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

Articles & Blogs

• A Change in Perspective – Moving from Tech Lead to Manager – Simon Prior – https://priorsworld.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/a-change-in-perspective-moving-from-tech-lead-to-manager/
• An analogy to explain the limitations of test cases – Nicola Owens – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2018/02/an-analogy-to-explain-limitations-of.html
• Counting test cases – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/02/counting-test-cases.html
• Elemental Testing – Michael Frtizius – http://archdevops.com/2018/02/10/elemental-testing-2/
• Exploring It! – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2018/02/exploring-it.html
• Highly Maintainable and Flexible UI Test Automation Part 2 – Anton Angelov – https://automatetheplanet.com/highly-maintainable-flexible-ui-test-automation-part-2/
• Hindsight lessons about automation: Why automation? – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2018/02/07/hindsight-lessons-about-automation-why-automation/

Due to an epidemic of influenza B within the Testing Curator family, the previous edition of Testing Bits was not published.  This week enjoy a “double edition” with two weeks of curated announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of Jan 21st – Feb 3rd, 2018.

Testing Bits – Jan 28th – Feb 3rd, 2018

Articles & Blogs

• 5 Ways to Pair Developers with Testers – Jeffery Payne – https://www.stickyminds.com/better-software-magazine-article/5-ways-pair-developers-testers
• A stability strategy for test automation – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-stability-strategy-for-test-automation.html
• Aligning with the Business – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2018/01/aligning-with-business.html
• Are Gherkin Scenarios With Multiple When-Then Pairs Okay? – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/02/03/are-gherkin-scenarios-with-multiple-when-then-pairs-okay/
• Are You an Automation Hoarder? – Michael Fritzius – https://blog.testproject.io/2018/02/01/are-you-an-automation-hoarder/
• Complex, Critical Software System Testing: When Automation Is the Only Option – Jon Hagar – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/complex-critical-software-system-testing-when-automation-only-option
• Exploratory Testing using “Tours” – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2018/02/01/exploratory-testing-using-tours/

Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of Jan 14th – Jan 20th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• A Triple Mob Achievement – Elisabeth Hocke – http://www.lisihocke.com/2018/01/a-triple-mob-achievement.html
• Automation’s Role in the Fall of Software Testing – John Tyson – https://www.stickyminds.com/better-software-magazine-article/automation-s-role-fall-software-testing
• Building a Test Automation Strategy: Why are we Automating? | Whiteboard Friday – Ryan Yackel – https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/building-test-automation-strategy-automating-whiteboard-friday/
• Clarifying Scope with Scenarios in Behavior-Driven Development – Jeff Langr – https://blog.gurock.com/clarifying-scope-with-scenarios-in-behavior-driven-development/
• Hawaii False Missile Alarm – was it entirely a Human Error? – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2018/01/15/hawaii-false-missile-alarm-was-it-entirely-a-human-error/
• Integration Test – Martin Folwer – https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntegrationTest.html
• QA story: Barrel of fun – Kamila Mrozek – https://dragonqa.blog/2018/01/18/qa-story-barrel-of-fun/

Here is this week’s curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and testing news from the software testing community covering the days of Jan 7th – Jan 13th, 2018.

Articles & Blogs

• 5 Tips for Humans in Tech from “The Confidence Code” – Lina Zubyte – https://letmetrysoftwaretesting.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/5-tips-for-humans-in-tech-from-the-confidence-code/
• 6 levels of AI-based testing: Have no fear, QA pros – Gil Tayar – https://techbeacon.com/6-levels-ai-based-testing-have-no-fear-qa-pros
• 6 reasons to co-locate your app and automation code – Angie Jones – https://techbeacon.com/6-reasons-co-locate-your-app-automation-code
• Android & BDD tests. Part 1 – Challenge definition – Viktoriano – http://overtest.me/android-bdd-tests-part-1-challenge-definition/
• Code Coverage Dos and Don’ts – Majd Uddin – https://knowledgetester.org/2018/01/08/code-coverage-dos-and-donts/
• How to turn your Bug Report into a Quality Offer – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/turn-bug-report-quality-offer
• Learn More from Tests That Stray off the Happy Path – Steve Poling – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/learn-more-tests-stray-happy-path

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/31/17 – 1/6/18.

Articles & Blogs

• 4 New Year’s Resolutions for Testers – Paul Merrill – http://beaufortfairmont.com/2018/01/02/4-new-years-resolutions-for-testers/
• Continuous Testing Principals for Cross Browser Testing and Mobile Apps – Eran Kinsbruner – https://mobiletestingblog.com/2018/01/07/continuous-testing-principals-for-cross-browser-testing-and-mobile-apps/
• How To Think Like a Software Tester – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/think-like-software-tester
• My Automation’s Not Finding Bugs, But That’s OK – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/my-automations-not-finding-bugs-but-thats-ok/
• My hope for Testing in 2018… – Steve Watson – https://stevethedoc.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/my-hope-for-testing-in-2018/
• Requirements Mapping Using Business Function Test Suites – Balazs Schaffhauser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/requirements-mapping-using-business-function-test-suites
• The Prevalence of Parallax – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/01/the-prevalence-of-parallax/

Testing Bits – 12/24/17 – 12/30/17

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/24/17 – 12/30/17.

Articles & Blogs

• Create an Accurate Test Estimation Model: An Interview with Shyam Sunder – Jennifer Bonine – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/create-accurate-test-estimation-model-interview-shyam-sunder
• How to survive a Startup as the only tester – One Man – https://thelifeofoneman.com/startup-tester-survival-guide
• If You’re Human, You Test … – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2017/12/if-youre-human-you-test/
• Tame Your Monster and Make Better Decisions – Matthew Heusser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/tame-your-monster-and-make-better-decisions
• Testers Guide to Myths of Unit Testing – Ash Winter – http://testingisbelieving.blogspot.com/2017/12/testers-guide-to-myths-of-unit-testing.html

Tools/Programming

• Experiences with the Kong API Gateway – Grig Gheorghiu – http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2017/12/experiences-with-kong-api-gateway.html
• Favorite Browser Extensions for Test and Quality – Matthew Heusser – http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/favorite-browser-extensions-test-quality/

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/17/17 – 12/23/17.

Articles & Blogs

• API Testing Tutorial – Part 2! Frequently Used API Code Snippets – Prashant Hegde – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/api-testing-api-code-snippets/
• Fear Factor – Alan Page – http://angryweasel.com/blog/fear-factor/
• Go Encourage! Lessons Learnt From Encouraging People – Simon Tomes – https://www.qeek.co/blog/go-encourage-lessons-learnt-from-encouraging-people
• How to make the transition from test automation engineer to craftsman – Greg Paskal – https://techbeacon.com/how-make-transition-test-automation-engineer-craftsman
• How to run Amazing Meetings – A Blazing Simple Guide – Rob Lambert – http://cultivatedmanagement.com/run-amazing-meetings-blazingly-simple-guide/
• Impersonal Development – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2017/12/impersonal-development.html
• Kaizen on Test Strategies – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2017/12/kaizen-on-test-strategies.html

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/10/17 – 12/16/17.

Articles & Blogs

• A new model for test strategies… (An update to the Heuristic Test Strategy Model). – Dan Ashby – https://danashby.co.uk/2017/12/13/a-new-model-for-test-strategies/
• Automated UI Test Heuristic: Sleep and Wait – Chris McMahon – http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/automated-ui-test-heuristic-sleep-and.html
• Dear tester! Others care about quality, too. – Lina Zubyte – https://letmetrysoftwaretesting.wordpress.com/2017/12/14/dear-tester-others-care-about-quality-too/
• Develop Your Communication Skills – Boost Your Career – Rob Lambert – http://cultivatedmanagement.com/5-reasons-developing-communication-skills-can-boost-career/
• Experts’ Insight: Why Testing Matters – Alex McPeak – https://blog.smartbear.com/testing/experts-insight-why-testing-matters/
• How to define the right workload model for your performance tests – Lior Avni – https://techbeacon.com/how-define-right-workload-model-your-performance-tests
• How To Do Performance Testing: Part 5 – Power To The Teams! – Bart Withaar – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/performance-testing-part-5-integrate-performance-testing/