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 March 21st – March 27th, 2021.
Testing
- 7 Reasons Why Software Developers Are Prone to Bugs – Fabio Veronese – https://betterprogramming.pub/7-reasons-why-software-developers-are-prone-to-bugs-bda2fa91e156
- Connecting Testing Success to Business Success – Bridget Hughes – https://www.mabl.com/blog/connecting-testing-success-to-business-success-mabl
- Decoupling Deployments from Releases: in Other People’s Words – Areti Panou – https://unremarkabletester.com/2021/03/24/decoupling-deployments-from-releases-in-other-peoples-words/
- Do Testers read research papers? – Balaji Santhanagopalan – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/03/23/do-testers-read-research-papers/
- Expanding on the Tester Bill of Rights – Jonathan Thompson – https://medium.com/geekculture/expanding-on-the-tester-bill-of-rights-cae6d43a6491
- Hiring a Software Tester, an Analysis – Chris Kenst – https://www.kenst.com/2021/03/hiring-a-software-tester-an-analysis/
- How to Be a QA Leader – Kristin Jackvony – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/how-to-be-a-qa-leader/
- How To Deal With Failure – Antti Niittyviita – https://niittyviita.medium.com/how-to-deal-with-failure-ae1d2c6f49c5
- How to write a good user story for cleaner code – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-write-a-good-user-story-for-cleaner-code
- How We Can Help Testers Adapt to Working in an Agile Environment – David Tzemach – https://www.agilequalitymadeeasy.com/post/how-we-can-help-testers-adapt-to-working-in-an-agile-environment-david-tzemach
- Is Living Documentation a good way to document? – Dirk Rombauts – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/is-living-documentation-a-good-way-to-document/
- Leadership In Test: Introduction – Paul Gerrard – https://theqalead.com/topics/leadership-in-test-introduction/
- Passing the Wix interview – Shay Chohen – https://medium.com/wix-engineering/passing-the-wix-interview-8b2d566d5f1d
- Software Development Trend ⇒ Continuous Testing – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/software-development-trend-continuous-testing-5cbd3f2b7332
- Test-Driven Development for Building User Interfaces – Tyler Hawkins – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/03/23/test-driven-development-for-building-user-interfaces/
- Testing and the Path to Quality – Alan Page – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/03/25/testing-and-the-path-to-quality/
- The rise of IoT Testing – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/the-rise-of-iot-testing/
- Waterfall vs. Agile vs. Scrum vs. Kanban – Ronan Healy – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/waterfall-vs-agile-vs-scrum-vs-kanban-methodologies/
- What are Web Services, Types And Its Advantages? – Dwarika Dhish Mishra – https://abodeqa.com/what-are-web-services-types-and-its-advantages/
- What Happened to the Daily Standup? – Matt Heusser – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/what-happened-to-the-daily-standup/
- What UI testing will look like in 20 years – Jonas Menesklou – https://jonas-menesklou.medium.com/what-ui-testing-will-look-like-in-20-years-a7cd7d41d335
Testing Interviews
- Interview #10: A Holistic Approach of Quality from an Architect vision – Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.com/2021/03/24/interview-10-quality-appraoch/
Coding/Test Automation/Tools
- 10 Best Free Test Management Tools For 2021 – Jason Boog – https://theqalead.com/tools/free-test-management-tools
- 10 Common Git Commands Everyone Should Know – Andreea Draniceanu – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/03/22/git-commands-every-sdet-should-know/
- 15 Top Load Testing Tools for 2021 (Open Source Guide) – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/load-testing-tools/
- Dependency Injection – Vaccinate your tests from messy code – Neil Syrett – https://syrett.blog/dependency-injection-vaccinate-your-tests-from-messy-code/
- Getting Started with TestProject Java OpenSDK – Dave Westerveld – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/03/24/getting-started-with-testproject-java-opensdk/
- How to build a business case for test automation: 3 key considerations – Jori Ramakers – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-build-business-case-test-automation-3-key-considerations
- How To Handle Login Pop-up In Selenium WebDriver Using Java? – Shalini Baskaran – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/handling-login-popup-in-selenium-webdriver-using-java/
- How To Handle Synchronization In Selenium PHP Using Implicit and Explicit Wait? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/implicit-explicit-wait-in-selenium/
- Most Complete WinAppDriver Java Cheat Sheet – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/most-complete-winappdriver-java-cheat-sheet/
- My Dream that I Had 20 Years Ago: “develop a cool C++ app” Has Been Finally Realised – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/my-dream-that-i-had-20-years-ago-develop-a-cool-c-app-has-been-finally-realised-135fd2896005
- NUnit vs. XUnit vs. MSTest: Comparing Unit Testing Frameworks In C# – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/nunit-vs-xunit-vs-mstest/
- Run Tests in Parallel using CircleCI – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/run-tests-in-parallel-using-circleci
- Running Automated Tests in Parallel with TestNG – Corina Pip – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/03/24/running-automated-tests-in-parallel-with-testng/
- Selenium 4 New Features by Examples in Ruby – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/selenium-4-new-features-by-examples-in-ruby-4b1e100b2ad7
- Test Automation Pipelines for Modern CI Flows – Mark Kardashov – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/03/26/test-automation-pipelines-for-modern-ci-flows/
- Test Flakiness – One of the main challenges of automated testing (Part II) – George Pirocanac – https://testing.googleblog.com/2021/03/test-flakiness-one-of-main-challenges.html
- What to Ask When Inheriting a Project for Test Automation – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/what-to-ask-when-inheriting-a-project-for-test-automation
Upcoming Events:
- 3/29/21-3/30/21 – ICQASST 2021 – International Conference on Quality Assurance and System Software Testing – https://waset.org/quality-assurance-and-software-system-testing-conference-in-march-2021-in-singapore
- 3/31/21-4/1/21 – Odyssey 2021 Testing Conference – https://odyssey.kobiton.com/
- 4/6/21-4/7/21 – QA Global Summit ’21 – https://qa.geekle.us/
- 4/8/21 – Future of Testing: Mobile – https://applitools.com/future-of-testing-mobile-north-america/
- 4/12/21-4/16/21 – IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation 2021 – https://icst2021.icmc.usp.br/
- 4/13/21-4/15/21 – Tricentis Virtual Summit – https://virtualsummit.tricentis.com/
Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars
- Book Summary: Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg – Toby Sinclair – https://www.tobysinclair.com/post/book-summary-power-of-habit-by-charles-duhigg
- Cartoon: The Little Tester #140 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/03/22/the-little-tester-140/
- Podcast: Episode #226: Teaching Python podcast on the podcast! – Brian Okken, Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/226/teaching-python-podcast-on-the-podcast
- Podcast: QA: Masters of AI Neural Networks with Trevor Chandler – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a344-trevor/
- Video: My Personal Tips to Become an Automation Tester in 2021 – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/03/25/my-personal-tips-to-become-an-automation-tester-in-2021/
- Video: Top 7 Test Automation Mistakes – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/03/24/top-7-test-automation-mistakes/
- Webinar: Shift Left and Friends: What They Mean for Testers in the Coming Decade – Rex Black – https://rbcs-us.com/resources/podcast/free-webinar-shift-left-and-friends-what-they-mean-for-testers-in-the-coming-decade/
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