Testing Bits: 367 – November 15th – November 21st

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 November 15th – November 21st.

Testing

• Basics of the pairwise, or all-pairs, testing technique – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Basics-of-the-pairwise-or-all-pairs-testing-technique
• Be careful what expectations your team hears from you – Stuart Ashman – http://qa-matters.com/2020/11/16/be-careful-what-expectations-your-team-hears-from-you/
• Getting Started with API Specification Languages – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2020/11/17/getting-started-with-api-specification-languages/
• How to Be Seen – Kristin Jackvony – https://thinkingtester.com/how-to-be-seen/
• How to treat your career like a project – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/careerproject/
• Properties Of A Good Testing Taxonomy – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/properties-of-a-good-testing-taxonomy/
• Recognition – The Leadership Secret Weapon That Drives Communities – Adam Knight – https://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2020/11/recognition-leadership-secret-weapon.html

• Reflecting on Mentorship – Angela Riggs – https://angelariggs.github.io/articles/mentorship
• Reviewing Capgemini’s “World Quality Report 2020-21” – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/reviewing-capgeminis-world-quality-report-2020-21/
• Under-Engineered Responsive Tables – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/11/under-engineered-responsive-tables.html
• Waterfall vs. Agile vs. Scrum vs. Kanban Methodologies – Laveena Ramchandani – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/11/18/waterfall-agile-scrum-kanban-methodologies/
• What Are the Uses for a Vulnerability Scanner? – Jordan MacAvoy – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/what-are-uses-vulnerability-scanner
• What Exploratory Testing Is Depends on Who You Are – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/11/what-exploratory-testing-is-depends-on.html
• Women in IT: Nicola Martin – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/women-in-it-nicola-martin/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• 10 Actionable Tips to Excel as a Test Automation Engineer – Sumon Dey – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/11/17/actionable-tips-to-excel-as-a-test-automation-engineer/
• 10 Of The Best PHP Testing Frameworks For 2021 – Shalini Baskaran – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/best-php-testing-frameworks-2021/
• 23 Node.js Best Practices For Automation Testing – Rahul Jain – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/nodejs-best-practices/
• A Meta Reason for Locator Ids – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/location-approaches-not-ids/
• Creating A Test Automation Portfolio The Final Episode: UI Web Browser Testing Using C#, Selenium Webdriver 4 – Beth Marshall – https://beththetester.com/2020/11/16/creating-a-test-automation-portfolio-the-final-episode-ui-web-browser-testing-using-c-selenium-webdriver-4/
• Custom Test Automation Framework: Logging Module Design – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/custom-test-automation-framework-logging-module-design/
• Have you heard of “flaky tests”? – Anand Bagmar – https://applitools.com/blog/uncover-flaky-tests/
• Highlight parameters for readability #GivenWhenThenWithStyle – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/highlight-parameters-for-readability-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• How to Gather Your Test Automation Results With ReportPortal – Dennis Martiznez – https://dev-tester.com/how-to-gather-your-test-automation-results-with-reportportal/
• How to Handle iFrames using Selenium – Ran Tzur – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/11/16/how-to-handle-iframes-using-selenium/
• How To Run Junit Tests From The Command Line – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/run-junit-from-command-line/
• Programming Languages Aspiring Technical Testers Need to Learn – Raj Subrameyer – https://blog.gurock.com/programming-languages-to-learn/
• Roadmap to QA Automation Engineer – Ram J – https://synapse-qa.com/2020/11/15/roadmap-to-qa-automation-engineer/
• Selenium 4 Is Now W3C Compliant: All You Need To Know – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium4-w3c-webdriver-protocol/
• Test Data Factory: Why and How to Use – Elias Nogueira – http://www.eliasnogueira.com/test-data-factory-why-and-how-to-use/
• The Many Uses of Visual Testing – Angie Jones – https://applitools.com/blog/many-uses-of-visual-testing/
• What is Selenium 4? The latest in Automated Browser Testing – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/selenium-4/

Announcements/Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Attention Testers: The 2020 Fall OnlineTestConf is almost here! – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2020/11/20/attention-testers-the-2020-fall-onlinetestconf-is-almost-here/
• EuroSTAR 2020 Preview – Ushering the Conference of a New World – Sowmya – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/eurostar-2020-preview-ushering-the-conference-of-a-new-world/
• EuroSTAR 2020 – Day One Highlights – Sowmya – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/eurostar-2020-day-one-highlights/
• EuroSTAR 2020 Day Two Highlights – Sowmya – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/eurostar-2020-day-two-highlights/
• EuroSTAR 2020 Final Day highlights – Sowmya – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/eurostar-2020-final-day-highlights/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars

• Cartoon: The Little Testers #122 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/11/16/the-little-tester-122/
• Podcast: Career Advancement for Testers with Raj Subrameyer – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a328-raj/
• Podcast: Mutation Testing in Python with mutmut – Anders Hovmöller – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/138
• Podcast: NoOps & The Future Of QA Automation (with Lewis Prescott from Cancer Research UK) – Jonathon Wright – https://theqalead.com/podcast/noops-future-qa-automation-lewis-prescott/
• Podcast: S2E5 Quality Sense: Bas Dijkstra – False positives and negatives in test automation – Federico Toledo – https://soundcloud.com/qualitysensepodcast/s2e4-quality-sense-bas-dijkstra-false-positives-and-negatives-in-test-automation
• Podcast: The Testing Show: External vs. Internal Software Testing – Matt Heusser – https://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-external-vs-internal-software-testing