Five Blogs – 27 January 2023

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

Only 1% Need Microservices
Written by: Antoine Craske

Have Feelings of Entitlement Crept into Your Mindset?
Written by: Gregg Vanourek

3 Things A Tester Can Do To Involve Early In The Software Delivery Cycle
Written by: Parveen Khan

Do You Have Concrete Brain?
Written by: Randy Gage

The Eden Myth And How Demagogues, Hucksters And Con Artists Use It To Deceive Us
Written by: Greg Satell

Extra:

One Tweak Testers Can Make To Improve The Relationships With Their Teammates
Written by: Vernon Richards

Quote of the day:
“The further inside you hide the hurt, the more it hurts inside. All wounds need air to heal.” -Iain Thomas

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Five Blogs – 28 November 2022

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

What to Do If You Work for a Toxic Boss
Written by: Bob Vanourek and Gregg Vanourek

Getting up to speed on a new team
Written by: Sam Connelly

How to reduce test failures in CI\CD pipelines?
Written by: Olga Sheremeta

6 Tips To Help Non-Testers Understand What’s Impacting Quality and Testing In Their Team Without Having To Become Testing Experts
Written by: Vernon Richards

Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE
Written by: Matthew Tejo

Quote of the day:
“It’s hard to be always the same person” -Dorothea Tanning

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Five Blogs – 24 November 2022

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

How the Feeling of Pointlessness Can Derail Us
Written by: Leo Babauta

Feel Free to Deploy on Friday
Written by: Dennis Martinez

How to write an efficient test case with examples
Written by: Fidaa Berrjeb

How the cyber incident reporting law could finally fix the information sharing problem
Written by: Christian Vasquez

3 Questions That Will Break Your Testers Reliance On Developers So That They Can Become Powerful Quality Advocates
Written by: Vernon Richards

Quote of the day:
“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.” -Nikola Telsa

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Five Blogs – 1 November 2022

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Value Added
Written by: James Thomas

Authentic Leaders Build a Strong Bench
Written by: Steve Keating

Money and Meaning
Written by: Derek Hagen

You Might Believe… But Sometimes…
Written by: John Cutler

Testing Software using Decision Tables
Written by: David Mello

Extra:

Anyone Interested In Delivering Software Should Read This Blog Post
Written by: Vernon Richards

Quote of the day:
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” -Rumi

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Five Blogs – 20 May 2022

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

What are the Responsibilities of a Software Tester?
Written by: Natalie Rodgers

Why Courage Is Essential If You Want Power Over Your Life
Written by: Larae Quy

How to Integrate Test Management in Your GitLab CI Pipelines
Written by: Matthew Heusser

What Are Your Leadership Derailers?
Written by: Gregg Vanourek

Communicate Using Three Layers of Information
Written by: Elizabeth Zagroba

Quote of the day:
“Bring light into someone else’s life and light will spill into your own” -Jordan Bach

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Five Blogs – 2 February 2022

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

Know how your org works (or how to become a more effective engineer)
Written by: Cindy Sridharan

I’ve Been Writing Everyday For 23 Days. Here Are 3 Ways It’s Reminded Me Of Working On Software Delivery Teams.
Written by: Vernon Richards

On Premise vs. Cloud – Where to Test
Written by: Vipin Jain

What Is DevTestOps?
Written by: Raj Subrameyer

Why Trust is the New Cloud Risk
Written by: Eric Kedrosky

EXTRA:

Software Maintenance
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Quote of the day:
“Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride” -Mark Z. Danielewski

Five Blogs – 1 July 2021

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

In Test We Trust
Written by: Patrick Prill

On Types
Written by: Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)

Practice Makes Better – 5x to Continuous Releases
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Delivering Information vs. Delivering Meta-Information
Written by: Elizabeth Zagroba

What are an SDET’s roles and responsibilities?
Written by: Matthew Grasberger

Quote of the day:
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing” -Hunter S. Thompson

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Five Blogs – 11 November 2019

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

Six Things Your Team Wants from You as Their Product Owner
Written by: Mike Cohn

SQL Query Secrets
Written by: Kristin Jackvony

Continuous Delivery: The Ultimate Boundary of Continuous Testing
Written by: TestingWhiz

How to Perform Manual Mobile Testing Effectively?
Written by: Victoria Bezsmolna

Security Tips for App Development
Written by: Aimee Laurence

Quote of the day:
“Don’t apologize for having high standards, the right people will come your way.” -Suede Brooks

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Five Blogs – 18 October 2019

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Getting Started with SpecFlow
Written by: Bas Dijkstra

How to Get Noticed by Your Boss’s Boss
Written by: Melissa Raffoni

5 Best Benefits of Implementing CI/CD in Your Organization
Written by: Katalon Studio Team

All testing is exploratory: change my mind
Written by: Lee Hawkins

Testing Predictive Analytics Models
Written by: Michael G. Solomon

Quote of the day:
“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand—relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.” -Osho

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Five Blogs – 3 October 2019

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

What foundational Agile/Lean concepts must I be a zealot about?
Written by: Jason Yip

Why Testing in Production is Critical to Your Development Process
Written by: Victoria Bezsmolna

Working On Hitting a Release Cadence? CI/CD Observability Can Help You Get There
Written by: Deirdre Mahon

10 Ways to Be Strategic With Your Time and Efforts
Written by: Gary Peterson

Agile Tips to Make the Most of Conferences
Written by: Jeffery Payne

Quote of the day:
“It is good people who make good places” -Anna Sewell

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