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 29th – September 4th, 2021.
Testing
- 8 soft skills I think a tester should have – Marine Lacourie
- Better Together: Why You Should Leverage Emulators and Simulators for Web App Testing – Sauce Labs
- Checklist for Usability Testing – David Tzemach
- Communication for testers (and everyone else) – Marine Lacourie
- How to build the ultimate QA Strategy – Fahim Sachedina
- How To Negotiate a Project Budget for Quality? – Antoine Craske
- Leadership in Test: Enterprise Business Process Approach – Paul Gerrard
- Quality Coaching: Preventing production issues – Kim Engel
- Shifting Accessibility Testing to the Left – Marie Drake
- Secure Coding Standards: Enforcing Secure Coding Practices With SAST – Kevin Greene
- Stray Testers Unite! – Maaret Pyhäjärvi
- The “But” Heuristic – Patrick Prill
- Using Analytics: Why This Is Important for QA Professionals – Luciana Mores Bernardi
Interviews/Personal Reflections/Blogging
- Interview with Marie Drake – Nicola Lindgren
- PML#006 – Maintaining standard orbit – Neil Studd
Test Automation & Coding
- A Useable Definition of Quality – Stu Crocker
- Assessment System for Evaluating Test Automation Solutions – Anton Angelov
- Automated & manual QA as one integrated process – Lizi Boros
- Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 6: to Happy Customers) – Zhimin Zhan
- How To Handle Frames & iFrames In Selenium JavaScript [Tutorial] – Ryan Howard
- How To Use JavaScript Wait Function In Selenium WebDriver – Harita Ravindranath
- How To Verify Phone Number During Tests Part 1 – Gleb Bahmutov
- How To Verify Phone Number During Tests Part 2 – Gleb Bahmutov
- Introduction to Mutation Testing – Rodrigo Martínez Díaz
- Mobile test automation practices – Part 2: preconditions, elements verification and independent steps – Dmitrii Makarenko
- Optimizing Your Testing Strategy with Automated API Tests – Bertold Kolics
- To Automate API Tests or FrontEnd Tests? – Ravi Shankar Pandey
- The Power of POC – Corina Pip
- Very Useful JavaScript Methods to Simplify Your API Test Validation – Ekrem Kurt
- XPATHs Best Practices – Sajitha Pathirana
- What Makes a Good Automated Test? – Kristin Jackvony
Tools
- Assertions in Postman – Pricilla Bilavendran
- Building Automated Testing Pipeline With Semaphore CI And Selenium Grid – Rakesh Vardhan
- Enabling network connectivity in WSL 2 windows and running docker in windows. – Praveen David Matthew
- Harnessing Test Data From Mabl For Environment Troubleshooting – James Baldassari
- HTTP Toolkit for Performance Engineers – NaveenKumar Namachivayam
- Introduction to Speedscale – NaveenKumar Namachivayam
- What are Examples in Postman? – Pricilla Bilavendran
Software Development
- 263: There is a Model for your Trouble – Jasper Ottosen
- Clear Requirements Absence in User Story: Lack of Time or Laziness? – Kuprii Yuliia
- How to Create Your Own Team Board Without Spending a Ton of Time or Money – Johanna Rothman
- User Stories and Quality Attributes – Bill Wake
- User Story Card Clarified – Zhimin Zhan
Conferences, Events, Meetups & Training
- apidays Hong Kong Conference Experience — Aug 25th & 26th 2021!! – Pricilla Bilavendran
- September’s 99 Minute Workshop Extravaganza – Simon Prior
- Transforming testing: Is it worth it? – Woflgang Platz
Sept 7-9 – TestCon Europe 2021
Sept 8-10 Hands On Testing
Sept 14 – Swiss Testing Days
Book Reviews/Publications/Surveys
- Fail Here or Fail There – James Thomas
- The Art of Application Performance Testing – Klaudi
Podcasts
- Episode #248: while True: stand up, sit down – Michael Kennedy, Brian Okken
- Podcast Episode 37 – Nurturing People – Testing Peers
- Testcontainers: Making Sense of the Software Testing Landscape with Sergei Egorov – Joe Colantonio
Videos
- AI Unit Testing, Kubernetes & More TGNS11 – Joe Colantonio
- Innovative Time Saver Features Coming in Selectorshub 4.0 – Sanjay Kumar