I was honored to be interviewed by two podcasters and the episodes are out this week. One is the “Semaphore Uncut” podcast with Darko Fabijan. I really enjoyed our conversation about holistic testing. This podcast has lots of really awesome guests, I highly recommend subscribing! The other is a new podcast, “Automation Hangout” hosted by […]
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I’m independent!
For the past couple decades, I’ve enjoyed working as a hands-on tester and internal test consultant at several different companies. I was lucky to be a part of some teams who achieved a high level of product quality, team performance, and joy. Whatever the outcome – I always learned a lot! At the same time, […]
Read More20+ years of “agile” – and my (collaborative) writing career!
Lots of companies are using the 20th anniversary of a bunch of pale males signing the “Agile Manifesto” at Snowbird. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of the Manifesto, especially the principles. It’s amazing what such a non-diverse group was able to do. At the same time, I am not a fan of labels. […]
Read MoreWhat can testers and developers learn from each other?
At Agile 2019, Bill Wake and I paired on a workshop on the Culture and Collaboration track at Agile 2019, “What testers and developers can learn from each other”. I was thrilled to be co-facilitating this with Bill, who was one of my early Extreme Programming heroes. Doing a true workshop in a 75 minute […]
Read MoreLearning from hitting a brick wall
I’m fizzing with all the stuff I learned at European Testing Conference in beautiful Valencia last week! I gave myself the gift of taking sketch notes of all the sessions I attended, so I’m hoping I can do a few blog posts about it. I have been neglecting this blog lately because I spend so […]
Read MoreThe changing roles of testers in agile and DevOps
Joel Montvelisky and I paired to talk about how testing has changed in light of more teams adopting agile development and DevOps culture. Many thanks to mabl and PractiTest for collaborating to host this! We had a great chat about how we see the role of testers and test/QA managers, and the ways they add […]
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