Welcome to the 20th edition of Coding Jag brought to you by TestMu AI!👐
Scrum is a fantastic framework for solving business problems, and companies are continuing to use the agile model to achieve objectives. If your organization is transitioning to agile, there’s a lot that you can do. Encourage your manager to engage in pressure-testing of those goals. Be inquisitive: learn what really matters. Get rid of ambiguity to be more creative and less constrained by arbitrary rules on what you want to achieve as a team.
Consider what you’re willing to pay, as well as what you will not compromise. Ask the right questions- Is team morale important? What happens when you use Agile for the wrong reasons? Would it be better to attract fewer clients by making reliable promises or to build more repeat business?
You will find the answer to all those questions in this edition, along with a hand-picked selection of good reads. Here you go-
News
5 min read
mountaingoatsoftware.com
Problems can occur if companies forget that agile is just a methodology—a means to achieve a goal—not the goal itself.
5 min readmedium.com
Have you ever seen an end product that you designed for, look and behave differently to what is built?
5 min readautomationpanda.com
Can DSLs make security testing easier to do and thereby more widely practiced? Tune into this virtual talk delivered by Pandy Knight.
5 min readdev.to
As a software developer, the obvious answer for my top five books would be technical chronicles, but actually I have found these haven't had much of an impact on me at all.
Performance
4 min readqainsights.com
In this blog article, we are going to focus on Servers Performance Monitoring in JMeter.
4 min readmedium.com
We have not defined Quality and yet it is at the heart of the matter. Interestingly most Quality or Test professionals when asked to define it, often balk at it as it is a rabbit hole. Why is that?
Automation
9 min read testmu.ai
Ever wondered how to get the page source in an automated fashion? In this blog, we explore how to make Selenium WebDriver get page source.
9 min readdev-tester.com
As more organizations look to test automation, learn different ways how it can save you lots of time and money in the long run.
9 min readqafox.com
A collection of the most important questions and answers for your next interview about Selenium testing.
Tools
10 min read dzone.com
In this article, we intend to put forward a few code quality tools you should consider to help you write simple, yet fast go code in no time.
8 min readdev.to
Here’s a big superficial roundup of 60 most-clicked tools of 2020 — and potentially the most interesting choices for 2021.
5 min readdivjoy.com
Cased Guard adds a layer of security to any command-line tool, bringing a level of visibility, insight, and control not previously seen.
5 min readblocks.wickedtemplates.com
New user notifications. Purchase alerts. Scheduled jobs. SQL queries. Create whatever you want with JavaScript and APIs.
Video & Podcast
46 mintestguild.com
In this episode, Parasar Saha, an enterprise automation architect, will share some ways to reduce repetitive and error-prone tasks at the enterprise level.
52 min readayushirawat.com
Learn how to Automate Notion- a super-clean and deceptively minimalist note-taking app.
29 min readsoundcloud.com
The high motivation of those working with us is a key factor for success. Success for the company, for the different teams and success for the people working with us.
Events
00 mindevconf.info
DevConf.CZ 2021 is the 13th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored virtual community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers, and other contributors to open source technologies. The conference includes topics on Linux, Middleware, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud, and mobile. At DevConf.CZ, FLOSS communities sync, share and hack on upstream projects together.