Testing Bits – September 22nd – September 28th, 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 22nd – September 28th, 2019.

Testing

• 5 Handy Tips for Testers in DevOps – Bhavani R – https://testingindevops.org/5-handy-tips-for-testers-in-devops/
• 5 key ways to fulfill the role of QA in DevOps – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/5-key-ways-to-fulfill-the-role-of-QA-in-DevOps
• A demonstration of Mutation Testing – Gregory Paciga – https://gerg.dev/2019/09/mutation-testing-demo/
• Did You Really Mean …? – Johanna Rothman – https://blog.gurock.com/agile-teams-understanding/
• Forgetting How To Test – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/09/forgetting-how-to-test/
• Gherkin? – Greg Zealley – https://medium.com/@gregzed/gherkin-is-it-doing-what-you-think-c5abbeae1ce9
• How We Built a QA Team in a Fast-Growing Startup – Filip Hric – https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/how-we-built-a-qa-team-in-a-fast-growing-startup-slido-blog-34b48ee64733

• Quality pattern 1: Treat your acceptance criteria as tests – Erik Zeedijk – https://xebia.com/blog/quality-pattern-1-treat-your-acceptance-criteria-as-your-tests/
• Safe Software Testing in Production – Nataliia Syvynska – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/safe-software-testing-in-production/
• Seven key enablers for continuous testing – Max Saperstone – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/seven-key-enablers-continuous-testing
• Testing Microservice: Examining the Tradeoffs of Twelve Techniques – Part 2 – Wojciech Bulaty, Liam Williams – https://www.infoq.com/articles/twelve-testing-techniques-microservices-tradeoffs/
• The value of baking Accessibility Testing into the QA process – Will Saunders – https://blog.testlodge.com/baking-accessibility-testing-into-qa/
• To Transform Testing – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/to-transform-testing/
• Toggles, Revisited – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/09/toggles-revisited.html
• Why DevOps underscores the importance of software testing – David Carty – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/podcast/Why-DevOps-underscores-the-importance-of-software-testing
• Why Testing in Production is Critical to Your Development Process – Victoria Bezsmolna – https://bitbar.com/blog/why-testing-in-production-is-critical-to-your-development-process/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• AI-Driven Test Automation and Your Future – Jon Hagar – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/ai-driven-test-automation-and-your-future
• #CodeConfident: Journey – Part 3 – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2019/09/codeconfident-journey-part-3.html
• Data driven testing in C# with NUnit and RestSharp – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.ontestautomation.com/data-driven-testing-in-c-with-nunit-and-restsharp/
• Lazy Automation – Defer Locating For Better Logs – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/lazy-automation-defer-locating-for-better-logs/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Conference Conferring – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/conference-conferring/
• Embracing Change: From Tester to Quality Coach by Areti Panou (#SwanseaCon) – Louisa Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/embracing-change-from-tester-to-quality-coach-by-areti-panou-swanseacon/
• Of What? To Who? When? – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2019/09/of-what-to-who-when.html
• Testival 2019 Zabok, Lighting Talks – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/testival-2019-zabok-lighting-talks/
• Testival 2019 Zabok, open sessions – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/testival-2019-zabok-open-sessions/

Miscellaneous

• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #63 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2019/09/23/the-little-tester-63/
• Podcast: Agile not done “by the book”? – Joel Montvelisky, Rob Lambert – https://qablog.practitest.com/agile-not-done-by-the-book/
• Podcast: Appium React Native Testing with Wim Selles – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/271-wim/
• Podcast: Live from STPCon Fall 2019 – Mark Tomlinson – https://www.spreaker.com/user/softwaretestpro/stpcon-live-fall-2019-stp
• Podcast: Myths of Exploratory Testing – Rex Black – https://rbcs-us.com/resources/podcast/myths-of-exploratory-testing-1/
• Podcast: The Testing Show: A Career In Testing – Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen – http://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-a-career-in-testing