Testing Bits: 380 – February 14th, 2021 – February 20th, 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 February 14th, 2021 – February 20th, 2021.

Testing

• Bug Scoring — a way to distinguish “same” bugs. – Chernikova Kateryna – https://medium.com/wix-engineering/bug-scoring-a-way-to-distinguish-same-bugs-2bb7647da535
• Challenges for Black Box Testing and how to solve them – Andreas Willich – https://specflow.org/blog/challenges-for-black-box-testing-and-how-to-solve-them/
• Defect Detection and Security Prevention: How does Shift-Left Adoption Helps? – Dzuy Tran – https://continuoustesting.dev/2021/02/16/defect-detection-and-security-prevention-how-does-shift-left-adoption-helps/
• Did you break your code today? – Kevin Hicks – https://kevinhicks.software/blog/9/did-you-break-your-code-today
• Doesn’t Everybody Know This? – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2021/02/17/doesnt-everybody-know-this/
• Ensemble Is the New Mob – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2021/02/ensemble-is-the-new-mob.html
• Free Feedback for #accessiBe – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2021/02/free-feedback-for-accessibe.html

• Progressive Web Apps And The Future Of Mobile Web – Ritesh Shetty – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/progressive-web-apps-and-the-future-of-mobile-web/
• Purpose over Backlog – Allan Kelly – https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/archives/4939/purpose-over-backlog/
• Quality Engineer Learning Roadmap – Blake Norrish – https://medium.com/slalom-build/quality-engineer-learning-roadmap-fddfcb77409e
• Something About Leadership – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/250/
• The growing role of QAOps – Constance Drugeout – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/the-future-of-qaops/
• The One Idea To Unleash Your Confidence – Antti Niittyviita – https://niittyviita.medium.com/the-one-idea-to-unleash-your-confidence-452ea31e3aff
• The Triage Of Time: Three Tools To Manage Your Life Like A Pro – Antti Niittyviita – https://niittyviita.medium.com/the-triage-of-time-three-tools-to-manage-your-life-like-a-pro-a9e8ca0e4cbe
• Three routes to fixing problems test cases hide – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2021/02/three-routes-to-fixing-problems-test.html
• Top 7 Challenges Of Cross Browser Testing With Solutions – Veethee Dixit – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/cross-browser-testing-challenges/
• What Is Graph Node Coverage Criteria – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/what-is-graph-node-coverage-criteria/

Blogging/Goals/Personal Reflections/

• Lessons learned from writing a ten-part blog series – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-ten-part-blog-series/
• Old School: Schools of testing – Conor Fitzgerald – https://conorfi.com/software-testing/old-school-schools-of-testing/
• Testing Pearls Of Wisdom – Beth Marshall – https://beththetester.com/2021/02/15/testing-pearls-of-wisdom/

Coding/Programming/Test Automation/Tools

• 3 Ways to Achieve In-Sprint Test Automation – Angie Jones – https://angiejones.tech/in-sprint-test-automation/
• 7 Extremely Useful Selenium JavaScript commands –  Nikolay Advolodkin – https://ultimateqa.com/7-extremely-useful-selenium-javascript-commands/
• Automation Delay – and how to prevent it – Matt Heusser – https://xndev.com/2021/02/automation-delay-and-how-to-prevent-it/
• Built-in Cloud Reporting Tool for Pytest and Unittest – David Goichman – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/15/built-in-cloud-reporting-tool-for-pytest-and-unittest/
• Cypress basics: before(), beforeEach(), after() and afterEach() – Filip Hric – https://filiphric.com/cypress-basics-before-beforeeach-after-aftereach
• Design Patterns for High-Quality Automated Tests: Facade – Anton Angelov – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/17/design-patterns-for-high-quality-automated-tests-facade/
• Git Commands: The Most Useful – Nikolay Advolodkin – https://ultimateqa.com/git-commands/
• How To Find Broken Images Using Selenium WebDriver? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/find-broken-images-using-selenium-webdriver/
• How to specify hierarchical data?      – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/how-to-specify-hierarchical-data-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• Is The Test Automation Pyramid Dead? – Josh Grant – https://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/643383576938872832/is-the-test-automation-pyramid-dead
• JUnit and TDD for Testing – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/02/20-junit-test-for-testers/
• Mega Function – One Function To Rule Them All – Yoni Flenner – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/15/mega-function/
• Most Complete Appium C# Cheat Sheet – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/most-complete-appium-csharp-cheat-sheet/
• Open Source Test Reporting Tools – Software Testing Magazine – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/tools/open-source-test-reporting-tools/
• Please, Not Another Web Test Automation Framework, Just Use Raw Selenium WebDriver – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/please-not-another-web-test-automation-framework-just-use-selenium-webdriver-86693045d5af
• Security Testing and Selenium – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/security-testing-and-selenium.html
• SQL JOINs and WHERE simplified – Mike Ruttenberg – https://mjruttenberg.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/sql-joins-and-where-simplified/
• The Code, the Test, and the Responsibility – Alan Page – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/17/the-code-the-test-and-the-responsibility/
• Why Cypress Sucks for Real Test Automation? (Part 2: Limitations) – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/why-cypress-sucks-for-real-test-automation-part-2-limitations-53c1914acd0d
• Working with Cookies in Selenium Automated Tests – Andreea Draniceanu – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/17/working-with-cookies-in-selenium-automated-tests/
• Write ready-to-go test cases titles with pairwise tests generation tool – Alexey Sotskov – https://medium.com/practical-software-testing/write-ready-to-go-test-cases-titles-with-pairwise-tests-generation-tool-880761695104

Announcements/Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Meetup And Learn, QA Career Bootstrap And Pixel Perfect UI Testing – Karlo Smid – https://blog.tentamen.eu/meetup-and-learn-qa-career-bootstrap-and-pixel-perfect-ui-testing/

Upcoming Events:

• 2/22 – 2/26 – ICQAST 2021 – International Conference on Quality Assurance and Software Testing – https://waset.org/quality-assurance-and-software-testing-conference-in-february-2021-in-london

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars

• Books: Donation of proceeds from sales of “An Exploration of Testers” book – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2021/02/14/donation-of-proceeds-from-sales-of-an-exploration-of-testers-book/
• Books: Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas – Željko Filipin – https://filipin.eu//pragmatic-programmer
• Cartoon: The Little Testers #135 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/02/15/the-little-tester-135/
• Games: Software Testing Crossword – Answers & Winners (Series 4) – Yogesh Khairnari – https://qa-qcarena.blogspot.com/2021/02/software-testing-crossword-answers.html
• Podcast: Agile Engineering Maturity Model with Rudolf Groetz & David Heitzinger – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a339-rudolf-david/
• Podcast: Episode #3: Experimental Behavioural Economics and AI – Adam Smith – https://fuzzyquality.com/episode/episode-3-experimental-behavioural-economics-and-ai-d8ss
• Podcast: Episode #221: Pattern matching and accepting change in Python with Brett Cannon – Brian Okken – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/221/pattern-matching-and-accepting-change-in-python-with-brett-cannon
• Podcast: For Those About to Mock – Michael Foord – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/145
• Podcast: Podcast Episode 21 – Conflict – Testing Peers – https://testingpeers.com/?p=673
• Podcast: S3E2 – Katya Aronov – Involving devs in the quality process – Federico Toledo – https://soundcloud.com/qualitysensepodcast/s3-e2-katya-aronov-involving-devs-in-the-quality-process
• Podcast: The Testing Show: New Thinking In Management – Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen – https://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-new-thinking-in-management
• Video: 4 Mindset Principles That Will Help You Thrive In 2021 as QA/ Software Tester. – Pramod Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/02/17/4-mindset-principles-that-will-help-you-thrive-in-2021-as-qa-software-tester/
• Webinar: Stop Testing (Only) The Functionality of Your Mobile Apps! [webinar recording] – Addie Ben-Yehuda – https://applitools.com/blog/mobile-testing-webinar/

Bugs In The Wild

• Daimler AG to recall 1,29 million vehicles due to software issue – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/daimler-ag-to-recall-129-million-vehicles-due-to-software-issue/

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