Five Blogs – 28 February 2020

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

How To Have POWERFUL Conversations That Will INFLUENCE People
Written by: LaRae Quy

To Be a Better Tester, Ask the Right Questions
Written by: Rajini Padmanaban

How To Reach Employees Who Aren’t Getting Your Message
Written by: Liz Kislik

A Good Story Is Overrated. But A Strong Narrative Is Worth Its Weight In Creative Gold
Written by: Larry Robertson

Quality pattern 2: Automate your acceptance tests
Written by: Erik Zeedijk

Quote of the day:
“Maybe you’re the one holding yourself back, afraid to embrace your true power.” -Deirdre O’Connell

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Five Blogs – 27 December 2019

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Christmas, Deadlines, and Procrastination
Written by: Dan Rockwell

Adjust Your Own Mask First
Written by: Steve Keating

Real Device and Browser Testing Strategy for 2020
Written by: Sarah Mischinger

Writing good bug reports
Written by: Corina Pip

A quick guide to ATDD
Written by: Neil Killick

Quote of the day:
“You’re stronger than you believe. Don’t let your fear own you. Own yourself.” -Michelle Hodkin

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Five Blogs – 17 December 2019

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How to write great acceptance criteria
Written by: Adam Knight

WaterfallProcess
Written by: Martin Fowler

2 Ways to Know Your Work Is Actually Done
Written by: Justin Rohrman

Simple Quantitative Prioritization: Rank Ordering ROI
Written by: Thomas Cagley

This Is How You Build Trust In Your Relationships
Written by: LaRae Quy

Quote of the day:
“Start the day with positivity and expect miracles” -Gabby Bernstein

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Five Blogs – 29 November 2019

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Bug Priorities: 5 Tips for Balancing the Urgent and the Important
Written by: Rachel Kibler

User Acceptance Testing: The Holistic Approach to Superior Applications
Written by: TestingWhiz

We Don’t Know?
Written by: James Thomas

Model-Based Testing: The Advanced Level of Test Automation
Written by: Victoria Bezsmolna

Building Good Scrum Habits
Written by: Steve Berczuk

Quote of the day:
“I encourage people to remember that ‘no’ is a complete sentence” -Gavin De Becker

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Five Blogs – 4 October 2019

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Quality pattern 1: Treat your acceptance criteria as tests
Written by: Erik Zeedijk

AI-Driven Test Automation and Your Future
Written by: Jon Hagar

Testing Microservices: Examining the Tradeoffs of Twelve Techniques – Part 2
Written by: Wojciech Bulaty and Liam Williams

5 Types Of Meetings
Written by: Thomas Cagley

Facing our fears
Written by: Seth Godin

Quote of the day:
“Remind yourself right now that no matter what your life looks like, you are doing the best you can. And getting better.” -Iyanla Vanzant

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Five Blogs – 30 April 2019

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Chaos Engineering: Rethinking testing in the era of the Cloud and DevOps
Written by: Peter Varhol

Here Are The Best Ways To Develop Self Awareness
Written by: LaRae Quy

Satisfice Website Quality Assurance
Written by: James Bach

Sympathy vs. Empathy in UX
Written by: Sarah Gibbons

Build Just Enough of a Feature with ATDD
Written by: David Bernstein

Quote of the day:
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” -Stanley Kubrick

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Five Blogs – 22 February 2019

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Where do you store your Given-When-Then statements?
Written by: Chris Matts

My learning – Part 17 – Your learnin
Written by: Erik Brickarp

4 Ways to Use Acceptance Criteria
Written by: Justin Rohrman

Call to ban killer robots in war
Written by: Pallab Ghosh

How to adopt service virtualization successfully
Written by: Chris Colosimo

Quote of the day:
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got” -Robert Brault

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Five Blogs – 30 August 2018

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Teaching Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Written by: Matthew Heusser

Mobile Testing Part III: Seven Automated Mobile Testing Tips (and Five Great Tools)
Written by: Kristin Jackvony

7 Zen Principles (And How To Apply Them To Modern Life)
Written by: Brianna Wiest

Why Great Success Can Bring Out the Worst Parts of Our Personalities
Written by: Darko Lovric and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

How to Choose a Test Automation Tool
Written by: Alex McPeak

Quote of the day:
“Sometimes the most important life lessons are the ones you learn the hard way” -Unknown

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Five Blogs – 2 June 2017

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How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment
Written by: Sara Critchfield

We need to talk about test data
Written by: James Sheasby Thomas

Perhaps They Should Have Tested More – The Schiaparelli Mars Lander
Written by: Joe Strazzere

The limitations of Acceptance Criteria
Written by: Nicola Owen

5 Important Coaching Techniques Every Leader Should Practice
Written by: Joanne Maynard

Quote of the day:
“We don’t need an accurate document, we need a shared understanding” -Jeff Patton

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Five Blogs – 26 August 2016

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

On Being A Senior Engineer
Written by: John Allspaw

Reliable Backup is hard to do
Written by: Keith Stobie

“Acceptance Testing” – What does it mean?
Written by: Dan Ashby

Organising an internal version of 30 Days of Testing
Written by: Abby Bangser

How to avoid DevOps friction
Written by: Peter Bendor-Samuel

Quote of the day:
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves” -Carl Jung

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