5 Things to Read This Week - 27th Apr 2020 | That's a Bug

5 Things to Read

• Ministry of Testing - Automation Daily - Post Your Questions

  • Richard Bradshaw opened a thread on the Ministry of Testing where people asked questions regarding automation in testing. Long thread, but some good stuff to read there.

• Neil Sainsbury - The software industry’s greatest sin: hiring

  • A great team is made of great people working together towards a valuable goal. And to gather this people together is necessary to be effective in identifying them and onboarding them in a company. Unfortunately this task is hard and very often not well done in your industry nowadays. In this post Neil Sainsbury raises the main points to improve during hiring in IT.

• Marie Drake - Contract Testing with Pact.js and Jest

  • Contract testing is spreading towards the main tech stacks. This posts from Marie Drake gives the instructions on how to setup contract testing in the Javascript world.

• QuanticDev - State of Software Engineering in 2020

  • QuanticDev discusses some statistics of growth in the programming world.

• Michael Fritzius - Adapt Your QA Team for The New Normal

  • The impact of COVID-19 in our lives are unpredictable. Nobody knows how the economy, personal interactions, remote versus in-local work, etc. In this post Michael Fritzius raises some points that testing teams may need to face in the short, medium, long term. #StaySafe