Five Blogs – 23 May 2017

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

Coding is key to a test automation career: Are you prepared?
Written by: T.J. Maher

Too Many Tests?
Written by: Dave Westerveld

9 Ways to Become a First Class Noticer
Written by: Simon Knight

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Written by: Charity Majors

How to Make Raising Difficult Issues Everyone’s Job
Written by: Ron Carucci

Quote of the day:
“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act” -George Orwell

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Five Blogs – 14 September 2016

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When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating
Written by: Colm Healy and Karen Niven

21 Infamous & Expensive Software Bugs
Written by: 99tests

Nine Info Security Mistakes Employees Make Over and Over Again
Written by: Marc Dunlop

Debunking 8 Common Myths About Trust
Written by: Randy Conley

What Test Engineers do at Google
Written by: Matt Lowrie, Manjusha Parvathaneni, Benjamin Pick, and Jochen Wuttke

Quote of the day:
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful” -Sigmund Freud

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Five Blogs – 7 June 2016

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Career Paths For Testers
Written by: Connor Roberts

Nuance on leaving testing to the experts
Written by: Anne-Marie Charrett

Engineering as a Driving Force Behind the Design-Thinking Movement
Written by: Bob Sutton

The Various Types of Usability Testing
Written by: Melissa Allen

Let A 1,000 Flowers Bloom. Then Rip 999 Of Them Out By The Roots.
Written by: Peter Seibel

Quote of the day:
“Don’t count the days, make the days count” -Muhammad Ali

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Five Blogs – 11 April 2016

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

Do Three Important Things Every Single Day
Written by: Craig Jarrow

Software testing: craft or engineering?
Written by: Lee Hawkins

What Gets You Up in the Morning?
Written by: Sally Helgesen

7 Things to Think About Before Setting Your Freelance Rates
Written by: Patrick Dodd

12 Easy Ways to Get Over Your Laziness
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Quote of the day:
“Always be open to criticism. It helps you grow” -Daily Zen

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Five Blogs – 17 December 2015

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

Collaboration Is The New Competitive Advantage
Written by: Greg Satell

Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a Net
Written by: Tekla Perry

Why Isn’t Testing Easier?
Written by: James Thomas

Treat Employees Like Business Owners
Written by: John Case

Donald Trump’s True Leadership Lesson
Written by: Jurgen Appelo

Quote of the day:
“Software estimation is an attempt to shift risk from people in power to people desperate to make them happy” -Unknown

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Five Blogs – 9 March 2015

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

What is mindfulness?
Written by: Kira M. Newman

DevOps vs. Platform Engineering
Written by: Alex Gaynor

No Time to Learn
Written by: George Dinwiddie

Courage and Ambition in Teaching and Learning
Written by: Paul Gerrard

In The Future, Nothing is Certain Except Uncertainty
Written by: Michelle Manafy

Quote of the day:
“My definition of healing is: coming to terms with things as they are” -Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Five Blogs – 7 August 2014

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

Engineering the solution together!
Written by: Dan Billing

7 Small Habits That Will Steal Your Happiness
Written by: Henrik Edberg

Never Stop Learning: How Self-Education Creates a Bullet-Proof Career
Written by: Paul Jun

5 Ways to Use Log Data to Analyze System Performance
Written by: Trevor Parsons

10 Questions your team is afraid to ask
Written by: Karin Hurt

Quote of the day:
“Vision must be followed by venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs” -Vance Havner

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