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Weekend Testing Fun

September 13, 2015 / Lisa Crispin / community, continual improvement, exploratory testing, learning for testers, mind maps, pairing, Uncategorized, weekend testers / 3 Comments

I love Weekend Testing and the chance it gives to collaborate with and learn from testing practitioners around the world. However, weekends are my only time to play with my donkeys and catch up with friends and family, so I rarely have time. In past years, I was able to participate in Weeknight Testing Europe, […]

Overcoming test automation challenges

April 26, 2015 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, conferences, continual improvement, experiments, learning for testers, mind maps, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 4 Comments

Janet Gregory and I enjoyed participating in the Quality in Agile conference in Vancouver April 20-21. We paired on a keynote: “Do testers need to code… to be useful?” Our opinion in a nutshell: testers need technical awareness to collaborate effectively with all their team members, but our software delivery teams already should have expert […]

More Agile Testing!

October 1, 2014 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, collaborating, learning for testers, magnificence, mind maps, Publications, Uncategorized / No Comments

AKA: Moar Agile Testing More (Agile Testing) (More Agile) Testing Janet Gregory and I, along with more than 40 contributors and many helpful reviewers (it takes a village), have finished our new book. We delve into many areas that are new or more important since our first book Agile Testing was published. Please see our […]

Agile Testing Days, part 1 of ?: Brainstorming!

November 6, 2013 / Lisa Crispin / brainstorming, conferences, experiments, impact mapping, mind maps, Uncategorized / 6 Comments

After consolidating my notes and photos from Agile Testing Days (so many devices! Plus sketch notes!), I realized it’s way too much for one post. I’m taking the advice of tweeps and serializing this novel. First up: the workshop I facilitated on Advanced Topics in Agile Testing. I must emphasize that I was only a […]

ACCUS Day 1

September 25, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, experiments, learning for testers, mind maps, Uncategorized / 7 Comments

The first day of Agile Coach Camp began with each person introducing him- or herself and his-or-her superpower. There were some clever ones. I said mine was getting people to write on the whiteboard, because whenever I do, magic happens, but then Tim Ottinger tweeted his disappointment that my superpower didn’t involve donkeys. The first […]

Using Mind Maps for Test Planning

February 28, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, communicating, estimating meetings, exploratory testing, Functional test tools, mind maps, planning, remote team members, software quality / 12 Comments

Recently I wrote a post about how our team used a mind map to help us with theme planning. We also sometimes use mind maps to help us in planning our testing. Some people asked if I’d post an example. Here it is: We’re a financial services company, and this theme was a rewrite of […]

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