Blogspy 214: Round-Up of Software Testing Blogs of The Week

Welcome to the weekly edition of the Huddle Blogspy in which bring you the top software blogs of the week with our software testing Roundup. This week we feature posts on the real Options, the history of Testing Paradigms, Test Managers Role and where to start learning to test.

 

Test Manager Role: How To Get The Best Out Of Time And Resources | Oyvind Woll

In a wide ranging post, Oyvind shares how in his role as a test manager on a new project how he and his team got through the project by making the best use of their available time and resources.

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On Real Options and Speculative Investments | Liz Keogh

Liz takes a look at software development with an examination of options, speculative investments and commitments and how that affects a software project.

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Testing From Waterfall To Agile To DevOps: How It Evolved And What The Future Holds | Amanda Green

Amanda takes a look back at how the software development process has change over the pass twenty years and what it could mean for the future.

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Why is Testing Expensive? | Simon Knight

Testers perform a lot more duties than just testing. In this post Simon shares what some of those duties are, why testers are not acknowledged for these duties and why is it that testing is deemed expensive?

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Full Page Screenshots in WebDriver via Custom-built Browser Extension | Anton Angelov

Continuing his series on aspects of Selenium Webdrive, Anton shares how to take full page screenshots in Webdriver with some featured code.

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Alternatives for Agile & Lean Roadmapping: Part 2 – Rolling Wave Planning Inside One Quarter | Johanna Rothman

The second part of her series of posts alternatives for Agile. This post focuses on Rolling Wave planning and how it can be implemented by a team for their software development process.

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Mentoring Question: Where Do I Start Learning Testing | Viktor Slavchev

Rather than go into the details, Victor takes a wide ranging view on how someone should approach learning how to work as a software tester.

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