Blogspy 184: The best in Software Testing Blogs Digest

Each week on Huddle we rule over, examine and consider the most recent software testing blogs digest. This week in our round-up of the best software Testing blog posts we feature how Kanban saved Agile, Visual Validation Tools, building a testing product and more.

 

How Kanban saved Agile – Travis Birch

So how did Kanban save Agile as a process? In this blog post, Travis describes how it happened.

Read More About How Kanban Saved Agile here

 

Start-Up Series: Building A Start-Up Product – Gordon Marsh

In the last post of the second series of the our Start-Up feature; Gordon goes back to basics and explains what a successful product for the software testing industry and even for any industry should look like. How do you get it right between the good, the bad and the ugly?

Read More About Getting the Product Right here

 

Best Practice? – Maaike Brinkhof

As the title suggests, Maaike is not the biggest fan of Best Practice. In this post, she looks at what is Best Practice through a number of definitions.

Read More About Best Practise in Testing here

 

The Top 21 FREE Visual Validation Tools for Testers – Joe Colantonio

Joe compiles a very useful list of some of the best Visual validation tools for testers that may come in useful. The list features descriptions and GitHub ratings.

Read More About Visual Validation Tools for Testers here

 

Trust Automation – Bas Dijkstra

Bas explains why the real value of test automation is not finding bugs but confidence and to get to confidence you have to achieve trust with your checks.

Read More On Automation here

 

Every project needs a “No user would do that” day of testing – Pradeep Soundararajan

Pradeep looks back at the recent problems for Gitlab.com who lost their database recently after none of the back-ups worked and shares why every product releases should have a day of testing for things that no user would do to see what  happens.

Read More Here

 

All Our Tests Should Always Pass – Will Yates

Will shares some thoughts on testing in Continuous Integration. If your tests are always passing, are you being lulled into a false sense of security?

Read More On CI testing here

 

The Break-Up – Alan Page

Alan shares his story of a 22 year long relationship which has ended recently. As he reveals, the relationship he had had its ups and downs but now he reveals why it is time to move on.

Read More here

 

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