Testing Bits: 381 – February 21st, 2021 – February 27th, 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 21st, 2021 – February 27th, 2021.

Testing

• Building Culture for Remote Teams in Times of Crisis – Leandro Butteri – https://medium.com/globant/building-culture-for-remote-teams-in-times-of-crisis-50555761e64e
• Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) Testing Strategies – Marcelo Aristegui – https://medium.com/globant/conversational-user-interfaces-cui-testing-strategies-adb08b97fc50
• Creating the Space for People to Learn Together – Elisabeth Hocke Retweeted – https://www.lisihocke.com/2021/02/creating-the-space-for-people-to-learn.html
• Don’t stop me now –  Ileana Belfiore – https://www.ileanabelfiore.me/dont-stop-me-now/
• Do You Really Need a Test Plan? – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/do-you-really-need-a-test-plan/
• End to End Testing as a Test Strategist – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2021/02/end-to-end-testing-as-test-strategist.html
• Exploring Kafka – Steve – https://allthingstesting.com/exploring-kafka/

• How I use A3 Thinking for problem solving – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/a3thinking/
• How to write test cases for both manual and automated tests – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-write-test-cases-one-component-at-a-time
• Flaky Testing – Michael Bolton – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2021/02/flaky-testing/
• Mabl Reflects on 20 Years of Agile – Bridget Hughes – https://www.mabl.com/blog/mabl-reflects-on-20-years-of-agile-mabl
• Software Testing Is Tedious. AI Can Help. – Matthew Lodge – https://hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/hbr.org/amp/2021/02/software-testing-is-tedious-ai-can-help
• Solving: How to specify hierarchical data? #GivenWhenThenWithStyle – Gojk Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/solving-how-to-specify-hierarchical-data-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• Starter pack on Penetration/Security Testing for newbies – Sunjeet Khokhar – https://thereluctanttester.com/2021/02/21/starter-pack-on-penetration-security-testing-for-newbies/
• The aim of testing is not to pass all of the tests – Mike Ruttenberg – https://mjruttenberg.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/the-aim-is-not-to-pass-all-of-the-tests/
• Why I Love Software Testing – Jason Arbon – https://jarbon.medium.com/why-i-love-software-testing-ec23d5037dab

Coding/Programming/Test Automation/Tools

• 30 test automation leaders to follow on Twitter – Matt Heusser – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/30-test-automation-leaders-follow-twitter
• A/B Testing Automation Guide – Meital Matsafi – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/25/ab-testing-automation-guide/
• Advice on Self-Learning Test Automation with Selenium WebDriver – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/advice-on-self-learning-test-automation-with-selenium-webdriver-846278328a99
• AI In Test Automation: Here’s How It Works – Harold Fernandes – https://theqalead.com/topics/ai-test-automation/
• Announcing Selenium Tests Automation Framework – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2013/10/announcing-selenium-tests-automation.html
• Beginner’s Guide to Performance Testing With Apache JMeter – Basic Tutorial – Vaishnavi Dontha – https://vaishnavidontha.hashnode.dev/beginners-guide-to-performance-testing-with-apache-jmeter-basic-tutorial
• Climb the automation engineer career ladder: 6 roles, requirements – Angie Jones – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/climb-automation-engineer-career-ladder-6-roles-requirements
• Cross Browser Testing In Selenium – Rex Jones II – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/25/cross-browser-testing-in-selenium/
• Days between two dates – Bart Vanherck – https://www.thetestingpirate.be/2021/02/24/days-between-two-dates/
• How To Get Started With Automated Browser Testing? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/get-started-with-automated-browser-testing/
• How To Run Selenium Tests In Brave Browser Using ChromeDriver? – Dwarika Dhish Mishra – https://abodeqa.com/selenium-tests-in-brave-browser/
• How To Set Up Continuous Integration With Git and Jenkins? – Suparna Khamaru – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-setup-continuous-integration-with-git-jenkins/
• How To Speed Up JavaScript Testing With Selenium and WebDriverIO? – Harita Ravindranath – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/speed-up-javascript-testing-with-selenium-and-webdriverio/
• Learning to Code: What did I learn from failing? – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2021/02/learning-to-code-what-did-i-learn-from-failing/
• Maintainable Automated Test Design – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/maintainable-automated-test-design-d325dd13b868
• Most Complete MSTest Unit Testing Framework Cheat Sheet VB.NET – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/most-complete-mstest-unit-testing-framework-cheat-sheet-vbnet/
• Most Complete Selenium WebDriver Kotlin Cheat Sheet – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/most-complete-selenium-webdriver-kotli-cheat-sheet/
• Python API test automation framework (Part 9) Running tests in parallel – Gaurav Singh – https://automationhacks.io/2021/02/23/python-api-automation-framework-part9-running-tests-in-parallel
• Six things you should consider while designing a test architecture – Przemysław Paczoski – https://kodziak.com/blog/six-things-you-should-consider-while-designing-a-test-architecture
• Starting with TypeScript in Cypress – Filip Hric – https://filiphric.com/starting-with-typescript-in-cypress
• Test AJAX Properly and Efficiently with Selenium WebDriver, and Avoid ‘Automated Waiting’ – Zhimin Zhan – https://medium.com/swlh/test-ajax-properly-and-efficiently-with-selenium-webdriver-and-avoid-automated-waiting-da3ad878559c
• Testing The SSL Certificate On Your Website – Matt Ray – https://medium.com/technology-hits/testing-the-ssl-certificate-on-your-website-5d565f7e61fb
• The Fundamentals of Kubernetes and its Value for Testing – Sumon Dey – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/23/the-fundamentals-of-kubernetes-and-its-value-for-testing/
• The future of Scriptless Test Automation – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/the-future-of-scriptless-test-automation/
• Thoughts on Selenium 101 Certification from LambdaTest – Elias Nogueira – http://www.eliasnogueira.com/thoughts-on-selenium-101-certification-from-lambdatest/
• Too much to learn with Automation – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/02/xx-learning-automating/
• Tools for Working Remotely – Collaboration Tools for Remote Workers – Jake Bartlett – https://blog.testlodge.com/tools-for-working-remotely/
• Visual Testing for Mobile Apps – Angie Jones – https://applitools.com/blog/visual-testing-for-mobile-apps/
• Why developers should consider automated threat modeling – Kyle Johnson – https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/feature/Why-developers-should-consider-automated-threat-modeling
• Working Automated Test ≠ Good Reliable Test – Zhimin Zhan – https://levelup.gitconnected.com/working-automated-test-good-reliable-test-fe487896cdbe

Announcements/Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Extend Your Testing Capabilities When You Are Not Testing – Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.com/2021/02/23/testing-capabilities/
• TestBash NYC 2015: A Push in the Right Direction – Elizabeth Zagroba – https://elizabethzagroba.com/posts/2021/testbash_nyc_2015/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars

• Book Review: Book impressions: Leading Quality – Lina Zubyte – https://qualitybits.tech//writing/book-impressions-leading-quality
• Cartoon: The Little Testers #136 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/02/22/the-little-tester-136/
• Podcast: Beth Marshall – Part Two – Dave Duke – https://theguiltytester.libsyn.com/beth-marshall-part-two
• Podcast: Episode #222: Autocomplete with type annotations for AWS and boto3 – Brian Okken, Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/222/autocomplete-with-type-annotations-for-aws-and-boto3
• Podcast: S3E3 – Stephanie Gordiola – Recruiting software testers – Federico Toledo – https://soundcloud.com/qualitysensepodcast/s3e3-stephanie-gordiola-recruiting-software-testers
• Podcast: Scientifically Optimize Your Processes with AI with Aviram Shotten – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a340-aviram/
• Podcast: SPaMCAST 639 – Chaos Engineering, A Conversation With Mikolaj Pawlikowski – Thomas Cagley – https://tcagley.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/spamcast-639-chaos-engineering-a-conversation-with-mikolaj-pawlikowski/
• Video: FREE Tutorial: Coding and testing an authentication API [NodeJs + Cypress] – Nikolay Advolodkin – https://ultimateqa.com/free-tutorial-coding-and-testing-an-authentication-api-nodejs-cypress/
• Video: Intellij IDEA Hack 2 – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/selenium-idea-hacks.html
• Video: Java 8 Intro and sneak peak into selenium using java 8 – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/java-8-intro-and-sneak-peak-into.html
• Video: Java 8 part 2: Stream filter operations and Selenium WebDriver – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/java-8-part-2-and-selenium-webdriver.html
• Video: Java 8 part 3: Stream map operations and Selenium WebDriver – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/java-8-part-3-map-operations-and.html
• Video: Java 8 part 4: Optional and Selenium WebDriver – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/java-8-part-4-optional-and-selenium.html
• Video: Java 8 part 5: IntStream, sum, avg, reduce, file reading operations and SeleniumWebDriver – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/java-8-part-5-intstream-sum-avg-reduce.html
• Video: Java 8 part 6: Stream cont. and Selenium WebDriver – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/java-8-part-6-stream-cont-and-selenium.html
• Video: Java 8 part 7: Back to basics and Selenium WebDriver – Tarun – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/02/java-8-part-7-back-to-basics-and.html

Bugs In The Wild

• Mercedes to recall thousands of vehicles due to software issue – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/mercedes-to-recall-thousands-of-vehicles-due-to-software-issue/

Blogging/Goals/Personal Reflections

• A Look Book at 2020 – Viv Richards – https://vivrichards.co.uk/retro/a-look-back-at-2020
• Month in Review: February 2021 – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/month-in-review-february-2021

Testing Interviews

• Interview with Ady Stokes – Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/02/27/ady-stokes.html
• Interview with Brittany Stewart – Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/02/23/brittany-stewart.html
• Interview with Callum Akehurst-Ryan – Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/02/27/callum-akehurst-ryan.html
• Interview with Claire Reckless –  Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/02/23/claire-reckless.html
• Interview with Dave Oxley – Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/02/23/dave-oxley.html
• Leaders in Tech: Glyn Martin – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/leaders-in-tech-glyn-martin/