Testing Bits – September 9th – September 15th, 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 September 9th – September 15th, 2018.

Testing

• AI Failure Story: Paying a Heavy Price for Test Strategy Errors – Anna Royzman – http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/ai-failure-story-paying-a-heavy-price-for-test-strategy-errors/
• Are You Adding Value, Always? – Kim Engel – https://isitgoodenoughyet.com/2018/09/11/are-you-adding-value-always/
• Attribution for Work Performed in a Mob – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/09/attribution-for-work-performed-in-mob.html
• Challenges of Being the Team’s Sole Tester (Cont.) – Mike Talks – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/test-automation/challenges-software-tester/
• Define Your Test Strategy Because Agile Does Not Mean Unstructured – Branka Rakic – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/define-test-strategy-agile-not-mean-unstructured/
• Demystifying Machine Learning, Part 2 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/09/demystifying-machine-learning-part-2/
• Demystifying Machine Learning, Part 3 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/09/demystifying-machine-learning-part-3/

• Devs Leading the Testing I Do – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/09/devs-leading-testing-i-do.html
• How to Get Regression Defects Under Control – Erik Dietrich – https://blog.gurock.com/regression-defects-under-control/
• Is Testing as a profession underrated? – Steve Watson – https://stevethedoc.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/is-testing-as-a-profession-underrated/
• Localization Testing – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/09/localization-testing.html
• Modern Test Fundamentals – The Work – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/modern-test-fundamentals-the-work/
• Shift-Left of Quality: How is it Equally Important as Shift-Left in Testing? – Remya R. – https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/shift-left-of-quality/
• Status and Progress – Alan Page – https://angryweasel.com/blog/status-and-progress/
• The Right Time for Testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-right-time-for-testing.html
• Tips for programmers who want to build testing skills – Graeme Harvey – https://www.iteststuff.ca/2018/09/tips-for-programmers-who-want-to-build.html
• Turning Testers into Machine Learning Engineers – Jason Arbon – https://medium.com/@jarbon/turning-testers-into-machine-learning-engineers-2f9e990abfef
• What are the Most Important Metrics for Automation Testing? – Hamesh Chawla – https://www.getzephyr.com/insights/what-are-most-important-metrics-automation-testing
• What if we don’t use the words Verification and Validation? – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/09/what-if-we-dont-use-words-verification.html
• What Types of Software Bugs Are We Seeing in 2018? Here Are 13 Examples – Al Sargent – https://applitools.com/blog/examples-of-software-bugs

Automated Testing/Programming/Tools

• Getting Your New Web Test Automation Up and Running – Daniel Garay – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/getting-your-new-web-test-automation-and-running
• How good is your Selenium Java code? – Alex Siminuic – https://seleniumjava.com/2018/09/15/how-good-is-your-selenium-java-code/
• How To Run Your Selenium Tests Headlessly in Docker – Chris Kenst – https://www.kenst.com/2018/09/how-to-run-your-selenium-tests-headlessly-in-docker/
• Postman – The Bearer of good news… – Danny Dainton – https://dannydainton.com/2018/09/10/postman-the-bearer-of-good-news/
• Tuning up test pyramid for microservices – Oleksandr Romanov – https://alexromanov.github.io/2018/09/10/microservices-automation-approach/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• First day report on Testival Vukovar 2018 – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/first-day-report-on-testival-vukovar-2018/
• Selfish Accessibility at CodeDaze – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2018/09/selfish-accessibility-at-codedaze.html
• SwanseaCon 2018 – Celebrating One Year of Public Speaking – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/09/swanseacon-2018-celebrating-one-year-of-public-speaking.html
• TestBash Germany 2018 – My First Attempt In Sketchnoting – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/09/testbash-germany-2018-my-first-attempt-in-sketchnoting.html
• What’s That Smell? Angie Jones Talks at #BAST (LiveBlog) – Michael Larsen – https://www.mkltesthead.com/2018/09/whats-that-smell-angie-jones-talks-at.html

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: 219: The State of Software Quality in 2018 with Shailesh Rao – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/219-the-state-of-software-quality-in-2018-with-shailesh-rao/
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 89: Modern Testing Mailbag – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – https://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/episode-89-modern-testing-mailbag/
• Podcast: Arindam Karmakar – thebusinessoftesting.com – Johan Steyn – https://thebusinessoftesting.podbean.com/e/arindam-karmakar-thebusinessoftestingcom/
• Podcast: Huib Schoots – thebusinessoftesting.com – Johan Steyn – https://thebusinessoftesting.podbean.com/e/huib-schoots-thebusinessoftestingcom/
• Podcast: The Testing Show: Building Great Testing Teams – Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-building-great-testing-teams
• Video: Balancing Testing Tools: An Interview with Paul Merrill – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/balancing-testing-tools-interview-paul-merril