This year’s CAST was a little different for me than the ones I’ve attended before. I didn’t get to see as much of CAST as I have in years gone by. I presented 3 times on day one. First up was ‘The Testing Dead’, followed by an emerging topics talk with Chris Blain ‘A transpection […]
So you’re new to testing. Let me give you some friendly advice to help you become the power tester you want to be. I’ll get the boot camp drill sergeant stuff out of the way first. If you’re anything like the vast majority of new testers I’ve encountered, you’re full of questions. Probably a lot […]
It’s official. I’m going to be speaking at the ‘Let’s Test‘ conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Anyone who follows me on twitter will not be surprised to hear that my topic will be The Testing Dead. I’m excited to be attending this conference. It is the first of its kind in Europe and there are a […]
Communication in testing is something that has been occupying me of late. Not a surprise to anyone that reads my material with any sort of regularity. How we report our findings is a massive part of our job and yet when it comes to talking about software testing it seems to be the poor cousin […]
So anyone that isn’t doing this via RSS has probably noticed a few differences. Those of you who do read via RSS – if you got a bunch of messages telling you my site is unavailable – sorry about that. It turns out that the disk my VPS was hosted on crashed irrecoverably. Of course, […]
(co-written with Louise Perold) BK: I wasn’t sure about entering the testing competition. It looked like a bit of fun, but it was going to take up an entire evening of a 2 day conference. It’s difficult enough to catch up with all the people you want to see without taking up a bunch more […]
CAST2011 (The Conference for the Association of Software Testing) was amazing this year. Having that many massive testing brains in the one place for three days though, I wonder how it could have been anything but. What I love about CAST is that there is a very collegial feel to the event. It feels like […]
It’s been a while since I’ve needed to hire another tester, but that time has once again arrived. Hiring has generally been a lengthy and painful experience and this time appears to be not much different from the last. I generally put the call out to people I know that might be able to help […]
I like to engage in good healthy discussion. I don’t mind taking a contrary position or having an argument. I want my friends and colleagues to challenge me. It helps me learn and think in different ways. I’m not a zealot about it. I’m okay with people being wrong on the internet, but every now […]
The new job (well, not so new now, but in any case my latest job) uses quite a bit of tech I’d not dug into previously. As far as source control goes, I’m used to centralised SC like SVN (or even CVS in a pinch), so getting my head around a distributed model (Git) took […]
