Issue 8

COMMENT

Welcome to the 8th issue of Software Testing Weekly! 😊

Recently, I've started posting more updates on Twitter and Facebook, such as the most popular articles from the latest issue. So if you were too busy to go through all the articles, you can easily find there what was trending the previous week.

Enjoy the read! 🚀

NEWS

A Tester's Role in AIOps

Joe Colantonio mentioned AiOps as one of the trends for 2020 a few weeks ago and now Bhavani Ramasubbu explains how tester's role might look like in this movement. Interesting!

State of Testing on iOS

I've found some really interesting insights about testing on iOS in Dave Verwer's survey. For example, the results suggest that manual mobile testing is still more valued than automation!

The Quality and Testing Information Model

How would you explain what "I test software" means? David Greenlees wondered and ended up writing a pretty comprehensive article on this matter. Well said!

The Best Software Testing Conferences of 2020

If you're planning on attending some testing conferences in 2020, I recommend checking out this list by Chris Kenst who put together the best picks.

Comments on ISTQB’s "Vision on the Future of Software Testing"

"For a short-term future (couple of years), paper is overly optimistic at best, helplessly incompetent at worst. (...) What’s striking is complete misalignment of presented vision and everything that ISTQB created so far."

Mirek Długosz wrote a fair review of the ISTQB document from December last year.

AUTOMATION

Adapter Design Pattern in Automated Testing

Another solid article about design patterns in test automation by Anton Angelov. This time, he shows how to use an adapter design pattern, including a lot of Selenium examples and even a walkthrough video.

Better behavior-driven development: 4 rules for writing good Gherkin

Andy Knight came up with some solid rules for doing Gherkin right and I wish I read this when I first started with BDD. It would make my life much easier!

Handle API Responses With Ease Using Mocks in TestCafe

A great article by Dennis Martinez about why and how to mock API responses in TestCafe, including a lot of code examples. I used TestCafe in my previous job and would love to read this back then.

How to Reuse Functional Test for Performance Testing

Joe Colantonio explores the why and the how of using functional tests for performance testing, going through a lot of tools and citing a handful of people experienced in the field.

TOOLS

k6 — A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

I've recently come across this open-source load testing CLI tool and — after some research — I must say it's very actively developed and ultra-simple to use in contrast to many other tools I know!

BOOKS

Buddha in Testing: Finding Peace in Chaos

Another week, another book! This time Pradeep Soundararajan focused on explaining software testing from a spiritual point of view. You can preview the table of contents at Google Books.

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When one finds a bug...