My answer to my own question above: Yes! Quite possibly! There certainly is something special going on up there... 🙂 I recently spoke at the @LplTesterGathering and what a tester gathering it was! The place was BUZZING! Packed to the brim with around 110 people showing up and not a quiet person in the room [...]
There are loads of people who use the term "acceptance testing"... Most people have different definitions of what this means. And more still will struggle to even define what they mean personally with the term when they say it. I also regularly hear the words "feature files" mentioned in some of those conversations when people are [...]
The Association of Software Testing (AST) has been running for a number of years now. It's what brings you amazing things such as CAST, BBST courses, some fantastic webinars and it also funds a whole host of testing community events throughout the entire world, for example, a lot of the 'X'EWT events. It's with great [...]
UPDATE: Thanks to John Stevenson for his feedback of the model, I've updated the model appropriately to represent the fact that checking activities also inform our testing, (as John described in the comments below). Also, thanks again to everyone else who has reviewed and fed back on the model too. One of the biggest problems [...]
Wow! What another exceptional conference by the team behind ATD! Lots of great talks and workshops at this years event, and I'm very proud to have been involved in presenting again for the second year running. This year I ran my workshop on "A note on note taking using mind-maps", which focussed on teaching how [...]
TestBash is one of the best context driven testing conferences ever. And although I've always wanted to speak at TestBash in Brighton, my talk submissions have never really fitted the theme... Until TestBash NY!! I was extremely lucky and honored to be speaking at TestBash NY, doing a talk on "How to succeed with difficult [...]
Wow. It's 5am and I've just got back in from socialising with Michael Bolton, Lars Sjodahl and Philip Quinn (a fellow Glaswegian) where I left them after the past hour of telling some classic jokes and Michael playing his mandolin (and me and Philip getting into the full swing of things being reminded of back home). Today [...]
I recently found these "No bullshit estimation cards" I can't agree more with the message they send regarding estimations. Almost everywhere I have worked, there has been a big emphasis on the need for estimating the time and effort for implementing and releasing a new feature, but in almost every case we get it wrong. Whether that is missed [...]
I've not blogged about a misconception for a while, so here's a really annoying one to add to the series... FEATURE FILE SCENARIOS ARE NOT TEST CASES!! Sorry for the caps... I hope the picture above can portray my annoyance at this misconception. I don't know where this comes from. Maybe it's the terminology of [...]
We posted a new podcast episode up a few days ago: "Testing In the Pub Episode 11 – Hiring and Recruitment – Part 1" In this 2 part chat, me and Steve got talking about hiring and recruitment in the testing world. We speak about our experiences with looking for the right person, interviews (from [...]
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