2018 QA and Test Slack Channel Link Dump

In the #softwaretesting channel at work, I post the output of my adventures in self-edification and any interesting links I encounter on the 27 Slacks, 3 Discords, 500 RSS feeds and 1 well manicured Twitter feed. I might be something of a terror in this regard as it's not uncommon for me to fill in gaps of downtime with article reading and those can be at any hour. Here is the output from me to my testers over the course of 2018, warts and all!

• it’s like they came thiiiiiiiiiis close to respecting testers but then didn’t quite land it 😕 https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-value-of-human-exploratory-testing-2dabcc371b3b
• Say goodbye to all bugs forever. We live in a software defect-free world now. https://www.mabl.com
• Assert(js) conf talks👏 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ66c9_z3umNSrKSb5cmpxdXZcIPNvKGw
• VR stuff: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/events/introduction-to-vr-testing
• 💛 https://techbeacon.com/5-ways-drive-your-automation-engineers-away
• https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/events/testchat-accessibility-testing
• Webinars are biz trash but that’s why you only listen in one ear, https://info.blazemeter.com/how-to-run-selenium-tests-in-jenkins-pipeline
• Free is a good price https://stareast.techwell.com/program/virtual-conference
• when devs test their own stuff: http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/198692-1/Sorry-Spiderman-pinata.gif
• Postman stuff https://gist.github.com/smariapena/305651c557f3148819f93987a8da032b
• https://www.crowdcast.io/e/amasecurity/register Testing Ask Me Anything - Security Testing - Crowdcast
• Thinking about API testing lately, this is a decent free service, it’s mostly sugar but it’s got some nicey-nicey features: https://assertible.com
• Hashtag testers hashtag QA https://xkcd.com/1985/
• I’m a tester, damnit. https://medium.com/@jarbon/testers-dont-test-anymore-71448ab87965
• links for thinks https://medium.com/s/story/data-violence-and-how-bad-engineering-choices-can-damage-society-39e44150e1d4
• https://dev.to/stealthmusic/everything-thats-not-tested-will-break-1adg
• https://speakerdeck.com/charity/engineering-large-systems-when-youre-not-google-or-facebook-test-in-prod
• just want to give a shout out to these tools https://onetimesecret.com https://www.mailinator.com/ bless
• Looking like a bit of a snoozer but it’s my favorite price www.onlinetestconf.com
• my reaction is equal parts yeah right and yeah we're already doing that https://medium.com/qualityfaster/the-zero-bug-policy-b0bd987be684
• I like to re-read this on a weekly basis. Feels like a hug. http://infiniteundo.com/post/158170334513/100-counterintuitive-things-about-testing
• very Java but solid effort/concept https://www.testcontainers.org/
• Sounds v. v. salesy but could be worth a listen https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/check-your-compatibility-wordpress/
• In summation, use all the tools. https://medium.com/pulsar/which-accessibility-testing-tool-should-you-use-e5990e6ef0a
• 🌞 https://allenpike.com/2018/the-great-bug-hunt/
• this is more dev/TDD-centric but apparently another team is using https://wallabyjs.com/ and it looks pretty cool.
• Excellent work https://ambertests.com/2018/05/29/testing-with-naughty-strings-in-postman/
• this is making the rounds again, worth a read: https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/testing-microservices-the-sane-way-9bb31d158c16
• you know I love a free AX webinar https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9015281196604/WN_BHx_syO4RM--ruajFXZNvA Join TPG’s Matt Feldman as he dives into the awesome world of VPATs (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template)
• Or just any free webinar really https://www.testcraft.io/how-to-become-better-at-test-automation/
• I kinda didn’t like this tool but I’ve come around to it being fairly useful. https://blisk.io
• 😍 write ups like this https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/totally-pwning-the-tapplock-smart-lock/
• I can’t tell if this is going to be useful or not but https://www.ministryoftesting.com/events/understanding-mobile-device-fragmentation-piotr-wicherski
• AX trying to grok the 2.1 updates from a test perspective https://ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/wcag-2-1-the-area-of-effect-for-mobile-accessibility
• Not super into PerfectoMobile but I am super into how cranky Alan Page has gotten. Probably worth a listen https://info.perfectomobile.com/ContinuousTestingWebinar.html
• Just what we needed, another test framework: https://gauge.org brought to you by the same folks who gave us…. MINGLE Hahahhahaha DIAF
• A lot of this can be done in Charles but Wireshark is good to know too https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/06/19/what-i-use-wireshark-for/
• thread https://twitter.com/noahsussman/status/1011315578169188352
• cool tool alert, https://mailtrap.io/ i feel like i’ve been on 5 projects that could have really used something like that. /shrug
• Hhhhhhhh.js https://medium.com/welldone-software/an-overview-of-javascript-testing-in-2018-f68950900bc3
• https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/events/testing-ask-me-anything-modern-testing-alan-page no clue whether this will be seeded with good Qs or not but Alan is usually interesting
• you know i love free shit https://www.alldaydevops.com/ it’s a waaaays away but worth putting on the calendar.
• Hightower y’all! https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1018150257811582982
• :speaking_head_in_silhouette: thread https://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/1018505981993549825
• local test hero, bringing it https://twitter.com/lanettecream/status/1019220675846758402
• Why is Hightower the best :yay: http://testandcode.com/43
• :robot_face: https://twitter.com/webdriverio/status/1021728813938606082
• and that’s the tea, folks. https://dev.to/klamping/stop-lying-to-yourself-when-testing-42bk
• for testers http://automationintesting.com/node/course/
• probably way out of our day to day scope but a fantastic article worth a long read https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/testing-in-production-the-safe-way-18ca102d0ef1
• :jira: ✨ They allegedly used another Atlassian program, Jira, for project management purposes, tracking details of the intrusion, maps of networks, and stolen data.https://www.wired.com/story/fin7-wild-inner-workings-billion-dollar-hacking-group
• Rehashing her older stuff but with a bend for audience https://blog.usejournal.com/what-is-exploratory-testing-the-programmer-edition-881765411f2c
• Make your software more secure by adding more bugs https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.00659.pdf
• Thread https://twitter.com/michaelbolton/status/1027941277604765697
• https://automationpanda.com/2018/08/13/how-do-i-know-my-tests-add-value/amp/
• Cute https://davatron5000.github.io/a11y-nutrition-cards/
• urf https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/selenium-ide-tng/amp/
• https://twitter.com/ThisIsJoshVarty/status/1027264322785832960
• Games testing thread 🙀 https://twitter.com/SimplyRagny/status/1029433744485171200
• because studying failure is part of our profession: https://medium.com/@ronanist/failure-is-a-cruel-teacher-4f43155c10d2
• when i talk about the primacy of feedback loops… https://twitter.com/aslak_hellesoy/status/1031642444549500929
• Yes. Read every patch! https://twitter.com/skamille/status/1032643608061640704
• Genius. https://github.com/garybernhardt/dotfiles/blob/f0c0ff92209e5aed4fa3ef6faf056eb9944a8f12/bin/git-churn
• :steamboat-willie: michaelnygard.com/blog/2016/07/qa-instability-implies-production-instability/
• cool perf walk-thru (and shout out to the chromedevtools team for using Glitch) https://twitter.com/ChromeDevTools/status/1034093176091561985
• that one guy who makes all those videos for webdriver.io is doing a webinar http://go.applitools.com/180906-Frontend-Testing-Discipline-webinar.html
• https://charity.wtf/2018/08/19/shipping-software-should-not-be-scary/amp/
• for quick and dirty web AX AT this seems workable and v v approachable https://github.com/pa11y/pa11y-ci
• another cool tool http://www.jsondiff.com/
• The future is past https://www.infoq.com/articles/testing-programmable-infrastructure
• Gang gang https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/react-pancakes-a-practical-overview-of-react-for-software-testers
• https://progressivetooling.com A curated list of progressive tools to optimize the performance..
• cool tool alert for when you need to test webhooks https://webhook.site/
• UXy and totally valid https://uxdesign.cc/if-theres-a-problem-customers-ll-tell-us-a334d2043644
• Ugh. Read this thread and check all the 3rd party tools your projects use for vulns (not necessarily this one, but still) https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1039585850848362497
• It’s a webinar but it’s Angie Jones soooo https://twitter.com/techgirl1908/status/1040033698643554304
• Mr Bolton, at it again, thread, https://twitter.com/michaelbolton/status/1041448988686340096
• https://starwest.techwell.com/program/virtual-conference listed their stuff. It’s kinda meh but might be a good one-earbud-in type of thing.
• Cross browser support and IE11 and more ! https://www.cypress.io/blog/2018/09/20/Cypress-is-officially-out-of-beta/
• there’s way too much stuff here but all free or cheap and beginner friendly 😄 https://medium.com/@deusexmachina667/the-big-blog-post-of-information-security-training-materials-ad9572223fcd
• https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-and-Eastside-Agile-Testing/events/254596969/
• local test hero giving her Test Like A Cat talk at Xcoders https://twitter.com/lanettecream/status/1050488154493337600 :meowth:
• there’s some interesting test-quality-rah-rah stuff in here https://alldaydevops2018.sched.com/?timezone=America/Los_Angeles&iframe=no
• have you all had a chuckle and a cry at https://www.libssh.org/2018/10/16/libssh-0-8-4-and-0-7-6-security-and-bugfix-release/ yet ?
• https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/how-i-found-the-database-of-the-donald-daters-app-af88b06e39ad
• :yes-mhmm: https://www.gruntwork.io/why-prod-is-down/
• :yes-mhmm: https://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/
• 🤖 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612336/a-bot-disguised-as-a-human-software-developer-fixes-bugs/amp/
• cute contrast checker cool tool for macOS https://contrasteapp.com/
• 🤖 https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/getafix-how-facebook-tools-learn-to-fix-bugs-automatically/
• https://ministryoftesting.com/events/testing-ask-me-anything-ci-cd-and-delivery-pipelines-abby-bangser
• 🔰 https://knowbility.org/blog/2018/keyboard-testing-basics/
• not sure we need yet another a11y checking tool, i do like the reporting output of this one tho https://open-indy.github.io/Koa11y/
• the future is coming, beware 🌚 https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/24/safari-beta-dark-mode-theme-websites/
• 🤑 https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/j5z8m3/this-guy-is-suing-adobe-for-a-bug-that-deleted-years-of-his-work
• emerging quality-focused innovation https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/13/18090982/microsoft-windows-10-quality-focus-updates-2018
• mood https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1062510199947243520
• Nice list of things to check [set aside any misgivings you may have about the implications of where qa fits in][https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-devsecops](https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-devsecops)
• Hrm. https://iamvery.com/2018/11/14/feature-tours.html
• Just stumbled upon a trove of confvids, so much Testing and Quality shit here, and big test names too! https://learn.pipelineconf.info
• :verified: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2017/the-testing-renaissance.html
• :heart_facebook: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/
• 👀 https://2018.stateofjs.com/testing/overview/
• warning: https://qmihsc2018.evertechnology.com/conference-session/irony-automation/
• key: :robot_face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzm3fu5f6VA
• related to today’s NPM noise, a pretty good read: https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5
• 👉 http://www.onlinetestconf.com
• add to your repertoire if you haven’t already: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Application_Threat_Modeling (it’s basically the same as risk based testing but with a cooler name and more formalized structure)
• https://people.neilon.software oof.
• Hashtag welcome to the party https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1067445159795798031.html
• This is why occasionally clean out your certs is in our personal sec checklist! What a bug! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/sennheiser-discloses-monumental-blunder-that-cripples-https-on-pcs-and-macs/
• not sure how I feel about it https://devtestopsmanifesto.org/ chewing on it.
• They’re catching up to GitLab :hyperpartyparrot: https://twitter.com/GHchangelog/status/1070372255073484801
• only millions and millions of customers experiencing full network outage over an expired cert, no big deal https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2018/12/update-on-software-issue-impacting-certain-customers check your certs and resiliency, kids 🙃
• https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-secure-developer/ep-21-managing-security-with-the-realreals-julie-tsai/
• 🐋 https://bolcom.github.io/docker-for-testers/
• 💗 Angie! https://egghead.io/podcasts/incorporating-testers-with-every-development-phase-with-angie-jones
• :jira: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/amp/
• 💅 https://principlesofchaos.org
• https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/verify/ they’re really killin it
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iycQpCFBASE makin’ the rounds presently. (still listenin)