Blogspy 142: Our Round-up of the best software testing blog posts from the blogosphere

Welcome to this week’s Blog Spy. Development Errors, Women in tech, 100% test coverage and more featured.

 

5 Manual Test Case Writing Hacks – Kyle McMeekin

Kyle suggest five things you need to include in your test cases to make them as high as quality as possible.

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Software bugs? Avoid these 10 costly programming mistakes – David Gewirtz

David as a programmer suggest some of the common mistakes that developers make that could be addressed to reduce the number of bugs around.

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Product Moving Parts As Source For Test Strategy – Karlo Smid

Karlo writes about how he has  addresses test strategy for a product release when dealing with product moving parts.

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How to get more women presenters for conferences, and, why there are so few – Lisa Crispin

Women in tech and especially the opportunities for women in tech industries has been a topical discussion area in recent years. The prominence, or lack of, of female speakers at tech events has recently become part of this wider dialogue. Here Lisa explains how she believes more women could be recruited as speakers at Testing conferences.

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Should you be using Distributed Testing for Performance Testing? – Tarun Kumar

Tarun discusses the issues with using JMeter and distributed mode when performance testing.

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100% Coverage is Possible – Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton challenges you to believe that 100% coverage is possible but what does 100% coverage mean?

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On Facts, Numbers, Emotions and Software Releases – Pete Walen

Pete discusses some recent research that suggests the way to make arguments is to focus on emotions rather than the hard facts and how this can affect your testing.

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