Blogspy 144: Our Round-up of the best software testing blog posts from the blogosphere

Welcome to this week’s Blog Spy. Reputation in testing, the abysmal state of testing, testing RESTful API and more.

 

Four Tips to kick-start your web application security effort – Ian Muscat

Ian relates four great tips on how to start or improve any web application security testing.

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R is for Reputation (My A to Z of Software Testing, Part 6) – Colin Cherry

Continuing his A-Z series on different aspects of testing, Colin explores what does reputation mean for a software tester?

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Software Testing Learning MindMap – Brett Hinton

Brett discusses the lessons learned from a recent webinar by Dan Ashby and how this has inspired him to develop a series on software testing

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The abysmal state of ‘testing’ in 2016 – Maaike Brinkhof

Using the metaphor of a hammer, Maaike explains why she doesn’t like Automation being equated to software testing today.

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Agile Economics: Delusions Of Grandeur – Gil Zilberfeld

Gil discusses where the need to scale Agile comes from and why companies may want to do it.

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Playing the Pain Card – Michael Fritzius

Michael relates the concept of “Business Pain” and what that means if you are a tester looking for a role or already established within a company.

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Testing a RESTful API using Supertest – Toby Sinclair

Simply out, Toby explains  with some screenshots how to use SuperTest to test a RESTful API

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They Have To Be Monsters – Jeff Atwood

The founder of StackOverflow discusses the increasing occurrence of online abuse and how we can encourage empathy online.

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