Popular blogs for testers

September 4, 2013 Huib Schoots Context-Driven General Ideas Learning 6 Comments

To help the Dutch community evolve to learn, think and do more skilled testing I want to advocate interesting stuff to read to the community. But what should a tester read? Earlier I published a list of popular books for testers. In my search for good books to read, some people replied that they only read blogs and other on-line content. On this blog I recommend great articles and on-line stuff in my great resources list. For testers blogs you can check my colleagues list.

But what do other testers recommend? My curiosity kicked in again and I sent out another email to my tester friends around the world to ask for their favourite blogs.

This is the “top 19″ of most mentioned blogs. In the list are all blogs that got more that 2 votes. I am thrilled to be in this list at all. But it must have been the “availability heuristic” that got me on the 3rd place! Thanks guys

Rank	# votes	Name	URL
1	26	Michael Bolton	http://www.developsense.com/blog
2	23	James Bach	http://www.satisfice.com/blog
3	12	Huib Schoots	http://www.huibschoots.nl/wordpress/
4	11	Cem Kaner	http://kaner.com/
5	10	Michael Larsen	http://www.mkltesthead.com/
6	9	Markus Gartner	http://www.shino.de/blog/
	9	Elisabeth Hendrickson	http://testobsessed.com/
8	8	Alan Page	http://angryweasel.com/blog/
9	7	Andy Glover	http://cartoontester.blogspot.com/
	7	The Test Eye	http://thetesteye.com/blog/
	7	Zeger van Hese	http://testsidestory.com/
12	6	Pradeep Soundararajan	http://testertested.blogspot.com/
	6	Matt Heusser	http://xndev.com/creative-chaos/
14	5	Iain McCowatt	http://exploringuncertainty.com/blog/
15	4	Jurgen Appelo	http://www.noop.nl/
	4	Keith Klain	http://qualityremarks.com/
	4	Pete Walen	http://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com
	4	Rob Lambert	http://thesocialtester.co.uk/
19	3	Adam Goucher	http://adam.goucher.ca
	3	Adam Knight	http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com
	3	Anne-Marie Charrett	http://mavericktester.com
	3	Bob Marshall	http://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com
	3	Eric Jacobson	http://www.testthisblog.com
	3	Gojko Adzic	http://gojko.net
	3	James Christie	http://clarotesting.wordpress.com/
	3	James Lyndsay	http://workroomprds.blogspot.com/
	3	Ministry of Testing	http://www.ministryoftesting.com/testing-feeds/
	3	Parimala Hariprasad	http://curioustester.blogspot.in/
	3	Seth Godin	http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

180 different blogs where mentioned by 41 participants. The full list of blogs can be found here. An overview of all participants and their personal lists can be found here.

If this isn’t enough, you can check these listings of tester blogs:

• Testing References – an overview of software testing weblogs
• Ministry of testing – Testing feeds
• Software Testing Club – All Blog Posts

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