Blogspy 139: Our Round-up of the best software testing blog posts from the blogosphere

Welcome to this week’s blog spy. The last post from our start-up series, Test Bash experiences, first talk nerves, continuous testing, the art of attention in exploratory testing and more.

 

Start-Up Series: Why I’m Building A Tech Startup For Product Makers – Simon Tomes

In his final blog post for Test Huddle, Simon tells us his product Qeek has changed, what’s new and why the focus has now become software for product developers.

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Oracles from the Inside Out, Part 9: Conference as Oracle and as Destination – Michael Bolton

Michael continues his series of blog posts on reasoning about problems. With this blog post, he focuses on an experience he had while working in a test consultant role.

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Why The AST Sponsor Other Conferences – Ilari Henrik Aegerter

The Association of Software Testers has just announced that they are moving into the area of sponsorship for other software testing events apart from their own Conference (CAST). If you have a meet-up or conference that might align with what their philosophy, this might be of interest to you.

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My TestBash 2016 experience  – Patrick Prill

Patrick describes his experiences at this year’s Test Bash including speaking at the main Conference.

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Continuous QA: Bridging Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery – Kyle Nordeen

A topical discussion this week as we have our continuous integration and continuous delivery webinar coming up on Test Huddle. Here Kyle looks at what continuous delivery is but also points to the importance of continuous testing.

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7 Things Awesome Testers do That Don’t Look Like Testing – Simon Knight

Simon offers an insight into the world of software testers for non-testers especially managers and explains why some non-testing activities are an important part of the testing skillset.

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Preparing For My First Ever Conference Talk – Nicola Owen

Nicola, has just accomplished her first talk at a testing conference with the session she gave at Test Bash last week. Here she reveals how she prepared for the event and what she might do differently for next time.

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Not sure about something? Ask questions… – Gareth Waterhouse

It’s important for testers in a development team to ask questions. Gareth writes on what testers can do if they want to overcome the issue of not being able to ask questions.

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The Art of Attention to Detail in Exploratory Testing – Jeff Nyman

Jeff uses the example of testing the  Star Wars: The Old Republic game to disucss the importance of being aware of the detail when exploratory testing.

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