Carnival of Testers #5

This is a short summary of some of the highlights of the past couple of weeks (from just before Christmas to a little after New Year). Things were a bit quieter than usual but there was still plenty of output.

As usual, with this time of year, there was a range of well-wishing, reflections and assessments of the year-gone-by and looking into the coming year.

• Seth Eliot made a great commentary of the debate/discussion that has been ongoing around code coverage involving Matt Heusser, Alan Page & BJ Rollison.
• Chris McMahon reflected on the past decade and took a look ahead.
• Quick Testing Tips was churning out plenty of good ideas - as though there was no holiday - here they pointed out a useful resource for some cheatsheets, here.
• Matt Heusser floated the idea of wirting about testers, here.
• On the subject of writing Lannette Creamer wrote about respectful discourse here and here.
• BJ Rollison wrote an interesting piece on thinking about test design, with some interesting discussion in the comments, here.
• Cem Kaner summarised a collection of his articles, with some recent additions, here.
• uTest gave a recap on their guest-blogger series.
• Mark Waite mentioned his use for Google Alerts, here.
• rocketkeis posted an online list of some of the Beautiful Testing chapters, here. If you haven't read it (I'm hoping to do a review soon) then you can check out some of the chapters here.
• Nathalie reflected on Eurostar2009 and some of the learnings she was putting to use.
• Rob Lambert wrote an article about "old" being the new "new" here.

The list is more or less chronologically backwards and I don't usually say it, but I have saved the best for last. Jon Bach wrote a great article here. I'm not saying any more - if you haven't read it go do that now.

All are worth a read, so if you've missed any of these then take a peek.

Until next time...