Blogspy 185: Software Testing Blogs Digest

This week in our Huddle blog round-up of the best software testing blog posts from the last week we feature posts on Slack integration, using SOAP UI for time out issues, distributed mob testing and more.

 

The Best Slack Intergrations For Distributed Software Teams – Tamás Török

How do you communicate with your team that is in a number of different locations. Perhaps Slack is the answer? Tamas takes you through how Slack can be used for working as part of a distributed team.

Read More on Slack Intergration for Distributed Teams

 

How To… SoapUI: Testing Client Timeouts And Delays – Brendan Connolly

Timeouts can be a problem for client’s software. How do you test for this? In his monthly blog post, Brendan shows how to use SOAP UI to test client timeouts and delays.

Read More on Testing Timeouts here

 

People Are Strange – James Thomas

James comments on a few management books he has read recently and what he has taken from them that can be applied to management in testing teams.

Read More on Test Management here

 

Enhanced Selenium WebDriver Page Objects – Anton Angelov

Page Object Pattern is a popular design patterns in Web Automation. There are different approaches to take but Anton wants to share how using partial classes can be beneficial.

Read More here

 

How Long Can I Remain a [Ruby, Java, C++, Python, …]  Programmer? – Gerald Weinberg

What are the prospects if you only work in one programming language? Gerald Weinberg shares his thoughts on the prospects.

Read More Here

 

Test Manager vs. Test Coach – Katrina Clokie

What is a test coach? Is it just an agile manager? Katrina shares what she sees as the difference between the two roles.

Read More here

 

A distributed mob testing session – Maaike Brinkhof

Maaike describes in detail her experience of a distributed mob testing session and how the experience was for her.

Read More on Mob Testing here

 

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes – Colin Cherry

In a sort-of farewell post, Colin Cherry reveals that he will be taking a step back from blogging on testing to focus on other areas. Here Colin reflects on why he started the blog and what it has achieved for him.

Read More here

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