Testing Bits: 358 – September 13th – September 19th, 2020

Welcome to the better late than never edition of Testing Bits, it’s been a couple of crazy weeks.  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 September 13th – September 19th, 2020.

Look for another edition tomorrow. Back to Back Testings Bits – A great end to the week & a great start to a new week!

Testing

• Account takeover by OTP bypass – Bhavarth Kandoria – https://medium.com/@bhavarth33/how-i-was-able-to-takeover-any-account-by-otp-bypass-bba698a725f
• Defining your Story – Owning Your Quality Narrative – Simon Prior – https://simon-prior.uk/2020/09/18/defining-your-story-owning-your-quality-narrative/
• Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Testing – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/cloud-testing-tutorial/
• How to Craft Superb QA Engineer CV: Guide + Interview Tips – QATestLab – https://medium.com/@QATestLab/how-to-craft-superb-qa-engineer-cv-guide-interview-tips-bce646150bc
• How to Define Quality – Beren Van Daele – https://isleof.it/2020/09/16/how-to-define-quality/
• Most Brutally Honest – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/09/most-brutally-honest.html
• Organisational QA/Testing smells – The Reluctant Tester – https://thereluctanttester.com/2020/09/15/organisational-qa-testing-smells/

• Quality-conscious Software Delivery – Lalitkumar Bhamare – https://www.talesoftesting.com/blog/quality-conscious-software-delivery
• Risk Is…Recognizing That The Titanic Might Sink – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/risk-is-recognizing-that-the-titanic-might-sink/
• Testing Essentials: What to test when you run out of time? – Kinga Witko – https://kingatest.wordpress.com/2020/09/19/testing-essentials-what-to-test-when-you-run-out-of-time/
• Three Ways to Help Developers Embrace Testing – Alissa Lydon – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/three-ways-help-developers-embrace-testing
• Why Software Testing is the New Black for Renewable Energy – QATestLab – https://medium.com/@QATestLab/why-software-testing-is-the-new-black-for-renewable-energy-ec05f6e5ab73

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• Creating A Test Automation Portfolio Episode 3: Taiko, Gauge and JavaScript – Beth Marshall – https://beththetester.com/2020/09/17/creating-a-test-automation-portfolio-episode-3-taiko-gauge-and-javascript/
• Custom Test Automation Framework: Define Requirements and Characteristics – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/custom-test-automation-framework-requirements-characteristics/
• Five ways to make Given-When-Then more interesting to read #GivenWhenThenWithStyle – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/five-ways-to-make-given-when-then-more-interesting-to-read-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• How to make your GUI test automation less flaky and brittle – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/how-to-make-your-gui-test-automation-less-flaky-and-brittle/
• How Can You Tell If Your Automated Tests Are Any Good? – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/how-can-you-tell-if-your-automated-tests-are-any-good/
• Quick starter – Web automation using Playwright – The Reluctant Tester – https://thereluctanttester.com/2020/09/14/quick-starter-web-automation-using-playwright/
• Robot Framework with Selenium and Python: All You Need to Know – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/robot-framework-tutorial/
• Ten More Commandments Of Automation – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/ten-more-commandments-of-automation/
• Top 10 Java Testing Frameworks For 2020 – Praveen Mishra – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/top-10-java-testing-frameworks/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts/Webinars

• Podcast: AI Self Healing Test Recorder with Eldar Kravetsky – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a322-eldar/
• Podcast: Ep 28: The Social Network – Neil Studd – https://screentesting.libsyn.com/ep-28-the-social-network
• Podcast: How To Prove Third Party Endpoints In Production (with Bernardo Guerreiro from Auth0) – Jonathon Wright – https://theqalead.com/podcast/prove-third-party-endpoints-production-bernardo-guerreiro/