestAbility Academy course comes to an end – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/another-epic-testability-academy-course-comes-to-an-end/
• NWEWT #3 Experience Report – Duncan Nisbet –  https://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/2018/06/21/nwewt-3-experience-report/
• Recording of Agile Tour London Talk from 2017 now available to watch on Infoq – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/06/agile-tour-infoq.html

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: 207: Test Leadership in Agile with Anna Royzman – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/207-test-leadership-in-agile-with-anna-royzman/
• Podcast: Episode #83: from __future__ import braces – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/83/from-future-import-braces