Testing Bits – October 14th – October 20th, 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 October 14th – October 20th, 2018.

Testing

• 4 Outside-in Signs That You Don’t Have Sufficient Unit Testing – Erik Dietrich – https://blog.gurock.com/sufficient-unit-testing/
• 6 Unexpected Career Tips for Thinking Testers – Jon Hagar – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/6-unexpected-career-tips-thinking-testers
• 27 short advices for software testers – Doron Bar – https://www.testerschoice.pro/single-post/2018/10/20/27-short-advices-for-software-testers
• And There’s More – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2018/10/and-theres-more.html
• API Testing Glossary – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2018/10/16/api-testing-glossary/
• Before You Log That Bug… – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/10/before-you-log-that-bug.html
• Benefits of Public Speaking – Karen Johnson – http://www.womentesters.com/benefits-of-public-speaking/

• BOB series: Shallow Testing gets a bad wrap – Anne-Marie Charrett – https://mavericktester.com/2018/10/17/bos-series-shallow-testing-gets-a-bad-wrap/
• Can you just run a Full Regression on this please – Dave Duke – http://allcapstester.blogspot.com/2018/10/can-you-just-run-full-regression-on.html
• GDPR – The Forgotten Tests – Test 2 – Han Toan Lim – https://www.mindfultester.com/gdpr-the-forgotten-tests-test-2/
• How to fail at testing – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/how-to-fail-at-testing
• I believe the children are our future….. – Chris Armstrong – https://christestarmstrong.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/i-believe-the-children-are-our-future/
• Leading Your Agile Team Regardless of Your Role – Johanna Rothman – https://blog.gurock.com/leading-agile-team/
• Let’s stop talking about testing, let’s start thinking about value – Huib Schoots – http://www.huibschoots.nl/wordpress/?p=2763
• Observe as A Photographer, as A Tester – Kevin Cui – https://krazycavin.github.io/2018/10/18/observe-as-a-photographer-as-a-tester/
• Searching For Answers And Clairty With Perspective & Feedback – Mel Eadon – http://testingandmoviesandstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/searching-for-answers-and-clairty-with.html
• Testability as observability and the Accessibility Object Model – Greg Paciga – http://gregorytesting.ca/2018/10/testability-as-observability-and-the-accessibility-object-model/
• Testing is a funny business – Chris Hazell – https://lotsog.blogspot.com/2018/10/testing-is-funny-business.html
• Testing Tour Stop #23: Pair Automating with Marianne – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/10/testing-tour-stop-23-pair-automating-with-marianne.html
• Top 5 Localization Challenges (inc. zombies?) – Nick Roberts – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/top-5-localization-challenges
• The dragons of the unknown; part 2 – crucial features of complex systems – James Christie – https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/the-dragons-of-the-unknown-part-2-crucial-features-of-complex-systems/
• The dragons of the unknown; part 3 – I don’t know what’s going on – James Christie – https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/the-dragons-of-the-unknown-part-3-i-dont-know-whats-going-on/
• The dragons of the unknown; part 4 – a brief history of accident models – James Christie – https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/the-dragons-of-the-unknown-part-4-a-brief-history-of-accident-models/
• The Ultimate Test? – Dan Billing – https://thetestdoctor.co.uk/2018/10/14/the-ultimate-test/
• The Way of the Tester: 7. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. – Robert Day – https://probetesting700171536.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/the-way-of-the-tester-7-perceive-those-things-which-cannot-be-seen/
• The Way of the Tester: 8. Pay attention even to trifles. – Robert Day – https://probetesting700171536.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/the-way-of-the-tester-8-pay-attention-even-to-trifles/
• The Way of the Tester: 9. Do nothing which is of no use. – Robert Day – https://probetesting700171536.wordpress.com/2018/10/16/the-way-of-the-tester-9-do-nothing-which-is-of-no-use/
• We Don’t Need Mobile Apps. Do We? – Parimala Hariprasad – http://curioustester.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-product-evangelist-i-recently-spoke.html

Automated Testing/Programming/Tools

• A Pytest pattern: using “parametrize” to customise nested fixtures. – Harry Percival – http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/author/harry.html
• Cypress vs Selenium WebDriver: Which is Better For You? – Gil Tayar – https://applitools.com/blog/cypress-vs-selenium-webdriver-which-is-better-for-you
• Lower Level Automation and Testing? – Toyer Mamoojee – https://toyerm.wordpress.com/2018/10/16/lower-level-automation-and-testing-be-more-precise-the-automation-triangle-revisited-again/
• Page Object Model Framework with Java and WebDriver – Amir Ghahrai – https://www.testingexcellence.com/page-object-framework-java-webdriver/
• So You Want to Be an Automation Developer – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-be-automation-developer.html
• Speaking Pythonese – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/10/14/speaking-pythonese/
• Standard platform, operating system and browser recommendations (October 18) – Martin Cunnington – https://www.spritecloud.com/2018/10/standard-platform-operating-system-and-browser-recommendations-october-18/
• Stop Automating Your Regression Tests (For Now) – Bas Dijkstra – https://blog.testproject.io/2018/10/15/stop-automating-your-regression-tests/
• The Automated Regression Suite. Part 2 of 3. When to Run the Tests. – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/10/18/the-automated-regression-suite-part-2-of-3-when-to-run-the-tests/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Peer Conference: How can we convince everyone to prioritize testing? – Johan Jonasson – http://blog.johanjonasson.com/?p=1117
• Quest for Quality 2018 Conference – The conference of the future – My Summary – Raj Subramanian – http://www.rajsubra.com/2018/10/15/quest-for-quality-2018/
• TestBash Sydney: Automated e2e Testing at WordPress.com – Alister Scott – https://watirmelon.blog/2018/10/19/testbash-sydney-automated-e2e-testing-at-wordpress-com/
• TestDive 2018– A short Relation – Maciej Wyrodek – https://thebrokentest.com/test-dive-2018-a-short-relation/

Miscellaneous

• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #15 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/10/15/the-little-tester-stories-in-testing-15/
• Podcast: 49: tox – Oliver Bestwalter – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/49
• Podcast: 224: The Need For Velocity with Eran Sher – Joe Colantonio – https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/224-velocity-eran-sher/
• Podcast: SPaMCAST 516 – Agile Testing and More, An Interview With Nishi Grover Garg – Tom Cagley – http://spamcast.libsyn.com/spamcast-516-agile-testing-and-more-an-interview-with-nishi-grover-garg
• Podcast: The Testing Show: Usable Metrics – Michael Larsen, Matt Heusser – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-usable-metrics