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Great news! As of today, Shine Literacy shows as a participating cause on Leanpub’s Participating Causes page. We’re getting closer to the official launch of the book. Big thank you to Hanli van Aswegen at Shine Literacy (see Shine Literacy team), and to Len Epp of Leanpub (see Leanpub team) for making this happen.

When we considered directing to a charity any royalties from the sales of Volume 1, we consulted with Louise Perold and Cindy Carless, organizers of Let’s Test South Africa. They wholeheartedly recommended Shine Literacy.  This organization has established Centers in Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu- Natal, offering training to organizations and individuals to get children reading, addressing South Africa’s educational crisis.

We reached out to Shine Literacy, and to Leanpub (who generously offered to waive the upfront book creation fee on leanpub, given our charity objective) and soon the two organizations arranged so that Shine Literacy can benefit from the sales of the book.

Please keep Shine Literacy in your thoughts when it’s time to obtain your copy of The Book on Software Testing, Volume 1.

by Leonidas Hepis

This just in: We discovered we’re missing your perspectives and insights.

The testing community doesn’t yet have your words, your stories, your pain-points, your triumphs, your aspirations, your clever solutions.

Without your input, our collective intelligence is fragmented.

We need your narratives, your expositions, your diagrams, your sketchnotes, your poetry even!

We need your serious, funny, puzzled, ingenious, and most importantly unique slice of testing experience that is you.

Nobody but you can access that unique perspective.

Said Jeff Howe, inventor of the term crowdsourcing, “Collective intelligence flourishes in direct proportion to the amount of diversity contained within a group of people, and their ability to express their individual viewpoints.”

On Oct 3rd, 2016, in the span of a single day, and with your unique and diverse contributions, we will go from the blank page to a complete book on Software Testing!

And if writing hasn’t been your medium of expression, we will offer key tools to make writing easy and fun.

The clock is ticking.

Only 5 weeks left.

Register now so we can properly plan for you coauthoring the Book on Testing.

by Benjamin Segebartt

In the story of the Tower of Babel, man forced God’s hand by working together to build a tower so tall it could reach the heavens.

The legend says this is when God created the different languages, to prevent an achievement of this scale from ever taking place again.

Today, not only have we gone on to create buildings of previously unfathomable heights, we have redefined what human to human cooperation means.

Our modern world is being simultaneously shaped, and chronicled by this cooperation. Thanks to the capabilities of an incredibly young technology known as the internet, people from all backgrounds, all walks-of-life, every language can participate in the conversation that is human achievement. These people, every one, are members of the crowd.

If the internet is young, the idea of crowdsourcing is downright embryonic. The term was coined only ten years ago, and yet today crowdsourcing is responsible for breakthroughs in fields ranging from dog-walking to finding a cure for cancer.

As members of the testing community our lives are touched directly by crowdsourcing every single day. We see it in practice in our own companies, in our competitors’, and especially in our varied online hobbies. In one way or another, we all play a role in the crowd.

Testing is an act of curiosity, trial, observation, and evaluation. Something achieved with many fields of reference, through many points of view. With a breadth of knowledge and experiences, through each new set of eyes, our perspectives on testing are enriched.

Join us in our endeavor this October. Not only to attend an outstanding conference, but to take part in the creation of something special. Something new that has the potential to leave every one of us standing out from the crowd.