Testing Bits: 376 – January 17th, 2021 – January 23rd, 2021

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 January 17th, 2021 – January 23rd, 2021.

Testing

• Avoid tedious test case documents through comprehensible living documentation – Part 1 – Sophie Willich – https://specflow.org/blog/avoid-tedious-test-case-documents-through-comprehensible-living-documentation-part-1/
• Bad Test Strategies and How You Can Avoid Them – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/bad-test-strategies-and-how-you-can-avoid-them/
• First Aid for the Mission Statement – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2021/01/first-aid-for-the-mission-statement/
• How To Test Mobile Websites On Different Network Conditions? – Ritesh Shetty – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/test-mobile-websites-on-different-network-conditions/
• Interview #6: Data Science from a Tester perspective – Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.com/2021/01/18/interview-6-data-science-testing/
• Mind, Matter, Testing and The Cargo Cult – Lalitkumar Bhamare – https://www.talesoftesting.com/blog/mind-matter-testing-and-the-cargo-cult
• Quick Recipes To Generate Test Ideas – Lingesh Suresh – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/01/22/quick-recipes-to-generate-test-ideas/

• Relations – are about half of IT – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/relations-are-about-half-of-it/
• Software Testing Heuristics and mnemonics – Yogita Lad – https://yogitalad.blogspot.com/2021/01/software-testing-heuristics-and.html
• The Testing Mindset Myth – Alan Page – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/01/19/the-testing-mindset-myth/
• We Are All Impostors – Darryn Downey – https://thoughtsontest.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/we-are-all-impostors/
• What I wish I knew when I started testing: Expectations vs Reality – Nicola Lindgren – https://nickytests.blogspot.com/2021/01/what-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-started.html
• What Is Cost Of Quality (COQ): Cost Of Good And Poor Quality – Remya R. – https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/coq-cost-of-quality-tutorial/
• Who will monitor the monitors? – Nilanjan Bhattacharya – https://revelutions.medium.com/who-will-monitor-the-monitors-60c0d020049f
• Your Virtual Toolbox – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/your-virtual-toolbox/

Coding/Programming/Test Automation/Tools

• A Beginner’s Guide to Designing Page Objects – Pt.3 – Edirin Atumah – https://bongosway.github.io/a-beginners-guide-to-designing-page-objects-pt.3/
• API Testing using Postman – Part 3 – Vaishnavi Dontha – https://vaishnavidontha.hashnode.dev/api-testing-using-postman-part-3
• Be Descriptive With Your Test Failures – Kevin Fawcett – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/01/18/be-descriptive-with-your-test-failures/
• CircleCI Vs. GitLab: Choosing The Right CI/CD Tool – Nishant Choudhary – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/circleci-vs-gitlab/
• Facade Design Pattern in Automated Testing Java Code – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/facade-design-pattern-java
• Fixtures Over Classes: Why Using Pytest Fixtures Is Better – Josh Grant – https://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/640676369255268352/fixtures-over-classes-why-using-pytest-fixtures
• From HandsOn to Scripted Testing – Habin Prasad – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/01/18/from-handson-to-scripted-testing/
• How to do web performance testing with Google Lighthouse and Cypress – Marie Drake – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-do-web-performance-testing-google-lighthouse-cypress
• How To Perform Parallel Execution With Specflow, NUnit, And Selenium – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/parallel-execution-with-specflow-nunit-and-selenium/
• How to use Model Based Testing to increase test automation coverage? – Santiago Hernandez – https://medium.com/globant/how-to-use-model-based-testing-to-increase-test-automation-coverage-4299ef93d088
• Regular Expressions in SpecFlow Step Definitions – Andreea Draniceanu – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/01/20/regular-expressions-in-specflow-step-definitions/
• Selenium vs Cypress: The Rematch – Angie Jones – https://applitools.com/blog/selenium-vs-cypress-the-rematch/
• Selenium SendKeys : All You Need To Know – Praveen Mishra – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-use-selenium-sendkeys/
• Tips & Tricks for Cypress – Diogo Nunes – https://www.diogonunes.com/blog/cypress-tips-tricks/
• Visual Assertions – Hype or Reality? – Anand Bagmar – https://applitools.com/blog/visual-ai-hype-or-reality/

Announcements/Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Learning to Script – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2021/01/learning-to-script.htm

Events This Week:

• 1/28/2021 – ICSMQM 2021: 15. International Conference on Software Metrics and Quality Management – https://waset.org/software-metrics-and-quality-management-conference-in-january-2021-in-new-york
• 1/28/2021 – TestJS Summit – https://www.testjssummit.com/
• Test JS Summit Day One Free LiveStream – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/01/23-testjssummit-day-one-livestream/
• The Annual Testing in DevOps Survey is Open! – https://www.mabl.com/blog/the-annual-testing-in-devops-survey-is-open

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars

• Cartoon: The Little Testers #131 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/01/18/the-little-tester-131/
• Podcast: Next Gen Enterprise Automation Testing with Parasar Saha – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a336-parasar/
• Podcast: Retrospectives – https://testingpeers.com/?p=603 – Russell Craxford – https://testingpeers.com/?p=603

Blogging/Goals/Personal Reflections/

• Looking back to 2020 – Jokin Aspiazu – http://jokinaspiazu.blogspot.com/2021/01/looking-back-to-2020.html
• My journey as a software tester – Balaji Santhanagopalan – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/01/18/my-journey-as-a-software-tester/

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