Five Blogs – 8 June 2021

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

Some thoughts on freelancing, working from home and next steps in my career
Written by: Bas Dijkstra

Software Tester or Lazy Developer?
Written by: Kristin Jackvony

On Inattentional Blindness and Popular Culture
Written by: Peter Varhol

Stop Writing Overdone Test Plans
Written by: Jesper Ottosen

The Remote Work Genie is Out of the Bottle
Written by: Steve Keating

Quote of the day:
“You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.” -Ozzy Osbourne

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Five Blogs – 8 April 2021

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Role of Test Automation in DevOps
Written by: TestingWhiz

How eBay Leverages Kubernetes, Helm Charts and Jenkins Pipelines to Deliver High-Quality Software
Written by: Ramit Bedi, Rocky Shang and Zhong Shen

How The Best Leaders Avoid Doing Everyone Else’s Job
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Working as a Freelancer in the Pandemic: Opportunities and Challenges
Written by: Lena Linetti

Leadership Tip #1: Always Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Embarrassed
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Quote of the day:
“Do what makes you uncomfortable and scary and hard, but it will pay off in the long run” -Charlie Day

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Five Blogs – 21 October 2020

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How To Make Sure You Are Living Up to Your Potential
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Agile Coaching Code of Ethics – Systemic Impacts
Written by: Thomas Cagley

Is contracting dead or is there another way
Written by: Matt Craven

Defect Tracking: 5 Common Reasons for Bug Rejection
Written by: Sri Priya P Kulkarni

Five habits to adopt in order to be a better software tester
Written by: Kevin Tuck

Quote of the day:
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” -H.G. Wells

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Five Blogs – 28 November 2019

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How to Negotiate as a Freelancer
Written by: Andres Lares

How to Make Every Day Employee Appreciation Day
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Your overwhelming product backlog is actually two
Written by: Adam Knight

Definition of Done for Test Automation (The Ultimate Test Automation Checklist)
Written by: Nikolay Advolodkin

How to perform test automation maintenance
Written by: Matt Heusser

Quote of the day:
“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say” -Mitch Albom

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Five Blogs – 7 November 2019

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VRT: A series of mistakes
Written by: undevelopedbruce

Am I A Profitable Software Tester?
Written by: Karlo Smid

4 Smart Ways to Get the Most Out of Attending a Conference
Written by: Anna Royzman

Are You Forgetting a Stakeholder?
Written by: Payson Hall

Regression Testing with the Whole Team
Written by: Rachel Kibler

Quote of the day:
“We learn from you. All of this is because of you.” -Ximena Ramirez

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Five Blogs – 17 July 2019

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Moving from Manual to Automated Tests
Written by: Peter G. Walen

What Testers Often Forgot In Test Configuration
Written by: Karlo Smid

Comparison of Test Automation Platforms
Written by: Daniel Knott

Why Consultants Quit Their Jobs to Go Independent
Written by: Dena McCallum, Susan J. Ashford and Brianna Barker Caza

Bugs on a Keyboard: Testing IRL Part 3
Written by: Cassandra H. Leung

Quote of the day:
“Life’s plenty easy when you’re winning. It’s what you do when you’re down. That’s the real test.” -Jami Attenberg

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Five Blogs – 28 May 2019

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Tactical Ideas for Agile Budgeting, Part 1
Written by: Johanna Rothman

3 Challenges to Effective Performance Testing in Continuous Integration
Written by: Federico Toledo

Why AI & ML Will Shake Software Testing up in 2019
Written by: Oleksii Kharkovyna

#NoProjects
Written by: Thomas Cagley

Are You Ready to Go Freelance?
Written by: Brianna Barker Caza et al.

Quote of the day:
“So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.” -Sheryl Sandberg

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Five Blogs – 1 March 2019

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Leadership and Listening
Written by: Wally Bock

Freelancers: How Much Work Is Too Much?
Written by: Eric Karkovack

How to write unit tests in Clean-Swift
Written by: Jeroen de Vrind

Developing Microservices with Behavior Driven Development and Interface Oriented Design
Written by: Kenneth Pugh

Inspecting Elements for writing XPath, CSS Selector in Chrome
Written by: Dwarika Dhish Mishra

Quote of the day:
“A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.” -Martin Leblanc

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Five Blogs – 7 September 2018

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7 Ways to Be a More Effective Leader
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Using Agile and DevOps to Achieve Quality by Design
Written by: Michael Sowers

If Appium had a Brain
Written by: Jason Arbon

3 Lessons Learned By a Full-time Freelancer
Written by: Jeremy Chandler

The Philosophy You Live By
Written by: Randy Gage

Quote of the day:
“And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.” -Junot Dìaz

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Five Blogs – 14 August 2018

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Doing nothing often leads to the very best something
Written by: Mary Jo Asmus

The Trust Feedback Loop
Written by: Jesse Lyn Stoner

Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
Written by: Michael Lynch

A Day in the Life of an Agile Tester
Written by: Nishi Grover Garg

Getting the Best Out of a Difficult Work Relationship
Written by: Zach Morgan

Quote of the day:
“Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.” -Gayle Forman

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