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 5th – May 11th, 2019.

Testing

• 4 Important Reasons To Implement Exploratory Testing Within Agile – Robert James – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/4-important-reasons-to-implement-exploratory-testing-within-agile/
• 6 Ways Testers Can Add Value (Other Than Functional Testing) – Ajay Balamurugadas – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/6-ways-testers-can-add-value-other-functional-testing
• 7 Pitfalls To Avoid When Testing In Production – Michael Battat – https://applitools.com/blog/7-pitfalls-production-testing
• Expectations around Testing – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/expectations-around-testing/
• On Test Maturity – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/on-test-maturity/
• Similarities between SRE and testing: Alert/automation suite maintenance – Abby Bangser – https://testingindevops.org/similarities-between-sre-and-testing-alert-automation-suite-maintenance/
• Testing for Developers- What Is Testing? – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/what-is-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 April 28th – May 4th, 2019.

Testing

• 11 Things that Testing Delivers – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/11-things-that-testing-delivers-a204f9778944
• Details / Summary Are Not [insert control here] – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2019/04/details-summary-are-not-insert-control-here.html
• From Performance Tester to Performance Engineer – Arun Kumar Dutta – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/performance-tester-performance-engineer
• How Much is Enough? Testing as Story-Telling – James Bach – https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/6203
• My favourite techniques – Dorothy Graham – https://dorothygraham.blogspot.com/2019/05/as-my-lightning-keynote-at-star-east.html
• Open Sourcing Your Mindset – Brendan Connolly – https://testingindevops.org/open-sourcing-your-mindset-by-brendan-connolly/
• Reflecting on the design of test tasks – Alexandra Casapu – https://medium.com/@coveredincloth/ive-been-reading-in-seeing-like-a-state-about-the-polarity-between-deep-thick-and-shallow-thin-c355a390abaa

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 21st – April 27th, 2019.

Testing

• Accessibility… What About Autism? – Matt Parker – http://www.testingtackled.co.uk/accessibility-what-about-autism/
• Apply these types of code coverage to squash most bugs – Matt Heusser – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Apply-these-types-of-code-coverage-to-squash-most-bugs
• Assumptions of the Test Pyramid – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/assumptions-of-the-test-pyramid/
• Agile Elitism – Undoing the Good – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2019/04/23/agile-elitism-undoing-the-good/
• Do I really need to test this? – Louise Gibbs – https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/do-i-really-need-to-test-this/
• #CodeConfident: FizzBuzz – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2019/04/codeconfident-fizzbuzz.html
• #CodeConfident: Rest Practice – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2019/04/codeconfident-rest-practice.html

Here is this week’s edition of our curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of April 14th – April 20th, 2019.

Testing

• Broaden the scope of the SUT – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/broaden-the-scope-of-sut/
• Chaos Engineering: Rethinking testing in the era of the Cloud and DevOps – Peter Varhol – https://testingindevops.org/chaos-engineering-rethinking-testing-in-the-era-of-the-cloud-and-devops-by-peter-varhol/
• Creating Value in Testing – Mike Jarred Webinar – Stu – https://wildtests.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/creating-value-in-testing-mike-jarred-webinar/
• Do you have what it takes to be a testing leader? – Jennifer Bonine – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/do-you-have-what-it-takes-be-testing-leader
• Give 1-day sprints a try! I have and this is my feedback – Jean-Pierre Lambert – https://medium.com/@jplambert/give-1-day-sprints-a-try-i-have-and-this-is-my-feedback-264bb7889d5c
• Kill Your Darlings – Why Deleting Tests Raises Software Quality – Stu – https://wildtests.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/kill-your-darlings-why-deleting-tests-raises-software-quality/
• Rise of the machines: The coming AI/testing singularity – Jason Arbon – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/rise-machines-coming-aitesting-singularity

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 7th – April 13th, 2019.

Testing

• Containers and Testing: Friends or Foes? – Michael Solomon – https://blog.gurock.com/containers-and-testing/
• Do Testers Understand Testing? – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/04/do-testers-understand-testing/
• Doing continuous testing? Here’s why you should use containers – Melissa Benua – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/doing-continuous-testing-heres-why-you-should-use-containers
• Get Organized for Testing Success – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/04/get-organized-for-testing-success.html
• Order, Order! – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2019/04/order-order.html
• Hindsight lessons about exploration: Heuristics – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2019/04/11/hindsight-lessons-about-exploration-heuristics/
• Kill more bugs! Add randomization to your web testing – Paul Grizzaffi – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/kill-more-bugs-add-randomization-your-web-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 March 31st – April 6th, 2019.

Testing

• BizDevTestSecHRPRMarketingOpsOps – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/bizdevtestsechrprmarketingopsops/
• Career paths for testing specialists – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/career-paths-for-testing-specialists/
• DevTestOps: It’s alive, but what can testers do to make it alive AND kicking into overdrive! – Toyer Mamojee – https://testingindevops.org/devtestops-its-alive/
• Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/04/logging-monitoring-and-alerting.html
• PBR/Grooming – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2019/04/06/pbr-grooming/
• Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Fundamentals – Amir Ghahrai – https://www.testingexcellence.com/penetration-testing-ethical-hacking/
• Quality at the Speed of DevOps – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/quality-at-the-speed-of-devops/

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 March 24th – March 30th, 2019.

Testing

• Accessibility + Testability FTW: Tech Tip Tuesday #1 – Darrell Farris – https://www.mabl.com/blog/accessibility-testability-ftw-tech-tip-tuesday-1
• Disabling JavaScript using Selenium – Sławomir Radzymiński – https://www.awesome-testing.com/2019/03/disabling-javascript-using-selenium.html
• Exploratory Testing with the Chrome Network Tab – Elizabeth Zagroba – https://medium.com/@ezagroba/exploratory-testing-with-the-chrome-network-tab-f093e1b3d725
• Fix Bugs: Don’t File Bug Reports – Jim Holmes – https://blog.gurock.com/fix-bugs/
• Interview Questions: How to Test a Login Form- 110 Test Cases – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/interview-questions-how-test-login/
• Make application usability a priority — wherever testing occurs – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Make-application-usability-a-priority-wherever-testing-occurs
• Postcard CV – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2019/03/postcard-cv.html

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 March 17th – March 22nd, 2019.

Testing

• 11 Essential Traits to become a Great Leader – Raj Subramanian – http://www.rajsubra.com/2019/03/20/11-essential-traits/
• 78 Interview Questions for .NET Software Developer in Test – Anton Angelov – https://www.automatetheplanet.com/interview-questions-software-developer-test/
• A Tester’s Story: Adapting to the new world of pipelines – Parveen Khan – https://testingindevops.org/a-testers-story-adapting-to-the-new-world-of-pipelines/
• Being wrong is actually Great! – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/being-wrong-is-actually-great/
• Cookie Testing – How to Test Cookies on Websites – Jithin Nair – https://blog.testlodge.com/cookie-testing/
• Embracing Change – Testing to Agile – Leah Stockley – https://www.inspiredtester.com/inspired-tester-blog/embracing-change-testing-to-agile
• Escape the Consultant Trap – Mindful Tester – https://www.mindfultester.com/escape-the-consultant-trap/

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 March 10th – March 16th, 2019.

Testing

• Chrome Media Query Testing – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2019-03-13-responsive-layout-testing-in-chrome/
• Followership – flipside of the leadership coin – Duncan Nisbet – http://www.duncannisbet.co.uk/followership-flipside-of-the-leadership-coin
• Four Reasons You Should Test Input Validation (Even Though It’s Boring) – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/03/four-reasons-you-should-test-input.html
• How testing processes should change when you shift left – Lisa Crispin – https://www.mabl.com/blog/how-testing-processes-should-change-shift-left
• My Testing Philosophy – Kevin Harris – https://kevinharrisblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/my-testing-philosophy/
• Quality in the closet – Amit – https://always-fearful.blogspot.com/2019/03/quality-in-closet.html
• Test Tooling Patterns for Solving Problems – Matt Heusser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/test-tooling-patterns-solving-problems

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 March 3rd – March 9th, 2019.

Testing

• 7 Reasons to Skip Tests – Louise Gibbs – https://blog.testproject.io/2019/03/05/7-reasons-to-skip-tests/
• A Tester Tested – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2019/03/06/a-tester-tested/
• How to Prep for a Design Sprint (Designer’s POV) – Pamela Porto – https://medium.com/ideas-by-crema/how-to-prep-for-a-design-sprint-designers-pov-22deda4cf241
• So, You Want To Be a Tester? – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/03/so-you-want-to-be-a-tester/
• Software testing certifications to boost your career – Matt Heusser – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Software-testing-certifications-to-boost-your-career
• Software testing using AI changes things, but not everything – Matt Heusser – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/Software-testing-using-AI-changes-things-but-not-everything
• Software Testing? What? Why? – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2019-03-06-what-is-testing-and-why-do-we-test/