A great talk from Rob Lambert about how New Voice Media has moved to a weekly release cycle, and the advantages of doing so.
Here’s my mindmap in PDF format.
Discussing the Future of Software Testing
Lots of audience participation in this one, and I was helping facilitate, so less to share, but here’s the mindmaps in PDF and image.
A good session from John-Paul Varwijk.
Cross Team Testing
Johan Atting presented how Cross Team Testing works in his organisation. It looks like an interesting way of increasing collaboration between the teams, and managing the natural bias we all have towards the software we regularly test.
Here’s the mindmap, in PDF and image format.
Automation: Time to Change Our Models?
A great session from Iain McCowatt on why we should change our models of automation. Questioning how we use automation and how some models can constrain us rather than free us.
Here’s the PDF mindmap, and the image.
Curiosity Killed the Cat – Anne-Marie Charrett
A great case study from Anne-Marie, around a consulting assignment that did not go as well as she had hoped.
Here’s my mind map, and the PDF.
Creating Dissonance – Overcoming Organizational Bias towards the Value of Software Testing
What a great start to day 2 at Eurostar. Keith Klain explained how to approach organisational bias towards testing and how he is initiating change at Barclay’s.
Here’s my mind map, in PDF and image.
Testing Machines as Social Protheses
A great second keynote here at Eurostar. Dr Robert Evans explained how elements of sociology are applicable to software testing, including tacit vs explicit knowledge and how mimeomorphic and polymorphic actions can apply.
A real thought provoker, and a great way to end the first day at Eurostar.
My mind map is here as a PDF and below.
No Test Manager, Does It Work?
A talk from Sylvia Verschueren, about how the company she works for got rid of the Test Management function. The testing itself is outsourced, which does affect things, and particularly the need for the people management part of the role, but it was interesting to see another view. Also good discussion afterwards, in particular around test templates from Iain McCowatt.
Experiences of Test Automation At Spotify
A great presentation from Kristian Karl from Spotify. Really interesting to see how they do things and lot to take back to where I work.
Here’s my mind map and its also available as a PDF.
If you are interested in how Spotify are organised then it’s well worth reading this blog post from Henrik Kniberg.
Self Defense For the Skeptical Tester
So here I am at Eurostar 🙂
A great first keynote from Laurent Bossavit. We should question claims, and he presented in particular the cost of fixing defects curve as an example.
Here’s my mind map from the session in PDF.
