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 November 3rd – November 9th, 2019.
Testing
- A Social Success Tip – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/social/
- Applying Test Thinking with Code – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/11/applying-test-thinking-with-code/
- Are You Too Busy to Continue Learning? – Johanna Rothman – https://createadaptablelife.com/2019/11/are-you-too-busy-to-continue-learning.html
- aria-label Does Not Translate – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2019/11/aria-label-does-not-translate.html
- exploringMindMaps.part2 – Amanda Delatorre – https://theuncodedcoder.com/2019/11/04/exploringmindmaps-part2/
- Defining Exit Criteria for All Stages of Your Agile Project – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/agile-exit-criteria/
- Do not fall in love with your ideas, do it with your intentions – my lessons learned from QA&Test 2019 – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/do-not-fall-in-love-with-your-ideas-do-it-with-your-intentions-my-lessons-learned-from-qatest-2019/
- Is Your Team Dysfunctional? – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/dysfunctional-teams/
- Mobbing with an Audience – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2019/11/mobbing-with-audience.html
- On Reflection – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2019/11/09/on-reflection/
- Prioritize DevOps and Agile outcomes, not transformation – David Carty – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/podcast/Prioritize-DevOps-and-Agile-outcomes-not-transformation
- Releasing agility in teams – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/releasing-agility-in-teams/
- Testing at Sea with AI – Jason Arbon – https://medium.com/@jarbon/testing-at-sea-with-ai-76d357844c5e
- The Agile Mindset: Cultural Changes for Successful Transformation – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2019/11/04/the-agile-mindset-cultural-changes-for-successful-transformation/
- The Impossible and the Ironic – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2019/11/03/the-impossible-and-the-ironic/
- Why it’s time to take IT burnout seriously – David Carty – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/podcast/Why-its-time-to-take-IT-burnout-seriously
- Why Should Testers Start Learning Build Management Tools? – Sumon Dey – https://blog.testproject.io/2019/11/07/why-should-testers-learn-build-management-tools/
Test Automation/Programming/Tools
- Automating 2FA with Google Authenticator and TestProject – Amit Yahav – https://blog.testproject.io/2019/11/04/automating-2fa-with-google-authenticator-and-testproject/
- Exploring pytest command line options – Rahul Bhave – https://qxf2.com/blog/pytest-command-line-options/
- Getting Performance Testing Back on Track – Part 2 – V.M.Guruprasath – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/getting-performance-testing-back-on-track-part-2/
- Most Exhaustive XPath Locators Cheat Sheet – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/most-exhaustive-xpath-locators-cheat-sheet/
- NUnit Test Automation Using Selenium C# (with Example) – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/nunit-testing-tutorial-for-selenium-csharp/
- Performance Testing Neo4j database using Bolt Protocol in Apache JMeter – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – https://qainsights.com/performance-testing-neo4j-database-using-bolt-protocol-in-apache-jmeter/
- Performance Testing Network Time Protocol using Apache JMeter – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – https://qainsights.com/performance-testing-network-time-protocol-using-apache-jmeter/
- Pytest, The Awesome Parts: Pytest-Selenium – Josh Grant – https://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/188881729990/pytest-the-awesome-parts-pytest-selenium
- Selenium WebDriver Interview Questions — part 1 – Alex Siminuic – https://medium.com/@alexsiminiuc/selenium-webdriver-interview-questions-part-1-ec595f3be694
- So you want to automate? – Part II Let’s Talk Automation – Maciej Wyrodek – https://thebrokentest.com/so-you-want-to-automate-part-ii-lets-talk-automation/
- SQL Query Secrets – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/11/sql-query-secrets.html
- Using Computer Vision to Reduce Test Automation Blind Spots – Maxim Chernyak – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/using-computer-vision-reduce-test-automation-blind-spots
- VRT: A series of mistakes – Bruce – https://undevelopedbruce.com/2019/11/04/vrt-a-series-of-mistakes/
Miscellaneous
- Book review: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking – Amit – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2019/11/book-review-social-engineering-art-of.html
- Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #69 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2019/11/04/the-little-tester-69/
- Podcast: Episode #155: Guido van Rossum retires – Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/155/guido-van-rossum-retires
- Podcast: Recheck-web Golden Master-based test framework with Jeremias Rößler – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a277-jeremias/