Link: Authoring Style Guide

https://github.com/tooling/authoring-styleguide Some good guidelines for technical writing. Via http://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-500-feet-in-the-air/

Link: Browser stats for Q4

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2014/01/browser_stats_f_7.html Some general trends in web browser usage – keeping an eye on this can help you make decisions on where to focus your development and QA efforts in the absence of more specific information for your audience. Curious to see how big mobile usage is in Nigeria and India. Definitely something to keep in […]

Link: Estimated reading time in web design

http://briancray.com/posts/estimated-reading-time-web-design Interesting how a little detail can have such a big effect. An example of how setting expectations can have a big benefit. Showing an estimated time improved time on site by 13.8%. What's more interesting though—people either followed me, subscribed to my blog, or retweeted my articles 66.7% more often. Via http://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-500-feet-in-the-air/

Link: The Art of Test Team Management and Motivation

http://www.softed.com/Resources/Docs/TestTeamManagement.pdf An older document but with some good guidelines about managing a team of testers. Some excerpts: Guide your team to align with the project objectives …However, if testers believe they will be blamed for the quality of the software, they tend to develop a risk-averse approach, adopting a position of quality guardians, becoming rather […]

Link: “Get Ready For Tester Experience”

http://blog.smartbear.com/testing/get-ready-for-tx-tester-experience/ Puts TX (Tester Experience) on the same level as UX and DX (Developer Experience). Making it easier for testers to do their job and making them a core part of the entire initiative (including requirements and design) makes for better test results and a better product.