Welcome to this week’s Blog Spy, our round-up of the best software testing blogs from around the world from the last week. This week we share stories on 10 tips for software testing in 2017, Augmented Agile Testing, Humour in Testing and more.
Ten Ways to Build Your Software Testing Skills – Randy Rice
Just in time for the New Year, Randy Rice offers some suggestions for the way a software tester can build their own skills. Broken into ten different suggestions, his ideas are a useful way to start your new year as a tester.
Read More about Building Software Testing Skills here
Augmenting Testing in your Agile Team: A Success Story – Mike Hrycyk
From his own perspective, Mike relates an experience that led him to successfully work with his Agile team despite the team being located across many different locations.
Read More about Testing In A Remote Agile Team here
Taking Software Testing More Seriously By Using Humour – Alan Richardson
Alan shares his opinion on how humour can be used in process like Agile to get some hard truths across to other team members. He suggests some comedians to watch to help with trying out this idea.
Automation: A Definition – Paul Grizzaffi
In this blog post, the first of a series, Paul starts with the basics and asks what is automation in testing and offers a definition of his own.
Read More on Defining Automation here
Is Manual Testing Dying? – Albert Gareev
While on the subject of Automation, the question of how the future might look for manual testing has often been asked. Albert dissects the question and offers his own answer.
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