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 18th – April 24th, 2021.
Testing
- API Testing using Postman – Klaudia Dziubek – https://testingtraveler.com/2021/04/23/api-testing-using-postman/
- Analyze first, test later: How to approach your next software project – Michael Bolton – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/analyze-first-test-later-how-approach-your-next-software-project
- Contemporary Exploratory Testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/20/contemporary-exploratory-testing/
- Here’s How Experts Are Improving Website Performance To Meet Core Web Vitals – Ritesh Shetty – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/core-web-vitals-expert-tips-to-improve-website-performance/
- Horrible horrible metrics – Matthew Parker – https://www.testingtackled.co.uk/horrible-horrible-metrics/
- How I teach Business Agility with a simple puzzle – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/releasingpuzzle/
- How to Start a Career in Software Testing? – Mirza Sisic – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/how-to-start-a-career-in-software-testing/
- How to be a Customer Obsessed Tester – Prashant Hedge – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/21/how-to-be-a-customer-obsessed-tester/
- How to Test Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) – Prashant Kumar – https://prashant-kumar.medium.com/testing-approach-for-augmented-virtual-reality-products-d7d11746c405
- Learning without Impact on Results – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2021/04/learning-without-impact-on-results.html
- Performance Testing at MongoDB – Alex Podelko – https://alexanderpodelko.com/blog/2021/04/18/mongodb-performance-testing/
- Preventing DoS, DDoS, and Brute-Force Attacks on Our Way – Shoaib Mehedi – https://betterprogramming.pub/preventing-ddos-and-brute-force-attacks-with-javascript-922c2554fad8
- Secure your code review: 8 key questions to ask – Rouan Wilsenach – https://techbeacon.com/security/secure-your-code-review-8-key-questions-ask
- Suggestions for the (New) Testers – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2021/04/suggestions-for-the-new-testers/
- Test First…… Why? – Matthew Parker – https://www.testingtackled.co.uk/test-first-why/
- Test Management within Continuous Integration Pipelines – Angie Jones – https://applitools.com/blog/continuous-integration-test-management/
- The Agile Manifesto: Why Agile Makes Sense – Ben Linders – https://www.benlinders.com/2021/the-agile-manifesto-why-agile-makes-sense/
- Why preventing and closing bugs help you sleep better – Pradeep Soundararajan – https://moolya.com/deeptest/2021/04/19/why-preventing-and-closing-bugs-help-you-sleep-better/
Testing Interviews/Personal Reflections
- Community interview with Alexander Podelko – Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/04/18/alexander-podelko.html
- Community interview with Andrew Palmer – Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/04/18/andrew-palmer.html
- Community interview with Rahul Singh – Ben Dowen – https://interviews.testeroftheday.com/interviews/2021/04/18/rahul-singh.html
- Czech Republic – Successful QA Software Tester without a Tech Degree?!? – Helena Hrubesova – https://youintechnology.com/czech-republic-successful-qa-software-tester-without-a-tech-degree/
- Leaders in Tech: Aman Dhudwarr – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/leaders-in-tech-aman-dhudwarr/
- What I have learned working at SinnerSchrader and why you might enjoy working there too – Helena Hrubesova – https://dev.to/s2engineers/what-i-have-learned-working-at-sinnerschrader-and-why-you-might-enjoy-working-there-too-ed6
Coding/Test Automation
- 3 Obstacles to Continuous Testing & How to Remove Them – Mark Lambert – https://www.parasoft.com/3-obstacles-to-continuous-testing-how-to-remove-them/
- 24 Testing Scenarios you should not automate with Selenium – Suparna Khamaru – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/24-testing-scenarios-you-should-not-automate-using-selenium/
- A Selenium IDE vs. WebDriver comparison – Matt Heusser – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/A-Selenium-IDE-vs-WebDriver-comparison
- Advanced XPath Locators for UI Test Automation – Andreea Draniceanu – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/19/advanced-xpath-locators-ui-automation/
- Automation – The Saviour? – Matthew Parker – https://www.testingtackled.co.uk/automation-the-saviour/
- Estimating Test Automation Story Points is a Total Waste of Time – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/estimating-test-automation-story-points-is-a-total-waste-of-time-e973e644053b
- Exception Handling and Custom Exception in Test Automation – Sumon Dey – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/21/exception-handling-and-custom-exception-in-test-automation/
- Getting Started With Nose2 in Python [Tutorial] – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-python-nose2-tutorial/
- Make your C# Automated Tests More Clear with xUnit Assertions – Alex Siminuic – https://alexsiminiuc.medium.com/make-your-c-automated-tests-more-clean-with-xunit-assertions-60a5de245ccb
- Monday motivation – How I got into code – Kieran Roberts – https://blog.kieranroberts.dev/monday-motivation-how-i-got-into-code
- Most Complete WinAppDriver VB.NET Cheat Sheet – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/most-complete-winappdriver-vbnet-cheat-sheet/?
- Performance Testing in Kubernetes using Kangal – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – https://qainsights.com/performance-testing-in-kubernetes-using-kangal/
- Reading and testing JSON object in Cypress – Filip Hric – https://filiphric.com/reading-and-testing-json-object-in-cypress
- Redefining Testing Automation with Cypress – Keethivasan R C – https://medium.com/cognizantsoftvision-guildhall/redefining-testing-automation-with-cypress-a63feef2fa3
- Reviewing and validating automated test effectiveness – Benjamin Bischoff – https://www.softwaretester.blog/reviewing-and-validating-automated-test-effectiveness
- The Bright Side of Being a Test Automation Engineer – Sérgio Martins – https://sergiomartins8.medium.com/the-bright-side-of-being-a-test-automation-engineer-6874f35e550f
- Tuesday Tip Day – Pixel Ratio – Toby Steed – https://www.learnautomation.co.uk/2021/04/tuesday-tip-day-pixel-ratio/
- XPath for In-Browser Testing – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2021/04/xpath-for-in-browser-testing.html
Announcements
- The World’s Largest Free Test Automation Library – Meital Matsafi – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/04/23/the-worlds-largest-free-test-automation-library/
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Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training
- Computational Stress in Production – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2021/04/computational-stress-in-production.html
Upcoming Events:
Testing Events April 2021 - April 18th to May 10th
| Dates | Event | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 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/ |
| 5/8/2021 | API Testing Summit 2021 | https://apisummit21.agiletestingalliance.org |
Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars
- Cartoon: The Little Tester #144 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/04/19/the-little-tester-144/
- Podcast: 10 great podcasts for software test engineers – Chris Ward – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/10-great-podcasts-software-test-engineers
- Podcast: Episode #230: PyMars? Yes! FLoC? No! – Michael Kennedy, Brian Okken – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/230/pymars-yes-floc-no
- Podcast: QA to QE with Lagan Khare – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a347-lagan/
- Podcast: The Testing Show: Test Management – Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen – https://thetestingshow.libsyn.com/the-testing-show-test-management
- Video: Is It Really Necessary to Learn Selenium Grid to Get a Job in Automation? – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/04/20/is-it-really-necessary-to-learn-selenium-grid-to-get-a-job-in-automation/
- Video: Challenge 13 – How To – OPTIONS todos – 200 – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/options-todos-200/
- Video: Challenge 14 – How To – OPTIONS todos – 200 – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/get-todos-xml-200/
- Video: How To Learn API Testing with Karate API Even as Beginner – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/04/22/karate-api-testing/
- Video: What I’ve Learned From the State of Testing Report 2021 – Promode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/04/18/state-of-testing-report-2021/