This year, I'm proud to be co-chairing the Agile 2017 conference's testing track alongside the amazing Emma Armstrong (@EmmaATester). The Agile 2017 conference is based in Orlando this year, and is due to take place on the 7th-11th of August. More info on the conference can be found here: https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2017/ The talk submissions are open [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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