The big news this week is BBC Radio 4 series on the UK's Post Office scandal around its IT system that allowed system abuse leading to frauds and accusations of many innocent people. Many causes led to such a big issue, but this could have been minimised or even prevented if only more emphasis was put on a thorough quality assurance process.

No one is in a better position to describe the problem from the software testing perspective than an experienced software tester and IT auditor, James Christie. So instead of me trying to elaborate on the matter, I'll just let you dive into his great 3-part article.

Test wisely!

Dawid Dylowicz  

40+ great resources that will rock your release velocity

This is an amazing list of resources on improving everything related to deployments, releases and continuous delivery — all that put together in one place by Rouan Wilsenach. It's a great point of reference!

techbeacon.com  

BDD in 2020

It’s 2020: can we officially declare Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) dead?

Alister B Scott elaborates on the purpose of BDD and its common misuse. What I liked the most is the 12-step process to make it work well. And what if it doesn't? He got us covered, too.

alisterbscott.com  

How to Do Security Testing Manually: 12 Effective Ways

Security testing is often seen as a separate specialisation but I believe that every software tester should be at least aware of the basics. In this article, Joy Winter shared a dozen of helpful pieces of advice on how to manually perform security testing that we all can apply.

dev.to  

Seeking the best test strategy

Let's get one thing straight: there's no one single test strategy that will work for all projects. However, David Zambrana shares a high-level guideline that may help us choose the optimal strategy for the next project.

medium.com  

Adopting device-farm for mobile testing

I enjoyed this insightful story of setting up a cloud-based mobile device farm in five phases that Kumar Ashok introduced in the company he works for.

medium.com  

Data-Driven Testing in TestCafe

This is a great two-part article on data-driven testing in TestCafe by Dennis Martinez. The first part (linked above) is about JSON and XML file types. The second part is about CSV and Excel file types and you can read it here.

dev-tester.com  

Visual Regression Testing using BackstopJS

I mentioned BackstopJS two weeks ago and this week Nithin wrote a detailed article on how to use the tool in practice for visual regression testing. All clear!

testproject.io  

Writing an integration test with React Testing Library

Franco D'Alessio shares a solid step-by-step guide on how to do integration testing in React using the popular React Testing Library.

francodalessio.com  

Most Complete Selenium WebDriver 4.0 Overview

Curious about what really changed in the latest version of Selenium WebDriver? Kudos to Anton Angelov who put everything together in one place!

automatetheplanet.com  

Cypress 4.6.0 is Out... And Brings a Surprise New Feature!

Mike Cataldo shares a practical example on what changed in the recent Cypress update. Good for you, VSCode users!

Note: There was a regression introduced in that version and the latest one at the time of writing is 4.7.0.

dev.to  

Cypress React Selector - React testing made easy with Cypress

Abhinaba Ghosh has created a handy cypress-react-selector library that can help you test your React components. Want to learn more? He described it in more detail in this article.

github.com  

Principles to Guide Testing: Modern and Agile

In this amazing webinar, Lisa Crispin talks us through the 10 Principles for Agile Testers and Modern Testing Principles, explaining how they relate to each other and how they can be applied.

softwaretestpro.com  

Isn't that a fix?... 😅