A lot of the posts amount to “I’m a beginner, how do I…”, but even these and the comment threads they produce can be insightful. r/softwaretesting and /r/qualityassurance are two of the largest. Reddit subreddits are not really communities, but I’m not sure what other section to put them in. They are now owned by Techwell, so sometimes push readers towards their Techwell conferences (StarEast, StarWest, etc) but this is not invasive. They are still going strong and are still a great site to peruse when you have a few moments. StickMinds was one of the original testing communities, and I remember attending some of their stuff waaay back in the early 2000s.
Ministry of Testing is a UK-based testing community that hosts events, organizes meetups, provides training, and a bunch of other stuff. Here are some other testing communities I follow. For example, I’d put Joe Colantonio’s TestGuid halfway between a community and a blog. It’s hard to draw an exact line between “community” and “blog”, but generally communities highlight many authors, facilitate discussion, meetups, events, etc., and are not (explicitly) corporate-controlled. Ministry of Testing Blog Feed (this is not curated, it’s everything anyone submits as testing related content).All of these are focused on testing and/or test automation. These sites/people scour the web and publish periodically (usually weekly) curated lists of articles. If you want to cast a wider net for blog authors, or are looking to discover new authors, aggregators and newsletters are a good option. The Friendly Tester by Richard Bradshaw.Responsible Automation by Paul Grizzaffi.Here’s my “second-tier” of blogs - blogs that at one point or another I’ve read something and thought “I like this content”, but aren’t things I read regularly. I knew as soon as I read my first article of his ( On Codeless Automation) that I’d found a kindred spirit. Bas is not some fluffy consultant, and has no qualms getting deep into code. As the name implies, he focuses on technical and automation topics. They also run the Agile Testing Fellowship, which has content from both.Ī new addition to my follow-list is Bas Dijkstra and his OnTestAutomation site and blog. Lisa and Janet’s blogs tend to stray away from deep testing topics and tend to focus more on broader and more general topics, but are still very relevant for every tester. Two other blog authors that I read regularly and lump together are Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, who most will recognize as the authors of Agile Testing and More Agile Testing.
Joe also organizes the Automation Guild conferences. Joe is a prolific author in the test automation space and does a great job finding and highlighting other thought leaders in his publications and podcasts. Next is the TestGuid Blog by Joe Colantonio. Bach and Bolton are fierce defenders of the importance of deep testing and testing as a separate, critical discipline within software development. They are great writers and do not hold back when they encounter questionable testing practices, and I often find myself linking to their posts in my own writing. I lump them together because they hold very similar opinions on testing, and have developed a substantial amount of testing curriculum together. However, just because I come back to them does not mean I agree with them, just that I find their content well thought out, well written, and worth my (very limited) time.įirst up is the Satisfice blog by James Bach and the DevelopSense blog by Michael Bolton. There are thousands and thousands of bloggers out there, but these are the ones I find myself continually coming back to. Here are a few individual blogs I like to peruse when I have a moment. If you have a blog or author you think is just amazing, feel free to add a comment below. This is not an exhaustive list of all high-quality QA content out there - it’s just what I regularly read. While reading blogs and articles is not sufficient to gain mastery of a new skill, some light reading while on the proverbial toilet is a great way to get introduced to new concepts, ideas, opinions, etc. Since it’s the beginning of a new year, I thought I’d write it down. I was recently asked where I get my “QA reading material”.
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