I am honored that Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by me and Janet Gregory is on Jonas Bandi’s list of his favorite software development books of 2010, especially because the other books in the list are also some of my favorites for the year. The start of a new year […]
Read MoreWhat My Donkeys Taught Me
The new issue of Agile Record has an article of mine, one I’ve been wanting to write for a long time. It’s not the best-crafted article I ever wrote – I was in a rush to make the deadline (actually I missed the deadline, but the editors were nice and included my article anyway). However, […]
Read MoreIntro to Test Automation Design, in The Testing Planet (& more)
The Testing Planet from the Software Testing Club has indeed landed! It is chock full of excellent articles about testing, both technical and cultural. Just a sample of the titles: “Yes, It’s Personal”, “Context-driven Jumping”, “Testing & Creativity”, “Weekend Testing Fun”. I am extremely proud that my article, an introduction to test automation design, is […]
Read MorePublished on InfoQ: A Tester’s Learning Journey
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. […]
Read MoreIn the Fishbowl
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 […]
Read MoreSQuAD Workshop: Learning for Testers
The Software Quality Association of Denver held a workshop May 7 to share ideas about why testers need to learn, what they need to learn, and how they can learn all of that. I facilitated an enthusiastic crowd of about 80 people. The room wasn’t set up in a suitable way, but participants found creative […]
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