Some kick ass blog posts from last week #8

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Here’s the new portion of kick-ass blog posts from the last week:

Great post by Michael Fritzius on continuous integration and how to prioritize our tests into portions, how to run them separately, in parallel and many other cool stuff:
Automate Your Automation
Interesting set of advises from Simon Knight on how to leave the comfort zone of being employed and dive into the deep dark waters of being self-employed:
You Really Need a Rising Tide to Lift YOUR Boat?
and the continued part:
8 Pro Tips for Successful Independent Consulting
A great analogy between testing and telling jokes is the core idea in a series of posts by James Thomas, he introduced us to a conversation he had with Jerry Weinberg, Michael Bolton, James Lindsay and Damian Synadinos.
You can read the introduction here: Intro
as well as the first part of the talk here
Big news, new CDT book was released recently and everyone is exited, because everyone is aware how much effort and dedication is required to write a book. So, releasing a new book is like bringing a baby in this world, so it is a big deal – the author is David Greenlees a.k.a. the martial tester and the name of the book is “Software testing as a martial art”. You can get the book here: https://leanpub.com/softwaretestingasamartialart
and read the foreword from Keith Klain here:
Software Testing as a Martial Art – by David Greenlees
Docker and Selenium, two of my favorite tools included in one topic, therefore I can’t miss it. The use of Docker containers and Selenium Grid here:
Selenium Grid with Docker: custom nodes
Speaking of Selenium, Anton Angelov continues his great series on Advanced WebDriver usage tips, here is part 3:
10 Advanced WebDriver Tips and Tricks Part 3