I've recently attended a number of conferences, some testing ones, some agile ones and some dev ones too. Although some of the talks were painful due to misunderstandings of one thing or another (be it testing, automation, agile, BDD, TDD, etc...), overall, I thought the conferences were pretty good and I met some new people [...]
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 [...]
I recently attended "Copenhagen Context" - a conference that is focussed towards context driven testing. It was based in Copenhagen - as if you hadn't guessed that already by its name... 🙂 There were so many great talks and really inspirational speakers at the conference, so I really want to share my experience with you. [...]
What is the Software Testing Clinic? Starting out in testing can be confusing. There are a lot of conflicting views towards what testing is and there are so many different training events around. Do you learn how to code and write automation, do you learn about Agile, should you be writing test scripts, and what [...]
I've been conducting a lot of interviews recently and I thought I'd share my format for asking questions and stemming conversations that works well for me to be able to determine if the candidate is the right person for the job when it comes to skills, experience, mindset and remaining relevant in the industry. Here is the format [...]
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 [...]
One of the most interesting discussions in the Agile community at the moment is about "MVP". I recently had a conversation with various community members and I heard someone say that MVP should be thought os as "starting off with a turd and then polish it"... It was another one of those times where I felt like I [...]
Dan Ashby 