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Software Testing Club Atlanta
As you may have noticed from my tweets, LinkedIn posts, Facebook posts, or chattering in person, I’m finally caving in to the peer pressure and organizing a local Atlanta, GA, USA tester meetup. Kind...
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Testing For Humans? Try Empathy
Two months ago, Matt Heusser organized Test Retreat and I attended, along with 27 other testers open to new ideas and wanting to change the world. Sound a little ambitious? Let’s find out! My first...
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Fresh Perspective
I can’t remember what it was like to start working as a tester. Ten years later, the only impression I have left of that time is voracious learning. So yesterday’s debut of the ISST webinar series...
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Agile will FAIL
The closing keynote at CAST 2013 was Scott Barber and Rob Sabourin describing takeaways from each of the talks of the conference, bringing together many different talks into themes or striking moments....
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Guest author at AgileConnection
Check out my recent article Eat Your Veggies over at AgileConnection.com Claire Moss shares with us a personal story on how using agile methods helped her family with managing meals and groceries. By...
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STC ATL Lean Coffee #1
Over the last few years, I have been getting to know other software testers here in Atlanta. Frequently, beginning this new acquaintance is such a positive experience that the other tester urges...
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Est testing parfait?
I heard that Gerry Weinberg has an exercise called “Mary had a little lamb,” in which you analyze each word in the sentence to elicit implicit meaning that might be important. This sounded interesting...
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Resolved
Recently, Testing Circus was asking about how testers are framing their new year. Many testers contributed their plans to form quite a list! Will sharing our plans with others help us to achieve what...
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Guest Author in Better Software
Check out my recent article Feeling Lost in the Woods? Mind maps Can Help! [PDF] on page 26 of Better Software magazine. Claire takes us on a nontraditional journey where designing and implementing...
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Sketching for fun and profit
As I recently wrote in Better Software magazine, I tend toward visualizing information. While this does not mean I skimp on words – as anyone who has been near me for 15 minutes can attest – it does...
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Potty training
My first experience with testing games was back at my first testing conference when Michael Bolton gave me a testing challenge at lunch: a rubber ball. I didn’t know what I was getting into, but I knew...
View ArticleMarch 2014 Software Testing Club Atlanta meetup
RSVP for the March 2014 meetup of Software Testing Club Atlanta features our own Eric Jacobson’s “Maybe We Don’t Have to Test It” from STAREast 2013: Testers are taught they are responsible for all...
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Perception and Certainty
A funny thing happened today at work. I found out that some of my colleagues literally see things differently. Many of us found ourselves surprised by what others perceived to be true about something...
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Leo: Bob, there is a ground-breaking new book, that has just come out. Now, not everything in this book, of course, applies to you, but I’m sure that you can see when you see the title, exactly how it...
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Coaching and Coffee
One morning, my office had a fancy coffee machine delivered. The machine was fancy enough that we had training sessions to learn how to use it. The machine’s controls involved a few pre-programmed...
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Out of Control
Live from Vancouver … It’s Saturday … Day? The weather is lovely outside, similar to Fall in the Southern United States, but I spent yesterday inside with 22 other passionate testers at TestRetreatYVR....
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Announcing Ministry of Test Atlanta Last fall was the last of our Software Testing Atlanta Conference (STAC) events. An attendee at my Intentional Learning Workshop chatted with me afterward. I...
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Here are the links we’re using in my deliver:Agile2018 workshop Beyond Waste: Exploratory Testing Charters in Action Slides Abstract: Think manual testing is waste? Think again! If you’re not learning...
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Here are some resources we’re using in my Agile Testing Days USA workshop Refactoring Test Collaboration Slides Abstract Collective ownership for testing starts with understanding testing. Rework your...
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Here are some sources to dig in more after my Agile2018 session Everything You Wanted To Know About DevOps But Were Afraid To Ask: Slides & Handouts Abstract: As a career software tester, I’ve...
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