test automation

10+1 commandments for ethical techies - listed at the bottom of the post, also

New-to-me ideas from Targeting Quality 2022!

I just got back from Targeting Quality 2022, a lovely conference put on by KWSQA in Cambridge, Ontario. This was a great opportunity for me, because the early bird ticket was affordable, and I can drive there! Yes, it takes eight hours, and across the border. I’m from the West, so that’s no distance at […]

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Upcoming online events

A couple of webinars coming up next week! I’m doing a webinar with Jenna Charlton on how teams can use visual models to create an effective automation strategy on September 22 with Functionize, it’s free, please join us! Janet Gregory and I are doing an Ask Us Anything with the Test Chat community on September […]

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Lisa by beach

Ready to work with you!

Welcome to my revamped website! I’ve enjoyed a lovely summer, I’m rested and ready to help teams identify and achieve their quality goals. Let me bring my experience helping teams delight customers with frequent, low-risk delivery of high-quality software products to your organization. I can guide your teams to figure out their biggest obstacles and […]

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Semaphore Uncut podcast image with Lisa and a donkey

Podcast interviews available! (and good podcasts to follow!)

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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Continuous Deployment Pipeline

New Challenges in Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery and deployment (both abbreviated as “CD”) aren’t new concepts. Jez Humble and David Farley published their Continuous Delivery book ten years ago. Patrick Debois organized the first “DevOpsDays” conference in 2009, and created the #DevOps (also written as devops, devOps and Devops) hashtag. Of course, CD is new to many teams. There are […]

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Dev asking code base questions about how it behaives

Property-based or generative testing – insights from European Testing Conference

I had really good intentions to blog more about things I learned at European Testing Conference, because I took pretty good sketch notes for myself. But I exceeded my WIP pretty badly between ETC and Booster Conference, and then I broke my leg. I’m making time now to share what I learned from at least […]

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