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Reading Recommendations # 58

May 7, 2018April 13, 2016 by Daniel

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 58th edition of my reading recommendations. This time the edition contains 6 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. There are topics like “When Product Management Goes Wrong – Part 2”, “Repetition in testing “, “How to Address Flaky Tests”, “Put down the pitchforks and pick up a keyboard”, “The 9 Coaching Roles” and “How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes”. This episode has a nice mixture of testing, product and coaching posts.

Enjoy reading the posts and send me new ones that are worth reading and I will mention you and link to your social links or blog.

	Jonathan Kohl \| When Product Management Goes Wrong – Part 2 – the Dinosaur
Source: www.kohl.ca/2016/when-product-management-goes-wrong-part-2-the-dinosaur/

State of Testing Report 2016

May 7, 2018April 4, 2016 by Daniel

It’s here, the results of the latest state of testing report from 2016. I just got the information from Joel and Lalit that the results are ready to share with the whole world and the testing community. I hope you participated in the survey to see how the whole software testing community is evolving and improving.

In 2015 more than 900 people (2013: 600 people participated), software testers, from all over the world participated in the survey and the insights where just great. If you want to see 2015 results read my blog post from last year. For the 2016 survey the goal was to reach even more software testers out there and the results is just awesome. More than 1,000 software testing professionals from more than 60 countries participated in the survey. Here is a short overview of the top 4 countries:

2016 Will Be the Year for Wearables So Test Wisely

May 7, 2018February 1, 2016 by Daniel

The following article “2016 Will Be the Year for Wearables So Test Wisely” is a guest blog post by Eran Kinsbruner who is the Mobile Evangelist at Perfecto, one of the leading mobile cloud and automation companies. This article is the introduction to my smartwatch app testing series which will start next week.

You don’t have to look far to see the digital transition in practice. Airlines, banks and retail giants are making their products available on various digital platforms to satisfy their customers, grow their business and compete in a challenging market. Wearable devices such as smartwatches and health and fitness trackers will continue making progress in 2016. According to an IDC report, basic wearables such as fitness trackers are growing by 76% year-over-year, while smart wearables like smartwatches are growing far faster.

EuroStar Conference – How to get on Board

May 7, 2018January 29, 2016 by Daniel

The EuroStar conference is one of the software testing conferences in Europe that every tester should try to attend. It is a great conference to meet great software testers from all over the world to exchange and share your own knowledge and to learn something new. Maybe you consider talking at EuroStar 2016 then you have a chance to submit a paper until 05.02.2016. This years conference topic is “Learning to Test, Testing to Learn”. If you consider to send a paper to the conference have a look at the following video where several software testing experts give tips why and how you should send your paper.

93 Most Popular Software Testing Blogs In 2015

May 7, 2018January 7, 2016 by Daniel

Since 2014 TestBuffet is creating a list of the most popular software testing blogs from the last year. TestBuffet defines itself like this:

“Our goal is to bring structure in this web of information. We gather software testing related blogs from around the world, assign them a category and rank those blogs by their popularity. This could be a good place for testers to start reading.”

And TestBuffet is a great place to find various software testings from around the world. In order to be considered in the ranking a blog has to meet specific entry criteria. The criteria are:

At least three blog posts between 1st of January to the next year January.
The blog is offering a feed and can be accessed without any errors.
The blog is about software testing.

Last year 114 blogs were ranked to be worth reading and my blog www.adventuresinqa.com was ranked on position 29, which was a huge success for me. For the best blogs in 2015, 353 software testing blogs participated in the ranking, but just 93 passed all the criteria and this list is now available here.