All 28 Issues of Testing Experience Magazine

Testing Experience kept a strict quarterly rhythm: one issue in March, June, September and December of every year from 2008 to 2014. That makes the numbering easy to work out. Issues 1 to 4 are 2008, 5 to 8 are 2009, 9 to 12 are 2010, 13 to 16 are 2011, 17 to 20 are 2012, 21 to 24 are 2013 and 25 to 28 are 2014. Within a year the first issue is March, the second June, the third September and the fourth December, so issue number equals four times (year minus 2008) plus the quarter. Issue 7, for example, is the third issue of 2009: September 2009.

The launch year, 2008. Issue 1, in March 2008, was about test management and set the tone, with articles by Rex Black, an author named McQuaid and Hans Schaefer. The rest of the year built the readership. The contents of issues 3 and 4 are not covered here; their pages describe what testing looked like in late 2008 instead, the year ISTQB certification was spreading quickly through Europe and IEEE 829 was still the standard most test plans followed.

The themed years, 2009 to 2011. This is the period the magazine is best remembered for. Issue 5 carried a crowdsourced testing interview, issue 6 (June 2009) was the security testing issue with its OSSTMM article, and issue 7 (September 2009) took on agile testing. Issue 11 carried a research article, issue 12 (December 2010) was devoted to open source testing tools, and issue 16 (December 2011) had an editorial associated with guest editor Gojko Adzic. The sister title Security Acts grew out of issue 6 in late 2009.

The later years, 2012 to 2014. The final three years kept the quarterly schedule. Issue 23 (September 2013) ran a lengthy product review, and issue 28 (December 2014), the final issue, was about mobile testing, a fitting end for a magazine that had started when smartphones were barely a testing concern. For most of the other issues of this period the theme is not known, and the index lists them by number and date only.

Which issues have their own pages. Twelve issues have a page of their own: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 16, 19, 23 and 28. Most were chosen because their theme or a specific article is known, so the page can say something true about the issue and connect it to a guide on the same subject. Issues 3, 4, 10 and 19 have pages even though their contents are not covered here; each one stands for its period and describes the testing practice of that moment. The remaining sixteen issues are listed below by number and date without further claims.

How to cite an issue. Cite the magazine, the issue number and the date: Testing Experience, issue 12, December 2010. If you hold a copy captured by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, add that capture and the date you retrieved it, since the original publisher no longer offers the issues and this site does not either. Add an article title and author only if you can see them in the issue itself. The pages on this site describe issues and their period; they do not reproduce tables of contents and should not be cited as if they did. Where you want to cite one of them, cite it as a secondary description, for example the page for issue 12 at /magazine/issue-12-december-2010/.

The twelve issues with their own page are issue 1 (March 2008, launch issue), issue 3 (September 2008), issue 4 (December 2008), issue 6 (June 2009, security testing), issue 7 (September 2009, agile testing), issue 10 (June 2010), issue 12 (December 2010, open source testing tools), issue 13 (March 2011, test domains), issue 16 (December 2011, editorial by a guest editor), issue 19 (September 2012), issue 23 (September 2013, product review), issue 28 (December 2014, mobile testing). Each page gives the date, the theme where it is known and the guides that continue its subject.