Rapid Software Testing with James Bach – First Two Days

My employer, Allies Computing Ltd, has hosted a condensed version of this post: http://www.alliescomputing.com/blog/testing-psychology-rapid-software-testing-training-james-bach/   Rapid Software Testing is a course I have wanted to do for a few years now having heard really good things about how it has improved various people’s testing and the way they think. We are two days in now and…

SIGiST Conference 13/03/2013

Good session at the Special Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST) conference yesterday run, as usual, by the BCS (British Computer Society) with a good representation of testers from across the different project lifecycles. Matt Robson from Mastek gave an opening keynote under the title “Be Agile or Do Agile” and gave some salutary warnings…

Of Marathons and Testers

A friend of mine, Simon Alexander, has recently started training to run in the London Marathon in just over a month’s time. He has started a fund-raising page at VirginMoney and any donations would be much appreciated by – not just by Simon and I – but the staff and children at the hospices too. It…

“Define structure”: my thoughts on James Bach’s challenge

Yesterday evening (in the UK anyway) James Bach set a challenge for Rob Lambert: jamesmarcusbach:  @Rob_Lambert Quick tester challenge for Rob Lambert: Define “structure.” You have 10 minutes. #softwaretesting It got me thinking too and my brain went into overdrive so I thought I would set out my own thoughts on the matter in a…

European Weekend Testing 24 July 2010

A write-up of my experiences at EWT 28.