Favorite resources - round I

Here is a first round of my favourite resources.

As those who read my posts probably noticed already, I'm quite a heavy user of del.icio.us. I won't go into what it is, am sure those interested can go there or google it to see whether they like it or not.
I'm playing around with Google Notebook as an alternative, with better google integration obviously, albeit less taxonomy/tagging capabilities.

In any case, I highlighted some of my favourite resources under the rndblog_resources tag, and provided some notes to accompany the links and explain why I find them essential in the favorites list of anyone interested in the contents of this blog (and probably for some people who are NOT that interested in this blog, but then again, they won't find be here...)

There are more gems in my account, so probably expect future rounds based on existing and new resources I find. I'd love to hear about more resources along those lines - either comment or suggest them to me via the del.icio.us network.
Anyone interested to track my favorites is welcome to join my network

Now for the resources themselves (copy paste from a del.icio.us linkroll page)

Resources for Blog

• » Articles - James Bach - Satisfice, Inc.

  Articles and other resourcers from one of the thought leaders in the software testing/QA world.

• » Bret Pettichords Software Testing Hotlist

  compilation of many interesting testing resources

• » Brian Marick - Writings

  Articles and other resourcers from one of the thought leaders in the software testing/QA world.

• » Can we ship yet

  Very interesting view on the multiple streams/versions problem, counting on SCM capabilities to ease the problem.

• » Cem Kaner - Publications

  Articles and other resourcers from one of the thought leaders in the software testing/QA world.

• » CM Crossroads - Home

  The ultimate independent resource for CM material

• » Cultural Fits and Starts

  From the hiring expert, a focus on the cultural aspects (too often ignored)

• » Data Driven Test Automation Frameworks

  Thought-inducing paper on how testing harnesses should look like. Very relevant when thinking about Automation

• » DefectTrackingPatterns

  Initial work on defect tracking patterns

• » Eric Sinks Weblog

  A remarkable blog mixing development and business/marketing, especially applicable to all of us in small companies - both ISVs and startups.

• » Grove Consultants Software Testing

  Great material, the highlight being an interview test for testers Ive been using successfully.

• » Hacknot

  Anonymous writer provides cynic homurous view on issues which will sound right at home for any manager of developers/testers

• » Hacknot - Interview With The Sociopath

  As usual, a cynic but beneficial view, this time a spin on interviewing.

• » High-level Best Practices in SCM

  Interesting practices/patterns provided by Perforce but with quite a generic appeal

• » Interviews

  Highlights of Interviews with leading people in the testing world. Use as pointers - if someone is interesting go read their works...

• » Joel on Software
• » Quality Tree Software, Inc. - Publications

  A single location for the works of one of my favorite content-providers on stickyminds.com

• » Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. - Writings & Presentations

  Articles and other resourcers from one of the thought leaders in the Product Management / Software development/Testing / Agile world

• » Slashdot | Bug Tracking Across Multiple Code Streams?

  Interesting view on how to handle the multiple code streams issue tracking problem. Not groundbreaking, but a good summary on what approaches are being used out there

• » Software Development, Computer Programming, Software Design - developer.* - DeveloperDotStar.com

  a repository for lots of development-related essays/articles, focusing on a pragmatic view of the complex world we work in

• » Software Reconstruction: Patterns for Reproducing Software Builds

  very interesting pragmatic work on the relatively uncharted domain of software builds

• » Software Testing and Quality Assurance Online Forums

  Used mainly for looking for tool-related answers, quite legacy-focused in my oppinion.

• » Source Control HOWTO

  basic concepts of SCM from the developer of SourceVault ( A VSS replacement system)

• » StickyMinds Home Page

  Stickyminds is a vast repository of essays from various thought-leaders in the development/QA world. It’s the web presence of “Better Software Magazine” which is an interesting magazine (but probably not worth the subscription these days)

• » Streamed Lines: Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development

  the groundbreaking pattern work for SCM world by Brad Appleton

• » The Guerrila Guide to interviewing

  a classic from Joel on interviewing

David V. Lorenzo posts favorite interviewing questions of people on his Career Intensity Blog

Here is his post about mine...

At the risk of hinting the people who I interview in the future, also check out my interviewing tag on del.icio.us for a lot of resources on the matter.

Why am I open about this?
One of my main beliefs in interviewing btw is to try and understand behaviourial aspects in addition to skills. Someone might get a head start for the skills questions if he prepares, but I think in that area if someone is diligent enough to research his interviewer, go and read multiple resources, learn enough to know the subject, he's getting extra credit right out of the gate...
For the behaviourial aspects the discussion is more flowing, and no preparation can really help you there.

I cannot finish a post about interviewing without mentioning Johanna Rothman. She's writing the Hiring Technical People blog, and wrote the Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People book. Check it out.

Fogbugz best practices and other resources

I intend to post some reference to resources I'm fond of in the area of R&D, QA, methodology and the like.

In the meantime, anyone who's interested in what I have to say will probably see some value in looking at FogBugz Online Documentation. I was referred there by Zeljko Filipin's blog which is aggregated by http://www.testingreflections.com.

In addition, my del.icio.us links might provide good resources. see
DefectTracking QA SCM accurev bugtracking bugzilla build ccb continuous_integration continuousintegration defect_management defect_tracking defecttrackingmultiplebranches developement development eclipse issue_tracking jira keyword_driven_automation methodologies methodology multiple_versions patterns perforce priority_severity product_management software subversion test_automation test_labs test_management testing testing_labs vendorbranches