Testing Bits – June 9th – June 15th, 2019

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 June 9th – June 15th, 2019.

Testing

• 3 steps to improve your test-dev relationship – Jenny Bramble – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/3-steps-improve-your-test-dev-relationship
• 11 Reasons Behavior-Driven Development Can Fail – Evgeny Tkachenko – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/11-reasons-behavior-driven-development-can-fail
• API Testing – Getting Started – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2019/06/12/api-testing-getting-started/
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 7) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2019/06/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-7/
• How autonomous software testing could change QA – George Lawton – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-autonomous-software-testing-could-change-QA
• How can we encourage Software Testers to keep updating about our profession development (and be more involved with the community)? Doron Bar – https://www.testerschoice.pro/single-post/2019/06/09/How-can-we-encourage-Software-Testers-to-keep-updating-and-be-more-involved-with-the-community
• How To Explain #ExploratoryTesting in 5 Minutes – Kristīne Corbus – https://testretreat.com/2019/06/10/how-to-explain-exploratorytesting-in-5-minutes/

• How to Get the Benefits of Dev-Tester Pairing – Jim Holmes – https://blog.gurock.com/dev-tester-pairing/
• How to succeed as a tester when your team is adopting DevOps – Lisa Crispin – https://qablog.practitest.com/succeed-as-tester-devops-team/
• How your personal understanding of “Quality” influences your way of testing – Patrick Prill – https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/how-your-personal-understanding-of-quality-influences-your-way-of-testing/
• Our first exploratory testing session – Bruce – https://undevelopedbruce.com/2019/06/15/our-first-exploratory-testing-session/
• Path to Production – Test Environments as a Product – Rob Hornby – https://testingindevops.org/path-to-production-test-environments-as-a-product/
• Q and A with Ajay BalamurUgadas – Jyothi Rangaiah – http://www.womentesters.com/q-and-a-with-ajay-balamurugadas/
• Reliable Cross Browser Testing on Internet Explorer (IE) – Debasis Pradhan – https://www.softwaretestingtricks.com/2019/06/reliable-IE-cross-browser-testing-tools.html
• Testers and the Quote Culture – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/06/testers-and-the-quote-culture/
• Testing in the Galaxy- Chapter 5: “Tank and Algorithm Testing” – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/tank-algorithm-testing/
• Understand Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team – Johanna Rothman – https://blog.gurock.com/distributed-agile-team/
• Why The Manual vs. Automation Debate is Wrong – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/06/why-manual-vs-automation-debate-is-wrong.html

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• Are Times still Good for Load Testing? – Alex Podelko – https://alexanderpodelko.com/blog/2019/06/12/are-times-still-good-for-load-testing/
• Online tool for pairwise testing – Alexey Sotskov – https://medium.com/practical-software-testing/online-tool-for-pairwise-testing-4af7b5447bf8
• Reconciling twitter threads and manual testing – Gregory Paciga – https://gerg.dev/2019/06/reconciling-twitter-threads-and-manual-testing/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• TestingCup 2019 – my biased summary – Kinga Witko – https://kingatest.wordpress.com/2019/06/12/testingcup-2019-my-biased-summary/

Miscellaneous

• Cartoon: Duplicate Bugs Arguing in JIRA – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2019/06/duplicate-bugs-arguing-in-jira.html
• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #49 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2019/06/10/the-little-tester-stories-in-testing-49/
• Podcast: 256: Cypress.io Hot Seat Questions with Gleb Bahmutov – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/testtalks/256-gleb-bahmutov/
• Podcast: Episode 010 – The Automate or Die Special – The Evil Tester Show – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/show/010-automate-or-die-special/