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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
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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)
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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:
- The Testing Circus
- The Testing Trapeze
- Tea Time With Testers
- Women Testers
- Software Test & Quality Assurance
- Testing Experience
- Agile Record
- Better Software Magazine
- Logigear Magazine
- Methods and Tools
- SD Times
- TEST Magazine
- cOre
- Automated Software Testing
- Code Magazine
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
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Re-thinking IT (video) by John Seddon (also see:http://www.systemsthinking.co.uk/)
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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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