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Just drop us a mail at </font> <a href="mailto:contribute@whatistesting.com"><font size="1">contribute@WhatIsTesting.com</font></a><font size="1"> </font><br> </font> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"> </font></font></font> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><strong><font color="red"><u>What is New?</u> </font></strong></font></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: verdana;"><font size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><strong></strong></font></font></font></font></font><small><small><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></small></small><font size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><strong>Interview of the Month (Feb 2005):&nbsp; </strong></font></font>Click <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whatistesting.com/interviews/edustin.htm">here</a> to read Elfriede Dustin's interview. </font></font></font><small><font face="Verdana" size="2"><small>Elfriede Dustin is author of various books on testing - </small></font></small><font face="Verdana" size="1">"Automated Software Testing," "Quality Web Systems," and her latest book "Effective Software Testing."</font><small><font face="Verdana" size="2"><small> </small></font></small><small><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><small>In this interview she shares her ideas about testing, </small></font></font></strong></small><small><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><small> things she is currently working on, </small></font></font></strong></small><small><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><small>and </small></font></font></strong></small><small><strong style="font-weight: normal;"></strong></small><small><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><small>automation</small></font></font></strong></small><small><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><small>.</small></font></font></strong></small><font size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><strong><br> <br> Interview of the Month (January 2005):&nbsp; </strong></font></font>Click <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whatistesting.com/interviews/rcraig.htm">here</a> to read Rick Craig's interview. </font></font></font><small><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rick Craig </span>is the author of "Systematic Software Testing". </small><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><small>His tutorials and workshops are very popular. In this interview he shares his ideas and advice with the testers.</small></font></font></strong></small><font size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><strong><small><br> <br> </small>Interview of the Month (September 2004): </strong></font></font>Click <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whatistesting.com/interviews/sbarber.htm">here</a> to read Scott Barber's interview. </font></font></font><small><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">Scott Barber</span> is the person behind www.perftestplus.com, co-founder of WOPR, a workshop on performance testing, and a prolific writer. In this interview he explains what performance testing is, how one should go about learning it, various resources that can help you and many more things.<br> <br> </small></small><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font size="1"><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Q-Patterns:&nbsp;</strong><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Administrator/qpatterns/qprepository.htm">Q-Pattern repository page</a> containing Q-Pattern template is up. Some Q-Patterns will also be posted soon.</font></font></font></font><font size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><strong> <br> <br> Interview of the Month (July 2004): </strong></font></font>Click <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whatistesting.com/interviews/bmarick.htm">here</a> to read <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brian Marick's</span> interview. </font></font></font><small><small>Brian Marick is the author of "The Craft of Software Testing", editor of STQE, and Chair of Agile Alliance board among other things. We interviewed him recently and asked him questions about his current work, book that he plans to write, Agile manifesto, testing patterns and some more. </small></small><font size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><strong></strong></font></font></font></font></font><font size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><strong>&nbsp; <br> <br> Interview of the Month (June 2004): </strong></font></font>Click <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whatistesting.com/interviews/mbolton.htm">here</a> to read <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Bolton's</span> interview. </font></font></font><small><small>He is an independent software development and quality consultant. He provides </small><small>testing related training and mentoring, frequently contributes to discussions on various mailing lists and writes a newsletter on testing.&nbsp; You can visit his site at <a href="http://www.developsense.com/">http://www.developsense.com.</a></small></small><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font size="1"><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><strong> <br> <br> Interview of the Month (April 2004): </strong></font></font><span style="font-weight: bold;">Danny Faught</span> interviewed <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vipul Kocher</span> recently. In this interview Vipul sheds some light on history of WhatIsTesting.com, its goals and plans. Read this interview at <a href="http://www.tejasconsulting.com/newsletter/2004April-May.html">http://www.tejasconsulting.com/newsletter/2004April-May.html</a>.</font></font></font><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font size="1"><strong> <br> <br> WIT Yahoo Groups:</strong>WIT has formed city based groups for software testing professionals. These groups will strive to organize seminars, conferences, regular meetings to discuss software testing and much more. 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