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 April 22nd – April 28th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• 4 Ideas for Growing Your Testing Skills – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/growing-testing-skills/
• 7 Signs That You Should Switch to Contracting – Kim Engel – http://www.womentesters.com/7-signs-that-you-should-switch-to-contracting/
• A Look at the Software Tester Career Path – Erik Dietrich – https://blog.gurock.com/software-tester-career-path/
• A Plea for Testability – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/04/a-plea-for-testability/
• An Emotional Journey – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2018/04/an-emotional-journey.html
• An Ode to Testability, Part 1 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/04/an-ode-to-testability-part-1/
• An Ode to Testability, Part 2 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/04/an-ode-to-testability-part-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 April 15th – April 21st, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 Reasons Automated QA Is A Pox On Our House – Jonathan Ross – http://warptest.com/2018/04/automated-qa-pox-house/
• 5 Test Tools I Use Every Day – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/test-tools-every-day-use/
• AI in software testing has arrived. Here’s why robots rule. – Valerie Silverthorne – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/AI-in-software-testing-has-arrived-Heres-why-robots-rule
• Guidelines For Running a Bug Bash – Conor Fitzgerald – http://conorfi.com/software-testing/guidelines-for-running-a-bug-bash/
• Manual Testing – Finally dead – Happy Is the man who Fears – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2018/04/manual-testing-finally-dead.html
• Organizing Your API Tests – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/04/organizing-your-api-tests.html
• Risk-driven Testing vs. Risk-based Testing – It’s the Thought that Counts – Trevor Atkins – http://thinktesting.com/articles/risk-driven-testing-vs-risk-based/

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 April 8th – April 14th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 ways to improve your testing group – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/3-ways-to-improve-your-testing-group
• A 10-Step Guide To Making Your Best Technical Talk Yet – Matthew Jones – https://exceptionnotfound.net/a-10-step-guide-to-making-your-best-technical-talk-yet/
• A Simplified Agile Test Strategy for Cross-Environment Testing – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/agile-cross-environment-testing/
• Are Some of Us Doing it Wrong? – Simon Prior – https://priorsworld.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/are-some-of-us-doing-it-wrong/
• Continuous Delivery Using Crowdsourced Testing – Maja Schreiner – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/continuous-delivery-using-crowdsourced-testing/
• How To Overcome Challenges Encountered While Doing Automation Testing – Claire Mackerras – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/how-to-overcome-challenges-encountered-while-doing-automation-testing/
• I want promotion! – Andy Carrington-Chappell – http://www.carrington-chappell.co.uk/blog/testing/i-want-promotion/

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 April 1st – April 7th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• Adding Postman Assertions –  Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/04/adding-postman-assertions.html
• Does Testing Fit into DevOps? – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/04/does-testing-fit-into-devops/
• How Manual Testers are Evolving into Automation Engineers: An Interview with Jennifer Scandariato – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/how-manual-testers-are-evolving-automation-engineers-interview-jennifer-scandariato
• Keeping It Simple as a Tester – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/keeping-it-simple-as-a-tester
• Make IT Accessible – Kinga Witko – https://kingatest.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/make-it-accessible/
• Real-time Collaboration – Janet Gregory – https://janetgregory.ca/real-time-collaboration/
• Seeking more robust and purposeful automated tests – Unknown – http://blog.bettersoftwaretesting.com/2018/04/seeking-more-robust-and-purposeful-automated-tests/

Here is this week’s Easter edition of our curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of March 25th – March 31st, 2018.  No fooling.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 Tips to Become a Technical Tester – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/technical-tester/
• A Developer’s Idea of Exploration – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-developers-idea-of-exploration.html
• A typical day of Testing – Chris Kenst – https://www.kenst.com/2018/03/a-typical-day-of-testing-2018/
• An outline of testing – Sean Cresswell – http://chippietester.blogspot.com/2018/03/an-outline-of-our-testing.html
• Confirmation and Exploration: two testing cultures – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.com/2018/03/29/confirmation-and-exploration-two-testing-cultures/
• Confirmation Culture (and how to challenge and change) – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.com/2018/03/29/confirmation-culture-and-how-to-challenge-and-change/
• Designing Test Scenarios for Social Media Mobile Apps – Krishnan Govindarajan – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/designing-test-scenarios-social-media-mobile-apps

This post is a few days late in coming as the Testing Curator family has been in process of moving to a smaller town.  Better late than never….here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of March 18th – March 24th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• 9 Things Your Manager Should Know about Testing – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/9-things-about-testing/
• Analytics, Data, and How Testing Is like Baseball: An Interview with Geoff Meyer – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/analytics-data-and-how-testing-baseball-interview-geoff-meyer
• Courage to coach – Lisa Crispin – http://lisacrispin.com/2018/03/18/courage-to-coach/
• Disruptive Work – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2018/03/disruptive-work.html
• Effective Communication with Senior Management – Matt Heusser – http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/effective-communication/
• Error Mining – Gojko Adzic – https://gojko.net/2018/03/24/error-mining.html
• Feedback – few thoughts – Kamila Mrozek – https://dragonqa.blog/2018/03/22/feedback/

Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of March 11th – March 17th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• A Case for Test-First Development – Steve Poling – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/case-test-first-development
• Building a relationship with developers – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/03/building-relationship-with-developers.html
• Can You Unit Test Your Database? You Bet – Erik Dietrich – https://blog.gurock.com/unit-test-database/
• Four (and More) Questions for Testers to Ask – Michael Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2018/03/four-and-more-questions/
• How to Begin your Career in QA Testing – Brian Hamilton – https://blog.testlodge.com/how-to-begin-your-career-in-qa-testing/
• Putting Pressure on Testers (and why it is wrong) – Christopher Lampert – https://nevertrustadeveloper.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/putting-pressure-on-testers-and-why-it-is-wrong/
• Quality is a journey – but do you know your destination? – Anne-Marie Charrett – https://www.mavericktester.com/blog/quality-engineering

Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of March 4th – March 10th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• All Roads Lead to Exploratory Testing – Alex Schladebeck – http://www.womentesters.com/all_roads_lead_to_et/
• Ethics in Software Testing – Michael Stahl – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/ethics-software-testing
• How to Increase Test Coverage Over Time with Automation – Federico Toledo – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/test-automation/test-coverage-software-testing-automation/
• How to Use Tours to Ensure Complete and Thorough Exploratory Testing – Anastasiia Piatak – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/exploratory-testing-tours/
• Interview with Kristel Kruustük – Founder and CEO of Testlio, an All-In-One QA platform – Thanh Huynh – http://www.asktester.com/interview-with-kristel-testlio/
• Renewal of Skill for Testers – Isabel Evans – http://www.womentesters.com/renewalofskills_isabel_evans/
• Selenium 101: Automating User Actions – Alex McPeak – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/test-automation/automate-browser-actions/

Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of Feb 25th – March 3rd, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• A practice exploratory testing session – javascript button game  – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/03/practice-test-session-javascript-button-game.html
• Collaborating with Developers – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/collaborating-with-developers
• Don’t Be An Agile Beatnick – Darryn Downey – https://thoughtsontest.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/dont-be-an-agile-beatnick/
• Experimenters Regress – Simon Knight – http://sjpknight.com/experimenters-regress/
• Interviewing a Tester as Developer – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/03/interviewing-a-tester-as-developer/
• Flight Array Iteration – Tom Margrave – http://eyeonquality.com/flight-array-iteration/
• Musings on Pairing – Justin Rohrman – http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/musings-on-pairing/

Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of Feb 18th – Feb 24th, 2018.

Articles & Blog

• Can You Have Too Many Tests? – Jeff Langr – https://blog.gurock.com/can-you-have-too-many-tests/
• Don’t Be Such a Tester – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/02/dont-be-such-a-tester/
• Considering a Career in Software Testing? – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/02/considering-software-testing-career.html
• How AI-Assisted Test Automation Can Transform the UI: An Interview with Gil Sever – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/how-ai-assisted-test-automation-can-transform-ui-interview-gil-sever
• How to Become a QA Problem Solver – Brian Hamilton – https://blog.testlodge.com/qa-problem-solver/
• Motivation MAP – Kamila Mrozek – https://dragonqa.blog/2018/02/22/motivation-map/
• On “Testing vs Checking” and other Oppositions – Dialectics and Deconstruction – Paul Maxwell-Walters – http://testingrants.blogspot.com/2018/02/on-testing-vs-checking-and-other_23.html