Testing Bits: 363 – October 18th – October 24th, 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 18th – October 24th, 2020.

Testing

• 3 Big Questions to Ask About Your Specifications – Pete Walen – https://blog.gurock.com/functional-specifications-testing/
• A day in the life of a mobile app tester – Sam Connelly – https://bughuntersam.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mobile-app-tester/
• A Human’s guide to testing AI – Nilanjan Bhattacharya – https://revelutions.medium.com/a-humans-guide-to-testing-ai-325e370c60c2
• A Naïve Request from Management – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/10/a-naive-request-from-management/
• Chaos Engineering as management practice – João Rosa – https://www.joaorosa.io/2020/10/21/chaos-engineering-as-management-practice/
• Context-Driven, or What? – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/10/context-driven-or-what.html
• “Dear Younger Me” – Derk-Jan de Grood – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/dear-younger-me-by-derk-jan-de-grood/

• Defect Tracking: 5 Common Reasons for Bug Rejection – Sri Priya P Kulkarni – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/10/18/defect-tracking-common-reasons-for-bug-rejection/
• How Can We Build Our Critical Thinking Skills? – Johanna Rothman – https://createadaptablelife.com/2020/10/how-can-we-build-our-critical-thinking-skills.html
• How to balance coverage, precision and clarity? #GivenWhenThenWithStyle – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/how-to-balance-coverage-precision-and-clarity-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• How to hold Three Amigos meetings in Agile development – George Lawton – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-hold-Three-Amigos-meetings-in-Agile-development
• How to spot systemic problems in your organisation – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/systemic-problems/
• How to turn an obstacle into your advantage – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/how-to-turn-an-obstacle-into-your-advantage
• Quality Engineering Vs. Quality Assurance: Everything You Need To Know – Ben Aston – https://theqalead.com/general/quality-engineering-vs-quality-assurance/
• Shift left testing concepts and benefits – Vijayan – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/shift-left-testing-concepts-and-benefits/
• Striking a Balance Between Manual and Automated Testing – Viv Richards – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/10/19/best-practices-of-striking-a-balance-between-manual-and-automated-testing/
• The Basis of Testing – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2020/10/the-basis-of-testing/
• The Social Lean Coffee – Bruce – https://undevelopedbruce.com/2020/10/22/social-lean-coffee/
• Things NOT To Do When An Employee Resigns – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/things-not-to-do-when-an-employee-resigns/
• What Are The Benefits of End to End Testing? – Alain Chautard – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/10/22/what-are-the-benefits-of-end-to-end-testing/
• What You Can Do Before Quitting Your Job as a Tester – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/what-you-can-do-before-quitting-your-job-as-a-tester/
• Why Metrics Are Always Proxy? – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/why-metrics-are-always-proxy-309d1bbf71a2
• Window on API testing – Nilanjan Bhattacharya – https://revelutions.medium.com/window-on-api-testing-e70c757b4e70

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• 9 Of The Best Reporting Tools For Selenium – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/best-reporting-tools-for-selenium/
• How To Perform Localization Testing Using Selenium WebDriver? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/localization-testing-using-selenium-webdriver/
• Introducing the SpecFlow Online Gherkin Editor – Mario Steiner – https://specflow.org/blog/introducing-the-specflow-online-gherkin-editor/
• JEval – Evaluate your JMeter Test Plan – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – https://qainsights.com/jeval-evaluate-your-jmeter-test-plan/
• Jenkins vs Travis vs Bamboo vs TeamCity: Clash Of The Titans – Rahul Jain – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/jenkins-vs-travis-vs-bamboo-vs-teamcity/
• The Weather Shopper application – a tool for QA – Arunkumar Muralidharan – https://qxf2.com/blog/weather-shopper-tool-qa/
• Using DevTools Search to Locate WebElements – Kristin Jackvony – https://thinkingtester.com/using-devtools-to-locate-webelements/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars

• Cartoon: The Little Tester #118 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/10/19/the-little-tester-118/
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 129: Alan’s Journey to Modern Testing – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – https://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/ab-testing-episode-129-alans-journey-to-modern-testing/
• Podcast: Speeding up Django Test Suites – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/135
• Podcast: The Testing Show: Virtual Conference Testing – Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen – https://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-virtual-conference-testing
• Video: 7 Essential Postman Features for API Testing That You Should Know – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/10/21/postman-features-for-api-testing/
• Video: How to Run Postman Command Line – Newman Postman – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/10/19/postman-command-line-newman-postman/
• Webinar: Test Driving Selenium 4 – with Angie Jones [webinar recording] – Angie Jones – https://applitools.com/blog/selenium-4-webinar/