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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Recently I did a short webinar with Agile Testing Days “AgileTD Mondays” series on “Transferring Testing Skills to the Whole Team. It’s about 20 minutes long, I hope it will inspire you to spread some testing love around your agile team! How do you help non-testers on the team learn testing skills? I’d love to […]
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After being our delightful host and emcee all week, Mike Sutton finally got to do what he originally came to Potsdam to do – give his keynote on the power of Communities of Practice in testing. I’d never thought of what those words mean – a community, yes, but also practice. Where can we learn? […]
Read MoreI was honored to be interviewed by Dave Rael for his Developer on Fire! podcast. Please give it a listen and let me know if you share any of my experiences with small experiments, collaborating with customer and delivery team members, imposter syndrome, or whatever! I’ve listened to many great interviews on Dave’s podcast, I […]
Read MoreThe Twitterverse and other social media continue to host many discussions on topics such as “Do testers need to code?” As Pete Walen points out in his recent post, the “whole team” approach to delivering software, popularized with agile development, is often misunderstood as “everyone must write production code”. The “Whole Team Approach” in practice […]
Read MoreRaji Bhamidipati and I co-facilitated a day-long workshop at ExpoQA Madrid in June. We shared techniques testers can use with their teams to build shared understanding at the product, release, feature, iteration and story levels. Participants worked in teams to try out the various techniques and contribute their own experiences with ways to enable shared […]
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