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I’m giving a session at Agile2011 in Salt Lake City at 9AM Wednesday on Exploratory Testing in an Agile Context. The session itself will be entirely hands on: we will explore a hand-held electronic game that I brought while discussing how ET and Agil...

2 weeks ago at Seattle Lean Coffee Michael Wolf shared a story about seeing two colleagues at a conference who had not seen each-other for years reunited without much fanfare. One of them looked at the other and matter-of-factly said “Hey, long time...

You are part of the rebel alliance and a tester… The last two months have been exciting for me in the testing space. First it was Rapid Software Testing with James Bach then it was KWST and the follow up online discussions. From these discussions, I ...

I’ve just spent the afternoon reading the updated Scrum Guide from Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. There are some great points in it – some of which I have recorded here because in my experiences working with the various agile teams that I have m...

A couple months ago I began attending Seattle Lean Coffee. I had first heard of lean coffee last year when Jon Bach and Jim Benson told me about it at my first SEASPIN (Seattle Eastside Area Software Process Improvement Network). I was highly impress...

Next week is the Conference for the Association of Software Testing in Lynnwood WA (just outside Seattle) and I am honored to have been invited to present with Lanette Creamer. We’re not planning on spending an hour in front of the audience talking...

In the movie “The Right Stuff” there’s a scene where character Chuck Yeager is barreling up to the sound barrier in the Bell X-1.  He’s being shaken to bits from turbulence (transonic speed before 800 mph).  Just when you think the plane will...

I’ve been ‘independent’ since the tail end of 2009 (one week before Christmas in fact) and have solely been doing work-for-hire stuff between now and then. I don’t scale to my ambitions, nor to my paranoias so I’ve been thinking about really ...

These are a little better than last night’s. Still not sure that I would spend the coin to go to Velocity though. But I suspect the really good talks are also the ones that would be hard to record. Performance Testing: Putting Cloud Customers Back i...

One of the things I inevitably have to deal with at each site I visit is the idea that Selenium scripts are slow. Sure, they are slower than unit tests, but a lot of the perceived slowness is due to all the other stuff the page is trying to load. ...