Testing Bits – September 30th – October 6th, 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 30th – October 6th, 2018.

Testing

• 7 Holes You Might Have in Your Testing Strategy – Erik Dietrich – https://blog.gurock.com/7-holes-in-testing-strategy
• Birds love BUGS – Torsen Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2018/10/birds-love-bugs_6.html
• Chartering for Exploratory Testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/10/chartering-for-exploratory-testing.html
• Dealing with unplanned but urgent work – Allan Kelly – https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/blog/
• Deep Exploratory Testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/10/deep-exploratory-testing.html
• Deep Testing and Test Levels – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/10/deep-testing-and-test-levels.html
• First Week As QA Lead In A Startup – 5 Steps For 5 Working Days – Dawid Dylowicz – https://morethantesting.com/first-week-as-qa-lead-in-a-startup/

• How test automation can avoid 70,000 angry passengers – Yarin Podoloer – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/how-test-automation-can-avoid-70000-angry-passengers/
• How To Think Like a Software Tester Part 2 – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/how-to-think-like-a-software-tester-part-2
• In the Spotlight Series- Interview with Maciej Wyrodek – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/sportlight-maciej-wyrodek/
• Mapping Biases to Testing – Hypocognition – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2018/10/mapping-biases-to-testing-hypocognition/
• Myth: “code must be tested by someone else” – Jean-Pierre Lambert – https://jp-lambert.me/myth-code-must-be-tested-by-someone-else-759ab7b28d53
• Optimize Your Hardening Sprint for a Quality Advantage – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/optimize-hardening-sprint/
• Problems with Test Automation and Modern QA – Amir Ghahrai – https://www.testingexcellence.com/problems-test-automation-modern-qa/
• Questionable Therapy & Counseling Applied to Organisational Coaches – Duncan Nisbet – http://www.duncannisbet.co.uk/questionable-therapy-counseling-applied-to-organisational-coaches
• Taking the scrum retrospective to the next level – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2018/10/taking-scrum-retrospective-to-next.html
• Test Faster: How We Cut Our Test Cycle Time in Half – John Ruberto – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/test-faster-how-we-cut-our-test-cycle-time-half
• Testing Tour Stop #20: Pair Exploring Online Invitations with Claire – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/10/testing-tour-stop-20-pair-exploring-online-invitations-with-claire.html
• Testing Tour Stop #21: Pair Accessibility Testing with Alex – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/10/testing-tour-stop-21-pair-accessibility-testing-with-alex.html
• The Pipeline Problem – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/pipeline/
• The Way of the Tester: 2. The Way is in training. – Robert Day – https://probetesting700171536.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/the-way-of-the-tester-2-the-way-is-in-training/
• The Way of the Tester: 3. Become acquainted with every art. – Robert Day – https://probetesting700171536.wordpress.com/2018/10/06/the-way-of-the-tester-3-become-acquainted-with-every-art/

Automated Testing/Programming/Tools

• 3 Easy Tutorials for Getting Started with Selenium – Alex McPeak – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/selenium/selenium-tutorial-beginners/
• Applitools Code Overview and Baseline Examples – Nikolay Advolodkin – https://www.ultimateqa.com/applitools-baseline-examples/
• Automating Tests for a Complicated Feature – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/10/automating-tests-for-complicated-feature.html
• Barriers to automation – Chris Hazell – https://lotsog.blogspot.com/2018/10/barriers-to-automation.html
• Chakram: A Rest API testing framework for JavaScript – Nadim Saker – https://nadimsaker.blogspot.com/2018/10/chakram-rest-api-testing-framework-for.html
• Introducing Automation in Testing Online – Mark Winteringham – https://automationintesting.com/2018/10/introducing-automation-in-testing-online.html
• The Software Engineer in Test – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/10/02/the-software-engineer-in-test/
• Use Waits as Assertions for Your Selenium Tests – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/10/04/use-waits-as-assertions-for-your-selenium-tests/
• Visual testing with BackstopJs – Justin Holsgrove – http://automatedtester.science/visual-testing-with-backstopjs/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Attending Testbash: The Dos and Don’ts – Stu Johnson – https://wildtests.wordpress.com/2018/10/01/attending-testbash-the-dos-and-donts/
• Testing in Production – Big Ideas from Tesbash Manchester 2018 – Stu Johnson – https://wildtests.wordpress.com/2018/10/03/testing-in-production-big-ideas-from-testbash-manchester-2018/
• Testing is a Thinking Craft – Big Ideas from Tesbash Manchester 2018 – Stu Johnson – https://wildtests.wordpress.com/2018/10/02/testing-is-a-thinking-craft-big-ideas-from-testbash-manchester-2018/
• Your Users are Diverse – Why Aren’t Your Testers? – Big Ideas from Tesbash Manchester 2018 – Stu Johnson – https://wildtests.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/your-users-are-diverse-why-arent-your-testers-big-ideas-from-testbash-manchester-2018/

Miscellaneous

• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #13 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/10/01/the-little-tester-stories-in-testing-13/
• Podcast: 222: AI-powered Test Automation Dashboard with Dzmitry Humianiuk – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/222-ai-powered-dashboard/
• Podcast: Dragan Spiridonov – thebusinessoftesting.com – Johan Steyn – https://thebusinessoftesting.podbean.com/e/dragan-spiridonov-thebusinessoftestingcom/
• Podcast: Episode 52 – Communities – Stephen Janaway, Dan Ashby – http://testinginthepub.co.uk/testinginthepub/podcast/episode-52-communities/