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 March 8th – March 15th, 2020.
Testing
- Creating Your Story – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2020/03/15/creating-your-story/
- How I Would Have Tested the Iowa Caucus App – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-i-would-have-tested-iowa-caucus-app.html
- How to Collaborate on a Brand-New QA Team – Juan Pablo Aguirre – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/how-collaborate-brand-new-qa-team
- Is Your QA Team Prepared for Remote Working? – Nick Roberts – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/remote-working-qa-team-prepared
- Quality and Testing – Pete Walen – https://blog.gurock.com/quality-and-testing/
- Software quality is a team objective – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/how-developers-can-help-create-quality-software/
- Test architecture in a nutshell – Noemi Ferrera – https://noemiferrera.com/2020/03/11/test-architecture-in-a-nutshell/
- Tracking functional coverage from your api / functional UI (e2e) tests – Anand Bagmar – https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/03/tracking-functional-coverage.html
- What are testing metrics and how can we best use them? – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/what-are-metrics-and-how-can-we-use-them/
- What do Software Development and Disease Control have in common? – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/software-development-and-disease-control/
- What does it take to find bugs? – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2020/03/09-ackoff-ashby-dijkstra-weinberg-notes/
- Why you should treat live production like a test environment – Jason Caines – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/why-you-should-treat-live-production-like-a-test-environment/
- Would Heu-Risk It? Part 24: Lost In Translation – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/03/12/would-heu-risk-it-part-24-lost-in-translation/
- Write Test Cases For ATM Machine – Dwarika Mishra – https://abodeqa.com/write-test-cases-for-atm-machine-interview-prep/
Test Automation/Programming/Tools
- CI Test Automation Strategy – Michael Battat – https://applitools.com/blog/ci-test-automation
- Complete Guide To Selenium Locators In Protractor (Examples) – Ramit Dhamija – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-locators-in-protractor/
- Composite Design Pattern in Automated Testing – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/composite-design-pattern/
- Creating UI Automation that is Focused, Reliable and Fast – Nikolay Advolodkin – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/03/12/creating-ui-automation-that-is-focused-reliable-and-fast/
- Cypress tips #3: Improve your error screenshots in Cypress – Filip Hric – https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/cypress-tips-3-improve-your-error-screenshots-in-cypress-b3675968a190
- How Selenium Works: Episode 4 – Finding Elements – David Burns – https://www.theautomatedtester.co.uk/blog/2020/how-selenium-works-4-finding-elements/
- Oh No! I Can’t Get My Test Automation Scripts To Pass! – Paul Grizzaffi – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/03/11/oh-no-i-cant-get-my-test-automation-scripts-to-pass/
- Selenium C# Tutorial: Setting Up Selenium In Visual Studio – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/setting-up-selenium-in-visual-studio/
- Simulating Rich Behaviour using Advanced WireMock Features (Part 4) – Bas Dijkstra – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/03/09/simulating-rich-behaviour-using-advanced-wiremock-features-part-4/
- Strictly Good Gherkin with Gwen – Branko Juric – https://gweninterpreter.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/strictly-good-gherkin-with-gwen/
Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training
- Meetup And Learn, Infrastructure As Code And Risk Storming Tabletop Game – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/meetup-and-learn-infrastructure-as-code-and-risk-storming-tabletop-game/
Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts
- Book Review: 60 Second Summary: Influence – Robert Cialdini – Toby Sinclair – https://tobysinclairblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/08/60-second-summary-influence-robert-cialdini/
- Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #87 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/03/09/the-little-tester-87/
- Podcast: TAP: Test Anything Protocol – Matt Layman – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/105
- Podcast: Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns with Vladimir Khorikov – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a295-vladimir/