Would you be willing to share the list of testing related RSS feeds that you have subscribed to?

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With 30 days of tools gaining so much traction, today’s question was very interesting.

Staying tool aware is one of the biggest challenge we face in the tech community.

One of the methods that @friendlytester and @mwinteringham discussed extensively today is subscribing to RSS feeds that relates to testing.

I’m also trying to build my own RSS feed list and was wondering if anyone is willing to share some of their favourite RSS feeds here specific to testing tools ? I also feel it would help others too.

Thanks!

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We have a HUGE list here

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I’m “indirectly” using RSS feeds for my podcast subscriptions, I’m listening to the following ones:

And the last one is The Laracasts Snippet Podcast which is not directly related to testing, but it’s not about development either, short podcast episodes about various IT related stuff.

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Thanks Richard! I was really after that list but all I got was the actual feed. Very helpful. Ta!

Also, the new beep for Mark when he speaks about his new book, is pretty funny I should admit :joy:

(Can’t wait for your book @mwinteringham! Go you!!)

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Hi - What has happened to that link - where can we:

  1. See MoT RSS Feed?
  2. Add new links to our blogs/podcasts?
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Disclaimer: I am a community member trying to help, I do not speak for Ministry of Testing.

The latest posts from all the blogs contributed to Ministry of Testing blogs database (what we used to call “Planet” 20 years ago - I guess that name really fits the current space theme) are available under “Radar” link in the footer:

You can check every now and then and read the latest ones. Access to full archive is available to folks with paid membership.

There is a RSS feed displaying the same content hosted on FeedBurner. The link does not seem to be advertised anywhere on the current page. You can still find it if you visit MoT main page in Internet Archive Wayback Machine and browse the page from 2022. Look for “Feeds” in the footer.

Back then, there was also a short note saying that if you want to have your blog added, then you should send an email to hello (at) ministryoftesting.com. I did and my blog was added like hour and a half later. Again - I don’t see anything on that topic in current version of the website.

I just hope MoT does not decide to make RSS feed available only to paid members - that would be a huge bummer.

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Blogs now appear under our Radar section. Though this is also in the process of being re-built to be something a bit different.

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Thanks for sharing. We’re also in the process of changing the Radar page in the coming weeks. We’re finding the RSS feed useful, but a bit hit and miss in terms of quality, we have a few ideas to improve and change it for the better.

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Perhaps it’s helpful to frame it as platforming and curating.

For me, there’s a great deal of value in a single RSS feed that aggregates all the posts from many testing-related blogs. This is how I see Radar and Radar is de facto closest thing to that idea in testing community.

Of course the quality of the content is going to vary. So I understand that from Ministry of Testing point of view, especially when it comes to re-publishing the content on the website, there is a need for curation. You want to focus on high-quality content (for whatever definition of high-quality) and you might want to hide some low-quality content (for whatever definition of low-quality).

These two objectives might be at odds at times. Or maybe they are just fundamentally incompatible.

My hope is that whatever changes you are working on in the context of curation, Radar-as-a-platform use case remains available for everyone. It doesn’t need to be default, it doesn’t need to be easy to find, just keep it available.

I’m happy to continue the discussion and share some ideas here or through other channels, if you are open to getting outside people more involved.