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 8th – September 14th, 2019.
Testing
- 4 Ways to Create a Quality Culture in Your Company – Amelia Whyman – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/4-ways-to-create-a-quality-culture-in-your-company
- A Career Tip – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/a-career-tip/
- Are you sure the buses are still listed? Interacting with APIs with Ruby + NET::HTTP + Gauge – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2019/09/gauge-ruby-api-2.html
- Experimenting with our Agile Story Wall – Alister Scott – https://watirmelon.blog/2019/09/11/experimenting-with-our-agile-story-wall/
- Hello World for Testers: Basics Part One – Arlene Andrews – https://dev.to/arleneandrews/hello-world-for-testers-basics-part-one-2bcm
- High Profile Job Interview — Five Ways to Make an Impact! – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/high-profile-job-interview-five-ways-to-make-an-impact-5e579ea11bf
- How to be [more] effective – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/how-to-be-more-effective/
- Leading in Times of Organizational Uncertainty – Pete Walen – https://blog.gurock.com/lead-organization-change/
- (Mis)Using Personas with the Seven Dwarfs – Cassandra H. Leung – https://www.cassandrahl.com/blog/misusing-personas-with-the-seven-dwarfs/
- Testing – Not Just Finding Bugs – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2019/09/08/testing-not-just-bugs/
- Testing in DevOps – Matthew Bretten – http://bestofthetest.blogspot.com/2019/09/testing-in-devops.html
- The metaphysics of bugs – Nicolas Canseco – https://jp-lambert.me/the-metaphysics-of-bugs-5d12e01df097
- The (new) skilled art of QA – Anders Dinsen – https://asym.dk/2019/09/12/the-new-skilled-art-of-qa/
- We need to talk about quaternions… – Noemi Ferrera – https://noemiferrera.com/2019/09/12/we-need-to-talk-about-quaternions/
- What can testers and developers learn from each other? – Lisa Crispin – https://lisacrispin.com/2019/09/10/what-can-testers-and-developers-learn-from-each-other/
- What I Learned at POST/CON Part I: Examples and Mocking – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/09/what-i-learned-at-postcon-part-i.html
- What I learned doing code reviews – Geert van de Lisdonk – https://testheadr.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/what-i-learned-doing-code-reviews/
- Whole-Team Testing for Whole-Team Quality – Lalit Bhamare – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/whole-team-testing-whole-team-quality
Test Automation/Programming/Tools
- 3 ways to get test automation done within your sprints – Angie Jones – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/3-ways-get-test-automation-done-within-your-sprints
- Cypress tips #2 — Testing email flows with Mailosaur – Filip Hric – https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/cypress-tips-2-testing-email-flows-with-mailosaur-63739261c1ae
- Guest View: RPA: Shiny new trend. Same old automation challenge – Wayne Ariola – https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/guest-view-rpa-shiny-new-trend-same-old-automation-challenge/
- Simple Factory Design Pattern- WebDriver Anonymous Browsing with Reverse Proxy – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/simple-factory-design-pattern-anonymous-reverse-proxy/
- Test Automation with TestProject – Daniel Knott – https://adventuresinqa.com/2019/09/10/test-automation-with-testproject/
Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training
- Introducing the Test Automation Essentials courses of mablU – Lisa Crispin – https://www.mabl.com/blog/introducing-test-automation-essentials-mablu
- New Learning Paths through Test Automation University – Michael Battat – https://applitools.com/blog/tau-learning-paths
- TestBash Germany 2019 – A Day Full of Great Conversations – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2019/09/testbash-germany-2019-a-day-full-of-great-conversations.html
Miscellaneous
- Book: Our New Book – Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction – Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin – https://agiletester.ca/our-new-book-agile-testing-condensed-a-brief-introduction/
- Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #61 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2019/09/09/the-little-tester-61/
- Podcast: 269: Automation Using Selenide with Hima Bindu Peteti – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcasts/automation/269-hima/
- Podcast: Addicted to Refactoring with Paul Merrill – Mark Tomlinson – https://www.spreaker.com/user/softwaretestpro/stpcon-fall-2019-paul-merrill
- Podcast: Paths to Parametrization – from one test to many – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/87
Please note: I reserve the right to delete comments that are offensive or off-topic.