Well, I think it is a good idea...
Submitted by Antony Marcano on Thu, 01/07/2004 - 23:39.
this.site
I read some of the blogs of the Software Testing community's 'usual suspects' and I find them to be a far more constructive learning, sharing and collaboration format than mailing lists, threaded forums and highly commercialised websites stuffed with more ads than articles (ok slight exageration if you include all the 'premium content' that is on sale there). ;-)
Sharing and reflecting on our collective experiences, overcoming people-issues and building better software should be shared openly... (within reason I am a Software Testing consultant afterall)...
I thought, wouldn't it be great to have one central site that linked off to all the usual-suspects' blogs, the websites, the forums and also held mailing list archives....
A site where open collaboration on developing software testing patterns and techniques was encouraged. So I looked - and couldn't find one (let me know if you know of one).
So I put this site together and made it available to all of you. Mailing list consolidation... e-mail blogging and subscriptions to categories and a lot more will all be available on this site in the near future (I am talking very near future).
Hey - if no one uses it then it will just be my personal blog. No problem... but I hope you will see my vision of using this environment to collaborate on developing Patterns for Software Testers and Developers. (Don't worry if you haven't heard of 'Patterns' in this context - we aren't becoming dress-makers... I will talk more about patterns in another post.)
I will be setting up a Wiki under testingPatterns.com where we will be able to capture existing patterns and document the outcomes of our discussions here... so register and keep your test-blog up to date with links, ideas and don't be afraid to be radical!
Oh, and if looks matter... don't worry - I will be snazzing up the design in the near future too - but with none of those in-yer-face banner ads - I hate 'em.
Sharing and reflecting on our collective experiences, overcoming people-issues and building better software should be shared openly... (within reason I am a Software Testing consultant afterall)...
I thought, wouldn't it be great to have one central site that linked off to all the usual-suspects' blogs, the websites, the forums and also held mailing list archives....
A site where open collaboration on developing software testing patterns and techniques was encouraged. So I looked - and couldn't find one (let me know if you know of one).
So I put this site together and made it available to all of you. Mailing list consolidation... e-mail blogging and subscriptions to categories and a lot more will all be available on this site in the near future (I am talking very near future).
Hey - if no one uses it then it will just be my personal blog. No problem... but I hope you will see my vision of using this environment to collaborate on developing Patterns for Software Testers and Developers. (Don't worry if you haven't heard of 'Patterns' in this context - we aren't becoming dress-makers... I will talk more about patterns in another post.)
I will be setting up a Wiki under testingPatterns.com where we will be able to capture existing patterns and document the outcomes of our discussions here... so register and keep your test-blog up to date with links, ideas and don't be afraid to be radical!
Oh, and if looks matter... don't worry - I will be snazzing up the design in the near future too - but with none of those in-yer-face banner ads - I hate 'em.