Testing Bits – July 8th – July 14th, 2018

Due to knee replacement surgery on July 13th, Testing Bits has not been published on it’s normal Sunday schedule.  Finally, back in front of the computer and curating again.  Be on the watch for some rapid fire postings this week.  So without further delay, here is the “surgery edition” of our curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of July 8th – July 14th, 2018.

Testing

• 5 Ways to Optimize Tests for Continuous Integration – John Ruberto – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/5-ways-optimize-tests-continuous-integration
• A Bug is Still a Bug – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/07/11/a-bug-is-still-a-bug/
• A Definition of Done for Modern Development – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/definition-of-done-development/
• A Gentle Introduction to Session Hijacking – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-gentle-introduction-to-session.html
• All of us have a test environment – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/07/all-of-us-have-test-environment.html
• Exploratory Testing on an API? (Part 1) – Michael Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2018/07/exploratory-testing-on-an-api-part-1/
• How do I explain the testing role to my team? – Christopher Lampert – https://nevertrustadeveloper.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/how-do-i-explain-the-testing-role-to-my-team/

• How Manual Testers Can Thrive in an Automation World: An Interview with Jeanne Schmidt – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/how-manual-testers-can-thrive-automation-world-interview-jeanne-schmidt
• JSON Tutorial: Introduction and A Complete Guide for Beginners – Prathibha – https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/json-tutorial/
• Lean Inception: How We Tried to Make It Leaner and What We’ve Learnt – Lina Zubyte – https://letmetrysoftwaretesting.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/lean-inception-how-we-tried-to-make-it-leaner-and-what-weve-learnt/
• Qualifying quantitative risk – Greg Paciga – http://gregorytesting.ca/2018/07/qualifying-quantitative-risk/
• #SuperGoalingBros – OWASP Study – 8. Insecure Deserialisation – Michael Clarke – https://mikethetesternz.wordpress.com/2018/07/11/supergoalingbros-owasp-study-8-insecure-deserialisation/
• #SuperGoalingBros – OWASP Study – 9. Using Known Vulnerabilities – Michael Clarke – https://mikethetesternz.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/supergoalingbros-owasp-study-9-using-known-vulnerabilities/
• Test Pyramid enhanced: Making the triangle a pyramid – Maik Nog – http://hanseatictester.info/test-pyramid-enhanced/

Automated Testing/Tools/Programming

• Duplicated Automated Tests – Paul Merrill – https://beaufortfairmont.com/2018/07/10/duplicate-automated-tests/
• MVP and API Thinking When Coding – Alan Richardson – http://blog.javafortesters.com/2018/07/mvp-and-api-thinking.html
• Why automate tests in an agile environment – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2018/07/why-automate-tests-in-agile-environment.html
• The Magic Automation Tool – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/the-magic-automation-tool/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• 2018/07/12 MidsTest with Rob Lambert – Lee – https://thegrowingtester.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/2018-07-12-midstest-with-rob-lambert/
• Nortal Summer University Workshop “Getting Started With Web Testing” – Irina Ivanova – https://ivanova-irina.blogspot.com/2018/07/nortal-summer-university-workshop.html
• Top Takeaways from Agile Testing Days USA – Alex McPeak – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/events/agile-testing-days-usa/

Miscellaneous

• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #1 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/07/09/the-little-tester-stories-in-testing-1/
• Podcast: 210: Selenium WebDriver Past, Present & Future with Simon Stewart – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/210-selenium-webdriver-past-present-future-with-simon-stewart/
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 85: The Community Principle – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – https://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/ab-testing-episode-85-the-community-principle/
• Podcast: Episode #86: Make your NoSQL async and await-able with uMongo – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/86/make-your-nosql-async-and-await-able-with-umongo