Recovery from wrist surgery is going well.  Out of the soft cast and into a brace is increasing curating efficiency.   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 July 19th – July 25th, 2020.  What an awesome week of listening and reading!

Testing

• A simple hiring strategy – hire people who are overqualified – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/overqualified/
• All Pairs Testing – Steve Mellor – https://allthingstesting.com/all-pairs-testing/
• Anchoring an idea while Exploratory Testing an API – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/07/anchoring-idea-while-exploratory.html
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 11) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/07/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-11/
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 12) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/07/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-12/
• Changing The Role of QA in your SDLC Process – Amelia Whyman – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/the-role-of-qa-in-your-sdlc-process
• Community Building – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/07/community-building.html

You might have noticed that Testing Bits was published later than normal this Sunday.  Due to recent wrist surgery, I have found that curating while in a soft cast using my non-dominant hand takes much longer than I anticipated.  This is especially true when recently there has been so much more awesome content to manually curate.  For the next few weeks, please excuse any delays or typos as I adjust.

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 July 12th – July 18th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Root Cause Analysis Tools For Better Testing & QA – Jason Boog – https://theqalead.com/topics/root-cause-analysis/
• 5 Steps to Get to Test Driven Development – Evgeny Tkachenko – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/5-steps-get-test-driven-development
• A Fresh Take on The Learning Process: The Adaptive Loop – George Brooks – https://medium.com/ideas-by-crema/a-fresh-take-on-the-learning-process-the-adaptive-loop-d9b3548abe30
• A simple and powerful question to ask – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/thequestion/
• AI in testing: 13 essential resources for QA pros – Paul Merrill – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/ai-testing-13-essential-resources-qa-pros
• AI in testing: What it is, and why it matters – Paul Merrill – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/ai-testing-what-it-why-it-matters
• How to prevent accidental complexity in software development – George Lawton – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-prevent-accidental-complexity-in-software-development

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 July 5th – July 11th, 2020

Testing

• 10 Responsive Web Design Challenges And Their Solution – Nimritee – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/10-responsive-web-design-challenges-and-their-solution/
• 12 Traits of Highly Effective Tests – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2020/07/09/12-traits-of-highly-effective-tests/
• ARIA Grid As an Anti-Pattern – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/07/aria-grid-as-an-anti-pattern.html
• Coaching Upwards – Anne-Marie Charrett – https://mavericktester.com/2020/07/08/coaching-upwards/
• Coaching upwards? Pair-blog #3 – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/07/08/coaching-upwards-pair-blog-3/
• Equivalence Partitioning & Boundary Value Analysis – Steve Mellor – https://allthingstesting.com/equivalence-partitioning-boundary-value-analysis/
• Four Exit Criteria to Determine When User Stories Are Done-Done – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/four-exit-criteria-user-stories/
• How Am I Going to Test This? – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/how-am-i-going-to-test-this/
• How Does a DEVELOPER See Testers – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/how-does-a-developer-see-testers/
• How to Build a Mobile App That Customers Love – Amelia Whyman – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/how-to-build-a-mobile-app-that-customers-love
• Innovating From Home – Running An Innovation Sprint Remotely – Adam Knight – https://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2020/07/innovation-from-home-running-innovation.html
• Metrics That Matter – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2020/07/metrics-that-matter/
• Out Of Memory – Paul Gilson – https://harnessedtester.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/out-of-memory/
• Part 2: Testing vs quality management – Testing Activities – Janet Gregory – https://janetgregory.ca/part-2-testing-vs-quality-management-testing-activities/
• SOAP vs. REST: Solving the Testing Challenges of Each – Nathan Jakubiak – https://blog.parasoft.com/soap-vs.-rest-solving-the-testing-challenges-of-each
• Stuck in the Middle – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/07/stuck-in-middle.html
• “Testers don’t break software!” – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/07/09/testers-dont-break-software/
• The dangers of becoming a full-stack tester – Michael Fritzius – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/dangers-becoming-full-stack-tester
• The Future of Testers in a Rapidly Changing World – Raj Subrameyer – https://www.ranorex.com/blog/future-testers-changing-world/
• The trust between test-dev – Noemi Ferrera – https://thetestlynx.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/the-trust-between-test-dev/
• What Testers Should Know About Microservices – Cameron Laird – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-microservices/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• Arrange-Act-Assert: A Pattern for Writing Good Tests – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2020/07/07/arrange-act-assert-a-pattern-for-writing-good-tests/
• Capturing form loading time using HTTPwatch tool – Rahul Bhave – https://qxf2.com/blog/capturing-form-loading-time-using-httpwatch-tool/
• CircleCI vs Jenkins: Choosing The Right CI CD Tool – Praveen Mishra – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/circleci-vs-jenkins-choosing-the-right-ci-cd-tool/
• Continuous visual regression testing to enable regulatory compliance in the healthcare sector – Rudolf Grötz – https://applitools.com/blog/visual-regression-regulatory-compliance/
• Does your functional automation really add value? – Anand Bagmar – https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/07/does-your-functional-automation-really.html
• Fast Forwarding Act – Han Toan Lim – https://www.mindfultester.com/fast-forwarding-act/
• How To Handle Web Table in Selenium WebDriver? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-handle-web-table-in-selenium-webdriver/
• Jenkins X Cloud Native CI/CD with TestProject – Ajeet Singh Raina – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/07/09/jenkins-x-cloud-native-ci-cd-with-testproject/
• Learning Test Automation from Scratch: Journey of the (Automation) Hero – The Free Range Tester – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/07/07/learning-test-automation-from-scratch/
• Look Ma! I’m Testing without Scripting! – Collin Chau – https://www.continuoustesting.com/look-ma-im-testing-without-scripting/
• Manual vs Automation Testing – What Are The Differences? – Jake Bartlett – https://blog.testlodge.com/manual-vs-automation-testing/
• Ordering Headers In HTTP Requests – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/unirest-vs-restassured-header-ordering/
• RestAssured Tips for Proxies and Logging – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/restassured-tips-proxy-logging/
• Test Automation in 2020: Findings from the DevTestOps Landscape Report – Chou Yang – https://www.mabl.com/blog/test-automation-in-2020-findings-from-the-devtestops-landscape-report
• Testing Iframes with Cypress – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/testing-iframes-with-cypress
• Using Faker to generate data for your Cypress tests – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/using-faker-to-generate-data-for-your-cypress-tests/
• WebDriverIO Tutorial: Handling Alerts & Overlay In Selenium – Harshit Paul – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/webdriverio-tutorial-handling-alerts-overlay-in-selenium/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Software People WFH: The Joy of Remote Mode –  Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/remote-mode/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts/Webinars

• Book Review: Read Along- ‘Agile Testing’ Chapter-8 – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2020/07/06/read-along-agile-testing-chapter-8/
• Cartoon: Empty Promises – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/07/empty-promises.html
• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #103 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/07/06/the-little-tester-103/
• Podcast: Sofia Palamarchuk – Mobile app performance – Federico Toledo – https://soundcloud.com/qualitysensepodcast/sofia-palamarchuk-mobile-apps-performance
• Podcast: Testing SAP APIs: Strategy and Execution with Michal Krawczyk – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a311-michal/
• Podcast: The Pitfall of Estimations and How (try to) Avoid Them – Rob Lambert, Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/podcast-pitfall-of-estimations/
• Podcast: The Therac-25, buggy software that killed. – Peter Houghton – http://www.investigatingsoftware.co.uk/2020/07/podcast-therac-25-buggy-software-that.html
• Video: How to Use Webdriver Wait in Selenium (With Demo)? – Promode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/07/09/webdriverwait-in-selenium/
• Video: Selenium Grid Tutorial For Beginners (Step By Step) – Promode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/07/08/selenium-grid-tutorial-for-beginners/

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 28th – July 4th, 2020

Testing

• #accessiBe Will Get You Sued – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html
• Building a QA team – Part 2 – Graham Ellis – https://www.gesqa.com/post/building-a-qa-team-part-2
• Building a QA team – Part 3 – Graham Ellis – https://www.gesqa.com/post/building-a-qa-team-part-3
• Coaching plans, training and learning in the workplace – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/workplacelearning/
• Cynefin Foundations – Learning Journal – Module 2 – Toby Sinclair – https://tobysinclair.com/2020/07/03/cynefin-foundations-learning-journal-module-2/
• Efficient test case design techniques to boost coverage – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Efficient-test-case-design-techniques-to-boost-coverage
• Interview #1: Being a Freelancer from Tester Perspective – Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/interview-1-freelance-tester/