It’s amazing how much we can learn just from reading other people’s writings, even if they’re only as short as blog posts or official statements. And testing is learning. Today, I’d like to share the following interesting articles from some of the curious minds in the software testing industry:

• On The Value Of Test Cases (by Joris Meerts, about negative effects of writing test cases in preparation for software investigation and re-assessing their value in software testing)
• Exploratory Testing 3.0 (by James Bach, about what exploratory testing really is)
• eBay’s Official Statement on ISO29119 (by Ben Kelly and eBay UK, on their stand about the standardization of software testing)
• Testers Need To Virtualize (by Jeff Nyman, about virtualized environments as a necessary software testing skill and a basic walkthrough on Vagrant)
• How To Understand Developers Are Really Working Hard: Manager’s Guide (by Galina, about understanding programmers better, and finding a good way of judging their productivity)