I’ve got an article in the June edition of Testing Circus magazine. It’s called Left To My Own Devices.
You can download the magazine for free here: http://www.testingcircus.com/testing-circus-2014-june-edition/
Category Archives: Testing
Forthcoming Speaking Engagements
I’ll be speaking at a number of conferences in June. It would be great to catch-up with you if you’re there.
Testing Your Emotions
Thursday 5th June – Nordic Testing Days – Tallinn, Estonia
In this talk I intend to explore the situations that projects teams typically encounter and how these impact the emotions that everyone in the team faces. I will explore typical dimensional models of emotion such as those proposed by Robert Plutchik and Hugo Lövheim and use these, and others, to help explain how we can better understand the emotions that we face, and the emotions that we raise in others.
Best practices in managing QA testing for the multi-device nightmare
Wednesday 18th June – Enterprise Apps World – London
- How many devices do you need to test from?
- How effective is the emulator as a substitute or support to testing on actual devices?
- How do you balance the functional, compatibility and performance testing requirements across devices?
- Determining the severity of bugs– How to go about analysing the number of devices affected, the device configurations and ultimately the user base affected.
- Consideration of issue resolution strategies post launch.
Testing As An Activity
Next Generation Testing Conference – Thursday 26th June – London
Recently I’ve started to come to the belief that we can solve a lot of our problems if we just start to think differently about testing. Instead of thinking about software testing only as a distinct discipline, we should to start to think about it as an activity. After all, testing is just that, an activity. It’s something we do. Something we’d love others to do more. James Bach likes to define software testing as a performance, and what is a performance without some activity to perform?
In this presentation I will explain why we should start to think of testing as an activity, what the benefits are that this could bring, and discuss how teams can work in a more efficient and cross-functional way as a result.
Live From The Romanian Testing Conference
I’m speaking at the Romanian Testing Conference today and I’ll make it along to as many sessions as I can. Check back for my mind maps throughout the day.
Next up, Rene Tuinhout talking about “Passionate Dating for Testers”. My mind map is here.
After lunch I gave my talk on “Mobile Testing, That’s Just A Smaller Screen, Right?”. Obviously there’s no mind map from me for that one. Here are my slides.
The session before lunch – “Continuous Integration for Mobile Test Automation”. Here’s the mind map.
Next up, “A Healthy Approach To Test Automation”. Here is my mind map.
First up, Tony Bruce, with “What Testers Do”. My mind map is here.
Testing In The Pub Episode 4 Is Now Available
Episode 4 of the Testing In The Pub podcast that I record with Dan Ashby is now available. We talk about what it takes to be a valuable team member.
You can download it directly from the Testing In The Pub site or via iTunes.
Live from Pipeline
I’m at the Pipeline continuous delivery conference today. I’ll try and mindmap as many sessions as possible and post updates here. Scroll down to see the earlier sessions.
It’s All About the People
Last up – Tomas Riha, talking about why its All About the People. A good presentation about moving to Continuous Delivery at VGT. My mind map is here.
Big Ideas, Small Company, Moderate Heresy
Next up, Big Ideas, Small Company, Moderate Heresy from Alex Wilson and Benji Weber from Unruly. A very interesting presentation on their approach, particularly their synchronous processes. My mind map is here.
Ship It!
Next up is Phil Wills from The Guardian, talking about “Ship It!”.
The Rational for Continuous Delivery
First up, The Rational for Continuous Delivery from Dave Farley.
Live from Testbash
I’m here at the awesome TestBash conference today. I’ll be posting updates here, hopefully some mindmaps too.
First up – Scott Barber. An excellent presentation about Managing Application Performance. My mind map is here.
Next up, Contextual Decision Making, from Mark Tomlinson. Great presentation with added spinning cats. Mindmap is here.
Jez Nicholson gave us some good tips on how to win developer friends and influence people.
Joep Schuurkes explained to us how to help a new tester to get a running start.
Context driven testing in an agile context from Huib Schoots. Some great stuff.
Bill Matthews kicked off the afternoon talking about Getting Out of the Testing Game.
Stephen Blower taught us how to inspire testers and what inspires him.
Iain McCowatt presented a great talk on changing our automation models.
Chris George gave us a great story from RedGate on how they improved a legacy automation suite.
And finally Keith Klain gave a great talk on how to talk to a CIO about testing.
And then 99 second talks, and that’s it. What a great day!
Testing In the Pub Podcasts Are Here
Myself and Dan Ashby (@danashby04) have started a software testing podcast. It’s called Testing In the Pub, primarily because we spend time in the pub talking about testing, and we thought that others in the software testing community may be interested in hearing what we talk about.
We published the first episode yesterday, called “Reviewing the Conferences 2013”, which is about the conferences that we attended in 2013, and the main learnings we took from them.
Testing in the Pub has it’s own website, and, (Apple approval permitting), will be in iTunes very soon.
It’s be great if you had a listen and gave us some feedback. This is the first time we’ve done something like this, and so all feedback will help us make it better.
If you want to appear as a guest on one of the shows then let us know as well. We’d really like to make the podcasts as varied as possible so the more the merrier 🙂
Reach Out Beyond the Software Testing Community – Article in Testing Circus Magazine
I’ve got an article in the January edition of Testing Circus magazine. It’s called Reach Out Beyond the Software Testing Community.
You can download the magazine for free here: http://www.testingcircus.com/testing-circus-2014-january-edition/
London Tester Gathering Workshops 2014
The London Tester Gathering Workshops are back this year, Oct 16th-17th in London. Last year was great (see my blog post with more details).
This year I’ll be running a workshop on mobile testing. More details to come, but Super Early Bird tickets are already available for a bargainous £95 instead of the usual £395 so well worth getting some early.
Other speakers include John Stevenson, Richard Bradshaw, Nigel Stock, Rob Fahey and Peter Houghton.
More details from Skillsmatter: https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/1912-london-tester-gathering-workshops-2014
Mobile Testing Course – 26th March
There’s just 3 spaces left on my mobile testing course, on March 26th in Brighton. More details: http://www.ministryoftesting.com/training-events/an-introduction-to-mobile-testing/
Let me know if you’ve got any questions about the course.