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What is testing -.- Becoming a (great) tester -.- Hiring (testers) -.- Test Design -.-Testing Skills -.- Context-Driven Testing -.- Rapid Software Testing -.-Exploratory Testing -.- What exploratory Testing is NOT -.- Session Based Test Management -.- Agile & agile testing -.- Heuristics -.- Test Strategy -.- Test Ideas-.- Oracles -.- Testability -.- Regression testing -.- Test Estimation -.- Reporting -.-Standards & certification -.- (Social) Science -.- Learning -.- Visualisation -.-Automation -.- Learn to code -.- Speaking tips -.- Magazines -.- Videos/podcasts-.- Forums/communities -.- Tools -.- More link collections -.- Uncategorized beauties

Testing & What is Testing:

Testing is… by Michael Bolton
What is a tester? by Michael Bolton
What is testing? by Jean-Paul Varwijk (aka Arborosa)
Open letter to EuroStar organizers: testing introduction by Rikard Edgren
Testing explained by Karen Johnson
How is Rapid Testing different from “Factory Style” testing? by James Bach & Michael Bolton
Perfect Software and other illusions about testing (book) by Jerry Weinberg
Testing Computer Software – Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, Hung Q. Nguyen
Testing vs checking by Michael Bolton
Testing and checking refined by James Bach
Open lecture on Software Testing (video) by James Bach
Testing without testing (video) by James Bach
Why testers should look for problems and not defects by Michael Bolton
How to get what you really want from Testing (slides) by Michael Bolton
Beautiful Testing (book) by Tim Riley, Adam Goucher
Foundations of Software Testing: A BBST Workbook (book) by Cem Kaner & Rebecca Fiedler
The Art of Software Testing (book) by Glenford J. Myers
Quality Software Management (vol 1 – 4) – Jerry Weinberg
State of Software Testing (video) by Fiona Charles & Jerry Weinberg
Proving Our Worth: Quantifying the Value of Testing (video) by Lee Copeland
How to Talk to a CIO About Software Testing (If You Really Have to…)(video) by Keith Klain
To The New Tester by James Bach
What Do Testers Do by Tony Bruce

Becoming a (great) tester:

To The New Tester by James Bach
Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business by Michael Bolton
New to software testing? Read this… by Ben Kelly
Becoming a World-Class Tester by Ilari Henrik Aegerter
Heuristics for recognizing professional testers by Huib Schoots
What makes a good tester? by Joel Montvelisky
Flying tester by Allen Johnson
A testers syllabus by James Bach
Responsible tester by James Bach
How to get started in software testing – a few resources by Rob Lambert
The Difference Between Professionals and Amateurs by James Clear
What I expect from my testers by Kristjan Uba
How do I become a great manager? by Jurgen Appelo
Also see the Testing Skills and learning section on this page
Testing Education: Curriculum by Erik Brickarp
Black Ops Testing Videos by Tony, Alan, Steve & James
Why would I need excuses? by Tony Bruce
How do you become a great tester? by Katrina Clokie
How to practice software testing by Erik Brickarp
10 ways software testers can win autonomy and earn respect by Jennifer deJong Lent

Hiring (testers):

How to Find, Interview and Hire Great Software Testers by Simon Knight
EuroStar Webinar “Hiring Professional testers by Huib Schoots
Heuristics for recognizing professional testers by Huib Schoots
To The Hiring Managers and Recruiters (of Software Testers) by Rosie Sherry
Recruiting Software Testers by Cem Kaner
Writing job description for testers (part I and II) by Thomas Ponnet
Hiring Geeks That Fit (book) by Johanna Rothman
Finding the Geek Who Fits by Johanna Rothman
Agile Hiring: It’s a Team Sport by Johanna Rothman
Technical Recruiting at RES Software by Ralph van Roosmalen
Irrelevant interview questions? by Michael Bolton & Rex Black
How Can We Interview Testers Better? by Michael Larsen
How We Hire Engineers – Part 1: Our screener – Part 2: Culture Contribution by Brian White

Test Design:

A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design (book) by Lee Copeland
The Little Black Book on Test Design (free ebook) by Rikard Edgren
How to break Software (book) by James Whittaker
Essential Test Design (free ebook) by Tobbe Ryber
The Domain Testing Workbook (book) by Kaner & Hoffman
Bug Advocacy: A BBST Workbook (book) by Kaner and Fiedler
How Not to Design Pairwise Software Tests by Justin Hunter
Modeling Scenarios using Data by Fiona Charles

Testing Skills:

WHOSE – Skills book
Trying to Teach Testing Skills and Judgment by Rikard Edgren
A new level of testing? by Huib Schoots
Heuristics for recognizing professional testers by Huib Schoots
Two Futures of Software by Michael Bolton
Building a thinking portfolio by Karen Johnson
Off the top of my head – Some skills & personal qualities that a tester can benefit from by Fiona Charles
Exploratory Testing Skills and Dynamics in RST Appendices by James Bach & Michael Bolton
A testers syllabus by James Bach
Responsible tester by James Bach
Breaking the Tyranny of Form – Part 1 by Fiona Charles
Omega Tester: Testing with a Team of One by James Bach
Test Jumpers: One Vision of Agile Testing by James Bach
Driving While Driven: The Way of the Skilled Tester – part 1 – part 2 (video) by James Bach
Thinking skills: Critical Reasoning for Beginner
Problem solving: Solve problems with experiments
Test Framing: Test framing by Michael Bolton
Note taking: An Exploratory Tester’s Notebook by Michael Bolton
Note taking: Why Productive People Take Better Notes by Drake Baer
Asking Questions: The Art of Asking Questions (video) by Karen Johnson
Asking Questions: Richard Feynman on Why Questions
Storytelling: Storytelling Techniques (video) by Karen Johnson
Storytelling: Telling the testing story – Storytelling for testers (Dutch) by Huib Schoots
Communication (using words more carefully and precisely): The Rapid Software Testing Guide to What You Meant To Say (video) by Michael Bolton
Vince Lombardi on the Hidden Power of Mastering the Fundamentals by James Clear
Technical and Non-Technical Testing Skills by John Stevenson
Also see the social science section on this page

Context-Driven Testing:

Context Driven Testing
Context-Driven Testing (Video) by James Bach
What is context-driven testing? by Cem Kaner
Lessons Learned in Software Testing (book) by Cem Kaner, James Bach, Brett Pettichord
The Dual Nature of Context-Driven Testing by James Bach
How Do I know I am Context-driven? by James Bach
If it’s not Context-Driven you can’t do it here part 1 – part 2 (video) by Michael Bolton
Ik ben een context-driven tester! Joh? Echt waar? Nou en? (Dutch) by Huib Schoots
Testing vs Checking by Michael Bolton
Testing and checking refined by James Bach
What being a context-driven tester means to me by Scott Barber
The “Jedi Knights” of Context-Driven Software Testing by Mike Brown
CAST 2011 keynote “Context-Driven Testing” by Michael Bolton
The Thinking Tester, Evolved (Video of CAST 2012 Keynote) by Elisabeth Hendrickson
There Was Not a Breach; There Was a Blog (video, excellent experience report) by Ben Simo

Rapid Software Testing:

Rapid Software Testing by Satisfice
Rapid Software Testing by Developsense
Rapid Software Testing by ImproveQS (Dutch)
Premises of Rapid Software Testing by Michael Bolton – Part 1 – Part 2 –Part 3
Rapid Software Testing – skilled software testing unleashed by Zeger van Hese
Rapid Software Testing – a context-driven test approach By Kristoffer Nordström
Rapid Software Testing vs Rapid Software Testing by Pascal Dufour
How I got to Rapid Software Testing… by David Greenlees
Rapid Software Testing Visualisation by Edwin Kwan
Rapid Software Testing, Under starters orders by Daniel McNamee
We Attended RST because we Want to Grow our Testing Skills at eBay by Ilari Hendrik Aegerter
More Thoughts on My Rapid Software Testing Class with James Bach by Teri Charles
Rapid Software Testing – a Review by Kevin McKay
James Bach geeft Rapid Software Testing-training by Robert Lourens (Dutch)

(Exploratory) Testing:

Exploratory testing 3.0 by James Bach & Michael Bolton
Test cases are not testing: towards a culture of test performance by James Bach & Aaron Hodder
Test cases are not testing: towards a culture of test performance (video) by James Bach
Exploratory Testing Explained by James Bach
What is Exploratory Testing? by James Bach
Understanding Exploratory Testing by James Bach (video)
No more Fooling around (video) by Michael Bolton
Telling your exploratory story (video) by Jon Bach
Explore it! (book) by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Exploratory Testing is not a test technique by Henrik Emilsson
What is Exploratory Testing? by Paul Carvalho
Exploring Exploratory Testing by Andy Tinkham and Cem Kaner
Exploratory Testing Dynamics by James Bach, Jon Bach and Michael Bolton
Resources on Exploratory Testing, Metrics and Other Stuff by Michael Bolton
On Scripting by Michael Bolton
Exploratory Testing collected stuff by James Lyndsay
There are Plenty of Ways to Manage Exploratory Testing by James Lyndsay (webinar)
Exploratory testing in an agile context by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Breaking Down (and building up) Exploratory Testing Skill by Jon Bach
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge and Exploratory Testing by John Stevenson
Papers on ET by James Lyndsay
Demystifying Exploratory Testing by Jonathan Kohl
Structures of exploratory testing by Michael Bolton
An exploratory tester’s notebook by Michael Bolton
Evolving Understanding of Exploratory Testing by Michael Bolton
Testing, Checking, and Convincing the Boss by Michael Bolton
Telling your exploratory story by Jon Bach (video)
Tips for writing better charters by Michael D Kelly (video)
Rigorous exploratory testing by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Coding QA Podcast on Exploratory Testing Part 1 and Part 2 by Michael Bolton
Getting started with exploratory testing part 1 – part 2 – part 3– part 4 by Jonathan Kohl
Interviewing the program by Michael Bolton
Documenting exploratory testing by Jonathan Kohl
User profiles and exploratory testing by Jonathan Kohl
Exploratory testing on agile teams by Jonathan Kohl
Explaining Exploratory Testing Relies On Good Notes by Robert Lambert
Does Exploratory Testing Have A Place On Agile Teams? by Johanna Rothman
10 ways to do ET badly by Tony Bruce
BBST stuff on ET by Cem Kaner
Exploratory Testing – Collected resources by Ministry of Testing
Logging: Exploratory Tester’s Friend by James Bach
Exploratory Testing IS Accountable by Michael Bolton
ET with subtitles (video) by James and Jon Bach
The test case – an deconstruction by Joep Schuurkes
What is this Exploratory Testing Thing? by Tony Bruce
Exploratory Testing for Complex Software; Lessons from Cloud Foundry by Elisabeth Hendrickson

What exploratory Testing is NOT:

Series of blog post on “What Exploratory Testing Is Not” by Michael Bolton:
- Part 1: Touring
- Part 2: After-Everything-Else Testing
- Part 3: Tool-Free Testing
- Part 4: Quick Tests
- Part 5: Undocumented Testing
What Exploratory Testing Is Not by James Bach

Session Based Test Management:

Session Based Test Management by James Bach
Session Based Test Management by Jon Bach
Lessons Learned in Session-Based Exploratory Testing by Paul Carvalho
SBTM is not ET by Paul Carvalho
Adventures in Session-Based Testing by James Lyndsay
You can use the Session Based Test Approach all the time by Peter “Simon” Schrijver
Session Based Test Management – The MindMap by Ministry of Testing
Session Based Test Management – Collected resources by Ministry of Testing
Managing Heuristic Exploratory Testing Based on MindMap by Pekka Marjamäki
Benefits of session-based test management by Katrina Clokie
Reporting session based testing by Katrina Clokie

Agile & Agile testing:

What makes agile testing different? by Huib Schoots
How can I work with agile development? by J.B. Rainsberger
Minimum Reading List for an Agile Transition by Johanna Rothman
The RST agile testing quadrants Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 (video) by Michael Bolton
A tester’s view on James Bach’s presentation ‘The REAL Agile Testing Quadrants’ by Calum McHaffie
What’s More Important: Being Agile or Creating Value? (video) by Johathan Kohl
Testing in an agile software development team? (video) by James Bach
Agile Testing (video) by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Testing Lessons from Extreme Programmers (video) by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Agile Testing & Test Management (video) by Johanna Rothman
Agile testing activity checklist – John Stevenson
Test Jumpers: One Vision of Agile Testing by James Bach
I Prefer This Over Thatv by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Generic Testing Personas by Katrina Clokie
Pair Testing by Katrina Clokie
Sharing testing with non-testers in an agile team by Katrina Clokie
Test Strategy Retrospective by Katrina Clokie
Agile à la Spotify by Joakim Sundén
Self Assessment Tool for Transitioning to Agile by Johanna Rothman
Beyond Method – Using Systems Thinking to Deepen Your Mastery of Agileby Tobias Fors
Making Sense of Complexity by Dave Snowden
Role of testers in Agile Environment by John Stevenson
How to help your agile team succeed by Sharon Florentine
Pitfalls of Agile Transformations by Mary Poppendieck
Why People Don’t Instantly Buy Into Agile Methods: A Catch-22 by Jerry Weinberg
Testing in Continuous Deployment (video) by Kristian Karl
Continuous Delivery Testing Pathway by Katrina Clokie

Heuristics:

The Essence of Heuristics by James Bach
Heuristic Test Strategy Model by James Bach
Heuristics for Understanding Heuristics by Michael Bolton
All Oracles are Heuristic by Michael Bolton
Testing Mnemonics Listing by Lynn McKee
Stopping heuristics: When Do We Stop a Test? by Michael Bolton
When Do We Stop Testing? One More Sure Thing by Michael Bolton
Collecting domain-specific test heuristics by Katrina Clokie
Software Testing Heuristics & Mnemonics by Karen Johnson

Test Strategy:

DEWT5 Report: test strategy
Heuristic test strategy model
Explaining Heuristic Test Strategy Model in Two Minutes by Michael Bolton (video)
Test Strategy – Next Level by Rikard Edgren
Test Strategy Checklist by Rikard Edgren
Lightweight characteristics testing by Rikard Edgren
A Question About Test Strategy by James Bach
What Should A Test Plan Contain? by Michael Bolton
Basics Revisited: Test Strategy by Fiona Charles
Make Risk Based Testing a Reality (video) by Fiona Charles
Thinking Strategically About Testing (video) by Fiona Charles
Mind, Map and Strategy (video) by Fiona Charles
Unburdening Testing – Finding the balance point for test documentation(video) by Fiona Charles
Test Strategy – a pile of paper or actually something useful? by Anna Brunell
Teststrategie met behulp van heuristieken: een praktische aanpak voor iedereen! (Dutch) by Huib Schoots
Also see the Test Ideas and Visualisation sections on this page

Test Ideas:

Heuristic test strategy model
ET dynamics
The Little Black Book on Test Design
37 Sources for Test Ideas
Software Quality Characteristics (UK) or Software Kwaliteit Kenmerken(Dutch) or find more translations here.
Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
Testing Mnemonics
10 sources of Testing Ideas
Software Testing Mindmaps
Several Checklists
Touring Heuristic
You Are Not Done Yet (checklist)
8-layer testing model
36 days of web testing
Checklist: How To Generate Test Ideas
Test Requirement Catalog – Generic Clues, Developer Version

Oracles:

FEW HICCUPPS by Michael Bolton
Oracles from the Inside Out by Michael Bolton
- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: Experience, Mental Models, and Feelings
- Part 3: From Experience Directly to Conference
- Part 4: From Experience to Inference
- Part 5: Oracles as References as Media
- Part 6: Oracles as Extensions of Testers
- Part 7: References as Checks
What’s Comparable: part 1 & part 2 by Michael Bolton
Testing without a map by Michael Bolton
The Oracle Problem and the Teaching of Software Testing by Cem Kaner
Heuristic Test Oracles by Doug Hoffman
Black Box Software Testing – Test Oracles by James Bach & Cem Kaner
BBST – Lectures: Oracles by Cem Kaner part 1 – part 2 – part 3 (video)
Recognizing a problem in eBay’s iPad app by Chris Kenst
Revealing Oracles by Anne-Marie Charrett
Collected blogpost on Oracles by Michael Bolton

Testability:

Heuristics of testability (video) by James Bach
Heuristics of testability (slides) by James Bach
Heuristics of software testability by James Bach
Testability – blogpost by Michael Bolton
Testability vs. Wtf’s per minute by Markus Gärtner
Putting your Testability Socks On by Adam Knight
A Map for Testability by Adam Knight

Regression testing:

Rethinking Regression by Iain McCowatt – Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Anti-Regression Approaches by Paul Gerrard – Part 1, 2, 3, 4
Regression Obsession (video) by Michael Bolton
Regression mnemonic: RCRCRC by Karen Johnson

Test Estimation:

Why is testing taking so long by Michael Bolton
Test effort estimation getting it wrong by Pradeep Soundararajan
Test project estimation the rapid way by Michael Bolton
Test estimation is really negotiation by Michael Bolton
Project estimation and black swans by Michael Bolton (also read part 2, 3, 4and 5)
Thoughts around test estimation by Aaron Hodder
Test Estimation and the Art of Negotiation by Lynn McKee & Nancy Kelln
Estimating projects history of failure by Jerry Weinberg
Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule (book) by Johanna Rothman

Reporting:

Pass vs. Fail vs. Is There a Problem Here? by Michael Bolton
Test Reporting Part 1: Why pass vs. fail rates are unethical by Michael Bolton
Test Reporting Part 2: Braiding the stories by Michael Bolton
Test Reporting Part 3: Delivering the news by Michael Bolton
A low tech testing dashboard by James Bach
How to give a professional test report by James Bach
I think we have an issue – Delivering Unwelcome Messages (video) by Fiona Charles
Bug Severity vs. Priority by Fiona Charles
Surveying the Terrain by Fiona Charles

Standards and certification:

Collected links on ISO 29119 and the #STOP 29119 petition
My Thoughts on Testing Certifications by Karen N. Johnson
Agile Certifications Are Actively Destructive by Allen Holub
Testing standards? Can we do better? by James Christie
Why I am not certified by James Bach
Against certification by James Bach
What the certification sales lady said… by James Bach
Common Languages Ain’t So Common by Michael Bolton
Why I Am Not Yet Certified — EuroSTAR Presentation by Michael Bolton
Certification and Its Discontents I by Michael Bolton
Certifiable – Fighting the fights worth fighting… by Keith Klain
Testing Qualifications – Certification revisited by John Stevenson
The Cost Of Certification And Professional Exlusion by Duncan Nisbet
Best practice is boerenbedrog (Dutch) by Ronald Meijers
Certificates Are Evil (But We Can Make Them Good) by Jurgen Appelo

(Social) Science:

What testing can learn from social science – Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Video by Huib Schoots
Think 101x, The Science of Everyday Thinking (Online course)
Think 101x (video collection)
The Psychology of Software #Testing (ebook) by John Stevenson
Tacit and explicit knowledge (book) – Harry Collins
Thinking fast and slow (book) – Daniel Kahneman
You’re not so smart (book) – David McRaney
A Guide to Logical Fallacies: The “Ad Hominem,” “Strawman” & Other Fallacies Explained in 2-Minute Videos
The invisible Gorilla (book) by Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
Qualitative Data Analysis: a userfriendly guide for social scientists (book) by Ian Dey
Critical Thinking: a user’s manual (book) by Debra Jackson & Paul Newberry
What we forget about the Scientific Method by Allan Kelly
A Field Guide to Critical Thinking by James Lett
Critical Thinking For Testers with Michael Bolton by Eric Jacobson
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (book) by Jerry Weinberg
Thinking in systems: a primer (book) by Donella Meadows
Are testers ethnographic researchers? by John Stevenson
What You Believe Might Not Be True (Part 1) by John Stevenson
Danger: confirmation bias by John Stevenson
Combining Qualitative & Quantitative Research by Laura Klein
Research Methods: Participant observation
Qualitative Evaluation checklist by Michael Quinn Patton
Critical & creative thinking
Software Testing a Social Science (slides) by Cem Kaner
Testing Through The Qualitative Lens (slides) by Michael Bolton
Curing Our Binary Disease (slides) by Rikard Edgren
But how many test cases? by James Christie
Reponse to How many test cases by James Christie by John Stevenson
The human element by John Stevenson
The coding manual for qualitative researchers by Johnny Saldana
What we can learn from Russel L. Ackhoff by Aleksis Tulonen
Systems thinking made clear (video) by Russell Ackoff
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions (book) by Dan Ariel
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (book) by Dan Ariel
The Machinery of the mind (video) by Daniel Kahneman
Making Smarter Decisions (video) by Daniel Kahneman
Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman discuss Antifragility (video)
The irrational tester (video) by James Lyndsay
Qualitative research coding and software testing by John Stevenson
Qualitative research coding and mind maps by John Stevenson

Learning:

Secrets of a Buchaneer Scholar (book) by James Bach
Becoming a Software Testing Expert (video) by James Bach
Testing Dojo’s by Markus Gärtner
Testing Challenges (helpful in testing dojo’s)
Black Box Puzzles by James Lyndsay
Weekend Testers
BBST – Testing Education website (Kaner, Fiedler & Associates)
BBST by AST
The nine forgettings (video) by Lee Copeland
Six thinking hats for testers (video) by Julian Harty
How Challenging Each Other Helps the Craft by James Bach
Transpection Session: Inputs and Expected Results by Michael Bolton
Transpection Tuesdays by Erik Brickarp
Transpection Tuesdays Still Going Strong by Helena Jeret-Mae
Vince Lombardi on the Hidden Power of Mastering the Fundamentals by James Clear
7 Secrets Top Athletes Can Teach You About Being The Best At Anything by Eric Barker
The 37 Best Websites To Learn Something New

Visualisation:

Thinking Visually In Software Testing by Alan Richardson (video)
How to create a visual test coverage model by Katrina Clokie
Visual Test Models & State Transition Diagrams by Katrina Clokie
Three examples of context-driven testing using visual test coverage modelling by Katrina Clokie
Mind Maps and Automation by Katrina Clokie
That’s not the map I had in mind (meaning, imprecision and taxonomy of visual test models) by Aaron Hodder
Visual Test Models by Leah Stockley
Visual Test Design – Rob Sabourin
Whiteboarding for Testers, Developers and Customers too by Rob Sabourin
Drawing to learn – Sketching for testers by Ruud Cox
Visualisation by Huib Schoots
Mindmapping 101 by Darren MacMillan
Thinking and working visually for software testers (Let’s Test 2013 – 1/2 day) by Jean-Paul Varwijk & Huib Schoots
Thinking and working visually for software testers (Nordic Testing Days 2014 – full day) by Ruud Cox & Huib Schoots
Hand-Sketching: Things You Didn’t Know Your Doodles Could Accomplish by Laura Busche (Sketchnote by Ruud Cox)
Sketching & Drawing Lessons
The Sketchnote Podcasts by Mike Rohde

Automation & Tool aided testing:

On Green by Michael Bolton
On Red by Michael Bolton
Software Test Automation: A Real World Problem by Cem Kaner
Cost Benefits Analysis of Test Automation by Douglas Hoffman
Can Automation Aid Manual Testing? An Interview with Jonathan Kohl
Test Automation Snake Oil by James Bach

Learn to code:

Become a Programmer, Motherfucker
Codecademy
Cousera:
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Learn to Program: The Fundamentals
Code Yourself! An Introduction to Programming
Learn coding by playing a game: CodeCombat
Selenium Documentation
Selenium WebDriver API Introduction in Java – Richard Bradshaw

Speaker tips:

Speak Easy – Speaker mentoring
How to write a compelling proposal by WAAA (We Are All Awesome)
A View from the Chair by Michael Bolton
Conference Submissions – a Personal View by Paul Gerrard
How to Get a Paper Accepted at OOPSLA by Kent Beck
What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing by Sarah Mei
Conference proposals by Jean-Paul Varwijk, Huib Schoots & Derk-Jan de Grood
Guidelines For Submitting Talks & Workshops To TestBash by Rosie Sherry
An extensive list of what helped me present by Erik Brickarp
Tapir Fever: A heuristic on conference speaking by Bolette Teglbjærg
How to run a good workshop by Scott Berkun
How to Evaluate a Workshop by Fiona Charles
A TED speaker coach shares 11 tips for right before you go on stage by Kate Torgovnick May & Emily Ludolph

Magazines:

Videos/podcasts:

Podcasts and Videos for Testers
Software testing club: software testing video collection
TestingPodcast
Testing in the pub (podcasts)
Testing Bias (podcasts)
Øredev videos
More videos: TV for Testers
How To Think About Science, Part 1 – 24

Forums/communities:

Software Testing Club
The dojo by STC
Software Test Pro
Stickyminds
TestNet
AST
ISST
Testingconferences.org
Testnieuws
Testevents.com
Mobile QA Zone
Mobile Application Testing
Lessons learned from growing test communities by Martin Jansson

Tools:

Tools by James Bach (Perlclip, allpairs and logwatch)
Rapid Reporter (SBTM/ET tool) by Shmuel Gershon
Recommended tools by Michael Bolton
Software testing club tools list
Alternative Testing tools in Action
Open Source Test Tools
Software Testing Tools by uTest

More link collections:

Software Testing Hotlist – Resources for Professional Software Testers
Quick testing tips
Testing Feeds by Ministry of Testing
Testing Bits by Testing Curator (Matt Hutchison): collection of articles, blogs, and announcements
Articles and presentations by James Bach
Publications by the Test Eye
Writing and resources by Michael Bolton
Testing quotes websites by Rob van Steenbergen
Challenges, Puzzles & Games by Katrina Clokie
I started listing resources & guides by Tony Bruce
London TesterGathering Workshops – Presentations and materials: 2013 –2014 – 2015
Mobile Testing Pathway by Katrina Clokie
API, Web Services & Microservices Testing Pathway by Katrina Clokie
Continuous Delivery Testing Pathway by Katrina Clokie
Accessibility & Usability Testing Pathway by Katrina Clokie
Security Testing Pathway by Katrina Clokie

Uncategorized beauties:

The Art of Bugging: or Where Do Bugs Come From by Jerry Weinberg
Managing Teams Congruently by Jerry Weinberg
19 secrets of consulting that changed my life by Adrian Segar
How to Think about Efficiency in Software Testing (video) by James Bach
Zappos is offering severance to employees who aren’t all in with Holacracyby Quartz
What Agile Teams Can Learn From World of Warcraft (video) by Alexandra Schladebeck
Still No Silver Bullets (video) by Esther Derby
Making testing fun (video) by Andy Zaidman
An Epic List of Great Team Building Games
The power of vulnerability (video) by Brené Brown
Practical Tools for Playing Well with Others (video) by J. B. Rainsberger
Myths And Patterns Of Organizational Change (video) by Linda Rising
3 pearls of entrepreneurial storytelling (video) by Michael Margolis
The tribes we lead (video) by Seth Godin
Re-thinking IT (video) by John Seddon (also see:http://www.systemsthinking.co.uk/)
Antifragile (video) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose by Daniel Pink
What is leadership? (video) by David Marquet
Why Executives See Software Testing as #EpicFail By Scott Barber
Ken Robinson on Passion (video)
Do schools kill creativity? (video) by Ken Robinson
How great leaders inspire action (video) by Simon Sinek
Why we do what we do (video) by Tony Robbins
Are we in control of our own decisions? (video) by Dan Ariely
How to truly listen (video) by Evelyn Glennie
Want To Improve? Start With Respect by Gil Zilberfeld
No Estimates, Let’s Explore the Possibilities (video) by Woody Zuill
What Are You Measuring In Your Life? by James Clear
A Culture of Trust by Arie Litovsky

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