My Favourite Blogs from September 2011

Testing

Game Storming and Testing – Rob Lambert

Carnival of Testers #25 – Simon Morley

Reliable Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Internet Explorer– Addi Osmani

The 10 Minute Test Plan – James Whittaker

Software testing back of queue for govt agencies–RANDAL JACKSON 

Why Do We Call Software Defects “Bugs”? –

Testing: Do you train like an athlete? – Simon Morley

An Insight to Metrics Used during Software Validation Testing – Software Testing Genius

Test ideas for a login process–Darren McMillan

Why fixing bugs is missing the point – Adam Knight

The Little Black Book on Test Design – Rikard Edgren

Secret Sauce of Testing, Part I– Matt Huesser

Tester Challenge: Name These Testing Types– uTest

Long term value of acceptance tests – links – Gojko Adzic

Notes From James Bach’s Lecture on Testing – Ando

It’s All About the Bug Report Title - uTest

What’s Testing Dojo?  - Łukasz Morawski

A New Course on Test Design: The Bibliography – Cem Kaner

Standardized Testing And Scientific Management – Jonathan Rees

Software Testing in the Medical Domain – Ruud Cox, Patrick Duisters & Jurian van de Laar (Testing Experience)

 6 Key Things I've Learned in 22 Years of Testing...  -  Ross Mortimer

It’s the User Experience, Stupid – uTest

Javascript Testing at Google – Software Testing Magazine

Testing in Agile development: Separating developing and testing –Lisa Cripin

22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability – Jacob Gube

Carnival of Testers #26 – Simon Morley

"You were supposed to draw him standing up" - testing preconceptions in design – Adam Knight

Agile

A Checklist for a Distributed Retrospective - Marc Löffler

Thoughts on Agile & Agile Testing – Scott Barber

ALE2011: 10 years of Agile – Are we there yet? – Marcus Gartner

Scrum Stand-up Worst Practices – Agile 2010 Cambridge

Agile Testing – Do We Need Test Plans? – Manju Anandan

You'd think with all my video game experience that I'd be more prepared for this – Jason Yip

ALE... Self-Organization without Management? – Jurgen Appelo

Testing as a Whole Team Activity – Elisabeth Hendrickson

ScrumMaster Tales – the Story of an Incomplete Sprint – Mark Levison

Kiss and Fly – Gojko Adzic

Driving Development with Tests: ATDD and TDD - Elisabeth Hendrickson

(Via Testing Excellence)

Requirements fulfilled – but does it fit for purpose? - Gitte Ottosen

10 years of Agile - the Prophecy of Failure, and the Failure of Prophecy - Liz Keogh

Agile is Not a Silver Bullet – Johanna Rothman

Long term value of acceptance tests – Gojko Adzic (Javazone presentation)

It’s not Testing – Lisa Crispin

Agile And The Art Of Outsourcing - Robert Diana

The Future of Agile Software Development – Michael Dubakov

Switching to Agile Testing, not as simple as changing your t-shirt – Joel Montvelisky

ACCUS Day 1 – Lisa Crispin

Is it Time to Stop Estimating User Stories? –Todd Charron

Exploratory Testing

Coding QA Podcast on Exploratory Testing – Michael Bolton

Coding QA Podcast on Exploratory Testing (Part 2) – Michael Bolton

Paired Exploratory …..–Peter Schrijver

TECHNIQUE: PAIRED EXPLORATORY SURVEY – James Bach

Testing Problems Are Test Results – Michael Bolton

Open Lecture by James Bach on Software Testing – James Bach (YouTube)

Context-Driven Testing – Michael Bolton (CAST2011 Keynote)

Framing your tests, Framing your Audience – Benjamin Kelly

Presentation from CAST 2011

Exploratory testing and regression testing in continuous integration-Lisa Crispin

Testing the Limits With James Bach – Part I -uTest

Testing the Limits With James Bach – Part II -uTest

Selenium

An Introduction To Selenium IDE Plugins –Dave Hunt

Automation

Continuous integration: Quality from the start with automated regression – Howard Deiner

Books

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware – Andy Hunt (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

Testing Magazines

Professional Tester – October Issue

Testing Circus Magazine – September Issue

Tea Time With Testers– September Issue

Others

SoCraTes2011– Conference

Testing Schrödinger’s Cat – Adam Brown

Best uses for wikis: Collaboration and information sharing – Lisa Crispin

Avoiding Bugs With Smart Product Owners – uTest

Q&A: How an automotive secret can make for better software – Todd Bishop

10 Things a Website Should Never, Ever Do – Kyle Shaeffer

Wopping the pie stack - demonstrating the value in questioning requirements – Adam Knight

Taking on Water – Claire Moss

Continuous integration made simple: Five lessons you won't want to miss – Matt Heusser

At Least Three Good Reasons for Testers to Learn to Program – Michael Bolton

At Least 3 Reasons for Software Testers NOT to Learn to Code – Zachary Spencer

What Counts? – Michael Bolton

Whats Happening with the AAFTT and Entaggle – Elisabeth Hendrickson

Reduce Documentation -charters over test cases – Michael Kelly