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 December 30th – January 5th, 2019.
Testing
- Baseline Rules for Scrollbar Usability – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2019/01/baseline-rules-for-scrollbar-usability.html
- Heuristics for debugging integration problems – Sunjeet Khokhar – https://thereluctanttester.com/2019/01/03/heuristics-for-debugging-integration-problems/
- Hiring Good Testers – Connor Roberts – http://pixelgrill.com/hiring-good-testers/
- How to keep developers and testers happy — and productive – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-keep-developers-and-testers-happy-and-productive
- On Being Called a Testing “Expert” or “Guru” – Paul Maxwell-Walters – http://testingrants.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-being-called-testing-expert-or-guru.html
- Q and A with Joep Schuurkes – Women Testers – http://www.womentesters.com/q-and-a-with-joep-schuurkes/
- Sweet Fifteen – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2019/01/sweet-fifteen.html
- Test Suite And Test Redundancy: How Your Watchmen Have Turned Against You – Mario Gonzalez – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/common-problems-of-test-redundancy/
- The Automation Test Wheel in Practice – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-automation-test-wheel-in-practice.html
- Why I moved from programming to a software testing role – Matt Heusser – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/opinion/Why-I-moved-from-programming-to-a-software-testing-role
Automated Testing/Programming/Tools
- 15 Best Practices and Strategies for Test Automation – Pramod Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2019/01/05/best-practices-test-automation/
Miscellaneous
- Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #26 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/12/31/the-little-tester-stories-in-testing-26/
- Podcast: 61: A retrospective – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/61
- Podcast: 234: How Test Automation Will Change in 2019 – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/testtalks/234-predictions-2019/
Goals & Personal Reflections
- 2018 in retrospect – PART 3 – Maria Kedemo – https://mkedemo.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/2018-in-retrospect-part-3/
- 2019 – a year filled with ambition – Toine Schoenmaekers – http://www.toine.com/2019-a-year-filled-with-ambition/
- A Look Back at 2018 – Viv Richards – http://vivrichards.co.uk/retro/a-look-back-at-2018
- And You May Find Yourself – Michael Larsen – https://www.mkltesthead.com/2018/12/and-you-may-find-yourself.html
- Goodbye 2018 – Kristīne Corbus – https://testretreat.com/2018/12/31/goodbye-2018/
- It’s been a quiet year hasn’t it Mike? – Mike Talks – https://medium.com/the-test-sheep/its-been-a-quiet-year-hasn-t-it-mike-57d5172aca5a
- Looking back on 2018, looking forward to 2019 – Hilary Weaver-Robb – https://g33klady.com/2019/01/02/looking-back-on-2018-looking-forward-to-2019/
- Reflecting Back and Looking Forward – Angela Wilson Riggs – http://angelariggs.github.io/blog/2018-reflection
- Wrap up of a big year – 2018 – Toine Schoenmaekers – http://www.toine.com/wrap-up-of-a-big-year-2018/
- Year in Review 2018: Key Learnings and Personal Achievements – Shashikant Jagtap – https://shashikantjagtap.net/year-in-review-2018-key-learnings-and-personal-achievements/