Issue 26: You Cannot Create Software Without Bugs, Problems and Mistakes
🕒 5 MIN READ | Published on: September 23, 2021This is the Software Testing Notes, a newsletter that goes out every Wednesday. I republish it here for sharing and referencing, but if you'd like to sign up you can do so right here:
Hello everyone! 👋
I’m Pritesh and this is the 26th edition of Software Testing Notes, a weekly newsletter featuring must-read content on Software Testing. I hope this week has been good for you so far. I have lots of nice reads for you this week, let me know what your favorite is!
Happy Testing and have a great rest of the week! 🙏
📚 On Testing
What To Consider When Doing Visual Testing by Marie Drake
Marie Drake shares some tips that she have found useful when implementing visual testing on various projects.
Create Situational Aware Test Plans by Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen provides a very thoughtful way to create situational aware test plans inspired by Wardley Mapping.
How a Test Strategy Helped to Increase Deployment Maturity and Product Quality by Ben Linders
An article by Ben Linders where he explores how test strategy affects the overall product development and quality based on Varuna Srivastava’s thoughts.
Deep testing and “Deep Work” (Cal Newport) by Lee Hawkins
Lee Hawkins explores hoe deep work can help reducing distractions and freeing up your capacity for software testing.
How We Used Slack to Manage Testing Devices by Johanna South
A very creative hack by Johanna South on using slack as a way to manage test devices.
System testing in virtual environments by Marcus Eggenberger via Coders Kitchen
When it comes to system level testing, virtual environments offer several strong benefits for you. In this blog post, Marcus Eggenberger highlights some of the most important ones.
You Cannot Create Software Without Bugs, Problems and Mistakes by Ben Hosking
There is no such thing as perfection. not in life and certainly not in software. Ben Hosking explains beautifully in this post.
There are Plenty of Ways to Talk about Exploratory Testing by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Maaret Pyhäjärvi writes about couple of ways to talk about exploratory testing and provides insights into them.
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💨 Performance
Ten things you should learn before learning about performance testing by Naveenkumar
Naveenkumar lists out ten things we should learn before learning about performance testing and its tools and he also highlights the essential and fundamental concepts we may need to go through for your performance testing trip.
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🛡️ Security
How to hack and bypass a web application firewall WAF during penetrating testing by Jitender Narula
An in depth guide to web application firewall penetrating testing by Jitender Narula.
Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q3 2021 by Anton Chuvakin
Anton Chuvakin has compiled a periodic list of posts on security. List includes top posts of all time, of medium, top Cloud Security Podcast by Google on Security operations / detection & response, Data security, Cloud security
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🛠️ Resources & Tools
Your 100% static dynamic backend. DeepfakeHTTP is a web server that uses HTTP dumps as a source for responses.
Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
A non-biased, community-driven, fact-based information sheet aimed at educating customers on web-accessibility overlays.
An annual accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages.
Litmus is an open source Chaos Engineering platform that enables teams to identify weaknesses & potential outages in infrastructures by inducing chaos tests in a controlled way.
📝 List of Software Testers
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😂 And Finally,
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