Blogspy 132: 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 advice on how to submit to a testing conference to being an introvert in Agile and more.

 

A model for communication in software development – Thomas Ponnet

Thomas Ponnet has developed a model for communicating testing during software development which he has already presented at DEWT in the Netherlands. Here he explains the model in more detail and how it can be used.

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From the Chair’s Table: Submitting to EuroSTAR 2016 in the nick of time – Shmuel Gershon

It’s only a matter of days before the deadline for submissions for EuroSTAR 2016. If you still have a idea that you think is worth submitting to EuroSTAR but maybe arenet sure how to get it off the ground, then you should read Shmuel’s post on how it’s possible to develop an idea in a short space of time.

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Functional Testing Simplified: The Process, Approach, Techniques & Examples – Sanjay Zalavadia

Sanjay explains all there is to learn about functional testing including a summary of techniques, approaches and examples so basically everything about functional testing you could want.

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Introverts in Agile – Katrina Clokie

Katrina addresses how an introverted person can get the most out of being part of an Agile team and how she approaches being an introvert in an Agile world.

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10 Tips For Submitting To A Software Testing Conference

Based on the conversation that EuroSTAR Chair 2016, Shmuel Gershon and EuroSTAR 2015 Chair, Ruud Teunissen  had recently as part of a Hangout on Test Huddle, here are ten tips that will be useful to you if you are submitting to a testing conference.

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A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing – Michael Bolton

This week both Michael Bolton and James Bach have released a paper on the interaction between context-driven testing and automation and automation tools. The paper is a long read but as Michael states “it’s not a light subject”.

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Tweaking automated checks: part four – Meike Mertsch

Part four of the series from Meike Mertsch who continues her exploration of working with automated checks which includes the suggested code she uses to adapt these checks.

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End of one thing. Start of another – Rob Lambert

Rob Lambert has decided to hang up his testing hat for now as he winds down the Social Tester blog. Rob is moveing into talking more about management and so will be posting from his new blog Cultivated Management.

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Ronan Healy

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