Five Blogs – 29 November 2019

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

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 – 22 October 2019

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SLOs Are the API for Your Engineering Team
Written by: Charity Majors

Considering How We Define Success
Written by: Zach Morgan

How to Actually Start the Task You’ve Been Avoiding
Written by: Peter Bregman

How Do You Know Something Is A Bug? – Using Mental Models and Oracles in Testing
Written by: Joost van Wollingen

Overcoming Barriers to Effective Communications in Agile Teams
Written by: Nishi Grover Garg

Quote of the day:
“The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth” -Jean-Paul Sartre

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Five Blogs – 15 December 2017

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

On preventing your test suite from becoming too user interface-heavy
Written by: Bas Dijkstra

Are You a Micromanager or a Macromanager?
Written by: Julie Giulioni

A new model for test strategies… (An update to the Heuristic Test Strategy Model).
Written by: Dan Ashby

The Tester’s Mindset
Written by: Paul Merrill

The 8 Best Interview Questions You Could Ever Ask
Written by: Jim Haudan

Quote of the day:
“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day” -John Steinbeck

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Five Blogs – 19 January 2017

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Enabling serendipity to test your mental product models
Written by: Göran Bakken

Let them paste passwords
Written by: Sacha B

Dealing with Missed Deadlines One Asana at a Time
Written by: Molly Page

What Are You Packing on Life’s Journey?
Written by: Kaarina Dillabough

Today’s Leadership Models Fail To Address Responsive And Responsible Leadership
Written by: R “Ray” Wang

Quote of the day:
“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction” -Al Bernstein

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Five Blogs – 21 April 2016

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

Why Being a Good Observer Matters
Written by: Jon Mertz

7 Habits That May Actually Change The Brain, According To Science
Written by: Alice G. Walton

On shaping my career in test automation
Written by: Bas Dijkstra

Minimum Viable Automation
Written by: Adam Knight

It’s Not A Factory
Written by: Michael Bolton

Quote of the day:
“The challenge of our unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of our accomplished past” -Simon Sinek

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Five Blogs – 24 December 2015

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

Abstraction, or, The Gift of Our Weak Brains
Written by: Mike Dalessio

5 Ways to Minimize Office Distractions
Written by: Joseph Grenny

Defining Your Work Is Part of Your Work
Written by: Francisco Sáez

10 Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself Every Day
Written by: Chris Dessi

Test Execution Model – updated
Written by: John Stevenson

Quote of the day:
“Recognition is an expression of someone else’s values” -Dan Rockwell

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Five Blogs – 6 February 2015

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What Model Do Your Estimates Follow?
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Unleash your coding superpowers in your free time
Written by: Neil Studd

Does Automation Make Software Testers Lazier?
Written by: Testuff

How To Open Up People’s Minds to Change
Written by: Jeremy Dean

When the manager’s out, the coaches dance on the table
Written by: Joakim Holm

Quote of the day:
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken” -Neil Gaiman

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Five Blogs – 4 November 2014

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

Artful Persuasion
Written by: Adam Howard

The Scrum Master Role Is a Huge Waste of Human Potential
Written by: Bob Marshall

How to sell TDD to ..?
Written by: Markus Gärtner

Throwing Kool-Aid on the Burning Books
Written by: Michael Bolton

The [Long] Road To #NoEstimates
Written by: Andy Deighton

Quote of the day:
“Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one” -Walter Payton

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Five Blogs – 13 October 2014

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The Brodzinski’s estimation scale for a task
Written by: Maurizio Turatti

Could You Be Off Course Without Knowing It?
Written by: Jesse Lyn Stoner

Innovation Tools: Abstraction
Written by: Simon Knight

6 ‘Smart’ Reasons to Meet New People Any Opportunity You Can
Written by: Cynthia Bazin

Three examples of context-driven testing using visual test coverage modelling
Written by: Katrina Clokie

Quote of the day:
“All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief” -Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Five Blogs – 29 August 2014

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

ISO 29119 one standard to rule them all?
Written by: Scott Dickie

Why we need realism in testing
Written by: Erik Brickarp

How to create a visual test coverage model
Written by: Katrina Clokie

Why change? Why not?
Written by: Duane Dike

The Most Important Leadership Behavior That Builds Trust (and 3 ways to demonstrate it)
Written by: Randy Conley

EXTRA:

Please sign the Petition to Stop ISO 29119
Written by: Cem Kaner

Quote of the day:
“Memory belongs to the imagination” -Alain Robbe-Grillet

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