# 30 Days of Quality Day 2: Blog Post **URL:** \ **Category:** 30 Days of Testing\ **Tags:** 30-days-of-testing, quality\ **Created:** [2 March 2020 14:32 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341 "2020-03-02T14:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andrea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/andrea/32/2059_2.png) [@andrea](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/andrea)\ **Post date:** [2 March 2020 14:32 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/1 "2020-03-02T14:32:41Z")
Well, this is going a bit slow and I wasn’t sure if I can just add the topic for Day 2 but here you go 😊 I love this blog post from James Bach, [Quality is Dead #2: The Quality Creation Myth - Satisfice, Inc.](https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/5200) especially as the words at the end really resonate with me: " _A product is a dynamic arrangement, like a garden that is subject to the elements. A high quality product takes skillful tending and weeding over time. Just like real gardeners, we are not all powerful or all knowing as we grow our crop. We review the conditions and the status of our product as we go. We try to anticipate problems, and we react to solve the problems that occur. We try to understand what our art can and cannot do, and we manage the expectations of our customers accordingly. We know that our product is always subject to decay, and that the tastes of our customers vary. We also know that even the most perfect crop can be spoiled later by a bad chef. Quality, to a significant degree, is out of our hands._" ---
**Author:** ![michelangelo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/michelangelo/32/2354_2.png) [@michelangelo](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/michelangelo)\ **Post date:** [2 March 2020 15:15 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/2 "2020-03-02T15:15:56Z")
I am subscribed to a multitude of blog sites (provided they have an ATOM/RSS feed) where I get my daily dosis of testing, quality, security and automation knowledge. A few blogs I really enjoy: - [Google Testing Blog](https://testing.googleblog.com/) - [Web Security Blog](https://www.websec.io) - [Microsoft TestingSpot Blog](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/testingspot-blog/bg-p/TestingSpotBlog) - [Satisfice Blog](https://www.satisfice.com/blog/) - [SauceLabs Blog](https://saucelabs.com/blog) (No RSS/ATOM feed!) I hope these knowledge resources will help you as much as they helped me. ---
**Author:** ![nilanjanb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/nilanjanb/32/9706_2.png) [@nilanjanb](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/nilanjanb)\ **Post date:** [2 March 2020 20:28 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/3 "2020-03-02T20:28:28Z")
This is a good find. James is an exceptional writer. This post is particularly good. ---
**Author:** ![pmichielsen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/pmichielsen/32/8959_2.png) [@pmichielsen](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/pmichielsen)\ **Post date:** [2 March 2020 21:51 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/4 "2020-03-02T21:51:13Z")
I found [this one](https://mavericktester.com/2018/03/14/quality-engineering/) from Anne Marie Charrett. " Quality is a journey – but do you know your destination?". Which highlights that quality is NOT static ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [3 March 2020 09:57 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/5 "2020-03-03T09:57:12Z")
For me it’s one from @tneate > **[Testing and Quality: Correlation does not equal Causation.](https://medium.com/@theresaneate/testing-and-quality-correlation-does-not-equal-causation-f34229a1bbae)** > > How often have you heard: “Our quality is poor, we need more testing (or testers).” ---
**Author:** ![ahopkins180](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/ahopkins180/32/5301_2.png) [@ahopkins180](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/ahopkins180)\ **Post date:** [3 March 2020 14:50 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/6 "2020-03-03T14:50:10Z")
I like these blogs: > **[Software Testing for Serious People](https://www.satisfice.com/)** > > Dedicated to teaching and consulting in software testing and quality analysis, Satisfice, Inc. is a family business run by James and Lenore Bach. > **[Ady's Blog — The Big Test Theory](https://www.thebigtesttheory.com/blog)** > > All thoughts related to the Periodic Table of Testing and some other stuff here.  Hopefully they’ll be useful for someone else. ---
**Author:** ![barlt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@barlt](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/barlt)\ **Post date:** [3 March 2020 19:20 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/7 "2020-03-03T19:20:33Z")
Quality… Of the product of course. Well, not so fast. How about the quality of our work? ## [Are You Adding Value, Always?](https://isitgoodenoughyet.com/2018/09/11/are-you-adding-value-always/) James Bach, Michael Bolten and Cem Kaner always talk about extracting information from stakeholders, PMs and users. So… quality of our relationships? [TDR – Test Driven Relationships](https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/improving-relationship-quality/) ---
**Author:** ![morganl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/morganl/32/6636_2.png) [@morganl](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/morganl)\ **Post date:** [3 March 2020 20:45 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/8 "2020-03-03T20:45:03Z")
I love this one - was shared in the MOT Slack about a month or two ago: > **[The epistemology of software quality – Increment: Teams](https://increment.com/teams/the-epistemology-of-software-quality/)** > > Studies show that human factors most influence the quality of our work. So why do we put so much stake in technical solutions? And this one is another great one by James Bach on Assessing Quality: > **[Assess Quality, Don't Measure It](https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/487091)** > > How to measure quality is a popular question. The answer I want to give is easy to say, but not so popular: “Stop! Quality can’t be measured, but it can be ---
**Author:** ![AdyStokes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/adystokes/32/14440_2.png) [@AdyStokes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/AdyStokes)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2020 11:32 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/9 "2020-03-06T11:32:36Z")
Thank you @ahopkins180 😌 ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [10 March 2020 20:12 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/10 "2020-03-10T20:12:35Z")
From Twitter > ---
**Author:** ![lgibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lgibbs](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/lgibbs)\ **Post date:** [2 April 2020 08:02 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-quality-day-2-blog-post/35341/11 "2020-04-02T08:02:03Z")
For Day 2, I wrote a blog post where I discuss the following 2 articles (1 of which has already been shared in this discussion. [Quality is a journey – but do you know your destination?](https://mavericktester.com/2018/03/14/quality-engineering/) by Anne-Marie Charrett, Maverick Tester [Quality is Dead #1: The Hypothesis](https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/5198) by James Bach, Satisfice > **[Achieving A Pleasing Level Of Quality (30 Days Of Quality)](https://louisegibbstest.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/achieving-a-pleasing-level-of-quality/)** > > Day 2 – Read and share a blog post on Quality For day 2 of the challenge, I’m going to discuss some ideas shared in the following blog posts Quality is Dead #1: The Hypothesis by James …