The Agile Testing Days program always includes a vast range of topics. Some are perennial favorites, some are totally original. This second post about stuff I learned at Agile Testing Days 2023 will give you a taste of that. Monday at ATD is tutorial day. Janet Gregory and I co-facilitated our all-day tutorial, “Holistic Testing: […]
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Recently, Melissa Fisher asked a Slack community I’m in for ideas on creating successful workshops. Community members who are highly experienced in delivering excellent training and workshops shared some excellent tips, I asked them if I could share them here too. They agreed, so here goes. Training from the back of the room Ahsley Hunsberger […]
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A conference called Agile on the Beach sounds like a summer vacation! By scheduling some free time before and after the conference, I did turn it into one. A vacation where I learned a lot and picked up many new ideas! Janet Gregory and I were invited to pair on a keynote, “Weaving Quality Into […]
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Good relationships with colleagues in different specialties and different teams are a key to learning and succeeding. I was lucky to start my software career in an organization where we collaborated and learned from each other. Despite my shy nature, I intuitively forged relationships with people outside my team as well as within it. For […]
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Most, if not all, software teams want to deliver a high-quality product. And most, if not all, face a wide range of big challenges that get in the way of this goal. In the day-to-day work to fulfill business and customer priorities, improving quality seems an overwhelming and/or overlooked activity. My teams’ quality journeys Over […]
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I made my first open source contribution thanks to Marit van Dijk. She helped me get set up with the Cucumber.io repository, getting Docker running locally so I could run the app. She helped me configure IntelliJ IDEA to work with it. (I’d used it before, but not on my own laptop). I contributed some […]
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