Testing is a Team Problem
During a recent Q & A session for my webinar “What a testing mindset brings to your agile team”, one of the participants asked me this question: Why do you […]
Book Review – The Way of the Web Tester: A Beginner’s Guide to Automating Tests by Jonathan Rasmusson
Jonathan explains seemingly complicated concepts in a simple manner so that everyone can understand. If you are a tester working on web applications and want to gain some technical awareness […]
Removing Clutter – Removing Defects
I found myself with two free days in Copenhagen, no family commitments and no work commitments, so I decided to make a personal commitment. I declared these two days a […]
Book Review – Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests
Book Review – Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests, By Gojko Adzic, David Evans and Tom Roden The first thing I noticed when I opened the book to the Table […]
Agile testing is not a methodology
This year at the EuroStar conference in Dublin, I was asked to do a 5 minute “Soap Box” talk. To me, that meant that I could do a little rant, […]
Book Review: 50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories by Gojko Adzic
In my opinion, this is a much needed book. I spend a lot of my time talking about testability of stories, and Gojko and David have given us many ideas […]
Lean Coffee at Agile Testing Days 2014, Potsdam, Germany
This is the third (maybe 4th) year that Lisa Crispin and I have hosted lean coffee in the Fritz pub. This year it was at 8:00 am which was a […]
Distributed Teams – my experience
Over the past decade or so, I’ve been working with teams that work in a distributed environment and giving advice about ways to make it work. Lisa Crispin (my co-author […]
Agile 2013 – Stalwart Session
In August, I was at the Agile 2013 conference in Nashville Tennessee along with ~1700 people. I attended talks, participated in open space sessions, Lean coffee sessions, and multiple hallway […]
Book Reviews: Discover to Deliver and Impact Mapping
I recently read two new books: Impact Mapping by Gojko Adzic, and Discover to Deliver by Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman. I have posted both my reviews below, but I […]