Testing Bits – Testing Bits – May 3rd – May 9th, 2020

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 May 3rd – May 9th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Steps to Getting Started with Risk-Based Testing – Shawn Jaques – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/5-steps-getting-started-risk-based-testing
• Be A Critical Thinker To Be A Better Tester – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/critical-thinker-better-tester/
• Career Talk by my manager – KC – https://testkeis.wordpress.com/2020/05/06/career-talk-by-my-manager/
• Checking vs Testing – Jason Arbon – https://medium.com/@jarbon/checking-vs-testing-71538bf456ab
• Choosing the Right Threat Modeling Methodology – Alan Crouch – https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2020/05/choosing-right-threat-modeling-methodology
• Everything you need to know about software penetration testing – Stephen Bigelow – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Everything-you-need-to-know-about-software-penetration-testing
• How diagrams could help you with your Test Strategy – Samanta Cicilia – https://medium.com/assertqualityassurance/how-diagrams-could-help-you-with-your-test-strategy-501457b86840

• How to deal with criticism with being a tester – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/05/03/how-to-deal-with-criticism-with-being-a-tester/
• Old Testing Must Die – Pete Walen – https://blog.gurock.com/testing-must-die/
• Product Development Intersections – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2020/05/product-development-intersections/
• Reshaping the Testing Triangle: Making UX the Guiding Light to Testing – Chou Yang – https://www.mabl.com/blog/reshaping-the-testing-triangle-making-ux-the-guiding-light-to-testing
• #SecurityStories: Ethical Hacking Courses Revisited –  Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2020/05/securitystories-ethical-hacking-courses-revisited.html
• Testing on a New Digital Platform – Start as you mean to go on! – Phil Hargreaves – http://www.nationofsoftwaretesters.co.uk/2020/05/testing-on-new-digital-platform-start.html
• Testing Email Without Tears – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2020/05/testing-email-without-tears.html
• The Importance of Application Prototyping & How It Can Save You From Future Headaches – Alexa Alfonso – https://medium.com/ideas-by-crema/the-importance-of-application-prototyping-how-it-can-save-you-from-future-headaches-9b45600e55cb
• Usability Testing Tips: why (and how) go that extra mile – Valerie Nechay – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/usability-testing-tips-why-and-how-go-that-extra-mile/
• What are mnemonics and how can they help with software testing? – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/what-are-mnemonics-and-how-can-they-help-with-software-testing/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• A genteel peek into GitLab CI/CD – Sunjeet Khokhar – https://thereluctanttester.com/2020/05/03/a-genteel-peek-into-gitlab-ci-cd/
• Best practices for test automation – Leonardo Galani – https://medium.com/assertqualityassurance/best-practices-for-test-automation-536e7a94ded4
• Do Not Waste Your Money On Testing Automation Team – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/do-not-waste-your-money-on-testing-automation-team/
• Exit The Test Maintenance Road to Nowhere Through Visual AI – James Lamberti – https://applitools.com/blog/exit-the-test-maintenance-road-to-nowhere-through-visual-ai/
• False Positives and False Negatives in Software Testing- Learning to Trust Your Tests – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.continuoustesting.com/false-positives-and-false-negatives-in-software-testing/
• First Look At the Test Sphere Expansion – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2020/05/05/first-look-at-the-test-sphere-expansion/
• Iframes, switchTo() and default content with Selenium – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/05/06/iframes-switchto-and-default-content-with-selenium/
• My Personal List Of Quality Engineering Tips For Remote Software Teams – Bernardo Guerreiro – https://theqalead.com/topics/quality-engineering-remote-teams/
• Open Source Database Testing Tools – Software Testing Magazine – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/tools/open-source-database-testing-tools/
• Protractor Tutorial: Handle Mouse Actions & Keyboard Events – Harshit Paul – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/protractor-tutorial-handle-mouse-actions-keyboard-events/
• Selenium Python Tutorial: Getting Started With Pytest – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-python-pytest-testing-tutorial/
• Sharing State Between Cucumber Steps with Dependency Injection – Angie Jones – https://angiejones.tech/sharing-state-between-steps-in-cucumber-with-dependency-injection/
• Solutions to Your Common Problems with Jira – Dee Ann Pizzica – https://blog.gurock.com/solutions-common-jira-problems/
• Steps to take when evaluating a test automation tool – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/steps-to-take-when-evaluating-a-test-automation-tool/
• Time traveling through Git history – Oleksandr Romanov – https://alexromanov.github.io/2020/05/04/squashing-commits/
• Understanding the Goals of Testing and Automation – Srinivas Kadiyala – https://testingeduindia.blogspot.com/2020/05/understanding-goals-of-testing-and.html
• WebDriverIO Tutorial For Handling Dropdown In Selenium – Aditya Dwivedi – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/webdriverio-tutorial-for-handling-dropdown-in-selenium/
• Why flaky tests are a problem you can’t ignore – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Why-flaky-tests-are-a-problem-you-cant-ignore

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training/Webinars

• Attention Testers: The 2020 Spring OnlineTestConf is almost here! – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2020/05/07/attention-testers-the-2020-spring-onlinetestconf-is-almost-here/
• Developer/Tester/SDIT Relationships and TestBash Home (Sketch-notes, May Week 1) – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2020/05/04/developer-tester-sdit-relationships-and-testbash-home-sketch-notes-may-week-1/
• My experience speaking at Testbash Home – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2020/05/07/my-experience-speaking-at-testbash-home/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts

• Book Review: A Scrum Book – The Spirit of the Game by Jeff Sutherland, James O. Coplien, and The Scrum Patterns Group – Toby Sinclair – https://tobysinclair.com/2020/05/03/a-scrum-book-the-spirit-of-the-game-by-jeff-sutherland-james-o-coplien-and-the-scrum-patterns-group/
• Book Review: Read Along- ‘Agile Testing’ Chapter-5 – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2020/05/06/read-along-agile-testing-chapter-5/
• Book Review: Software Bug Stories – Srinivas Kadiyala – https://testingeduindia.blogspot.com/2020/05/book-review-software-bug-stories.html
• Cartoon: Simplified Bug Prioritization Matrix – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/05/simplified-bug-prioritization-matrix.html
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 120: David Bishop on Metagility – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – https://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/ab-testing-episode-120-david-bishop-on-metagility/
• Podcast: Fullstack acceptance testing using Serenity/JS with Jan Molak – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a302-jan/
• Podcast: Should We Build Better Software…Or Better People? (With Damian Synadinos) – Jonathon Wright – https://theqalead.com/podcast/podcast-ineffable-solutions-damian-synadinos/
• Podcast: Six Principles of Readable Tests – David Seddon – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/112
• Video: Deserializing API Responses Into Java Records – Angie Jones – https://angiejones.tech/deserializing-api-responses-into-java-records/
• Webinar: Best of Breed: Successful Test Automation Practices from Innovative Brands — webinar w/ Angie Jones and an Expert Panel of QA Executives – Angie Jones – https://applitools.com/blog/test-automation-practices/