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 May 23rd – May 29th, 2021.
Testing
- 8 Steps to Enter the World of DevOps – Sumon Dey – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/05/27/8-steps-to-enter-the-world-of-devops/
- 34 Years in Testing – James Bach – https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/487354
- A Comprehensive Checklist For Front-End Testing – Harish Rajora – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/front-end-testing-checklist/
- A New Experiential Exploratory Testing Exercise on focusing feedback to own application – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-new-experiential-exploratory-testing.html
- An introduction to contract testing – part 2 – introducing contract testing – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.ontestautomation.com/an-introduction-to-contract-testing-part-2-introducing-contract-testing/
- Bloggers Club: What’s the most fun you’ve had with a bug – Nicola Lindgren – https://nickytests.blogspot.com/2021/05/bloggers-club-whats-most-fun-youve-had.html
- Hire Ground – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2021/05/hire-ground.html
- How to Write Test Cases for Software: Examples & Tutorial – William McMullan – https://www.parasoft.com/blog/how-to-write-test-cases-for-software-examples-tutorial/
- It’s all one elephant – Anne-Marie Charret – https://mavericktester.com/2021/05/30/its-all-one-elephant/
- Learn These Key Specialized and Functional Testing Types – David Carty – https://www.applause.com/blog/functional-testing-types-examples
- Managing self-managed teams!!? – Nilijan – https://revelutions.medium.com/managing-self-managed-teams-180ac0b80589
- Microservices Testing: Is There Room For Automation? – Mihail – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/microservices-testing-is-there-room-for-automation/
- Mobile app security best practices for 4 vulnerability types – Matthew Grasberger – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Mobile-app-security-best-practices-for-4-vulnerability-types
- More Exploratory Testing – Steve Mellor – https://allthingstesting.com/more-exploratory-testing/
- Test Techniques – Klaudia – https://testingtraveler.com/2021/05/28/test-techniques/
- The 6 Characteristics of an Effective QA Team – Cognizant Softvision – https://medium.com/cognizantsoftvision-guildhall/the-6-characteristics-of-an-effective-qa-team-b21a0e3fa41e
- The Mentor in Quality Coach – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-mentor-in-quality-coach.html
- The Role of Quality Assurance Engineers in Software Development Teams – Oleksandra Melnikova – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/the-role-of-quality-assurance-engineers-in-software-development-teams/
- The Shape of Testing – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2021/05/the-shape-of-testing/
- The Unexpected Dream Team: Testers and Customer Support – Dee Ann Pizzica – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-and-cus tomer-support/
- Top Trends in Software Testing – Bridget Hughes – https://www.mabl.com/blog/top-trends-in-software-testing-mabl
- XML Injection For Beginners – Han Toan Lim – https://www.mindfultester.com/xml-injection-for-beginners/
- Why is Acceptance Criteria Key to Product Quality – Prashant Kumar – https://prashant-kumar.medium.com/why-is-acceptance-criteria-key-to-product-quality-c201543270ef
- Story of a beginner in API Testing – Pricilla Bilavendran – https://testing-journey-of-pricilla.blogspot.com/2021/05/story-of-beginner-in-apitesting.html
Coding/Test Automation
- A few good calls I have made on Test Automation and CT journey since 2005 – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/a-few-good-calls-i-have-made-on-test-automation-and-ct-journey-since-2005-eda3ab120cef
- Cross Browser Testing With TestCafe and GitHub Actions – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/cross-browser-testing-with-testcafe-and-github-actions/
- Automate everything! (Part 1) – Mihai Balica – https://medium.com/cognizantsoftvision-guildhall/automate-everything-part-1-cc0998b343f7
- Diamond Visions Softly Asserting Fire – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2021/05/27/diamond-visions-softly-asserting-fire/
- Generating a random user in Cypress test – Filip Hric – https://filiphric.com/generating-random-user-in-cypress-test
- How To Generate Mocha Reports With Mochawesome? – Sachin – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-generate-mocha-reports-with-mochawesome/
- How To Run Automation Tests Using Selenium and NodeJS [With Example] – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-run-automation-tests-using-selenium-and-nodejs/
- How To Setup CI/CD Pipeline With Bamboo For PHP Projects – Ritesh Shetty – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-setup-cicd-pipeline-with-bamboo-for-php-projects/
- Move a Little Faster and Break Less Things – Dave Westerfeld – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/05/26/move-faster-and-break-less-things/
- Testing Browser Alerts, Confirmations, and Prompts with Cypress – Colby Fayock – https://applitools.com/blog/testing-browser-alerts-confirmations-prompts-cypress/
- Testing Emails in Automated Test Scripts with a Fake SMTP server: MailCatcher – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/testing-emails-in-automated-test-scripts-with-a-fake-smtp-server-mailcatcher-c63f8d0a06bb
- TestNG vs JUnit : Which testing framework should you choose? – Ruchira Shukla – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/testng-vs-junit-which-testing-framework-should-you-choose/
- The growing importance of Scriptless Testing – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/the-growing-importance-of-scriptless-testing/
- Why a QA Should Learn Programming Skills – Paulo Oliveira – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/05/24/why-a-qa-should-learn-programming-skills/
Tools
- How and Where to start learning API Testing and Postman? – Pricilla Bilavendran – https://testing-journey-of-pricilla.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-and-where-to-start-learning-api.html
- Introduction to Locust : An Open-source Performance Testing Tool – Dilusha Kumarage – https://dilushakumarage.medium.com/introduction-to-locust-an-open-source-performance-testing-tool-6fc4054cce02
- MySQL – All you need to know – Sumon Dey – http://www.sumondey.com/mysql-all-you-need-to-know/
Upcoming Events
Check out https://testingconferences.org/
Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars
- Book: Book Summary: Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein – Toby Sinclair – https://www.tobysinclair.com/post/book-summary-noise-by-daniel-kahneman
- Book: Read Along – ‘The Effortless Experience’- Chapter 6 – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2021/05/25/read-along-the-effortless-experience-chapter-6/
- Cartoon: The Little Tester #149 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/05/24/the-little-tester-149/
- Podcast: Episode #235: Flask 2.0 Articles and Reactions – Michael Kennedy, Brian Okken – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/235/flask-2.0-articles-and-reactions
- Podcast: Four Questions to Ask Frequently During Software Projects – Tim Ottinger – https://testandcode.com/155
- Podcast: Podcast Episode 29 – Certifications – Testing Peers – https://testingpeers.com/?p=926
- Podcast: Testers and Quality – The Software Dance – The 3 Amigos of Testing – https://anchor.fm/paul-seaman/episodes/Testers-and-Quality—The-Software-Dance-e11r0gm
- Podcast: When to choose a low-code automation tool with Diana Oks – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a350-diana/
- Video: Challenge 18 – How To – GET todos No Accept – 200 – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/get-todos-no-accept-200/
- Video: I Ditched POSTMAN For This Rest Client. – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/05/29/thunderclient-vs-postman/
- Video: Rest Assured Tutorial for Beginners(With LIVE Example GitHub RepoAPI) – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/05/26/rest-assured-tutorial-for-beginners/