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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.
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So you want to learn about API testing?
Beth Marshall lists out great resources such as talks, books and podcasts that might be helpful to start learning API testing.
And if you want to learn automation, Wei Chen wrote a handy guide to creating an APIs Automation Testing Framework in Pytest.
My top 10 lessons in Software Testing
I really liked the way Andrejs Doronins described his favourite lessons in software testing from the famous Lessons Learned in Software Testing book, adding a lot of context from other sources too.
He also summarised his top 5 lessons on test automation in a similar manner.
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Around the World with 80 Software Testers
Great initiative from Viv Richards who came up with an idea to grab thoughts and opinions of well-known software testers in a single book. The first chapters have just been published and you can download them for free via LeanPub.
Ajay Balamurugadas and Saranya Easwaran analysed twenty various bugs and wrapped them in a book that's just been released. It's available in the most popular eBook formats and distributed on the pay-what-you-want basis.
And if you're looking for a review, Srinivas Kadiyala has already written one!
