Highlights from Testing Bits #405

Each week Testing Curator provides the most comprehensive list of articles and news from the Testing Community. Time is short and sometimes it’s hard to get through all the posts in a week. Below are the posts that stood out the most from the testing community. We highly recommend you to check out all 57 posts when time permits!

Careers

• Oleksandr Romanov explains the “Do’s and dont’s of test automation interview.”

Events

• August 17th-19th — QA Global Summit’21 by Geekle
• Ravisuriya Eshwara discusses the challenges faced during a conference talk in “The Not Well Thought Talk.”

Podcasts

• Joe Colantonio lists the “Top Free Desktop Test Automation Tools.”
• Neil Studd talks about a number of different subjects in “Hear me on the Ahead in Tech podcast!.”

Publications

• Software Testing Magazine recommends the book “Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk.”

Management & Leadership

• Johanna Rothman continues her series on leadership writing about innovation in “Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week.”

Security Testing

• Ricardo Camacho post security testing advice in “All About CWE: Common Weakness Enumeration.”
• Kanika Vatsyayan blogs about “Understanding The Role Of Software Testing In Cyber Security.”

Software Development

• Adrian Brociek says that “Removing and simplifying tests is part of development too.”
• Todd Lankford details “How deadline-driven behavior sends your Scrum Teams spinning out of control.”
• Carl L. Shaulis recommends “Updating Your Traditional Test Plan for DevOps.”
• David Tzemach shares “What Makes Agile Testing Different.”

Test Automation & Coding

• Antoine Craske describes “How To Empower Test Automation With Quality Engineering.”
• Hui Ching Lim explains “Test Development Patterns and Anti-Patterns.”
• Piotr Kałuski reflects on “Test automation — thoughts after 15 years of experience.”
• Rahul Parwal, Apoorva Ram, and Himani Yadav posts about “Scaling Tests with Docker: Study Notes.”
• Zhimin Zhan instructs “10-Minute Guide to Set up Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby.”
• Gil Zilberfeld writes about “Improving Testability: Removing Anti-patterns through Joint Conversations.”

Testing

• Ravisuriya Eshwara explores “Bug — The One Word and Multiple Incorrect Alternatives!?”
• Paul Gerrard continues his series on fundamentals of “Leadership In Test: A Guide To Infrastructure And Environments.”
• Yulia Lomanova provides and overview on “What is Data Migration Testing?”
• Blake Norrish answers “Hey QA, Why Didn’t You Find That Bug?”
• Harish Rajora outlines his “Top 10 Cross-Browser Compatibility Pain Points For Developers.”

Tools

• Ekrem Kurt lists several tools for “Cloud-Based Mobile App Testing.”
• Jamaal Todd recommends “5 Chrome Extensions For Every Tester.”

Videos

• Nishi Grover Garg shares “My interview with Fabian Böck featured on Youtube — “Never Feel Stuck.”
• Dmitry Shyshkin shows “How to deal with Element is not clickable at point exception.”
• Saif Siddiqui demos “Appium | Introduction to Appium Desktop Inspector for| Get to know about various options like Select elements,swipe by coordinates, record script, find elements etc.”
  
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