Reading Recommendations

Welcome to the 52th edition of my reading recommendations! Since one year I am reading and collecting interesting posts about software testing, software development and sometimes posts that are not dealing with the main topics but may be of interest for you, too.

The anniversary edition contains 9 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you and one youtube video which shows an awesome mobile automation robot. There are posts with the following headlines “Test Automation Sells”, “A bug that thaught that we’re implementing too much”, “Why We Struggle with Change”, “Testing Trapeze February Edition”, “Can we stop saying we break software”, “The new Testing Conference”, “How blogging can improve your testing”, “Do You Actually Know What Your Automated Test Is Doing?” and “The Importance of Acceptance Criteria”.

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.

	Test Automation Sells | Hello Test World Somewhere I saw a statement that testing today is about 25% of IT budgets with a tendency to increase. Not sure if that’s true but even half of that is a lot of money. So of course managers and financial controllers are looking where they can eek out any spare $s. Because testing and quality…
Source: hellotestworld.com/2016/02/18/test-automation-sells/

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The 51th edition of the reading recommendations contains 6 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. The first one is from Richard Bradshaw and is about “A Four Week Approach to Creating Abstracts”. The next post is from Robert Lambert with the topic “The Problems with Meetings”. Then there is a post with the topic “6 Questions To Ask Before Releasing Software”. Another very interesting article is about the current date bug in iOS which can brick your i-device when setting the date to 1st of January 1970.
Last week the Google engineers released EarlGrey a functional UI testing framework and the initial post is in this list, too. The last post for this week is from Simon Knight with the topic “Narrow Your Focus to Reach the Right People With Your Words”.

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.

	Friendly Tester: A Four Week Approach to Creating Abstracts
Source: www.thefriendlytester.co.uk/2016/02/a-four-week-approach-to-creating.html

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Amazing, this is already the 50th edition of the reading recommendations. I hope you liked them so far. This week there are 7 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. This time there are articles from Markus Gärtner, Lisa Crispin and Richard Bradshaw just to name some of the great bloggers in this series.

There are posts about “Testing Beyond the UI”, “It’s not all about the devices”, “Few Best Practices Around Mobile Testing Agility”, “What Flaky Tests Can Tell You”, “Testing inside one sprint’s time”, “Helping a large team focus!” and “Why Was This Check Created?”.

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.

	Adventures in Automation: Testing Beyond the UI: The Testing Pyramid
Source: www.tjmaher.com/2016/02/testing-beyond-ui-testing-pyramid.html

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The 49th edition of the reading recommendations contains 6 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. The first post is a really nice one, it is about a man who’s surname is Null which lead to funny problems.  The second post is from Katrina Clokie about Introverts in Agile which I really like and you should read it, too. Then there is the white paper from James Bach & Michael Bolton about a context driven approach to test automation which I recommend everybody to read and to share with non-testers, too.

The other posts are dealing with the topics “What Do Software Testers do?”, “How to get started with conference speaking” and “The Ultimate List of 100 Software Testing Quotes”.

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.

	Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers | WIRED My last name is “Null,” and it comes preloaded with entertainment value.My last name is “Null,” and it comes preloaded with entertainment value.
Source: www.wired.com/2015/11/null

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The 48th edition of the reading recommendations contains 8 interesting blog posts with various topics that might be of interest for you. The first post was published on Ministry of Testing and is about “10 Great Questions from tester to Architect”. Another post is about Teaching = Learning which was very interesting to read. Then there is the second part of James Bach interview about integration testing. Another very interesting post is about “What on earth can just 2 days of testing do for a project?”. Then there is a post about automated tests with A/B testing. The last 2 posts are about mobile testing and have the topics “Mobile testing in an IoT world” and “Five myths about automated mobile UI testing”.

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.

	10 Great Questions from Tester to Architect – Ministry of Testing
Source: www.ministryoftesting.com/2016/01/10-great-questions-from-tester-to-architect/

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