Over the weekend I presented at FailQonf; a conference for software testers to learn from failing. I recorded my talk and posted it on YouTube: Have some questions about quality coaching? I answer some questions here and here is a quality coaching course overview. Want to get started in more quality coaching? Try running a… Continue reading FailQonf – celebrating our failures
Category: Conferences
Improving your testing skills
Today we are going over how to improve your thinking and software testing skills. Slide deck can be accessed here. Why do we bother testing? To get feedback. To help us answer the question, are we comfortable releasing this software? Read my mobile app test strategy here. There’s no manual testing We don’t say manual… Continue reading Improving your testing skills
Where are they now?
Have you heard of the Agile Manifesto? It was published in 2001 when 17 blokes who work in tech came together to come up with a consolidated way of working. They came up with 12 principles which still hold up today. It’s worth a read. This blog is digging into the archives and asking the… Continue reading Where are they now?
My Social Media Marketing Strategy
On Sunday I’ll be Interviewing Manoj Kumar who’s a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks & a Selenium Conf Organiser. And I was chatting to Manoj about my marketing strategy as a tester. I’ve been fascinated about marketing (more than learning about test automation tools) and this blog post is a reflection on that strategy. Marketing is… Continue reading My Social Media Marketing Strategy
YOW! Sydney 2019
YOW! Sydney 2019 has come and gone and what a conference it was. Here is my summary of the talks I attended (with sketchnotes). You can access a PDF of my sketchnotes here. Or find them all on twitter under #YOW19 and #Sketchnotes. Hopefully I’ll see you at the 2020 conference. If you are interested… Continue reading YOW! Sydney 2019
DevWorld 2019
I recently attended /Dev/World in Melbourne this week. This is Australia’s only iOS developer conference. Here is my summary of the conference. Themes There were a few themes that gleaned from the talks. These were; Swift is the most talked about language in this space People are still using Objective-C Cross platform remains a hot… Continue reading DevWorld 2019
Ticca 2019 – overview
TiCCA 2019 (Testing in Context Conference Australia) has been and gone and it was an amazing opportunity to reconnect with some old faces and meet some new ones. It felt like one of the more intimate testing conferences that I’ve been to and that’s a good thing. Now that’s over I feel a bit of… Continue reading Ticca 2019 – overview
Tails of Fail
Today I gave a talk at TiCCA (Testing in Context Conference). The talk topic was tails of fail – how I failed a quality coach role. It’s a story of how I tried out this quality coaching thing but I didn’t pass probation. You can access the slides here. I used slido to manage the… Continue reading Tails of Fail
Soap Opera Testing
What is it? Soap Opera Testing is a dramatised method used for testing your business processes. You might want to try it for a super-condensed and thorough way of highlighting bugs. And because it’s fun. Embrace the drama. Origins Cem Kaner has been writting about scenario testing for a long time. He published this article… Continue reading Soap Opera Testing
Next Career move
I recently asked myself, “where would I like to take my career?”. This is a blog post on that reflection. From maintaining tech skills to improving my coaching. Here are the things that are important to me. Keeping tech skills up to date I’ve been doing software testing now for over 7 years and even… Continue reading Next Career move