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 April 28th – May 4th, 2019.
Testing
- 11 Things that Testing Delivers – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/11-things-that-testing-delivers-a204f9778944
- Details / Summary Are Not [insert control here] – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2019/04/details-summary-are-not-insert-control-here.html
- From Performance Tester to Performance Engineer – Arun Kumar Dutta – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/performance-tester-performance-engineer
- How Much is Enough? Testing as Story-Telling – James Bach – https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/6203
- My favourite techniques – Dorothy Graham – https://dorothygraham.blogspot.com/2019/05/as-my-lightning-keynote-at-star-east.html
- Open Sourcing Your Mindset – Brendan Connolly – https://testingindevops.org/open-sourcing-your-mindset-by-brendan-connolly/
- Reflecting on the design of test tasks – Alexandra Casapu – https://medium.com/@coveredincloth/ive-been-reading-in-seeing-like-a-state-about-the-polarity-between-deep-thick-and-shallow-thin-c355a390abaa
- Risk Based Testing | Part One | Talking About Risks Over Types of Testing – Dan Ashby – https://danashby.co.uk/2019/05/01/risk-based-testing-part-one-talking-about-risks-over-types-of-testing/
- Risk Based Testing | Part Two | Uncovering risks – Dan Ashby – https://danashby.co.uk/2019/05/02/risk-based-testing-part-two-uncovering-risks/
- Risk Based Testing | Part Three | Bug Prevention and Bug Detection – Dan Ashby – https://danashby.co.uk/2019/05/03/risk-based-testing-part-three-bug-prevention-and-bug-detection/
- Seven Excuses Software Testers Need to Stop Making – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/05/seven-excuses-software-testers-need-to.html
- Shaking up remote retros – Bruce – https://undevelopedbruce.com/2019/04/29/shaking-up-remote-retros/
- Solving Black Box Puzzle 31 with data analysis – Joep Schuurkes – https://testingcurve.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/solving-black-box-puzzle-31-with-data-analysis/
- The Bug is Gone? – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2019/04/29/the-bug-is-gone/
- The Immaturity of CMM – James Bach – https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/6208
- The Test Snap – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/04/the-test-snap/
- Using Mind Maps for Agile Test Planning – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/agile-mind-map/
- What is Performance Testing – Senor Performo – https://www.srperf.com/performance-testing/
- Write better test cases titles – Alexey Sotskov – https://medium.com/practical-software-testing/write-better-test-cases-titles-e2989d614b5b
Test Automation/Programming/Tools
- Approaching your automation – with measured awareness! – Toyer Mamoojee – https://toyerm.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/approaching-your-automation-with-measured-awareness/
- Create Recorded Tests with TestProject (No Coding Skills Required!) – Karen Teboulle – https://blog.testproject.io/2019/04/28/create-recorded-tests-with-testproject/
- Cypress and TestCafé a comparison – part two: In-dept comparison – Joel Grimberg – https://xebia.com/blog/cypress-and-testcafe-a-comparison-part-two/
- How to stamp out intermittent testing issues with periodic automation – Paul Grizzaffi – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-stamp-out-intermittent-testing-issues-periodic-automation
- Selenium Vs Katalon Studio: How to Simplify Selenium Tests in Katalon Studio – Remya R- https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/selenium-vs-katalon-studio/
- Test Automation Code Smells – Angie Jones – http://angiejones.tech/test-automation-code-smells/
- Test Configuration Under Kubernetes Using Secrets – Bob Reselman – https://blog.gurock.com/kubernetes-secrets/
- What to Watch Out For When Modeling Your Automation Strategy – Lisa Crispin – https://www.joecolantonio.com/modeling-automation-3/
Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training
- Day 1 in Tokyo for Selenium Conference – Kim – https://testingsoftwarerecipes.blog/2019/04/28/day-1-in-tokyo-for-selenium-conference/
- SauceCon19: Conference Report and Video of XCUITest Talk – Shashikant Jagtap – https://shashikantjagtap.net/saucecon19-conference-report-and-video-of-xcuitest-talk/
Miscellaneous
- Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #43 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2019/04/29/the-little-tester-stories-in-testing-43/
- Podcast: 251: People Practices in Digital Transformations with Gurushyam Mony – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/testtalks/251-gurushyam-mony/
- Podcast: Technical Interview Fixes – April Wensel – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/72
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