Testing Bits – September 1st – September 7th, 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 September 1st – September 7th, 2019.

Testing

• Anticipating Problems with Infrastructure as Code in DevOps – Nilanjan Bhattacharya – https://testingindevops.org/anticipating-problems-with-infrastructure-as-code-in-devops
• Being an Accessibility Advocate – and why you should too – Adrian Stokes – https://www.thebigtesttheory.com/blog/2019/9/1/being-an-accessibility-advocate-and-why-you-should-too
• DevOps Security: Secrets from the Trenches – SpriteCloud – https://www.spritecloud.com/devops-security-secrets-from-the-trenches/
• Mobile and Responsive Design Testing: Solving the Combinatorics Problem – Matthew Heusser – https://blog.gurock.com/mobile-responsive-testing/
• My Approach to Regression Testing – R3C’sFI – Srinivas Kadiyala – https://testingeduindia.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-approach-to-regression-testing-r3csfi.html

• Software Testing Principles – Aaron Hodder – https://medium.com/@AWGHodder/software-testing-principles-65f4b5bdd0e8
• Table with Expando Rows – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2019/09/table-with-expando-rows.html
• Testers: Act Like a Developer – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/09/testers-act-like-a-developer/
• Testing is a Contradiction – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/testing-is-a-contradiction-d1746de0149c
• Testing What You Can’t See: Risk Blindness in Coverage Models – Matthew Heusser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/testing-what-you-can-t-see-risk-blindness-coverage-models
• The problem with test coverage – Steven Burton – https://www.testersfindaway.com/2019/09/04/the-problem-with-test-coverage/
• Three Things to Learn from the Bugs You Found – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/three-learn-bugs
• Turn the information up to 11 – Bob – https://randomtechthoughts.blog/2019/09/01/turn-the-information-up-to-11/
• What Are Shift-Left and Shift-Right Testing in Agile Development? – Sarah Mischinger – https://bitbar.com/blog/what-are-shift-left-and-shift-right-testing-in-agile-development/
• Your Test Cases Are Slowing You Down – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/09/your-test-cases-are-slowing-you-down.html

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• Are you sure the buses are still listed? Setting up data-driven API tests with Ruby + NET::HTTP + Gauge – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2019/09/gauge-ruby-api-1.html
• Exploratory Testing Chrome Extensions – Software Testing Magazine – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/tools/exploratory-testing-chrome-extensions/
• How to plot out a test automation strategy – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-plot-out-a-test-automation-strategy
• Load Automation – UI vs Protocol – Senor Performo – https://www.srperf.com/load-automation-ui-vs-protocol/
• Simple Factory Design Pattern- WebDriver Anonymous Browsing with Rotating Proxies – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/simple-factory-design-pattern-anonymous-proxies/
• Testing Mobile Apps with a Single Automation Solution – Daniel Knott – https://adventuresinqa.com/2019/09/02/testing-mobile-apps/
• The side effects of having no automation goals – Parveen Khan – https://www.mabl.com/blog/side-effects-of-having-no-automation-goals
• Why you should refactor your test automation scripts – Paul Merrill – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/why-you-should-refactor-your-test-automation-scripts

Miscellaneous

• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #60 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2019/09/02/the-little-tester-60/
• Podcast: 268: Saying Goodbye to TestTalks – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcasts/automation/a268-goodbye/
• Podcast: A Podcast Dedicated to Performance Testing and SRE – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/new-performance-podcast/
• Podcast: Teaching testing best practices with 4 testing maxims – Josh Peak – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/86
• Video: Communication is Everything: A Conversation with Shachar Schiff – Owen Gotimer – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/communication-everything-conversation-shachar-schiff
• Video: Testing in Production: An Interview with Talia Nassi – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/testing-production-interview-talia-nassi