A review of "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" by John "Botchagalupe" Willis with Derek Lewis
Continuing the theme about W. Edwards Deming — one the most important figures in quality management — this time Mike Harris gives a concise review of Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge book.
Exploratory Software Testing by James A. Whittaker
Željko Filipin wrote a nice review of the Exploratory Software Testing book including a short summary and quotes.
Speaking of that, you might also be interested in Venkat Ramakrishnan's thoughts on Exploratory Testing Demystified.
Testing & "Exponential Organizations"
Inspired by an excerpt about Facebook's practices in software development and testing mentioned in the Exponential Organizations book, Lee Hawkins shares his thoughts on why it may not be so ideal.
21st Century Skills For Testers
This book is about stories that the authors have collected from software testers around the world about their ideas and thoughts on how they apply the 21st-century skills: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity.
Emna Ayadi and Ard Kramer have just released a new book for software testers called 21st Century Skills For Testers. It's distributed via LeanPub in the name-your-own-price fashion.
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Be part of the EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference, 28–30 Sept.
Accelerate your testing at the 29th EuroSTAR Conference this September. Learn from 53 experts on agile, devops, AI, automation, communication, security, testing in the cloud and lots more. Get actionable tips, spark new ideas and connect with the global testing community. Book your ticket today & unlock 6 headliner talks right now!
Inspired by the Thinking in Systems: A Primer book, James Thomas shared his favourite quotes and thoughts in the context of being a Quality Detector.
And if you'd like to learn more about systems thinking in general, Kislay Verma found a great collection of lectures by Russell L. Ackoff.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World is not the kind of book that you'd expect to read if you want to learn about software testing but Lee Hawkins found some great similarities to deep testing and that can come in handy in your day-to-day job.
Melissa Fisher has just completed her book Testing Stories that includes lots of insights from software testers from around the globe. It's available on Leanpub in the pay-what-you-want fashion and all royalties go to OSMI charity, which is very noble!
Is talking about "scaling" human testing missing the point?
"Attempting to assess product quality by asking humans to manually interact with every feature just doesn’t scale. When it comes to testing, there is one clear answer: automation."
This is the quote from Google's latest book that provoked Lee Hawkins to write this article. And frankly, he shared some great thoughts about it.
