My Favourite Blogs from November 2011

Testing

Defining Testing – John Stevenson

Is QUALITY all about customer’s need and satisfaction? – Prabath Nayak

Black Box Software Testing – Bug Advocacy – Chris Chartier

Priority – Nolan MacaFee

Rethinking the Role of Testers in Agile and Structured Projects –Paul Gerrard

The Two Sides of Testing – Elisabeth Hendrickson

Software Testing is Dead– Software Testing Magazine

Ten tests for software applications in the cloud – Nari Kannan

EUROSTAR ROUNDUP – Rob Lambert

Observations from EuroSTAR 2011: Looking to the Future – Stephen Hill

North West Tester Gathering: Musings from further north – Darren McMillan

Agile

Using the Agile Testing Quadrants – Lisa Crispin

The Quadrant Can Look Like Waterfall – Frank Cohen

Dan North at Oredev: Embrace Uncertainty – Gojko Adzic

Virtual Panel: Specification by Example, Executable Specifications, Scenarios and Feature Injection - Jon Arild Tørresdal

The 5 whys: Another attempt – Mark Needham

Playing Agile games at Agile Coach Camp US – Lisa Crispin

Virtual Panel: Specification by Example, Executable Specifications, Scenarios and Feature Injection - Jon Arild Tørresdal  

Specification By Example - Martin Fowler

Evolution of tools for Requirements and Behavior Driven Development – Paul Gerrard

Behavior-Driven Development for Ruby on Rails – Software Testing Magazine

How Mature Is Your Continuous Integration? – James Betteley

Successful Agile Planning: An Iteration How-to - Project Management Planet

Business Value Game – Agile Belgium

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

Is Velocity Killing Agile? – Michael Floyd

 

Exploratory

The Big Exploratory Testing Rolling Strategy Dice – Shmuel Gershon

Agile Manifesto interpretations: The importance of individuals and interactions – Yvette Francino

Notes from SWET3 – Rikard Edgren

Exploratory Testing - collected stuff  - James Lindsay

 

Automation

From the mailbox: selecting test automation tools – Elisabeth Hendrickson

Security

You don’t want to do ‘Penetration’ Testing, probably – Mark Crowther

Magazines and Videos

GTAC Videos Now Available – James Whittaker

Professional Tester – December Issue

Testing Circus –November Issue

Tea Time with Testers – November Issue

Other

Sleepwalking into failure – Adam Knight

Dan North at Oredev: Embrace Uncertainty – Gojko Adzic

Looking back on 2011 – Dan North

6 Web Hosting Tools for Analyse Web Servers – Smashing Hub

10 Free Networking Monitoring Tools – Smashing Hub

10 things that define a true professional – Alan Norton