Testing Bits: 361 – October 4th – October 10th, 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 October 4th – October 10th, 2020.

Testing

• 4 Ways to Handle Test Data for Your End-to-End Tests – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/4-ways-to-handle-test-data-for-your-end-to-end-tests/
• 5 Lessons on leadership from coach John Wooden (lessons for managers too) – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/wooden/
• 6 Strategies to Maximize Your End-to-end Testing Impact – Bertold Kolics – https://www.mabl.com/blog/6-strategies-to-maximize-your-end-to-end-testing-impact
• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 10 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/10/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-10/
• A Working Model for Thinking about Product Strategy Development – Simon Knight – https://sjpknight.com/post/a-working-model-for-thinking-about-product-strategy-development/
• Defining Your Definition of Done – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2020/10/07/defining-your-definition-of-done/
• How testable is your or your team’s code? – Stuart Ashman – http://qa-matters.com/2020/10/05/how-testable-is-your-or-your-teams-code/

• How to leap over the obstacles holding back your QA teams – Tom Stiehm – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-leap-over-obstacles-holding-back-your-qa-teams
• It’s all just a little bit of history repeating… – Chris Armstrong – https://christovskia.blog/2020/10/07/its-all-just-a-little-bit-of-history-repeating/
• Making a Map of Risks – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/making-a-map-of-risks/
• Must ask Performance Engineering Questions – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – https://qainsights.com/performance-engineering-questions/
• One Test Case is All You Need – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/one-test-case-is-all-you-need/
• Part 2: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/part-2-30-days-of-accessibility-testing
• Regression Testing and Discipline – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/10/regression-testing-and-discipline/
• Test Strategy Templates – Rafaela Azevedo – https://azevedorafaela.com/2020/10/07/test-strategy-templates/
• Testers identity crisis – QA/QE/AE/SDET/SET/TA? – Gaurav Singh – https://automationhacks.io/2020/10/08/testers-identify-crisis/
• The Difference of a Test Idea and a Test Case – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-difference-of-test-idea-and-test.html
• What is the Concept-Resolution in Software Testing? – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/what-is-the-concept-resolution-in-software-testing-3c20a7c2d5c0
• What’s Keeping Your QA Team Up at Night? – Fahim Sachedina – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/whats-keeping-your-qa-team-up-at-night
• Working Out How I Work –  Paul Gilson – https://harnessedtester.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/working-out-how-i-work/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• 5 Common Mistakes in Test Automation – Gaurav Singh – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/10/06/common-mistakes-in-test-automation/
• 7 Proven Methods to Increase Your Automation Code Quality – Sumon Dey – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/10/08/proven-methods-to-increase-your-automation-code-quality/
• CircleCI vs Travis CI: Comparing The Best CI/CD Tools – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/circleci-vs-travis/
• Creating A Test Automation Portfolio Episode 5: UI Web Browser testing using Cypress – Beth Marshall – https://beththetester.com/2020/10/06/creating-a-test-automation-portfolio-episode-5-ui-web-browser-testing-using-cypress/
• Custom Test Automation Framework: Define Features Part 2 – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/custom-test-automation-framework-features-part2/
• How To Use Thread.sleep() In Java With Selenium? –  Shalini Baskaran – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/threadsleep-java-selenium/
• Selenium 4 – New Features of Selenium WebDriver (Part 1) – Shama Ugale – https://applitools.com/blog/new-features-selenium4/
• Solving: How to write a good scenario title? #GivenWhenThenWithStyle – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/solving-how-to-write-a-good-scenario-title-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• Testing FastAPI endpoints using fastapi.testclient – Rahul Bhave – https://qxf2.com/blog/testing-fastapi-endpoints-using-fastapi-testclient/
• Top Essential JavaScript Testing Frameworks – Pawel Czerniewski – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/10/07/top-essential-javascript-testing-frameworks/
• Why Python Is My Favourite For Test Automation? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/python-automation-testing/

Announcements/Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Workshop Experience: Effective Problem Solving for Leaders and Managers – Ravisuriya Eshwara – https://testinggarage.blogspot.com/2020/10/ravisuriya-workshop-experience-report-effective-problem-solving-for-leaders-and-managers-by-ajay-balamurugadas.html
• Workshop Experience: Web Application Security Testing – Ravisuriya Eshwara – https://testinggarage.blogspot.com/2020/10/workshop-experience-of-ravisuriya-web-application-security-testing-by-verity-software-andrahul-verma.html

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts/Webinars

• Book: Publishing my first testing book, “An Exploration of Testers” – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2020/10/07/publishing-my-first-testing-book-an-exploration-of-testers/
• Cartoon: Follow the Swarm – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/10/follow-swarm.html
• Podcast: How To Use Service Virtualization (with Mike Lyles from Bridgetree) – Jonathon Wright – https://theqalead.com/podcast/how-to-use-service-virtualization-with-mike-lyles-from-bridgetree/
• Podcast: Major League Hacking – Jon Gottfried – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/133
• Podcast: S – Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen – https://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-de-risking-enterprise-qa-with-simon-evans
• Podcast: Writing Great Specifications with Kamil Nicieja – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a321-kamil/
• Video: API Testing using Postman – Postman Collection – Pramod Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/10/05/api-testing-postman-collection/
• Video: Postman Environment Variables- API Testing using Postman – Pramod Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/10/11/postman-environment-variables/