You might have noticed that Testing Bits was published later than normal this Sunday.  Due to recent wrist surgery, I have found that curating while in a soft cast using my non-dominant hand takes much longer than I anticipated.  This is especially true when recently there has been so much more awesome content to manually curate.  For the next few weeks, please excuse any delays or typos as I adjust.

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 July 12th – July 18th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Root Cause Analysis Tools For Better Testing & QA – Jason Boog – https://theqalead.com/topics/root-cause-analysis/
• 5 Steps to Get to Test Driven Development – Evgeny Tkachenko – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/5-steps-get-test-driven-development
• A Fresh Take on The Learning Process: The Adaptive Loop – George Brooks – https://medium.com/ideas-by-crema/a-fresh-take-on-the-learning-process-the-adaptive-loop-d9b3548abe30
• A simple and powerful question to ask – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/thequestion/
• AI in testing: 13 essential resources for QA pros – Paul Merrill – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/ai-testing-13-essential-resources-qa-pros
• AI in testing: What it is, and why it matters – Paul Merrill – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/ai-testing-what-it-why-it-matters
• How to prevent accidental complexity in software development – George Lawton – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-prevent-accidental-complexity-in-software-development

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 July 5th – July 11th, 2020

Testing

• 10 Responsive Web Design Challenges And Their Solution – Nimritee – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/10-responsive-web-design-challenges-and-their-solution/
• 12 Traits of Highly Effective Tests – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2020/07/09/12-traits-of-highly-effective-tests/
• ARIA Grid As an Anti-Pattern – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/07/aria-grid-as-an-anti-pattern.html
• Coaching Upwards – Anne-Marie Charrett – https://mavericktester.com/2020/07/08/coaching-upwards/
• Coaching upwards? Pair-blog #3 – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/07/08/coaching-upwards-pair-blog-3/
• Equivalence Partitioning & Boundary Value Analysis – Steve Mellor – https://allthingstesting.com/equivalence-partitioning-boundary-value-analysis/
• Four Exit Criteria to Determine When User Stories Are Done-Done – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/four-exit-criteria-user-stories/
• How Am I Going to Test This? – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/how-am-i-going-to-test-this/
• How Does a DEVELOPER See Testers – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/how-does-a-developer-see-testers/
• How to Build a Mobile App That Customers Love – Amelia Whyman – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/how-to-build-a-mobile-app-that-customers-love
• Innovating From Home – Running An Innovation Sprint Remotely – Adam Knight – https://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2020/07/innovation-from-home-running-innovation.html
• Metrics That Matter – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2020/07/metrics-that-matter/
• Out Of Memory – Paul Gilson – https://harnessedtester.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/out-of-memory/
• Part 2: Testing vs quality management – Testing Activities – Janet Gregory – https://janetgregory.ca/part-2-testing-vs-quality-management-testing-activities/
• SOAP vs. REST: Solving the Testing Challenges of Each – Nathan Jakubiak – https://blog.parasoft.com/soap-vs.-rest-solving-the-testing-challenges-of-each
• Stuck in the Middle – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/07/stuck-in-middle.html
• “Testers don’t break software!” – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/07/09/testers-dont-break-software/
• The dangers of becoming a full-stack tester – Michael Fritzius – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/dangers-becoming-full-stack-tester
• The Future of Testers in a Rapidly Changing World – Raj Subrameyer – https://www.ranorex.com/blog/future-testers-changing-world/
• The trust between test-dev – Noemi Ferrera – https://thetestlynx.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/the-trust-between-test-dev/
• What Testers Should Know About Microservices – Cameron Laird – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-microservices/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• Arrange-Act-Assert: A Pattern for Writing Good Tests – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2020/07/07/arrange-act-assert-a-pattern-for-writing-good-tests/
• Capturing form loading time using HTTPwatch tool – Rahul Bhave – https://qxf2.com/blog/capturing-form-loading-time-using-httpwatch-tool/
• CircleCI vs Jenkins: Choosing The Right CI CD Tool – Praveen Mishra – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/circleci-vs-jenkins-choosing-the-right-ci-cd-tool/
• Continuous visual regression testing to enable regulatory compliance in the healthcare sector – Rudolf Grötz – https://applitools.com/blog/visual-regression-regulatory-compliance/
• Does your functional automation really add value? – Anand Bagmar – https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/07/does-your-functional-automation-really.html
• Fast Forwarding Act – Han Toan Lim – https://www.mindfultester.com/fast-forwarding-act/
• How To Handle Web Table in Selenium WebDriver? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-handle-web-table-in-selenium-webdriver/
• Jenkins X Cloud Native CI/CD with TestProject – Ajeet Singh Raina – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/07/09/jenkins-x-cloud-native-ci-cd-with-testproject/
• Learning Test Automation from Scratch: Journey of the (Automation) Hero – The Free Range Tester – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/07/07/learning-test-automation-from-scratch/
• Look Ma! I’m Testing without Scripting! – Collin Chau – https://www.continuoustesting.com/look-ma-im-testing-without-scripting/
• Manual vs Automation Testing – What Are The Differences? – Jake Bartlett – https://blog.testlodge.com/manual-vs-automation-testing/
• Ordering Headers In HTTP Requests – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/unirest-vs-restassured-header-ordering/
• RestAssured Tips for Proxies and Logging – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/restassured-tips-proxy-logging/
• Test Automation in 2020: Findings from the DevTestOps Landscape Report – Chou Yang – https://www.mabl.com/blog/test-automation-in-2020-findings-from-the-devtestops-landscape-report
• Testing Iframes with Cypress – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/testing-iframes-with-cypress
• Using Faker to generate data for your Cypress tests – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/using-faker-to-generate-data-for-your-cypress-tests/
• WebDriverIO Tutorial: Handling Alerts & Overlay In Selenium – Harshit Paul – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/webdriverio-tutorial-handling-alerts-overlay-in-selenium/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Software People WFH: The Joy of Remote Mode –  Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/remote-mode/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts/Webinars

• Book Review: Read Along- ‘Agile Testing’ Chapter-8 – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2020/07/06/read-along-agile-testing-chapter-8/
• Cartoon: Empty Promises – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/07/empty-promises.html
• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #103 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/07/06/the-little-tester-103/
• Podcast: Sofia Palamarchuk – Mobile app performance – Federico Toledo – https://soundcloud.com/qualitysensepodcast/sofia-palamarchuk-mobile-apps-performance
• Podcast: Testing SAP APIs: Strategy and Execution with Michal Krawczyk – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a311-michal/
• Podcast: The Pitfall of Estimations and How (try to) Avoid Them – Rob Lambert, Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/podcast-pitfall-of-estimations/
• Podcast: The Therac-25, buggy software that killed. – Peter Houghton – http://www.investigatingsoftware.co.uk/2020/07/podcast-therac-25-buggy-software-that.html
• Video: How to Use Webdriver Wait in Selenium (With Demo)? – Promode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/07/09/webdriverwait-in-selenium/
• Video: Selenium Grid Tutorial For Beginners (Step By Step) – Promode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/07/08/selenium-grid-tutorial-for-beginners/

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 28th – July 4th, 2020

Testing

• #accessiBe Will Get You Sued – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html
• Building a QA team – Part 2 – Graham Ellis – https://www.gesqa.com/post/building-a-qa-team-part-2
• Building a QA team – Part 3 – Graham Ellis – https://www.gesqa.com/post/building-a-qa-team-part-3
• Coaching plans, training and learning in the workplace – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/workplacelearning/
• Cynefin Foundations – Learning Journal – Module 2 – Toby Sinclair – https://tobysinclair.com/2020/07/03/cynefin-foundations-learning-journal-module-2/
• Efficient test case design techniques to boost coverage – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Efficient-test-case-design-techniques-to-boost-coverage
• Interview #1: Being a Freelancer from Tester Perspective – Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/interview-1-freelance-tester/

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 21st – June 27th, 2020.

Testing

• A Working Definition of Software Testing – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/fundamentals/working-definition-of-software-testing/
• Cost of Delay Vs Cost of Poor Quality – Duncan Nisbet – https://www.duncannisbet.co.uk/cost-of-delay-vs-cost-of-poor-quality
• Finding My Voice As A Tester – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/finding-my-voice-as-a-tester
• My experience of working from home full-time during the pandemic – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/my-experience-of-working-from-home-full-time-during-the-pandemic/
• Needed more than ever: courage – Lisa Crispin – https://lisacrispin.com/2020/06/21/needed-more-than-ever-courage/
• QA Needs Chaos Engineering To Benefit a Distributed World – Kolton Andrus – https://theqalead.com/topics/qa-needs-chaos-engineering/
• Six Ways Testers Can Help Programmers Clean Up Their Acts – Cameron Laird – https://blog.gurock.com/ways-testers-help-programmers/

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 14th – June 20th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Reasons Why Product Managers Should Have a Close Relationship With Software Testers – Daniel Knott – https://www.applause.com/blog/product-manager-relationship-software-testers
• 5 Strategies for Effective User Stories – Raj Subrameyer – https://www.ranorex.com/blog/what-makes-up-good-user-story/9
• 10 exploratory testing techniques for QA professionals – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/10-exploratory-testing-techniques-for-QA-professionals
• About Knowledge – Redux – Maciej Wyrodek – https://thebrokentest.com/about-knowledge-redux/
• Are Best Practices Really The Best? – Kevin Tuck – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/06/14/are-best-practices-really-the-best/
• Cognitive biases and how they influence software testing – Prashant Hegde – https://qablog.practitest.com/9-cognitive-biases-of-software-testing/
• Design Systems and Testability – Michael Battat – https://applitools.com/blog/testing-design-systems-2/

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 7th – June 13th, 2020.

Testing

• A Primer on Continuous Testing – Vasudevan Swaminathan – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/primer-continuous-testing
• Be Your Best Advocate: How to Track Your Career Value – Dee Ann Pizzica – https://blog.gurock.com/your-best-advocate-career-value
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 10) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/06/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-10/
• Do Your Tests Wobble? – Arlene Andrews – https://dev.to/arleneandrews/do-your-tests-wobble-25k1
• Is There Such a Thing As Too Much Testing? – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.continuoustesting.com/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-testing
• Managing to Test – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/06/managing-to-test.html
• Reacting to change – Pair-blogg #2 – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/06/13/reacting-to-change/

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 May 31st – June 6th, 2020.

Testing

• Fighting Defect Clusters in Software Testing – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/defect-clusters-in-software-testing/
• How Does a RECRUITER See Testers – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/tester-seen-by-recruiter/
• In uncertain times, product quality is key: 4 ways to amplify QA – Ronald Cummings-John – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/uncertain-times-product-quality-key-4-ways-amplify-qa
• Productivity is simply containers of work with rules – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/containers-rules/
• Smoke Testing vs. Sanity Testing – What, Why & When – Sri Priya P Kulkarni  – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/05/31/smoke-testing-vs-sanity-testing/
• Someone else will do it – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/someone-else-will-do-it/
• Tester’s Diary: Taking the Ego Out of Testing – Rachel Kibler – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-diary-taking-ego-out-of-testing/

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 May 24th – May 30th, 2020.

Testing

• 6 Breakthrough Functional Testing Trends for 2020 – Kevin Dunne – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/05/26/6-breakthrough-functional-testing-trends-for-2020/
• Agile: Walls Dysfunction & People – Pete Walen – https://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/05/agile-walls-dysfunction-people.html
• Avoiding Death By Exposure – Peter Houghton – http://www.investigatingsoftware.co.uk/2020/05/avoiding-death-by-exposure_28.html
• BDD in 2020 – Alister Scott – https://alisterbscott.com/2020/05/28/bdd-in-2020/
• Desk Tests, Continuous Tests, and Everything Between: How Much Automation Different Tests Deserve – Cameron Laird – https://blog.gurock.com/desk-tests-continuous-tests/
• Example of lightweight feature documentation – Alister Scott – https://alisterbscott.com/2020/05/29/example-of-lightweight-feature-documentation/
• How to go from performance tester to performance engineer – Scott Moore – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-go-performance-tester-performance-engineer

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 May 17th – May 23rd, 2020.

Testing

• 60 great resources for performance engineering teams – Joe Colantonio – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/60-great-resources-performance-engineering-teams
• API Mocking – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2020/05/19/api-mocking/
• Do We All Need To Become SDITS? – Callum Akehurst-Ryan – https://callumakehurstryansblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/do-we-all-need-to-become-sdits/
• Five Years of Mob Testing, Hello to Ensemble Testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/05/five-years-of-mob-testing-hello-to.html
• Musings from a remote pairer – Steven-burton – https://www.testersfindaway.com/2020/05/19/musings-from-a-remote-pairer/
• How Do You Catch More Bugs In Your End-To-End Tests? – James Lamberti – https://applitools.com/blog/catch-more-bugs/
• How to be effective AND liked – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/effective-liked/

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 May 10th – May 16th, 2020.

Testing

• 26 Types of Software Testing: The ABC’s of Testing – Sri Priya P Kulkarni – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/05/10/types-of-software-testing/
• Bump or bumps charts – Bob – https://randomtechthoughts.blog/2020/05/13/bump-or-bumps-charts/
• Capital cities and US place names – Bob – https://randomtechthoughts.blog/2020/05/10/capital-cities-and-us-place-names/
• Continuous Testing: Creating a testable CI/CD pipeline. –  Callum Akehurst-Ryan – https://callumakehurstryansblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/15/continuous-testing-creating-a-testable-ci-cd-pipeline/
• Delivery Teams and Popping the What Stack – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2020/05/delivery-teams-and-popping-the-what-stack/
• Devising A UI Test Plan That Works Like A Charm – Harish Rajora – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/devising-a-ui-test-plan-that-works-like-a-charm/
• Don’t Wait For Me – Ash Winter – https://diagramindustries.com/2020/05/14/dont-wait-for-me/