Testing Bits – September 16th – September 22nd, 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 16th – September 22nd, 2018

Testing

• 2018/09/17 What is Mutation Testing? – The Growing Tester – https://thegrowingtester.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/2018-09-17-what-is-mutation-testing/
• A Stage Performance – Anders Dinsen – https://asym.dk/2018/09/17/a-stage-performance/
• API Testing 101 – Comprehensive Guide for Newbie – Katalon Studio Team – http://www.abodeqa.com/api-testing-introduction-guide/
• Balancing Your Automation Strategy with Manual Testing – Alex McPeak – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/test-automation/balance-between-manual-and-automation/
• Building Better Relationships Between Developers and QA Engineers – Angela Riggs – http://angelariggs.github.io/blog/building-relationship-developers-qa
• Demystifying Machine Learning, Part 4 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/09/demystifying-machine-learning-part-4/
• Demystifying Machine Learning, Part 5 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/09/demystifying-machine-learning-part-5/

• Demystifying Machine Learning, Part 6 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/09/demystifying-machine-learning-part-6/
• How Testers Can Improve Technical Work – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-technical-work/
• How to Design a Test Plan – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-design-test-plan.html
• How to foster collaboration in software development – Matt Heusser – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-foster-collaboration-in-software-development
• Testers don’t and can’t prevent bugs : Alltruism or Sense of Pride ? – Shrini Kulkarni – http://shrinik.blogspot.com/2018/09/testers-dont-and-cant-prevent-bugs.html
• Testing AI: Supervised Learning – Jason Arbon – https://medium.com/@jarbon/testing-ai-supervised-learning-d926a997f4a6
• The changing face of delivery, and it’s quality implication … – Mike Talks – https://medium.com/the-test-sheep/the-changing-face-of-delivery-and-its-quality-implication-4a244d6527b3
• The manual testing approach – Azik Chowdhury – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/the-manual-testing-approach/
• The One Thumb, One Eyeball Test – Parimala Hariprasad – http://curioustester.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-one-thumb-one-eyeball-test.html
• What is this Agile Thing? – Senor Performo – https://www.srperf.com/agile-whatsit/
• What Our Customers’ Top 100 Tested Browser & OS Combinations of 2018 Tell Us – Alex McPeak – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/browsers/100-top-browsers-os-devices/

Automated Testing/Programming/Tools

• Dynamically create test cases with Robot Framework – Greg Paciga – http://gregorytesting.ca/2018/09/dynamically-create-test-cases-with-robot-framework/
• Experimenting Your Way to Better Test Automation – Johanna Rothman – https://blog.gurock.com/better-test-automation/
• Get Started With TestProject in Under 20 min – Nikolay Advolodkin – https://www.ultimateqa.com/testproject-get-started/
• Getting Started With Cucumber BDD for Automation Testing – Katalon Studio Team – http://www.abodeqa.com/cucumber-bdd-for-testing/
• How to speed up your tests in one simple step – Sławomir Radzymiński – https://www.awesome-testing.com/2018/09/how-to-speed-up-your-tests-in-one.html
• Ignoring Files with GIT – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/09/19/ignoring-files-with-git/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Keynote Session Report On Testival Vukovar 2018 – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/keynote-session-report-on-testival-vukovar-2018/
• My First TestBash Experience – Christopher Lampert – https://nevertrustadeveloper.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/my-first-testbash-experience-introduction/
• My First TestBash Experience: Conference Day – Christopher Lampert – https://nevertrustadeveloper.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/my-first-testbash-experience-conference-day/
• Report On Sessions Talks From Vukovar Testival 2018 – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/report-on-sessions-talks-from-vukovar-testival-2018/

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: 220: VR and AR in Mobile Apps Testing with Bj Aberle – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/220-bjaberle/
• Podcast: Episode 51 – More on Hiring – Stephen Janaway, Dan Ashby – http://testinginthepub.co.uk/testinginthepub/hiring/episode-51-more-on-hiring/
• Podcast: Joel Montvelisky – thebusinessoftesting.com – Johan Steyn – https://thebusinessoftesting.podbean.com/e/joel-montvelisky-thebusinessoftestingcom/
• Podcast: Paul Gerrard – thebusinessoftesting.com – Johan Steyn – https://thebusinessoftesting.podbean.com/e/paul-gerrard-thebusinessoftestingcom/