02: Best articles curated this week about Software Testing

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Hello fellow testers, Hope you had a amazing weekend. Welcome to the second issue of the Software Testing Notes.

Happy Reading! 🙌

You Don't Always Need to Follow Best Practices By DENNIS MARTINEZ

We all love following best practices for our projects and they are necessary for the good health of the project. But what happens when at times these practices becomes a burden and obstacles to delivering your best work. Should you still keep following them to the bitter end or move it aside for some time ? In this article Dennis explores the best practices dilemma.

Blockchain Tests with Truffle (Solidity) By Rafaela Azevedo

This is a quick tutorial on how to run tests with Truffle Framework for your blockchain apps.

How to Bypass Selenium Drag & Drop Bug in Python By Dmitrii Bormotov

A very neat trick by Dmitrii to work with drag & drop with Selenium in Python.

IMPROVING TEAMWORK WITH SPECFLOW+ LIVINGDOC By Andrew Leland Knight

LivingDoc generates living documentation for features. It combines all scenarios from all SpecFlow feature files into one central HTML report.

Extending Test Automation with Jupyter Notebooks By Brendan Connolly

This is a webinar by Brendan on how the notebooks can be used with selenium, API clients.

TDD: Balancing Progress with Stability By Bill Wake

This article explores how TDD can help balance progress and stability of the software.

Automation Delay – and how to prevent it By Matt Heusser

This is a shot article about few things that can automation tests delay which in turn causes the production delay.

That’s it for this weeks newsletter. Hope you enjoy the reading.

Have a great week ahead,
Pritesh