Blogspy 131: This week’s round-up of the best software testing blog posts from the blogosphere

Welcome to this week’s blog spy. This week’s round-up features everything from poems about our digital world, posture advice, to explaining what integration testing really is. Enjoy!

 

Mapping Biases To Testing, Part 1: Introduction – Maaike Brinkhof

Maaike Brinkhof explores the field of biases, heuristics and fallacies and how these psychological phenomenon can be utilised when it comes to testing.

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Challenge accepted – Integration Testing – Patrick Prill

A response to the blog post we featured last week by James Bach. Patrick Prill takes up the challenge to try and define what integration testing is.

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A Simpler, More Tranquil Existence – Colin Cherry

Not often we feature poems on the testing blogger round-up but Colin Cherry has composed a lovely rhyming poem explaining the reasons why he wants to turn his mobile off.

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The Impending Extinction of Testers – Colin Garlick

Are you a member of a soon to be extinct species? Colin believes that test automation will become the dominant area of testing and that to do any other type of testing in your role, you will have to adapt to doing automation testing first.

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The Drawbacks of Being a Mobile Tester – Daniel Knott

Daniel offers advice on a peril of modern living that we can all identify with; the curse of spending too much time with a mobile device. Here, he offers some advice on how to prevent you getting the kind of shoulder and neck soreness that is associated with spending too much time looking down.

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10 Lessons learned by an Agile Coach in 2015 – Luis Gonçalves

It is too late to still reflect on 2015? I hope not as here Luis looks back on the what he has learned and failed at in 2015 working in Agile. This blog post offers some of the lessons he has learned and wants to pass on.

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Another 10 reasons that make test automation challenging – Andrei Contan

Things seem to be coming in 10’s this week. Andrei Contan explores why test automation is challenging based on the blog post by  Joe Colantonio recently. He adds some reasons why can test automation can have issues too.

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Assisting with inquiries: Part one-Your audience – Rich Rogers

Rich continues his series of posts on using Mind Maps for reporting and how best to display, convey and disseminate the data you have to suit your audience.

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