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 22nd – August 28th, 2021.
Testing
- 6 Ways to Come Up with a Solid Test Strategy – Raj Subrameyer
- Alternatives to “Manual Testing”: Experiential, Attended, Exploratory – Michael Bolton
- API Security 101: Injection – Vickie Li
- Are You Ready for the Leap to QA Leadership? – Toyer Mamoojee
- Common Pitfalls When Testing Spring Boot Applications – Philip Riecks
- Developing a solid yet simple test plan – Constance Drugeot –
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tests – Adam Lewis
- Exploratory Testing: the Ultimate Weapon – Jamaal Todd
- From Continuous Testing to Continuous Learning – Deriving Values from KPIs – Abhi Nandan
- How does poor quality software impact a startup engineer’s life– Pradeep Soundararajan
- How OrgDebt Can Make You Fail At Quality Engineering – Antoine Craske
- How To Describe a Defect So Everyone Could Understand (+ Bonus Tips) – Kuprii Yuliia
- Open Sourcing Your Mindset – Brendan Connolly
- Test as Transformation – Disruption – Keith Klain –
- The Importance of Software Testing for Businesses – Maverick Jones
- Usability: Where software testing tools fall short – Isabel Evans
- What is in your Testing Scope? – Olga Beregnaya
- Why Checking an AC Isn’t Enough – Callum Akehurst-Ryan
Interviews/Personal Reflections/Blogging
- Leaders in Tech: Mohamed Touré – Constance Drugeot
- PML#005 – On a growth journey – Neil Studd
- Social Media, a Practitioner Perspective – Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Test Automation & Coding
- 5 Common Mistakes in Test Automation – Bogdan Ivanov
- 9 Automated Testing Practices To Avoid Tutorial (Escape Pitfalls) – Joe Colantonio
- Automatically Run Visual Tests on Every Netlify Deploy – Colby Fayock
- Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 5: to Testers) – Zhimin Zhan
- Continuous Testing: Shift Left & Shift Right, Get it Right – Part I – Adam Sandman
- Continuous Testing: Shift Left & Shift Right, Get it Right Part II – Adam Sandman
- First step into automation of ElectronJS applications – Praveen David Matthew
- Impact-Driven Automation Testing For Ecommerce Websites – Lauren Christianson
- Introduction to Jenkins – QEKafe
- Robustness Testing: What Is It & How to Deliver Reliable Software Systems With Test Automation – Ricardo Camacho
- The Complete Guide for Learning Code: Tools and Resources – Meital Matsafi
- Top Reasons & Solutions For Test Flakiness – Rex Jones II
- What should the ratio of automated to exploratory testing be? – Gregory Paciga
- Writing Business-Oriented Tests for Living Documentation – Roman Segador
Tools
- APIs Unleashed 06: Assertions – Pricilla Bilavendran, Priyanka Brahmane
- API Testing with HTTPie – Martin Thoma
- Leadership in Test: Test Execution Tools – Paul Gerrard
- Load testing for gRPC services with Gatling – Oleksandr Romanov
- Smarter Way of Writing Test Cases: TestCase Studio – Prachi Dahibhate
- What’s new in JMeter 5.5? – NaveenKumar Namachivayam
- What is BugHerd? Overview & Tour of Features – Merrin Hughes
Software Development
- Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 3 – Johanna Rothman
- Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 4 – Johanna Rothman
- The shift left fallacy – Edzo Botjes
- Unplanned work after the sprint starts? – Allan Kelly
Conferences, Events, Meetups & Training
- 30-minutes Test Automation Coaching for A$1 – Zhimin Zhan
Sept 2 – Appium Conf 2021
Sept 7-9 – TestCon Europe 2021
Podcasts
- Announcing the Tech Team Weekly podcast! – Neil Studd, Sanjay Purswani, Gwen Diagram
- API Pen Testing with Mateusz Olejarka – Joe Colantonio
- Episode 146: The answer is always data – Alan Page, Brent Jensen
- Episode #247: Do you dare to press “.”? – Michael Kennedy, Brian Okken
- The Testing Show: The Dying Business? Really? – Matthew Heusser, Michael Larsen
Videos
- cURL Tips for Performance Engineers – NaveenKumar Namachivayam
- How To Become Dev Ops Engineer(as Fresher or From QA) – Pramod Dutta
- Solving The Element Is Detached From DOM Error In Cypress – Gleb Bahmutov
- Who Wants to Become a Testing Millionaire !?! – TGNS10 – Joe Colantonio