Blogspy 141: Our Round-up of the best software testing blog posts from the blogosphere

Welcome to this week’s blog spy. This week aspects of test automation, addressing flaky tests, the context of being a software tester and more.

 

4 Skills Every Test Team Needs – Francis Adanza

Francis describes what the four essential skills every tester needs. Do you agree with them?

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Advanced Reuse Tactics for Grid Controls Automated Tests – Anton  Angelov

Here Anton looks at grid control in automated tests as part of his continuing series.

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How to Address Flaky Tests – Martin Poschenrieder

Martin examines how you might solve the problem of those tests that pass but then subsequently fail on future tests.

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Time estimates in testing Part 1 – Erik Brickarp

Eric discusses time management in testing and in particular how to forecast time estimates for your testing.

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Three things everybody should know about test automation – Bas Dijkstra

Bas sheds some light on some what he believes are the fundamental concepts of test Automation.

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Heuristics & Oracles – Rajesh Mathur

Following on from Michael Bolton’s recent post on this topic, Rajesh writes on his understanding of heuristics and oracles.

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Contexts: Am I A Tester? – Mike Picken

Mike address the concept of a software tester and when does one really become a software tester?

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