Testing Bits: 360 – September 27th – October 3rd, 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 September 27th – October 3rd, 2020.

Testing

• 6 Things You Can Do To Be A Better Test Manager OR Lead – Johanna South – https://theqaconnection.com/2020/09/29/how-to-be-a-better-test-lead/
• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 9 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/10/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-9/
• Automation will not replace your testing skills – Lina Zubyte – https://qualitybits.tech//writing/automation-will-not-replace-your-testing-skills#
• Contractor Life – Pt 3: Toward Success – Pete Walen – https://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/09/contractor-life-pt-3-toward-success.html
• “Dear Younger Me” – Iris Pinkster O’Riordain – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/dear-younger-me-iris-pinkster/
• Five habits to adopt in order to be a better software tester – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/five-habits-to-adopt-in-order-to-be-a-better-software-tester/
• Functional vs. nonfunctional requirements in software engineering – Stephen J. Bigelow – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/answer/Functional-and-nonfunctional-requirements

• Improve Your Website Performance- Front-end and Back-end Optimization Tips – Utsav Prajapati – https://medium.com/javarevisited/improve-your-website-performance-front-end-and-back-end-optimization-tips-d1dea7a27ef4
• Interview #3: Overcoming the struggles of being a tester from student perspective – Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.com/2020/09/29/interview-3-software-tester-student/
• Measuring page performance – Giovanni Rago – https://theheadless.dev/posts/basics-performance/
• More Than Interviewing For Testers – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/interviewing-for-testers/
• Not a Senseful Question: Is API Testing important than UI Testing? – Ravisuriya Eshwara – https://testinggarage.blogspot.com/2020/09/which-is-more-important-api-testing-or-ui-testing-with-differences.html
• Scale Your Thinking For Better Testing – Ash Winter – https://diagramindustries.com/2020/09/27/scale-your-thinking-for-better-testing/
• Testing Strategy for Hyperconnected World of IoT – Rajni Singh – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/09/30/testing-strategy-for-hyperconnected-world-of-iot/
• The best of: September #neverstoptesting – Kinga Witko – https://kingatest.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/the-best-of-september-neverstoptesting/
• The power of journaling – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/journaling/
• The Self Retrospective – Bruce – https://undevelopedbruce.com/2020/09/30/the-self-retrospective/
• To Avoid Trouble Successfully, We Must Look For It – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/09/to-avoid-trouble-successfully-we-must-look-for-it/
• You built a talented QA team. Here’s how to keep them – Jess Ingrassellino – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/you-built-talented-qa-team-heres-how-keep-them

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• A Brief Guide to QA Automation for Taxi and Delivery Apps – Vlad Ershov – https://medium.com/@vlad.ershov/a-brief-guide-to-qa-automation-for-taxi-and-delivery-apps-697c1d4d4001
• Actions Class In Selenium: What Is It & How To Use It? – Shalini Baskaran – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/what-is-actions-class-in-selenium/
• Automating Playing OnDemandKorea on LGTV connected Roku via Python – Alan Barr – https://www.alanmbarr.com/blog/python-connect-lgtv-roku-control.html
• Create a mock application with Flask – Bart Vanherck – https://www.thetestingpirate.be/2020/09/30/create-a-mock-application-with-flask/
• Creating A Test Automation Portfolio Episode 4: API testing for Restful Booker using Postman – Beth Marshall – https://beththetester.com/2020/09/27/creating-a-test-automation-portfolio-episode-4-api-testing-for-restful-booker-using-postman/
• How to Build Test Automation on an App With No Tests – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/how-to-build-test-automation-on-an-app-with-no-tests/
• How To Handle Internationalization In Selenium WebDriver? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/internationalization-with-selenium-webdriver/
• How to run only a subset of scenarios from an outline? #GivenWhenThenWithStyle – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/how-to-run-only-a-subset-of-scenarios-from-an-outline-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• How to use SauceLabs with Nightwatch.js – David Mello – https://www.davidmello.com/how-to-use-nightwatch-with-saucelabs/
• Visual TDD in Test Automation – Part 2 – Han Toan Lim – https://www.mindfultester.com/visual-tdd-in-test-automation-part-2/

Announcements/Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Test-Bash Manchester 2020 – Fridays talks – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/test-bash-manchester-2020-fridays-talks/
• TestBash Manchester 2020 – Pre-Bash #Sketchnotes – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/testbash-manchester-2020-pre-bash-sketchnotes/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts/Webinars

• Book Review: Accelerate – Kristin Jackvony – https://thinkingtester.com/book-review-accelerate/
• Cartoon: Sometimes you have to shock the customer – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/09/sometimes-you-have-to-shock-customer.html
• Cartoon: Tag submarines before they shoot – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/10/tag-submarines-before-they-shoot.html
• Cartoon: The Little Testers #115 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/09/28/the-little-tester-115/
• Podcast: How To Test Complex GraphQL Knowledge Graphs (with Mike Harris from Geckoboard) – Jonathon Wright – https://theqalead.com/podcast/how-to-test-complex-graphql-knowledge-graphs-mike-harris-geckoboard/
• Podcast: Misconceptions Of Automation Testing – Dave Duke – https://theguiltytester.libsyn.com/misconceptions-of-automation-testing