with agile testing i’m thinking about work to improve quality, and work to reveal quality (or lack thereof).

first an interesting idea for learning:
testing dojos

www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=114

www.testingdojo.org/Public+Dojos

a few people:

Gojko Adzik

• gojko.net/
• specificationbyexample.com/
• (books – esp. the above, twitter)
• focus on living documentation/ spec by example
• ex
  • specificationbyexample.com/key_ideas.html
  • gojko.net/2011/11/23/death-to-the-testing-phase-slides/

Michael Bolton

• www.developsense.com
• www.developsense.com/blog/
• (blog, twitter, book)
• focus a bit on sentient testing
• don’t like scripts so much… (unless automated)
• don’t like testing certification so much
  • “infoslides”, pdf
• ex:
  • www.developsense.com/resources.html#exploratory
  • www.developsense.com/blog/2011/12/what-exploratory-testing-is-not-part-2-after-everything-else-testing/
  • www.developsense.com/blog/2011/12/what-exploratory-testing-is-not-part-4-quick-tests/
  • www.developsense.com/blog/2011/12/what-exploratory-testing-is-not-part-5-undocumented-testing/
  • www.slideshare.net/davidodowd/michael-bolton-two-futures-of-software-testing-sept-2010-7245149

A few more links about testing heuristics

• testing without a map (PDF) – M Bolton, including HICCUPPS
• managing heuristic exploratory testing – Pekka Marjamäki, mindmap
• heuristic test strategy model (PDF) – James Bach
  mindmap – by Michael Larsen
• test heuristic cheat sheet – Elisabeth Hendrickson

Lisa Crispin

• lisacrispin.com
• (blog, twitter, book: agile testing)
• focus a bit on whole team aspect
• ex: lisacrispin.com/wordpress/2011/11/08/using-the-agile-testing-quadrants/

Updates:

“…and we test here, of course…” – on continuous testing in devops.