Welcome to the 18th edition of Coding Jag brought to you by TestMu AI!👐
First things first: Happy New Year to you! Let's start off the year 2021 by debating a controversial topic: Should your team use pull requests? Since the introduction of the Pull request practice on GitHub, running and maintaining open-source projects has become a lot easier. Pull requests are intended to make it easier to accept contributions from people outside your trusted committers group. And yet many teams now use pull requests for people inside their own team. Does that really need to be done? Is your team making a costly mistake?
This issue explains why your team doesn't need to use pull requests and why you should choose continuous integration instead. In addition to some excellent new-year reads, we have an exciting new year challenge for you!.
Here you go-
News
5 min read
thinkingtester.com
This year don’t just learn a programming language “enough to be dangerous”, or enough to write test automation; really understand the components of the language and how to use them.
5 min readvisible-quality.blogspot.com
Contemporary is about today. I use that word to get away from the ideas of ISTQB and agile testing where exploratory testing was considered a technique, a thing you do for unknown unknowns on top of all the other testing recipes.
5 min readinfrastructure-as-code.com
Using pull requests for code changes by your own team members is like having your family members go through an airport security checkpoint to enter your home.
5 min readdev.to
Reading books still is a great way to discover and learn new skills, especially for developers, to stay relevant in the vastly changing tech industry.
5 min readthetestlynx.wordpress.com
White vs black box categorisation is widely used, particularly by beginners. But, in my honest opinion, it is rather inaccurate and inadequate.
Performance
4 min readsynapse-qa.com
A thought on why the organizations are inclined towards browser performance testing over protocol performance testing especially in DevOps.
4 min readontestautomation.com
Marking my 15-year anniversary in the testing and test automation field, I dive into the type of problems we are solving with the help of test automation.
Automation
7 min readsergiomartins8.medium.com
The code used throughout this article is available on the open-source project “Test Automation Bootstrap”, hosted on GitHub.
9 min readeliasnogueira.com
This article will help you easily manage your property files using Java so you can be much more productive and assertive in developing your code that uses properties files.
9 min readtestmu.ai
Want to set up a JUnit environment for your first test? Read on to learn how to download, install, and set up JUnit and use it with Eclipse IDE and IntelliJ IDEA.
9 min readmedium.com
A concrete step by step example to automate your reports without the need for a server.
Tools
10 min readtheqalead.com
These tools will help in cross-browser testing of your site across Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Safari, and other browsers.
8 min readfiliphric.com
If you are running hundreds of tests in Cypress, chances are you may want to run just a subset of them. There are several ways you can do this, and in this blog, I’d like to show you mine.
5 min read github.com
Slowbug is a VS Code extension for debugging your code in slow-mo! Slowbug makes it possible to see how the control flows through the code by running it slowly, at your preferred speed, line by line. We find it handy when working on a new codebase.
Video & Podcast
46 mintestandcode.com
Visual Testing has come a long way from the early days of x,y mouse clicks and pixel comparisons. Angie Jones joins the show to discuss how modern visual testing tools work and how to incorporate visual testing into a complete testing strategy.
52 min read youtube.com
James Thomas shares his useful tips to help you test anything and everything in three minutes!
29 min readpythonbytes.fm
Join Brian and Michael along with Cecil Phillip, Ines Montani, Jay Miller, Paul Everitt, Reuven Lerner, and Matt Harrison for a light-hearted and fun look back on the major Python events of 2020.
Events
00 mineventbrite.com
The largest Java platform conference in the USA and one of the leading technology events held annually around the globe.