There’s always something new to learn, and these days watching webinars and recorded conference videos are good ways of finding and sharing interesting content about what practices do other people think is important in software testing. Lately I am finding myself getting more curious about performance and security testing, as well as the idea of software (including test code) as specification.

Some engaging thoughts about those topics, if you’re interested:

• Find the Right Abstraction Level for Your Tests (by Gerard Meszaros, about the practice of writing automated checks with intent and expressiveness)
• Agile Engineering for the Web (by James Shore, on how to write unit tests for javascript and cascading style sheets, and how test-driven development and refactoring helps adaptive planning)
• Tales of a Bug Bounty Hunter – 10 Interesting Vulnerabilities (by Arne Swinnen, on his experience of  hunting security bugs in Instagram)
• How to Build Performance Testing into your CI Pipeline (by Adam Taylor & Refael Botbol, on how to write Taurus performance tests and integrating these checks to Jenkins)
• Burp Suite Basics for Software Testing (by Alan Richardson, about using Burp Suite to understand more about the application under test especially security risks)