Testing Bits – Testing Bits – June 7th – June 13th, 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 June 7th – June 13th, 2020.

Testing

• A Primer on Continuous Testing – Vasudevan Swaminathan – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/primer-continuous-testing
• Be Your Best Advocate: How to Track Your Career Value – Dee Ann Pizzica – https://blog.gurock.com/your-best-advocate-career-value
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 10) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/06/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-10/
• Do Your Tests Wobble? – Arlene Andrews – https://dev.to/arleneandrews/do-your-tests-wobble-25k1
• Is There Such a Thing As Too Much Testing? – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.continuoustesting.com/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-testing
• Managing to Test – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/06/managing-to-test.html
• Reacting to change – Pair-blogg #2 – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/06/13/reacting-to-change/

• Testing skills I use in management – pair-blogg # 1 – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/06/09/testing-skills-i-use-in-management/
• User stories are not… – Allan Kelly – https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/archives/4479/user-stories-are-not/
• Visualising Paths – Stephan Kämper – https://seasidetesting.com/2020/06/07/visualising-paths/
• Where Does Testers Fit In? – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/where-does-testers-fit-in/
• Why are you testing through the UI? – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/why-are-you-testing-through-the-ui/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• Attaching Cypress screenshots to your Mochawesome report – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/attaching-cypress-screenshots-to-your-mochawesome-report
• Continuous Test Automation Maturity Levels – Marc Hornbeek – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/06/07/continuous-test-automation-maturity-levels/
• Effective use of Thread.sleep – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2020/06/09-thread-sleep-usage/
• Headless Execution of WebDriver Tests- Edge Browser – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/headless-execution-webdriver-tests-edg/?
• Integrating Consumer Contract Testing in Build Pipelines – Sai Krishna – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/06/09/integrating-consumer-contract-testing-in-build-pipelines/
• Load Tests: Jmeter vs Artillery – Rafaela Azevedo – https://azevedorafaela.com/2020/06/09/load-tests-jmeter-vs-artillery/
• Protractor Tutorial: Handling Timeouts With Selenium – Praveen Mishra – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/protractor-tutorial-handling-timeouts-with-selenium/
• Selenium 4 New Features – Rex Jones II – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/06/08/selenium-4-new-features/
• Test reporting with Cypress and Mochawesome – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/test-reporting-with-cypress-and-mochawesome
• Testing with Feature Toggles – Louise Gibbs – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/06/10/testing-with-feature-toggles/
• Working with user prompts in Selenium – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/06/10/working-with-user-prompts-in-selenium

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Exploring CI/CD – Sketch notes (June Week 1) – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2020/06/08/exploring-ci-cd-sketch-notes-june-week-1/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts/Webinars

• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #100 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/06/08/the-little-tester-100/
• Podcast: 15 amazing pytest plugins – Michael Kennedy – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/116
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 122: Julian Bucknall and TestCafe – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – https://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/ab-testing-episode-122-julian-bucknall-and-testcafe/
• Podcast: Eric Proegler – Testing mission-critical software – Federico Toledo – https://soundcloud.com/qualitysensepodcast/eric-proegler-software-quality-certifications
• Podcast: The Web App Testing Guidebook with Kevin Lamping – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a307-kevin/