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 June 20th – June 26th, 2021.
Testing
- Airbnb’s Monorepo Journey To Quality Engineering – Antoine Craske – https://qeunit.com/blog/airbnbs-monorepo-journey-to-quality-engineering/
- API Testing Learning Path using Postman!! – Pricilla Bilavendran – https://bpricilla.medium.com/api-testing-learning-path-using-postman-a8f17867784d
- Claude Shannon on Creative Thinking – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/06/shannon-6-strategies/
- Do you have to be negative to be a tester? – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/rackets/202106/do-you-have-to-be-negative/
- Engage the Whole Team Early! – Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory – https://agiletestingfellow.com/blog/post/engage-the-whole-team-early
- Even programming languages have bugs! – Balaji Santhanagopalan – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/06/25/even-programming-languages-have-bugs/
- Exploratory Hypothesis Testing – Adam Knight – https://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2021/06/exploratory-hypothesis-testing.html?
- How the Right Business Engagement Can Lead to Transformation “Happy Ever After” – Antonio Nigrelli – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/how-right-business-engagement-can-lead-transformation-happy-ever-after
- Job Titles in Software Testing – Klaudia – https://testingtraveler.com/2021/06/25/job-titles-in-software-testing/
- Kafka Testing – Steve Mellor – https://allthingstesting.com/kafka-testing/
- Leadership In Test: Testing as a Team – Paul Gerrard – https://theqalead.com/topics/testing-as-a-team/
- Paper Review: Non-Deterministic Concurrency Bugs – Oleksandr Romanov – https://alexromanov.github.io/2021/06/21/paper-review-2/
- Praise the Messenger – Elizabeth Zagroba – https://elizabethzagroba.com/posts/2021/praise_the_messenger/
- Reflections on Testing – Sherry Hsu – https://sherryhsu.medium.com/reflections-on-testing-3ad6f0f422be
- Removing the roadblock to continuous performance testing – Wolfgang Platz – https://www.tricentis.com/blog/removing-the-roadblock-to-continuous-performance-testing/
- Testing, Quality, and my inability to teach – Patrick Prill – https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/testing-quality-and-my-inability-to-teach/
- The rise of big data testing – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/the-rise-of-big-data-testing/
- Using CSS to Enforce Accessibility – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2021/06/using-css-to-enforce-accessibility.html
- What are an SDET’s roles and responsibilities? – Matthew Grasberger – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/What-are-an-SDETs-roles-and-responsibilities
- What is Acceptance Criteria? – Wes Silverstein – https://www.mindfulqa.com/acceptance-criteria/
Testing Interviews/Personal Reflections
- How Quality Supported Lovys Growth – Antoine Craske – https://qeunit.com/blog/how-quality-supported-lovys-growth/
- Shift Up and Spread: A New Testing Concept w/ Iman Benlekehal – QA Lead – https://theqalead.com/topics/shift-up-and-spread-a-new-testing-concept-w-iman-benlekehal/
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Coding/Test Automation
- Automated Cross Browser Testing With Jasmine Framework & Selenium – Kritika Murari – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-jasmine-javascript-testing-framework-tutorial/
- Cypress Catches Up with Auto-Retry, but in a wrong way – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/cypress-catches-up-with-auto-retry-but-in-a-wrong-way-38ac9833d8f3
- Docker — Selenium | How To Integrate Selenium Grid With Docker – Ekrem Kurt – https://ekremkurt1907.medium.com/docker-selenium-how-to-integrate-selenium-grid-with-docker-2b350020d213
- Enabling Agile Software Testing With Automation – Lauren Christianson – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/enabling-agile-software-testing-with-automation/
- How To Modify HTTP Request Headers In JAVA Using Selenium WebDriver? – Harshit Paul – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/modifying-http-request-headers-in-java-using-selenium-webdriver/
- How To Perform Cypress Testing At Scale With LambdaTest – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-perform-cypress-testing-at-scale-with-lambdatest/
- How To Use Strings In JavaScript With Selenium WebDriver? – Harita Ravindranath – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/using-strings-in-javascript-using-selenium-webdriver/
- macOS: Setting up a Test Automation Environment – Sérgio Martins – https://sergiomartins8.medium.com/macos-setting-up-a-test-automation-environment-a6ffe75ba6ac
- Migrating End-to-End Protractor Tests for Angular Projects – Colby Fayock – https://applitools.com/blog/migrating-protractor-tests-angular/
- Optimize Selenium WebDriver Automated Test Scripts: Maintainability – Zhimin Zhan – https://medium.com/geekculture/optimize-selenium-webdriver-automated-test-scripts-maintainability-626cf8849754
- Sanity Test for Landing Page – Gleb Bahmutov – https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/sanity-test/
- Selenium VB.NET NUnit Test Automating Angular, React, VueJS and 20 More – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/selenium-vb-net-nunit-test-automating-angular-react-vuejs-and-20-more/
- Simple truths of Software Testing and Automation – Gaurav Singh – https://automationhacks.io/2021/06/23/simple-truths-of-software-testing-and-automation
- Sync Two Cypress Runners via Checkpoints – Gleb Bahmutov – https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/sync-two-cypress-runners/
- Test Automation Career Path – Angie Jones – https://angiejones.tech/test-automation-career-path/
- Testing React Native Todo Application Using Cypress – Gleb Bahmutov – https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/testing-rn-todo-app/
- Use Many Small Classes Instead of Few Large Ones – Alex Simnuic – https://alexsiminiuc.medium.com/replace-large-utility-classes-with-small-single-purpose-ones-fe691cd89f1e
- What are an SDET’s roles and responsibilities? – Matthew Grasberger – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/What-are-an-SDETs-roles-and-responsibilities
- When You Branch, It Hurts – Antoine Craske – https://qeunit.com/blog/when-you-branch-it-hurts/
Tools
- A Comparison of Kubernetes and Docker – Harish Rajora – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/06/21/a-comparison-of-kubernetes-and-docker/
- Load Testing with Gatling II – Constance Armitage – https://theartfultester.com/blog/2021/06/25/load-testing-with-gatling-2/
- JMeter — Performance and Load Testing: Beginner’s Guide | Part II – Ekrem Kurt – https://ekremkurt1907.medium.com/jmeter-performance-and-load-testing-beginners-guide-part-ii-7edb98b0d2c3
- Monitor PageSpeed (v5) with Google Sheets – Diogo Nunes – https://www.diogonunes.com/blog/monitor-psi-pagespeed-google-sheets/
Upcoming Events:
- Continuous Testing: From Dev to Ops – Keith Klain – http://qualityremarks.com/continuous-testing-from-dev-to-ops/
Check out https://testingconferences.org/ for a list of upcoming conferences.
Book Reviews/Cartoons/Podcasts/Videos/Webinars
- Book: Read Along – ‘The Effortless Experience’- Chapter 8 – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2021/06/21/read-along-the-effortless-experience-chapter-8/
- Book: The Waves of Agile, a new book on value delivery with a focus on quality – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/the-waves-of-agile-a-new-book-on-value-delivery-with-a-focus-on-quality/
- Cartoon: The Little Tester #152 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/06/21/the-little-tester-152/
- Podcast: API Testing using Postman with Kristin Jackvony – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a354-kristin/
- Podcast: Episode #239: No module named pythonbytes – Michael Kennedy, Brian Okken – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/239/no-module-named-pythonbytes
- Podcast: Fuzzy Quality Episode #8: Testing Intelligent Vision Systems – Adam Leon Smith – https://fuzzyquality.com/episode/fuzzy-quality-episode-8-testing-intelligent-vision-systems
- Podcast: Podcast Episode 32 – Communities of Practice – The Testing Peers – https://testingpeers.com/?p=985
- Video: Is Leadership Innate or can it be Learned? – Paul Gerrard – https://gerrardconsulting.com/blog/2021/06/is-leadership-innate-or-can-it-be-learned/
- Video: Postman Interview Questions & Answers (with Notes) – Part 2 – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/06/26/postman-interview-questions-answers-with-notes/
- Video: What is Postman? – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/06/25/postman-interview-questions-answers/
- Video: WebSocket Postman – Making Your First Web Socker Call with POSTMAN Demo. – Pramode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2021/06/23/websocket-postman/
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