Podcasts

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Podcasts are a nice way to learn about new topics, pick up new ideas and hear the experiences of other testers and agile practitioners. I highly recommend the Testing Podcast site for informative interviews with a wide range of testing practitioners. This interview with Michael Kircher of Software Engineering Radio was posted in June 2010 […]

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Published on InfoQ: A Tester’s Learning Journey

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InfoQ just published an article I wrote to try to inspire more testers to grow their skills. It begins: The software industry is changing fast. More and more teams put testing up front and center; they use tests to drive development. New and improved automated test frameworks and drivers burst onto the scene every month. […]

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In the Fishbowl

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Recently I tweeted about a fishbowl we conducted at the Business Analysis Workshop of the Better Software conference. Some tweeps weren’t familiar with the fishbowl format, so I thought I’d explain how I like to do fishbowls. Fishbowls are a good format for a panel discussion where you want to involve the whole audience, as […]

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Making Lemonade

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If you’re at Better Software/ Agile Development Practices West this week, make sure you read the issue of Better Software that came in your conference bag. I’m especially pleased to have an article in this awesome issue with extraordinary fellow testers such as Jennitta Andrea, Markus Gaertner, Pradeep Soundararajan and Parimala Shankaraiah.

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What Gender Diversity Means to Me

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I’m a volunteer on the Diversity in Agile project founded by Mike Sutton and supported by the Agile Alliance. Update: Though we did these video interviews back in 2010, they’re still online, and these women are still awesome! For reasons I don’t understand, some people have misunderstood the first phase of the project, which seeks […]

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