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 16th – June 22nd, 2019.
Testing
- 5 Career Growth And Motivation Tips For Software Testing Professionals – Nicola Gras – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/5-career-growth-and-motivation-tips-for-software-testing-professionals/
- A Stitch In Time Reduces Critical Bugs – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/a-stitch-in-time-reduces-critical-bugs/
- Bolstering your Leadership Armoury-Part 2- Leadership series – Toyer Mamojee – https://toyerm.wordpress.com/2019/06/21/bolstering-your-leadership-armoury-part-2-leadership-series/
- Database Testing – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/06/database-testing.html
- Delivering Estimates And The 5 Stages Of ‘Good Grief’ – Adam Knight – https://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2019/06/delivering-estimates-and-5-stages-of.html
- Forget About Bugs – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2019/06/21/forget-about-bugs/
- Group Labels Do Not Guarantee… Uniquity? – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2019/06/group-labels-do-not-guarantee-uniquity.html
- How DevOps Has Changed the Landscape of Testing – Brendan Connolly – https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2019/06/how-devops-has-changed-landscape-testing
- How to Document Testing with SBTM: Testing IRL Part 2 – Cassandra Leung – https://www.cassandrahl.com/blog/how-to-document-testing-with-sbtm-testing-irl-part-2/
- How Much Time Takes Your Smoke Test? – Kristīne Corbus – https://testretreat.com/2019/06/17/where-theres-smoke-theres-fire/
- Principles of Testability Engineering – Ash Winter – http://testingisbelieving.blogspot.com/2019/06/principles-of-testability-engineering.html
- Retro: Cause-and-Effect Diagram – Jean-Pierre Lambert – https://jp-lambert.me/retro-cause-and-effect-diagram-18b67a41f7a3
- Scrum Strategies for Summer Break – Tyler Hilker – https://medium.com/ideas-by-crema/scrum-strategies-for-summer-break-8debbf265a79
- Software testing smart devices – Scott Sherwood – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/software-testing-smart-devices/
- Testers and the Technical Abstraction Stack – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/06/testers-and-the-technical-abstraction-stack/
- Testers as Disciplinarians – Rajini Padmanaban – https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2019/06/testers-disciplinarians
- That’s Not a Knife! – Damian Synadinos – https://www.ineffable-solutions.com/post/thats-not-a-knife
- The Value of Distributed Tracing in Performance Testing – Bob Reselman – https://blog.gurock.com/distributed-tracing/
- Three Job Benefits of Better Speaking Skills – Jim Holmes – https://blog.gurock.com/qa-speaking-skills/
- To Get Quality Software, Let Them Fail – Matthew Heusser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/get-quality-software-let-them-fail
Test Automation/Programming/Tools
- AccelQ Overview – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2019/06/20-accelq-overview-automating-web/
- Chromedriver – Under The Hood – Daniel Gold – http://www.danielgold.net/2019/06/chromedriver-under-hood.html
- E2E Testing with Testcafe – Brian Ray – https://qualityshepherd.com/2019/06/e2e-testing-with-testcafe/
- How To Perform Web Application Security Testing Using AppTrana – Remya R – https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/apptrana-review-tutorial/
- JMeter Basics Part 1 of 4 – Variables – João Farias – http://thatsabug.com//2019/06/21/jmeter_2.html
- Mistakes – Like Riding a Bike… – Learn Automation – Toby Steed – http://www.learnautomation.co.uk/2019/06/mistakes-like-riding-a-bike/
- Recommended Free Tools to Help Your Testing – Kristin Jackvony – https://blog.testproject.io/2019/06/19/recommended-free-tools-for-testing/
- Shifts Happen – Inspect Just The Changes That Matter – Michael Battat – https://applitools.com/blog/inspect-just-changes
- Throttling network in Selenium tests using BrowserMob Proxy – Sławomir Radzymiński – https://www.awesome-testing.com/2019/06/throttling-network-in-selenium-tests.html
- TOAD: RRRAR! Rollbacks, Replays, Reverts, and Regressions – Chris McMahon – http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/toad-rrrar-rollbacks-replays-reverts.html
- TOAD Goes To 11 – Chris McMahon – http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/toad-goes-to-11.html
- Trends – The Return of Codeless Automation – Toby Steed – http://www.learnautomation.co.uk/2019/06/trends-the-return-of-codeless-automation/
Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training
- GOTO Amsterdam 2019 Recap – Ekaterina Budnikov – https://www.katjasays.com/goto-amsterdam-2019-recap/
- Romanian Testing Conference 2019 – A Community Experience – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2019/06/romanian-testing-conference-2019-a-community-experience.html
Miscellaneous
- Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #50 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2019/06/17/the-little-tester-stories-in-testing-50/
- Podcast: 257: Oxygen Appium Selenium Made Simple with Nachum Dimer – Joe Colantonio – https://www.joecolantonio.com/testtalks/257-nachum/
- Podcast: I don’t write tests because … – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/78
- Videos: – AccelQ Overview – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2019/06/20-accelq-overview-automating-web/