My article on pairing with developers is live on the Ministry of Testing. I love pairing with developers. It’s fun, and I learn so much. I feel we are really building quality in together, catching issues early, finding inconsistencies or questions to discuss with the product owner. Whether you’re a tester or a developer, I […]
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Many of us have followed Katrina Clokie‘s blog posts and/or had the pleasure of hearing her present at conferences. Now she has compiled not only her broad experience but that of many other practitioners into this awesome book. I’ve just finished reading it and am sharing my thoughts on it here. This post is a […]
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Janet Gregory and I offer our new five hour introduction to agile testing, based on our books, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, and More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team. “Agile Testing Essentials” is for anyone working on or with a software delivery team who wants to learn the basic principles […]
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Good conferences generally receive far more worthy session proposals than they can cram into their program. I know it hurts to have a proposal rejected. I went through many iterations of that early in my presenting career. Spending hours of time and effort on a well-crafted proposal, only to have it rejected, makes one want […]
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I’ve been honored recently to participate in two different podcasts. I talked with Ryan Ripley and on Ryan’s Agile for Humans podcast. We talked about pairing for various things, including presenting and writing, and discussed common challenges we see today related to testing. I’m a big fan of the Agile for Humans podcast, I learn […]
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I’ve written a lot about pairing over the years, most recently about strong-style pairing with others on my team. Pairing is an excellent way to transfer skills, it offers a lot of advantages for overcoming cognitive biases when testing, and it’s just plain fun. For most of the 4.5 years I’ve been on my current […]
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