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 August 8th – August 14th, 2021.
Testing
- All About CWE: Common Weakness Enumeration – Ricardo Camacho – https://www.parasoft.com/blog/what-is-cwe/
- Bug – The One Word and Mulitple Incorrect Alternatives!? – Ravisuriya Eshwara – https://testinggarage.blogspot.com/2021/08/What-is-a-bug-defect-issue-problem-risk-error-software-testing-developent-ravisuriya-bug-advocacy.html
- Do I prefer manual testing or test automation? – Nicola Lindgren – https://nicolalindgren.com/2021/08/10/do-i-prefer-manual-testing-or-test-automation/
- Hey QA, Why Didn’t You Find That Bug? – Blake Norrish – https://betterprogramming.pub/hey-qa-why-didnt-you-find-that-bug-42ab3ef0a7e0
- How deadline-driven behavior sends your Scrum Teams spinning out of control – Todd Lankford – https://medium.com/serious-scrum/how-deadline-driven-behavior-sends-your-scrum-teams-spinning-out-of-control-c1c268fd6183
- Improving Testability: Removing Anti-patterns through Joint Conversations – Gil Zilberfeld – https://www.infoq.com/articles/improving-testability/
- Leadership In Test: A Guide To Infrastructure And Environments – Paul Gerrard – https://theqalead.com/topics/infrastructure/
- Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week – Johanna Rothman – https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2021/08/leadership-tip-13-for-innovation-remove-at-least-one-policy-or-procedure-a-week/
- Testing and Exploratory Testing – Ravisuriya Eshwara – https://testinggarage.blogspot.com/2021/08/any-differences-between-testing-and-exploratory-testing–testing-with-no-requirements-ravisuriya-automation.html
- To Validate or Verify? – Larry Loeb – https://saucelabs.com/blog/to-validate-or-verify
- Top 10 Cross-Browser Compatibility Pain Points For Developers – Harish Rajora – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/top-10-browser-compatibility-pain-points-for-developers/
- Updating Your Traditional Test Plan for DevOps – Carl L. Shaulis – https://www.ranorex.com/blog/update-test-plan-devops/
- Understanding The Role Of Software Testing In Cyber Security – Kanika Vatsyayan – https://continuoustesting.dev/2021/08/11/understanding-the-role-of-software-testing-in-cyber-security/
- What is Data Migration Testing – Yulia Lomanova – https://blog.qatestlab.com/2021/08/11/what-is-data-migration-testing/
- What Makes Agile Testing Different – David Tzemach – https://www.agilequalitymadeeasy.com/post/what-makes-agile-testing-different-david-tzemach
- Write Great Cucumber Tests – Larry Loeb – https://saucelabs.com/blog/write-great-cucumber-tests
Interviews/Personal Reflections
- A year has gone. – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/a-year-has-gone/
- Leaders in Tech: Salman Khan – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/leaders-in-tech-salman-khan/
Test Automation & Coding
- 10-Minute Guide to Set up Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/10-minute-guide-to-set-up-test-automation-using-selenium-webdriver-with-ruby-a2454ac86e95
- An elementary introduction to GNU make and makefiles – Benjamin Bischoff – https://www.softwaretester.blog/an-elementary-introduction-to-gnu-make-and-makefiles
- Automating accessibility: Running axe-core with webdriverIO – Praveen David Mathew – https://praveendavidmathew.medium.com/automating-accessibility-running-axe-core-with-webdriverio-d8a92ba85d4c
- Bake in Advanced Test Automation from the Start – Jonathan Zaleski – https://www.applause.com/blog/advanced-test-automation-accessibility
- Builder pattern use-case for api automation – Navpreet Singh – https://navsinghoberoi.medium.com/builder-design-pattern-for-api-automation-783fa4abb132
- Cloud-Based Mobile App Testing – Ekrem Kurt – https://medium.com/codex/cloud-based-mobile-app-testing-78b8d398ab2e
- Disadvantages Of Automation – Jamaal Todd – https://qatoddy.medium.com/disadvantages-of-automation-cf31ef036729
- Do’s and dont’s of test automation interview – Oleksandr Romanov – https://alexromanov.github.io/2021/08/09/automation-interview-tips/
- How To Empower Test Automation With Quality Engineering – Antoine Craske – https://qeunit.com/blog/how-to-empower-test-automation-with-quality-engineering/
- How To Use Annotations In Cucumber Framework [Tutorial] – Gunjan Kaushik – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/cucumber-annotations-hooks-tutorial/
- Listen To The Application Events From Cypress Tests – Gleb Bahmutov – https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/listen-to-events/
- Mock Network When Using Next.js getServerSideProps Call – Gleb Bahmutov – https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/mock-network-from-server/
- Protractor, another Automation Framework I rightly avoided, is being Deprecated – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/protractor-another-automation-framework-i-rightly-avoided-is-being-deprecated-aaf702241f43
- Removing and simplifying tests is part of development too – Adrian Brociek – https://medium.com/azimolabs/removing-and-simplifying-tests-is-part-of-development-too-9a3ad4fdfc3c
- Scaling Tests with Docker: Study Notes – Rahul Parwal, Apoorva Ram, Himani Yadav – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/08/11/scaling-tests-with-docker-study-notes/
- Test automation — thoughts after 15 years of experience – Piotr Kałuski – https://medium.com/@pkaluski/test-automation-thoughts-after-15-years-of-experience-55164efce33d
- Test Development Patterns and Anti-Patterns – Hui Ching Lim – https://medium.com/test-go-where/test-development-patterns-and-anti-patterns-78820e1802df
- Test Video Play Using Cypress – Gleb Bahmutov – https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/test-video-play/
- UI testing with Selenium – record and refactor – Steve Mellnor – https://allthingstesting.com/ui-testing-with-selenium-record-and-refactor/
- Under the hood improvements for Selenium automation (Java) – Madhawa Ratnayake – https://thirddriver.medium.com/under-the-hood-improvements-for-selenium-automation-java-4fa3380aed33
- Useful ADB Commands For Android Testing – Heitor Paceli – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/08/10/useful-adb-commands-for-android-testing/
- Using GitHub Copilot to Automate Tests – Colby Fayock – https://applitools.com/blog/using-github-copilot-to-automate-tests/
- Web Performance Testing With Cypress and Google Lighthouse – Narayanan Palani – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/using-cypress-google-lighthouse-performance-testing/
Tools
- 5 Chrome Extensions For Every Tester – Jamaal Todd – https://qatoddy.medium.com/5-chrome-extensions-for-every-tester-72a144c6697b
- Data Parameterization in JMeter – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – https://qainsights.com/data-parameterization-in-jmeter/
- How to handle SOAP API and parsing the response in Postman?? – Pricilla Bilavendran – https://testing-journey-of-pricilla.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-to-handle-soap-api-and-parsing.html
- Recording on JMeter – NaveenKumar Namachivayam – https://qainsights.com/recording-on-jmeter/
Social – Conferences, Events & Meetups
- The Not Well Thought Talk – Ravisuriya Eshwara – https://testinggarage.blogspot.com/2021/08/why-not-so-thoughtful-talk-by-ravisuriya-moolya-software-testing-conference-leadership-communication.html
Book Reviews/Publications/Surveys
- Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk – Software Testing Magazine – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/continuous-integration-improving-software-quality-and-reducing-risk/
Cartoons/Memes
- The Little Tester #159 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2021/08/09/the-little-tester-159/
Podcasts
- Episode 145: Diversity, Safety, and Brent’s grody stories – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – https://anchor.fm/abtesting/episodes/Episode-145-Diversity–Safety–and-Brents-grody-stories-e15jsbj
- Episode #246: Love your crashes, use Rich to beautify tracebacks – Michael Kennedy, Brian Okken – https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/246/love-your-crashes-use-rich-to-beautify-tracebacks
- Hear me on the Ahead in Tech podcast! – Neil Studd – https://blog.neilstudd.com/aheadintech
- PML#004 – Going to Space Camp – Neil Studd – https://blog.neilstudd.com/pml-004
- Top Free Desktop Test Automation Tools – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a360-joe/
Videos
- Appium | Introduction to Appium Desktop Inspector for| Get to know about various options like Select elements,swipe by coordinates, record script, find elements etc – Saif Siddiqui – https://mobiletestingtip.blogspot.com/2021/08/appium-introduction-to-appium-desktop.html
- How to deal with Element is not clickable at point exception – Dmitry Shyshkin – https://practicetestautomation.com/element-is-not-clickable-at-point/
- My interview with Fabian Böck featured on Youtube -“Never Feel Stuck” – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2021/08/10/my-interview-with-fabian-bock-featured-on-youtube-never-feel-stuck/
- Unit Wars – JUnit vs Test NG – Gil Zilberfeld – http://www.everydayunittesting.com/2021/08/webinar-recording-unit-wars.html