Carnival of Testers #20

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"Beware the ides of March."

(Shakespeare)

Lots of fine writing again this month.

Enjoy...

• Zeger Van Hese's post about James Randi and software skeptics. How apt!
• Markus Gärtner's post against thought control, here.
• Yet another good book review from Michael Larsen, here.
• Marlena Compton's post on testing, testers, congruence and Lady Gaga (not necessarily in that order!)

Entaggle
I thought about writing a post about Entaggle, how I'd discovered it and my experience but I was beat to it in different ways....

• Brian Osman was the first the make a post alerting folks to its existence.
• Darren McMillan made quite an in-depth (3 part) analysis of the site, some business case and usability aspects.
• Then I loved Phil Kirkham's gaming of the site. Check it out, here.
• Some early experience via weekend testing was given, here, by Mohinder Khosla.

Value

• Interesting post from Brad Swanson on the 7 deadly sins of agile testing, here.
• The value of shortened feedback loops was highlighted nicely by Lisa Crispin with the aid of her donkeys.
• A well-worked example of the value (or otherwise) of quantative reporting was written by Del Dewar, here. 
• Testers add value to projects in many ways - sometimes by the things they find. James Bach and Michael Bolton looked into some of these findings, here and here.
• Good writing from Aaron Hodder on systems testing.

Thoughts

• Tony Bruce wrote about his latest meetup organisation efforts - this time a conference! Looking very good! Take a look, here.
• I enjoyed Eusebio Blindu's post on principles for testers, here.
• Good thoughts on change management from Luísa Baldaia, here.

STC Nottingham Meetup
Two very good write-ups, both worth a look.

• Adam Brown wrote a round-up with some videos, here.
• Mohinder Khosla made another round-up with a different video, here.

"What's good about March? Well for one thing it keeps February and April Apart."

(Walt Kelly)

Until the next time...