My favourite Blogs of July 2011

Testing

Do Functional Testers Make Good Usability Testers?  - uTest

Usability Testing Toolkit: Resources, Articles, and Techniques

Working with the testing debt – part 3 - Matin Jansson

Zero Bug Tolerance Intolerance  -Jim Bird

Quick Testing Tips

5 Tips to Reduce Unit Test Defect Rates – DZone

 If cats were testers – Andy Glover

Evolution of a Tester – Adam Knight

Test This #7 – Don’t Let It Load –Eric Jacobson

Cloud testing: The cloud and your testing practice – David Johnson

Testing is in a mess – Paul Gerrad

Cordgrass and Habits: When Testers Get Lazy – Michael Larsen

Story telling and week[end|night] testing – Martin Jansson

The Cost of Testing or You don’t Know what You are Missing –Jens Schauder

How we tested Google instant pages? -  Jason Arbon and Tejas Shah

How to conduct performance testing on mobile applications – Pete Walen

How Testers communicate and how they should?

Importance of automated testing-Testing for the unexpected Podcast from QCON 2011 -Ulf Wiger

How Pradeep teaches software testing - Part 1 – Pradeep Sundrarajan

Testing Dojos from the Back of the Room – Marcus Gärtner

Exploratory Testing

Session Creator  - Sven Finsterwalder

Session bases test Management – Sven Finsterwalder

Expressions 2 – Michael Larsen

How Did Robin Hood Handle This?! - Michael Larsen

Agile

Discussing the Definition of Done: 8 Questions &Answers - Zach Nies

Learning from Burndown Charts

Is this your burn down chart?

Agile teams and software defect tracking: Is a DTS necessary? –Lisa Crispin

Why Agile should not marginalize software testers –Jan Stafford

When Do You Say A Development Task Is Really Done? – Rob Diana

How Cadence Predicts Process -  Mary Poppendieck

Done: Beyond Criteria – Adam Knight

From One Expert to Another: Simon Baker – Lisa Crispin

TDD Best Practices –

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS  - Esther Derby

New book - Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide – Shane Hastie

Public Administration Committee - Twelfth Report
Government and IT- "A Recipe For Rip-Offs": Time For A New Approach

BDD & the Holy Grail of User Story Testability & Traceability

Selenium

Selenium 2.0: Out Now! – Official Selenium Blog

Getting started wit Selenium 2.0

Recommendations for Learning JavaScript and CSS Selectors – Alan Richardson

10 Excellent Selenium Testing Resources For You

Can I use Selenium Simplified with Selenium 2? –Alan Richardson

How to learn Selenium Automation – Alan Richardson

Using Selenium Simplified Book With Selenium 2.0 – Alan Richardson

Page Objects PPO FTW!  - Mary Ann May-Pumphrey

Initial Test Points for Getting Your Environment Under Control -  Daniel Ackerson

Open source testing tools for Adobe Flex and Air – Charles Humble

 Automation

Selling the Test Automation Story: Are We Selling the Right Thing? – Michael Larsen

Automated Testing is Not QA - Jared Richardson

The Art of Throw-Away Test Automation - Tulin Pledger

Obstacle to Automation – Gishu Pillai

Quality Centre must Die – Paul carvalho

Towards better acceptance test automation... - Gishu Pillai

Others

6 Steps of Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time - Learning Software Develop -  Vic Cherubini 

How to become a tester? – Teemu Vesala

The Undefinition of “Done” – Michael Bolton

Observation of a Test Analyst  - ElizaF

Wisdom and Salt Water

Why Excel Spreadsheets Hurt Project Management  -  Daniel Ackerson

Delivering difficult messages – Fiona Charles

Security

Automated attack toolkits single biggest threat to Web apps, report finds -Hillary O'Rourke