There are lots of well known programming and development blogs, but could someone recommend some refference blogs about software quality assurance and/or testing?
Well here are 2:
http://quality-assurance-software-testing.blogspot.com/
http://www.successful-quality-assurance.com/Quality-Assurance-blog.html
There are a ton out there - here is a list that I provided in as part of an answer a while back.
Alan Page had a blog post recently about the career levels for Test at Microsoft http://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=163
Linda Wilkinson - http://www.practicalqa.com/
BJ Rollison - http://testingmentor.com/imtesty
Harry Robinson (not as much blog as listings of topics) - http://www.harryrobinson.net/
Cem Kaner - http://www.satisfice.com/kaner/
James Bach - http://www.satisfice.com/
Micheal Bolton - http://www.developsense.com/blog/
Google Testing BLog - http://googletesting.blogspot.com/ (blog posts by James Whittaker and others at Google.)
Testing.StackExchange (like SO but test focused) - http://testing.stackexchange.com/
This is really a starter list. There are some similar lists on Testing.StackExchange
Kaner, Bach, but there is one more:
- Michael Bolton http://www.developsense.com/blog/
- Bj Rollison http://www.testingmentor.com/imtesty/
- Bruce McLeod http://www.teknologika.com/blog/
There are a couple of testing-specific Stack Exchange sites - testing.stackexchange.com and exchange.softwaretestingclub.com. Here are some links from those sites about testing blogs.