Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 6/22/14 – 6/28/14.

Articles & Blogs

• A Story From Rosie – Rosie Sherry – http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2014/06/story-rosie/
• 10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #6 Protect Data and Privacy – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/10-things-you-can-do-as-developer-to_23.html
• Business Value Purpose – Albert Gareev – http://automation-beyond.com/2014/06/27/business-value-purpose/
• Clean Test Code – Test Automation Code is Real Code – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2014/06/26/clean-test-code-test-automation-code-is-real-code/
• Continuous delivery without test automation, first experiences – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2014/06/continuous-delivery-without-test.html
• Dare to be different … take risks – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2014/06/dare-to-be-different-take-risks.html
• Do software testers need to code? – Anand Ramdeo – http://www.testinggeek.com/do-software-testers-need-to-code

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 6/15/14 – 6/21/14.

Articles & Blogs

• 10 things you can do to make your app secure: #4 Access Control – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/10-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-app_16.html
• 10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #5 Authentication Controls – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/10-things-you-can-do-as-developer-to.html
• A better way of handing Defects – Matthew Eakin – http://goofytesterguy.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-better-way-of-handing-defects.html
• A Simple 12 Steps Guide to Write an Effective Test Summary Report [with a Sample Report for Download] – Baskar Pillai – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/test-summary-report-template-download-sample/
• Automation Test Suites Are Not God! – Nishi Grover – http://www.stickyminds.com/article/automation-test-suites-are-not-god
• Being Cool About Best Practices – Josh Grant – http://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/89316544090/being-cool-about-best-practices

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 6/8/14 – 6/14/14.

Articles & Blogs

10 Qualities that Can Make You a Good Tester – Bhumika Mehta – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/10-qualities-that-can-make-you-a-good-tester/

10 things you can do to make your app secure: #2 Encoding Data – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/10-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-app_9.html

10 things you can do to make your app secure: #3 Validate Input – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/10-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-app_11.html

A Software Skills Roadmap for Testers – Paul Gerrard – http://gerrardconsulting.com/?q=node/642

Agile Quality Myth: No App Stars From Agile – Jason Arbon – http://blog.applause.com/2014/06/09/agile-quality-myth-no-app-stars-from-agile/

Attitude, NOT Certification, is the Real Differentiator – Colin Cherry – http://itesting.com.au/2014/06/13/attitude-not-certification-is-the-real-differentiator/

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 6/1/14 – 6/7/14.

Articles & Blogs

10 things you can do to make your app secure: #1 Parameterize Database Queries – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/10-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-app.html

A story of a big small bug – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-story-of-big-small-bug.html

A Talk About Test Automation: An Interview with Mukesh Sharma  – Cameron Philipp-Edmonds – http://www.stickyminds.com/interview/talk-about-test-automation-interview-mukesh-sharma

Agile testing – how do we make it all fit? – Sharon Robson – http://blog.softed.com/2014/06/03/agile-testing-%E2%80%93-how-do-we-make-it-all-fit/

Challenging yourself? – Gareth Waterhouse – http://www.testingthewaterhouse.com/2014/06/challenging-yourself.html

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 5/25/14 – 5/31/14.

Articles & Blogs

Actual Behaviour: It Stinks! – Josh Grant – http://simplythetest.tumblr.com/post/87303404335/actual-behaviour-it-stinks

Are Australian Software Testing Jobs at Risk? – Colin Cherry – http://itesting.com.au/2014/05/26/are-australian-software-testing-jobs-at-risk/

Are we all Accidental Testers? – Joel Montvelisky – http://qablog.practitest.com/2014/05/are-we-all-accidental-testers/

CMMI Appraisals – Tester’s Journey as an Appraisal Team Member (ATM) – Kumar Amit Anand – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/cmmi-appraisals-testers-journey-as-an-appraisal-team-member-atm/

Documenting Tests – Part 2 (The Tester Leaves) – Eric Jacobson – http://www.testthisblog.com/2014/05/documenting-tests-part-2-tester-leaves.html

Google’s Retrofitted Testing Culture, or: Déjà Vu All Over Again – Martin Fowler – http://martinfowler.com/articles/testing-culture.html#google