LINKS

OPEN SOURCE TESTING
http://www.opensourcetesting.org
This site gives users easy access from one central location to the wide range of open source testing tools available.

MAILING LISTS & USER GROUPS

• Agile Testing
• Mercury Loadrunner
• Mercury Winrunner
• Mercury Winrunner scripts
• Rational SQA Suite
• Segue SilkTest
• Silicon Valley SilkTest Users' Group
• Software Quality
• Testing Java GUIs
• Visual Test

ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

• Better Software Magazine
• Professional Tester Magazine
• Quality Progress Magazine
• Software Quality Professional Magazine
• Software Test & Performance Magazine

White Papers - Manual Testing

• Facts and Myths about Test Automation
• Manual or Automated?
• Shoestring Manual testing
• When Should a Test Be Automated?

White Papers - Test Automation

• GUI Testing Checklist
• How to Automate Testing of Graphical User Interfaces
• Improving the Maintainability of Automated Test Suites
• JUnitTest Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests
• Lessons in Test Automation
• Software Test Automation and the Product Lifecycle
• Test Automation Frameworks 

White Papers - Other

• Classic Testing Mistakes
• Estimating Tester to Developer Ratios (or Not)
• Experience with the cost of different coverage goals for software testing
• Software Testing Best Practices
• The Fine Art of Writing a Good Bug Report

QA Tester Certifications

• Certification Comparisons
• American Society for Quality 
• British Computer Society
• International Software Quality Institute
• Quality Assurance Institute
• Rational
• Mercury
• Segue