Testing Bits – July 5th – July 11th, 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 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/