Blogspy 215: The Week’s Round-Up of Software Testing Blog Posts

It is another great edition of the Huddle Blogspy Report. We bring you our round-up of Software Testing Blog posts from the past week in software and software testing.  This week we feature posts on performance testing in the cloud, checking V testing, starting with exploratory testing and more.

 

How To Do Performance Testing: Part 4 – Automated Performance Tests On Demand In The Cloud | Bart Withaar

The forth part of our popular series on Performance Testing from Bart looks at testing in the Cloud again, this time examining automating tests in the cloud.

 

Why Your Team Needs To Embrace Shift Left Testing Right Now | Jennifer Lent

Jennifer explains in detail how Shift-left works as a software testing process and why it matters.

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Testing Vs Checking: So What? | Jeremias Rößler

The debate on what is testing and what is checking has been continuing for a number of years. Jeremias shares his thoughts on the debate ans shares what he understands the differences as being.

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How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome | Alan Richardson

In a wide ranging post, Alan shares his thoughts on public speaking and the Imposter syndrome. He shares how important it is to use labels in a new way to shape your own thoughts.

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Test Environment Virtualisation | Aleksandar Ristic

In this post Alexsandar shares his story of how his team wanted to implement Continuous Integration and fully automated tests attached to deployment in Jenkins. He demonstrates how the team having tried to find the solution for this and what his team found as an answer.

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Three Ways to get Started with (Exploratory) Testing as a non-Tester |  Karo Stoltzenburg

Exploratory testing might seem a mystery sometimes to those that have not tried it and those that are not aware of how exploratory testing is carried out. In this post aimed at developers and other non-testers, Karo shares three essential ways to start exploratory testing.

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The Difference Between Automated And Manual Software Testing | Erica Silva

What are the essential differences automation and manual testing? In this post Erica shares some of the differences and looks at when you should consider using either

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Capture Full Page Screenshots Using WebDriver with HTML2Canvas.js | Anton Angleov

Continuing his series on WebDriver, Anton looks at how to capture full page screenshots using WebDriver. He shares some working code to capture the screenshots and explains the code in detail.

 

Read More on Taking Full Page Screenshots Using WebDriver here

 

 

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