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 September 19th – September 25th, 2021.
Testing
- 5 Ways for Testing Time Estimation – Yuliia Kuprii
- Beware False Negatives – Adrian Roselli
- Considerations to Make When Running a Load Test – Ken Speed
- Hiring manual and automation testers – Maaret Pyhäjärvi
- Is it possible to improve the impact of our Testing by simplifying it? – Stu Crocker
- Leadership In Test: Managing Your Career – Paul Gerrard
- Modernize your performance testing: 6 tips for better apps – Leandro Melendez
- Performance testing API’s with async/awaits – Samantha Connelly
- QA Life in 2021 – Kelly Chin
- Quality as a Team Responsibility – Kelly Chin
- Questioning the great work from home experiment – Allan Kelly
- Ten things you should learn before learning about performance testing – NaveenKumar Namachivayam
- There are Plenty of Ways to Talk about Exploratory Testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi
- Tips For Getting Your First QA, Dev, and SDET Job-Applying – Justin Bailey
- Three ways to make metrics suck less – Gregory Paciga
- Using Triforce to define Acceptance Criteria – Callum Akehurst-Ryan
- What is an A/B Test? – Martin Tingley, Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, Colin McFarland
Interviews/Personal Reflections/Blogging
- Quality, Beyond Technicity. – Antoine Craske
Test Automation & Coding
- Anatomy of An Automated Test Script – Heitor Paceli
- Cypress in a nutshell – Klaudia
- Cypress tips and tricks, part 1 : working with single-purpose iframes – James Sheasby Thomas
- Getting Started with Visual UI Testing for Android Apps with Applitools and Bitrise – Moataz Nabil
- Git 101 From Scratch: The Ultimate Guide for QAs – Paulo Oliveira
- Headless Browser Testing Clarified – Zhimin Zhan
- How To Find HTML Elements Using Cypress Locators – Sachin
- How to Use BDD with Specflow for Testing PrecisionLender – Andrew Knight
- How To Use Breakpoints For Debugging In Selenium WebDriver – Shalini Baskaran
- Setting the Stage With Before Hooks – Theo McCauley
- Synchronization Libraries for Selenium – Chanuka Dinuwan
- Using Page Object Model (POM) Pattern In Selenium JavaScript – Harita Ravindranath
- When to Use Commands vs Assertions While Testing – Theo McCauley
- Writing Automated Tests in Small Increments – Corina Pip
Tools
- APIs Unleashed 08: Handling GraphQL – Pricilla Bilavendran, Priyanka Brahmane
- Development and test environments – on demand at the press of a button (That actually work!) – Peter Houghton
- HTTP Prompt for Performance Engineers – NaveenKumar Namachivayam
- Selenium 4 Release Candidate is Here! – Angie Jones
Conferences, Events, Meetups & Training
- Capping it Off – James Thomas
Upcoming Events
- Sept 27-29 – SEETEST 2021 (10th edition)
- Sept 27-29 – STPCon Fall 2021
- Sept 28-30 – EuroSTAR 2021 Software Testing Conference
- Sept 30 – Future of Testing Frameworks
Book Reviews/Publications/Surveys
- Deep testing and “Deep Work” (Cal Newport) – Lee Hawkins
- Time for a Book Review!! – Pricilla Bilavendran
Podcasts
- Episode #251: A 95% complete episode (wait for it) – Michael Kennedy, Brian Okken
- Salesforce Test Automation Strategy with Mala Punyani – Joe Colantonio
- The Testing Show: The QA Summit Pre-Game Show – Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen
Videos
- 3 Reasons You Need ISTQB Even As Fresher or Experienced QA – Pramod Dutta
- Agile Manifesto – Pramod Dutta
- Agile Software Development Explained – Pramod Dutta
- How to generate Axes Based Relative XPath using SelectorsHub? – Sanjau Kumar
- How to personalise SelectorsHub – Sanjay Kumar
- How to use smart maintenance feature to verify multiple XPath? – Sanjay Kumar
- Is the Page Object Model Overrated? TGNS14 – Joe Colantonio
- What are Those Websites and Elements Where SelectorsHub Won’t Work – Sanjay Kumar