Five Blogs – 29 January 2022

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Career Options For Testers Unsure What They Can Do Next In Their Careers
Written by: Vernon Richards

How Testers Can Use Three Coaching Questions To Tell Better Testing Stories That Leave Their Stakeholders Well Informed About Their Work.
Written by: Vernon Richards

Diary Of A Professional Nerd – The Time I Became Will Smith’s Virtual Stunt Double And Made It To A Top Ten List
Written by: Vernon Richards

How I Used My Testing Mindset To Defeat The Infamous Wordle 219 Puzzle Without Cheating or Breaking My Streak!
Written by: Vernon Richards

What Is Egan’s 3-Stage Model And How Can It Help You Lead Without Making Your Team Dependant On You
Written by: Vernon Richards

EXTRA:

7 Ways To Spot The Difference Between Scripted Testing Is Different To Exploratory Testing So Do The Most Effective Work
Written by: Vernon Richards

Quote of the day:
“Sometimes we do everything right, and we still lose.” -Ashley Seaver

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Five Blogs – 13 October 2021

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Guide to creating an effective Test Automation Strategy
Written by: Julia Pottinger

Microsoft: 58% of Nation-State Cyberattacks Come From Russia
Written by: Kelly Sheridan

8 Traits of the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Written by: Michael Hyatt

IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
Written by: WhiteHoodHacker

Gray Box Testing – The New Normal?
Written by: Vipin Jain

Quote of the day:
“I wish time would just stand still” -Tsubaki Sawabe

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Five Blogs – 26 July 2021

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5 Types of Tools for Efficient Software Testing
Written by: Raj Subrameyer

Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower
Written by: Johanna Rothman

An approach to teaching Agile 20 years after the Agile Manifesto
Written by: Joep Schuurkes

Ensemble Programming as Idea Integration
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Exploring Requirements with a Tester’s Mindset
Written by: Emna Ayadi

Quote of the day:
“Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.” -Martha Stewart

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Five Blogs – 5 October 2020

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Why senior engineers get nothing done
Written by: Swizec Teller

10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 9
Written by: Maaike Brinkhof

How To Deal With Endless Flow of Action Points?
Written by: Antti Niittyviita

Testing Strategy for Hyperconnected World of IoT
Written by: Rajni Singh

Are You Testing The Quality Into Your Software?
Written by: Richard Estra

Quote of the day:
“I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what that is.” -Ryan Gosling

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Five Blogs – 8 September 2020

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Overworked and Undermotivated at the End of the Summer
Written by: Starr Sackstein

The Leader As Coach
Written by: Keegan Robinson

BDD: Before You Begin (Part 2/2)
Written by: J. B. Rainsberger

Pondering on Requirements
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

How you can build skills and grow using your mindset: Mindset part 4
Written by: Huib Schoots

Quote of the day:
“Don’t be confused. Regret doesn’t come from failure. It comes from giving up.” -Mel Robbins

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Five Blogs – 12 August 2020

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10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 3
Written by: Maaike Brinkhof

How Agile Principles Help in a Remote Working Atmosphere
Written by: Tanya Kumari

How Should I Organize My Automation Team?
Written by: Paul Grizzaffi

Dealing with mindsets: Mindset – part 3
Written by: Huib Schoots

Bad Decisions Don’t Just Happen
Written by: Michael Hyatt

Quote of the day:
“When all else is lost, the future still remains.” -Christian Nestell Bovee

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Five Blogs – 5 August 2020

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10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 2
Written by: Maaike Brinkhof

Looking Back on Perfection and Burnout: Mindset – part 2
Written by: Huib Schoots

One Approach to Interviewing Testers: Episode One
Written by: Geir Gulbrandsen

Why the Most Successful Leaders Don’t Care About Being Liked
Written by: Deborah Grayson Riegel

Creating Your Personal Reality
Written by: Steve Keating

Quote of the day:
“I’ve decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that’s all I can do.” -Haruki Murakami

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Five Blogs – 28 July 2020

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Are Your Latch On?
Written by: James Thomas

Mindset
Written by: Huib Schoots

Book Review: Performance Testing- A Practical Guide and Approach
Written by: Kristin Jackvony

Five Tasks In Exploratory Testing
Written by: Karlo Smid

How Should Agile Teams Deal with Leaders Who Won’t Listen?
Written by: Scott Dunn

Quote of the day:
“This same world that cries, rebuilds. This same world that is shattered, heals.” -Marisa Donnelly

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Five Blogs – 6 March 2020

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Guest Post: From Story Points to Test Driven Development – A Dev Team Story
Written by: Rebecca Schira

The How and Why of Interrupt Tests for Mobile Apps
Written by: Sarah Mischinger

Mastering my mindset
Written by: Huib Schoots

How to Estimate Story Points With Multiple Teams
Written by: Mike Cohn

Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile
Written by: Alessandro Di Fiore

Quote of the day:
“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You’re not responsible for everything. You can’t control the way things end up.” -Courtney Summers

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Five Blogs – 26 November 2018

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Proven Way to Make Most Any Bad Situation Better
Written by: Kare Anderson

A New Way to Become More Open-Minded
Written by: Shane Snow

4 Properties of Highly Testable Code
Written by: Erik Dietrich

How to maximise the work not done
Written by: Augusto Evangelisti

The Mindset Toolkit by Vivien Ronke Ibiyemi
Written by: Jyothi Rangaiah

Quote of the day:
“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.” -Junot Dìaz

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