Testing Bits: 371 – December 13th – December 19th, 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 December 13th – December 19th, 2021.

Testing

• Common search engine questions about testing #4: “How is software testing done?” – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/common-search-engine-questions-about-testing-4-how-is-software-testing-done/
• Exploring the Cypress Real World App – Kristin Jackvony – https://thinkingtester.com/exploring-the-cypress-real-world-app/
• How to find levers of change in your company – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/how-to-find-levers-of-change-in-your-company/
• How To – GET todos id 404 – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/get-todos-id-404/
• Improve your app quality with simple QA processes – Clovis Bernier – https://medium.com/blablacar/improve-your-app-quality-with-simple-qa-processes-cfce0428516e
• Introduction to Accessibility Testing – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/introduction-to-accessibility-testing
• Prisoner’s Dilemma in Testing: A Mini-Waterfall Simulation – Chris NeJame – https://salmonmode.github.io/2020/12/16/prisoners-dilemma-in-testing.html

• What Do You Do When You Have Nothing to Test? – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/what-do-you-do-when-you-have-nothing-to-test/
• What Every Test Engineer Needs to Know About Observability – Heemeng Foo – https://medium.com/swlh/what-every-test-engineer-needs-to-know-about-observability-654f757f6622

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• 12 Important Software Testing Trends for 2021 You Need to Know – Rahul Jain – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/12-software-testing-trends-2021/
• 2020’s Most Popular Programming Languages for UI Test Automation – Angie Jones – https://applitools.com/blog/2020-most-popular-programming-languages-for-ui-test-automation/
• A faster way to clean all inputs in an HTML form – Elias Nogueira – http://www.eliasnogueira.com/a-faster-way-to-clean-all-inputs-in-an-html-form/
• A Pragmatic Learning Roadmap to Becoming a Highly Effective SDET – Sumon Dey – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/12/16/a-pragmatic-learning-roadmap-to-becoming-a-highly-effective-sdet/
• Black Friday Performance Testing Experiment Results – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – https://qainsights.com/black-friday-performance-testing-experiment-results/
• Easily Create Mobile Testing Framework with Java & Appium – Andreea Draniceanu – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/12/14/easily-create-mobile-testing-framework-with-java-and-appium/
• Enterprise Test Automation Framework: Plugin Architecture in SpecFlow – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/enterprise-test-automation-framework-plugin-architecture-specflow
• How To Find Broken Links Using Selenium WebDriver? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/broken-links-testing-using-selenium/
• How To Generate Test Report In NUnit? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/report-in-nunit/
• How To Integrate Jenkins With Selenium WebDriver? – Shalini Baskaran – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/jenkins-integration-with-selenium-webdriver/
• How to organise feature files? – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/how-to-organise-feature-files-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• Key benefits of scriptless test automation – Suhith Kumar – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/key-benefits-of-scriptless-test-automation/
• Mocking Dependencies in Integration Tests with Nock Part 2: Isolation and Reuse – Kevin Fawcett – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/12/15/mocking-dependencies-in-integration-tests-with-nock-part-2-isolation-and-reuse/
• Nightwatch Vs Protractor: Which Testing Framework Is Right For You? – Praveen Mishra – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/nightwatch-vs-protractor/
• Python API test automation framework (Part 4) Working with XML using python lxml – Gaurav Singh – https://automationhacks.io/2020/12/17/python-api-automation-framework-part4-working-with-xml-using-lxml
• Test Flakiness – One of the main challenges of automated testing – George Pirocanac – https://testing.googleblog.com/2020/12/test-flakiness-one-of-main-challenges.html
• What is an SDET (How to Make More Money) – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/sdet/

Announcements/Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Meetup And Learn, Talking to People: Changing Patterns in a Shelter-in-Place World – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/meetup-and-learn-talking-to-people-changing-patterns-in-a-shelter-in-place-world/
• Meetup And Learn, How To Test Machine Learning Based Product – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/meetup-and-learn-how-to-test-machine-learning-based-product/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars

• Cartoon: The Little Tester #126 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/12/14/the-little-tester-126/
• Game: Software Testing Crossword – Series 3 – Yogesh Khairnari – https://qa-qcarena.blogspot.com/2020/12/software-testing-crossword-series-3.html
• Podcast: How QA Leads Can Engage Testing Teams (with Ileana Herrera from JBKnowledge) – Jonathan Wright – https://theqalead.com/podcast/how-qa-leads-can-engage-testing-teams-ileana-herrera/
• Podcast: Testing in Scientific Research and Academia – Martin Héroux – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/140
• Podcast: S2 BONUS EPISODE – How to keep testers motivated (My ATD talk) – Frederico Toledo – https://soundcloud.com/qualitysensepodcast/s2-bonus-episode-how-to-keep-testers-motivated
• Podcast: The Testing Show: Your Changing Career – Matt Heusser – https://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-your-changing-career

Goals/Personal Reflections/Blogging

• Looking Back at 2020 – Josh Grant – https://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/637903300433461248/looking-back-at-2020
• What I Have Learned from 2020 – My Learning Journey – Ben Cross – https://thesiteofbencross.wordpress.com/2020/12/18/what-i-have-learned-from-2020-my-learning-journey/

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