Testing Bits: 356 – August 30th – September 5th, 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 August 30th – September 5th, 2020.

Testing

• 10 Biggest Remote Testing Challenges (& How To Overcome Them) – Praveen Mishra – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/10-biggest-remote-testing-challenges/
• As I Walked Out The Door – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/as-i-walked-out-the-door-7f64e02865c9
• Don’t gamble with quality – Venu Botla – https://venubotlaqa.co.uk/2020/09/01/dont-gamble-with-quality/
• Don’t hire fast & fire fast – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/hireslowly/
• How Do I Build A Culture of Quality Excellence? – Michael Battat – https://applitools.com/blog/quality-excellence/
• How to close your testing talent gaps in the remote work era – Stacy Kirk – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-close-your-testing-talent-gaps-remote-work-era
• How to thrive as a QA pro in an agile organization – Piotr Korecki – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-thrive-qa-pro-agile-organization

• How you can build skills and grow using your mindset: Mindset part 4 – Huib Schoots – https://www.huibschoots.nl/wordpress/?p=3076https://venubotlaqa.co.uk/2020/09/01/dont-gamble-with-quality/
• Lessons Learned from a Little Bug – Michhael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/09/lessons-learned-from-a-little-bug/
• Mindful Testing – because testing should not be done on autopilot – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/mindful-testing-stop-testing-on-autopilot/
• Pairing: on pair programming & not only – Lina Zubyte – https://qualitybits.tech//writing/pairing
• Sortable Table Column Mad Libs – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/09/sortable-table-column-mad-libs.html
• Statistics & Studies: The Benefits Of Test Driven Development – Ben Aston – https://theqalead.com/general/statistics-studies-benefits-test-driven-development
• Test Data Management Strategies – Rafaela Azevedo – https://azevedorafaela.com/2020/09/02/test-data-management/
• Visualize the Test Strategy – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2020/08/30/visualize-the-test-strategy/
• WCAG 2.1 Is the Current Standard, Not WCAG 2.0 — and WCAG 2.2 Is Coming – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/09/wcag-2-1-is-the-current-standard-not-wcag-2-0-and-wcag-2-2-is-coming.html
• What Type of Test Manager Am I? – Quality Captain – https://www.qualitycaptain.com/what-type-of-test-manager-am-i/
• What is the locus of change? First Thoughts – Dave Snowden – https://www.cognitive-edge.com/blog/what-is-the-locus-of-change/
• Why you need to have a dashboard – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/why-you-need-to-have-a-dashboard/
• You See But Do Not Observe: Sherlock Holmes on Software Testing – Pete Walen – https://blog.gurock.com/sherlock-holmes-on-software-testing/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• Adventures in Node: Shorthand and Destructuring – Kristin Jackvony – https://thinkingtester.com/adventures-in-node-shorthand-and-destructuring/
• API Testing with Postman — Run a Collection with Docker – Michael Montgomery – https://medium.com/assertqualityassurance/api-testing-with-postman-run-a-collection-with-docker-7c84655cfc18
• Base Test Class Testing Pattern: Why and How to use – Elias Nogueira – http://www.eliasnogueira.com/base-test-class-testing-pattern-why-and-how-to-use/
• diffmerge the tool I always wanted – Bart Vanherck – https://www.thetestingpirate.be/2020/09/02/diffmerge-the-tool-i-always-wanted/
• Intercepting requests – Giovanni Rago – https://theheadless.dev/posts/request-interception/
• Getting Started with Appium – Nikolay Advolodkin – https://ultimateqa.com/getting-started-with-appium/
• Overcome 7 Selenium Challenges with TestProject’s Smart Recorder – Kevin Dunne – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/09/01/overcome-7-selenium-challenges-with-testprojects-smart-recorder/
• Top Robotic Process Automation RPA Tools – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/rpa-tools/
• Visual TDD in Test Automation – part 1 –  https://www.mindfultester.com/visual-tdd-in-test-automation-part-1/
• What Is Jenkins? How & Why To Use It? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/what-is-jenkins/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• How To – GET challenges 200 – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/get-challenges-200/
• How To – GET todos 200 – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/get-todos-200/
• Visual Facilitation and Sketchnote Workshop – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/visual-facilitation-and-sketchnote-workshop/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts/Webinars

• Read: Clarity First – KC – https://testkeis.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/read-clarity-first/
• Cartoon: Digging in the Mud – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/08/digging-in-mud.html
• Cartoon: The Little Tester #111 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/08/31/the-little-tester-111/
• Podcast: Shift Left in End-to-End Testing using AI with Bertold Kolics – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a319-bertold/
• Podcast: Evolution Over Revolution – How to Transform Your Testing with Julie Gardiner – Rex Black –https://rbcs-us.com/resources/podcast/free-webinar-evolution-over-revolution-how-to-transform-your-testing-with-julie-gardiner/