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 April 11th – April 17th, 2021.
Testing
- 6 Ways to Grow Your Testing Career in 2021 – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/6-ways-grow-testing-career-2021/
- 10 Steps on How to Land a Well-paid QA Engineer Job that You Will Love – Helena Hrubesova – https://youintechnology.com/10-steps-to-well-paid-qa-engineer-job/
- A More Advisory Role – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/a-more-advisory-role/
- Evaluating Test Cases, Checks, and Tools – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2021/04/evaluating-test-cases-checks-and-tools/
- Is talking about “scaling” human testing missing the point? – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/is-talking-about-scaling-human-testing-missing-the-point/
- Mutation Testing – Goran Petrovic – https://testing.googleblog.com/2021/04/mutation-testing.html
- Testing By Exploring – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com /2021/04/testing-by-exploring.html/
- Trends for the Tester Role – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2021/04/13/trends-for-the-tester-role/
Testing Interviews/Personal Reflections
- Do Software Testers/Test Consultants need to have a tech background in the UK? – Helena Hrubesova – https://youintechnology.com/software-consultant-delloite-uk/
- Interview with Erkki – Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/04/14/erkki.html
- QA Engineers/Software Testers without Tech Degree in Kuwait – Is That Possible? – Helena Hrubesova – https://youintechnology.com/software-testing-kuwait/
- Where Should You Start Your Career as a QA Engineer/Software Tester Without a Tech Degree? – Helena Hrubesova – https://youintechnology.com/where-to-start-software-testing-career/
Coding/Test Automation
- Cypress basics: Check attributes, value and text – Filip Hric – https://filiphric.com/cypress-basics-check-attributes-value-and-text
- Getting Started with Appium for Android Java on Windows in 10 Minutes – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/getting-started-with-appium-for-android-java-on-windows-in-10-minutes/
- Getting Started With Nose In Python [Tutorial] – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-python-nose-tutorial/
- Handling Multiple Browser Windows And Tabs In Selenium PHP – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/handling-windows-in-selenium-with-php/
- How To Write Automation Tests With Java – Ng Wai Foong – https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-write-automation-tests-with-java-ed468e0af305
- Input Validation – TDD Patterns – Bill Wake – https://xp123.com/articles/input-validation-tdd-patterns/
- Introducing OpenSDK: Open Source Automation Framework for Web & Mobile Testing – Mark Kardashov – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/16/introducing-opensdk-open-source-automation-framework-for-web-mobile-testing/
- Most Complete Appium Kotlin Cheat Sheet – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/most-complete-appium-kotlin-cheat-sheet/
- Testing your Ruby Waters with Capybara – Christina Thalayasingam – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/12/testing-your-ruby-waters-with-capybara/
- The Trick to Get Going With Test Automation At Work – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/the-trick-to-get-going-with-test-automation-at-work/
- Using Retries in tests can hide the bugs – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/04/14/using-retries-in-tests-can-hide-the-bugs/
- What Is ExpectedConditions In Selenium (With Examples) – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/expected-conditions-in-selenium-examples/
- Why Do Most UI Test Automation Fail? (Part 2: Wrong Choice of Test Syntax Framework) – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/why-do-most-ui-test-automation-fail-part-2-wrong-choice-of-test-syntax-framework-2289aff0d81e
- Why JavaScript Is Not a Suitable Language for Real Web Test Automation? – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/why-javascript-is-not-a-suitable-language-for-real-web-test-automation-3a87eb4b0b50
- Why You Shouldn’t Trust a Test that Never Fails – Jonathan Thompson – https://javascript.plainenglish.io/never-trust-a-test-that-doesnt-fail-32e7e711680d
- Writing Tests for GraphQL APIs using REST Assured – Bas Dijkstra – https://applitools.com/blog/writing-tests-graphql-apis-rest-assured/
Announcements
- Introducing mabl University! – Bridget Hughes – https://www.mabl.com/blog/introducing-mabl-university-mabl
- “Testing Stories” has been released by Melissa Fisher. Check it out on Leanpub – https://leanpub.com/testing_stories
- State of Testing Survey is available for your reading pleasure. Be sure to check it out today! – https://qablog.practitest.com/state-of-testing/
- What I learned from Practitest’s State of Testing Report 2021 – Beth Marshall – https://beththetester.com/2021/04/13/what-i-learned-from-practitests-state-of-testing-report-2021/
- Testing Curator will soon be launching a newsletter. Be sure to signup for the Newsletter today found in the upper right corner of this page.
- Do you have an event that you would like to have announced? Is your blog post missing from our list this week?
Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training
Testing Events April 2021 - April 18th to April 30th
| Dates | Event | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 4/19/21 | The Ninth International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2021) | http://ltb2021.eecs.yorku.ca/ |
| 4/20/21 - 4/22/21 | SauceCon Online 2021 | https://saucecon.com/ |
| 4/22/21 | MiniCAST: Testing in the 20’s | https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/minicast/ |
| 4/22/21 - 4/23/21 | CSSTQA 2021: 15. International Conference on Software System Testing and Quality Assurance | https://waset.org/software-system-testing-and-quality-assurance-conference-in-april-2021-in-new-york |
| 4/26/21 - 4/30/21 | STAREAST Virtual | https://stareast.techwell.com/ |
| 4/26/21 - 4/30/21 | Exploratory Testing Week 2021 | https://ti.to/mot/exploratory-testing-week-april-2021 |
| 4/28/21 - 4/29/21 | Agile, DevOps & Testing - The Business Case | https://conference.unicom.co.uk/adt2021/april1/ |
Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars
- Books: Testing Stories From Experts Around The Globe – Melissa Fisher – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/13/testing-stories-from-experts-around-the-globe/
- Books: Testing Testing 123 Stories – Louise Woodhams – https://anelaborationofcarbon.wordpress.com/2021/04/16/testing-testing-123-stories/
- Cartoon: The Little Tester #143 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/04/12/the-little-tester-143/
- Podcast: A Practical Testing Strategy – Brian Okken – https://testandcode.com/150
- Podcast: Episode #229: Has one of your dependencies died? – Brian Okken, Michael Kennedy – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/229/has-one-of-your-dependencies-died
- Podcast: Podcast Episode 25 – Dealing with the Unexpected – Testing Peers – https://testingpeers.com/?p=805
- Podcast: Using Your Environment Data for a Better Testing Outcome with Wayne Ariola – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a346-wayne/
- Video: Appium and android mobile app automation – Tarun Kumar – https://www.seleniumtests.com/2021/04/appium-and-android-mobile-app-automation.html
- Video: Are the Software Testing Certifications useful? – Yogesh Khairnari – https://qa-qcarena.blogspot.com/2021/04/are-software-testing-certifications.html
- Video: For Happy Employees, Explore Needs Fit – Esther Derby – https://www.estherderby.com/for-happy-employees-explore-needs-fit/
- Video: How To – DELETE todos/id 200 – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/delete-todos-id-200/
- Video: How to Test a Mobile Application using BrowserStack? (With Checklist) – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/04/12/browserstack-mobileapp-testing/
- Video: When To Coach vs Mentor | Coaching Skills for Technology Leaders – Tony Sinclair – https://www.tobysinclair.com/post/when-to-coach-vs-mentor-for-technology-leaders