StickyMinds.com: A Home for Software Testers and Quality Advocates
Hello, folks. I’m the editor of StickyMinds.com. Some of you may be wondering: Exactly what kind of work does StickyMinds.com publish?
A good StickyMinds.com article is a story pulled from first-person experience about something that provides a new insight, approach, tool, or idea to a large number of our readers. Sure, some of our readers will already be doing that technique, but the story will be unique; it may reveal a trap, mistake, problem to look out for, or new opportunity for improvement.
They don’t have to be personal stories; we are open to trends pieces, tutorials, and real journalism pulled from research. But our primary driver will be stories, with a new cover story coming out every week from my desk as site editor, plus several other articles and interviews from our other websites.
The theme of our work is software testing and quality. This can include preventing defects, going faster, and all the different kinds of testing under the sun: security, performance, process, product, project, and even portfolio risk analysis. It might not all directly apply to you, but we’ll try to select stories that are entertaining, make you think, and can sharpen your tester skills.
Which brings me to our May and June articles.
Our most popular article in the past month or so is Mukesh Sharma’s “When Testers Should Stand Up and Say No.” Given our recent history in the United States with healthcare.gov and the apparent inability to say no, I think Mukesh’s article is worth a healthy read—and maybe a pass up to the boss.
Other recent articles are about trends in testing. Anuj Magazine wrote about scaling the test effort of projects that have gone international in “How to Think Globally about Software Testing.” Paul Gerrard talked about the recent shift in testing responsibilities. Clint Hoagland wrote about three types of requirements—explicit, implicit, and latent. And Jeremy Carey-Dressler published a piece on how to change an organization from the inside as a tester.
That’s the last month; next month, we’ll have four or five more.
What do you like? What do you hate? What do you want to see more of? What do you want to see less of? We’d love to hear from you.
We are always looking for authors, and if your ideas are that good, we might just ask you to write them up. Another thing StickyMinds prides itself on is developmental editing help. We employ a copy editing staff to help add classic writing and English skills on top of the technical editing that I can help with.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Let us know what you like about StickyMinds.com, what you’d like to see more of, and what you’d like us to change.
We aim to please.
