“I fear that posting this will have negative consequences for me, but I feel more strongly that I need to share this experience and raise awareness.” It’s been a year and a half since I shared my story of Sexual Harassment in Tech & the Testing Community. It was an extremely difficult thing […]
Category: Communication
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Verification as Code
I recently listened to a talk by Matt Long on Why We Should Test Programmable Infrastructure. You can watch a version of it on the MoT Dojo. During the talk, he used the phrase “infrastructure as code”, which you may have heard before. Wikipedia describes “infrastructure as code” as: “the process of managing […]
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SBTM in Practice with PQIP
Last year, I wrote about my first experience with SBTM, in collaboration with Mike Talks. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to use SBTM in the “real world”, on a client project that I was on for about six months. I’d like to reflect on that experience, and consider some of my learnings, […]
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Writing Abstracts: Non-Advice from a Speaker and Reviewer
During my last two years as a professional software tester, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at conferences and events around the world, and have also reviewed hundreds of abstracts for a number of conferences. I recently saw a thread from Richard Bradshaw with his opinions on writing and reviewing abstracts for conferences […]
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Preventing Interruptions with Sticky Notes
In software production, there are all kinds of techniques that utilise sticky notes. Whether it’s in a physical Kanban board, example mapping, risk storming, or just general reminders, we seem to like them a lot. At the Open Space day of TestBash Germany last year, I decided to use sticky notes in a […]