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You Are a Scientist
On May 15, 2012, Christin Wiedemann presented “You Are a Scientist” at the Let’s Test Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. A software tester is nothing less than a scientific researcher, using all his/her intelligence, imagination and creativity to gain empirical information … Continue reading
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Tagged high performance teams, people, science & testing, software testing
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It’s Raid Night! Gamification for Software Test Teams?
I presented “It’s Raid Night! Gamification for Software Test Teams?” to VANQ.org, the Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group and I wanted to share that material with you. People, processes and technology are the pillars of any company, but without … Continue reading
Posted in All, Business of Testing, Team Building
Tagged cognitive biases, gamification, high performance teams, people, software testing
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Why Are You a Tester?
I am always curious as to what drives people – what their motivation is – especially when it comes to other testers. I know why I am a tester. My driving force is my curiosity and the need to learn … Continue reading
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Test Management: Leading Your Team To Success (Course Extract)
I have extracted a small deck of slides from my course “Test Management: Leading Your Team To Success”. Hope you enjoy. You can download the slides here: Test Management – Leading Your Test Team to Success (Course Extract)
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A Remote Tester’s Perspective – The Challenges and Solutions
On October 27, 2011, Keith McIntosh presented “A Remote Tester’s Perspective: The Challenges and Solutions” at the Software Test Professionals Conference in Dallas, Texas. Much has been written on the many challenges associated with remote testing locations whether they are onshore, nearshore or offshore. The … Continue reading
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Tagged high performance teams, outsourcing, people, process improvement, software testing, test management, value add
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Working with Business Testers
From Nancy Kelln’s presentation at STPCon, “Leading Business Testers”, business testers: are not testers do not want to be testers require guidance and support require their expectations to be managed may be working part-time on the project and all of … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, people, process improvement, software testing, test management, uat
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Role of Outsourcing: Finding Your Vision
On February 24, 2011, I presented “Role of Outsourcing: Finding Your Vision” to VANQ.org, the Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group and I wanted to share that material with you. Consciously deciding your outsourcing approach is similar to choosing to … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, outsourcing, people, software testing
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Know Yourself as a Tester
Who are you? How do you behave? And how does it affect your testing? I was pair-testing with a colleague, which gave me an excellent opportunity to study his testing behaviour. He had to enter a five digit number repeatedly, … Continue reading
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Physicists – Testers in Disguise?
My background is in science. I have spent 11 years (a third of my life, believe it or not) studying mathematics, statistics and most importantly – physics, experimental astroparticle physics to be specific. I have been trained to be sceptical … Continue reading
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Play Me a Song
My sister was visiting us a few weeks ago so that she might meet her new niece in person. She lives about 1500km away from us, so it’s just far enough away to make these sorts of visits infrequent. I … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, high performance teams, people, process improvement, software testing, templates, test management, test tools, uat
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