Blogspy 136: Our Round-up of the best software testing blog posts from the blogosphere

Welcome to this week’s blog spy. This week we feature testing blog posts on software quality, useful Chrome tools, tips to become an independent tester and more.

 

Top 4 open source issue tracking tools – Jason Baker

Jason conducts a poll and takes a through look at four open source bug tracking tools and how you can get your hands on them.

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Crafting Quality Software – Ben Linders

Ben Linders meets Tarcio Saraiva and Adam Crough at the 1st Conference in Australia and discusses all things software quality.

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10 Advanced WebDriver Tips and Tricks Part 2 – Anton Angelov

We featured Part one recently and here is a follow-up from Anton on some of the best tricks to make use of WebDriver

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Bug-Free Software? Go For It! – James Thomas

Edited highlights from James’ talk at the second Cambridge Exploratory Workshop on Testing recently. James explores the idea of bug-free software that was announced recently and points the fact that bug free software will still have to be written with code that may just contain bugs.

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40+ Super Useful Chrome Extensions for Software Testing – Amandeep Singh

Compiled by Amandeep Singh, here is a great resource for software testers, a full list of 40 extensions for Google Chrome that you can use for carrying out testing and everything that works with testing.

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The problem with Automation Testers is… – Steve Walton

What does your stereotypical automation tester look like? Steve describes what he believes they look like and offers his own advice if you are that person that he describes.

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8 Pro Tips for Independent Test Consulting – Simon Knight

Simon Knight reflects on his five year in the test consultancy business with some tips for those of you thinking about moving into the area.

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My thoughts on the Context Driven Testing Community – Nicola Owen

Nicola Owen suggests that there should be a eight principle for the context-driven testing community.

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