Category Archive for ‘Education’ 
#CAST2011 - Day 1 (final)
Well, I am in Seattle, (Lynwood, WA, to be more precise ) and the start of the CAST Conference is officially just a few minutes away. We had a bit of a celebratory get together last night at a Thai restaurant near our hotel here (poor place probably didn't know what hit ...
Of Rifles and Shotguns: Understanding Our Tools
One of the conversations that has been bandied around a lot is how relevant a particular tool is to a testers arsenal. During last night’s debate, Phil Kirkham to add some levity, but to also make a point “asked ‘Should QTP die?’, which relates to commentary written by Paul Hammant ...
Join Us For A "Twitter Testing Town Hall"
Catherine Powell posted about this earlier today and I'd like to follow suit :).Later this evening (6:00 p.m. PDT, 9:00 p.m. EDT) I and three other candidates will be participating in a Twitter Testing Town Hall meeting to answer questions about AST, who we are, what we do, and why ...
Danger: Blogger Who Reads!!!
Worry not, my Podcast grab bag will be going up later today, but since this is a blog mostly dedicated to what I at least hope will be based on education and re-education (the good kind, where we willingly learn new things, not the bad kind associated with Cold War ...
Selling the Story and Combating Apathy: TESTHEAD Branches Out!
This is exciting. Two different articles, on two different sites, within two days. How cool is that :)?!First, I want to give thanks to the folks over at Software Quality Connection for running my story about "Selling the Test Automation Story". This was a step out of my comfort zone, ...
Secure Clouds? A Weekend Testing Follow-Up
Ah yes, summer is here! Great for outdoor activities, not so good for Weekend Testing in the states :). Still, even though we had a smaller group than usual, we still had an active discussion and a good time was had by all. We had a broad cross section of ...
Weekend Testing Americas #13 This Weekend: New Session and a Request
First, I'd like to announce that we will be holding a Weekend Testing session this coming Saturday (June 25, 2011) at 11:00 a.m. PDT (that's 2:00 p.m. EDT, 6:00 p.m GMT, and I'll let everyone else do the math beyond that :) ). The specific mission is still being formulated, ...
Career advice from New Zealand
Two years ago I created Software Testers New Zealand (google group). It has taken a little while but there have been some fantastic discussions especially in recent months.
Yesterday a member of the group *ranted* (his words) about an *approved* j...
SDET in Training?
I've been a little out of the loop the past few days, and I've had a number of reasons. One of which is that I've just finished editing the next podcast for TWiST, and delivered it this morning. Once it's posted, I'll tell you all about it :). Also, there's ...
PODCAST FRIDAY: TWiST #47 w/ Randy Rice
So I'm excited about this week's interviewee.I can't say for sure, but I think Randy Rice may be the first tester to produce a regular podcast. Over at TestingPodcast.com, the oldest entries are Randy's, so if there are older regularly created podcasts, then I don't know about them. Randy did ...
The Evil Tester Question Time is back! This is your chance to ask a very Evil Tester a question and get some scrumptious and devious ... 
We recently came across a new test management tool, TestPad, which takes a different approach to test management. Along our journey we met and spoke ... 
[Got a testing tip? Why not submit it and get published?] I’m sure we’ve all had days where we need a bit of help coming up with ...