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CAST 2021 Recap

When I hit publish on my article CAST 2021 is AFK a few weeks ago I said: I’m in an airplane for the first time in years on my way to Atlanta, GA for CAST 2021. CAST is both my first conference in-person and the Association for Software Testing’

CAST 2021 is AFK

I’m in an airplane for the first time in years on my way to Atlanta, GA for CAST 2021. CAST is both my first conference in-person and the Association for Software Testing’s first since 2019. I’m pretty excited to confer safely at an in person conference AND

January 2020 Updates

* Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 8th at 11am, I’m hosting James Bach and Michael Bolton for a webinar on TestOpsies – Dissecting Your Testing. Learn More or Sign up today to attend / receive the recording! * Starting on January 12th I’ll be teaching the first AST-BBST Foundations course of 2020. The class

What it means to be a leader in testing

Background: During CAST I sat for an interview with Pradeep Soundararajan of Moolya Testing. We talked about a few things mostly on what it meant to be a leader in the testing space. They made a short video on the interview so check it out or read the transcript. Transcript:

It's hard to attend and run a conference

Turns out it’s hard to attend and run a conference at the same time. Go. Figure. I had a great idea to let other people decide what talks I should attend at CAST 2019 and then I’d do a writeup of each one. While I love the idea

Late-August updates

August has been crazy busy with a mixture of travel, AST elections, my day job and the annual CAST conference. Some recent updates: Learning * Joined my first TestAutomationU course on WebDriverIO. I already use WebDriverIO v4 but figured since it was using v5 it might be fun to see what

Help me choose my CAST 2019 schedule

I’ll be attending CAST in Cocoa Beach, FL next week and I can’t quite decide what sessions and workshops I want to attend on during the conference days (Wednesday and Thursday). I will definitely live tweet but I’d also like to do some live blogging / recaps / summaries

Remember remember it's the month of November

November has been so packed full of interesting events that it’s time for an update! (Although perhaps not as interesting as Guy Fawkes Night, on November 5th). The first weekend of November I took my position as incoming Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Association for Software

Highlights from CAST 2018

Last week I attended CAST in Cocoa Beach, Florida, which was my second time attending and the first since CAST in Grand Rapids back in 2015. It was a fun experience for a number of reasons including giving my first workshop at CAST and being elected to the AST Board

Appreciating the appreciation

This month I’ve gotten several compliments and positive feedback on how TestingConferences.org has helped them. Some have been speakers, some participants looking for a conference and others have been conference organizers. It’’s a pretty amazing feeling when (in this case) multiple people say they’ve gotten use

Contributing to GitHub is for Everyone at the Online Testing Conference

One of our sessions you can’t afford to miss “Contributing to GitHub is for Everyone” with @mheusser & @ckenst https://t.co/dfFpLj6pwQ pic.twitter.com/D1MMQQjicw — onlinetestconf (@OnlineTestConf) May 23, 2017 On June 13th Matt Heusser and I will be giving a talk at the Online Testing Conference

Introducing TestingConferences.org

For the past few years one of my professional goals has been to attend (at least) one testing conference or workshop per year, mostly because it’s such a great way to recharge and learn what other practitioners are doing. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a good source of events

Catching up on a few Conferences

One of the great things about modern testing conferences is most either live stream or record their conference talks so the information can be disseminated to a wider audience. While you don’t get the interaction and conferring that an in-person visit would get you, it does make it easier

An In-depth look at CAST 2015

The Conference for the Association for Software Testing or CAST 2015 was held in Grand Rapids, MI during the first week of August. Since then I’ve been trying to reflect on what I thought, learned, liked and didn’t like. Here is that reflection in roughly 3,000 words.

See you at CAST 2015

Thanks to my awesome company’s sponsorship and my wife’s love of travel I will be at CAST this year and attending the tutorial “Delivering Difficult Messages” by Fiona Charles. This is both my first time attending CAST and traveling to Grand Rapids, MI so I’m expecting to

What I've been up to lately

Things have been busy in the last month or so and I felt like sharing what I’ve been up to lately. Most of it revolves around software testing: April saw the start of Dan Ariely’s A Beginners Guide to Irrational Behavior class on Coursera. I knew I had

Rapid Testing Intensive 2012: Day 5

The final day of the Rapid Testing Intensive #1: The Group photo – taken on the 4th day (I’m in the 2nd row behind the #1) 9:00 AM – We all picked up our Certificates of Satisficity – saying we completed Rapid Testing Intensive #1 9:05 AM – Jon, as PM,

Rapid Testing Intensive 2012: Day 4

9:02 AM – James starts us off on Day 4. We are going to look at the status of the test project in terms of what we need to accomplish and look for the holes. This is a typical rapid testing management maneuver. James is showing a graph and reiterates

Rapid Testing Intensive 2012: Day 3

9:02 AM – Jon kicks off the Intensive with his project meeting. Talking about the communication between us and his eBay team. 9:07 AM – James talking about the upcoming assignments which will be split between onsite and online. Each table will get a 30 min test session. Later today

Rapid Testing Intensive 2012: Day 2

9:00 AM – Start of the day. James doing some talking about what we did yesterday, he’s built a mind map. James and Jon are going over our schedule – gonna try to stick to it better than we did yesterday. 9:23 AM – Jon is doing a de-brief from

Rapid Testing Intensive 2012: Day 1 Recap

This is a previous day recap of the things we did in Rapid Testing Intensive #1, Day 1 on Orcas Island, WA in 2012. I hope I remember everything. Some of the information I took from Karen Johnson’s internal micro-blog. We’ve got eBay’s support, developers online, ready

StarWest 2011 Keynote Presentations

I’ve uploaded two Keynote Presentation’s from this years (2011) StarWest conference. The first is James Whittaker’s Keynote entitled All That Testing is Getting in the Way of Quality: The second is the Lightning round Keynote featuring a number of testing luminaries like Michael Bolton, Lee Copeland, Bob

James Bach's Open Lecture on Software Testing

I got to talk to James Bach last week at StarWest 2011 in Anaheim. I joined his Critical Thinking class for its final 2 hours on Tuesday after walking out on my boring afternoon half-day tutorial on Open Source tools. I was surprised when I was able to catch up

STAR West 2011

It’s official I’ve registered for STAR West 2011 (also know as Software Testing Analysis and Review for the west coast) in Anaheim, CA. I’m only going for Monday and Tuesday, the tutorial days, but I’m excited for the ones I’ve chosen: Monday: A Rapid Introduction

GTAC 2011 and STARWEST 2011

The two big Software Testing events of the year, GTAC or the Google Test Automation Conference, and STARWEST are both being held in October of this year. Big month for software testers! According to the Google Testing Blog GTAC 2011 will be held in Mountain View, CA during the week