Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of June 21st – June 27th, 2020.

Testing

• A Working Definition of Software Testing – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/fundamentals/working-definition-of-software-testing/
• Cost of Delay Vs Cost of Poor Quality – Duncan Nisbet – https://www.duncannisbet.co.uk/cost-of-delay-vs-cost-of-poor-quality
• Finding My Voice As A Tester – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/finding-my-voice-as-a-tester
• My experience of working from home full-time during the pandemic – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/my-experience-of-working-from-home-full-time-during-the-pandemic/
• Needed more than ever: courage – Lisa Crispin – https://lisacrispin.com/2020/06/21/needed-more-than-ever-courage/
• QA Needs Chaos Engineering To Benefit a Distributed World – Kolton Andrus – https://theqalead.com/topics/qa-needs-chaos-engineering/
• Six Ways Testers Can Help Programmers Clean Up Their Acts – Cameron Laird – https://blog.gurock.com/ways-testers-help-programmers/

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of June 14th – June 20th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Reasons Why Product Managers Should Have a Close Relationship With Software Testers – Daniel Knott – https://www.applause.com/blog/product-manager-relationship-software-testers
• 5 Strategies for Effective User Stories – Raj Subrameyer – https://www.ranorex.com/blog/what-makes-up-good-user-story/9
• 10 exploratory testing techniques for QA professionals – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/10-exploratory-testing-techniques-for-QA-professionals
• About Knowledge – Redux – Maciej Wyrodek – https://thebrokentest.com/about-knowledge-redux/
• Are Best Practices Really The Best? – Kevin Tuck – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/06/14/are-best-practices-really-the-best/
• Cognitive biases and how they influence software testing – Prashant Hegde – https://qablog.practitest.com/9-cognitive-biases-of-software-testing/
• Design Systems and Testability – Michael Battat – https://applitools.com/blog/testing-design-systems-2/

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of June 7th – June 13th, 2020.

Testing

• A Primer on Continuous Testing – Vasudevan Swaminathan – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/primer-continuous-testing
• Be Your Best Advocate: How to Track Your Career Value – Dee Ann Pizzica – https://blog.gurock.com/your-best-advocate-career-value
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 10) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/06/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-10/
• Do Your Tests Wobble? – Arlene Andrews – https://dev.to/arleneandrews/do-your-tests-wobble-25k1
• Is There Such a Thing As Too Much Testing? – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.continuoustesting.com/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-testing
• Managing to Test – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/06/managing-to-test.html
• Reacting to change – Pair-blogg #2 – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/06/13/reacting-to-change/

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of May 31st – June 6th, 2020.

Testing

• Fighting Defect Clusters in Software Testing – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/defect-clusters-in-software-testing/
• How Does a RECRUITER See Testers – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/tester-seen-by-recruiter/
• In uncertain times, product quality is key: 4 ways to amplify QA – Ronald Cummings-John – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/uncertain-times-product-quality-key-4-ways-amplify-qa
• Productivity is simply containers of work with rules – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/containers-rules/
• Smoke Testing vs. Sanity Testing – What, Why & When – Sri Priya P Kulkarni  – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/05/31/smoke-testing-vs-sanity-testing/
• Someone else will do it – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/someone-else-will-do-it/
• Tester’s Diary: Taking the Ego Out of Testing – Rachel Kibler – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-diary-taking-ego-out-of-testing/