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Exploring new Territory

Exploring new Territory

I learned something really important about myself today. What all started it off was a discussion I was having with James Bach on Exploratory Workshops. (You may remember that I blogged about designing an ET workshop recently – well James offered to help out and I wisely accepted his offer) One

reinventing the wheel

reinventing the wheel

I liken my experience of creating an Exploratory Testing workshop as similar to recreating the wheel. It would be easy to copy someone else’s version of a wheel, after all there are a lot of great wheels out there. Alternatively, I could create my own wheel. But how do

Get out your tin whistles

At last after a year of wrangling, shuffling and even some pleading Michael Bolton in association with Testing Times is coming Dublin to give his wonderful Rapid Software Testing Course. Not that Michael needed persuading to come. He jumped at the opportunity. Mostly because he loves giving this course and

Blasting off to CAST 2010

Blasting off to CAST 2010

It’s my first outing to CAST this year. CAST has been on my wish list for a couple of years now, but with moving countries, raising kids, and earning a living I’ve found it hard to make it. This year I decided no more excuses, it was time

Bizcamp Talk

Bizcamp Talk

I gave a talk at Bizcamp this year on how to get the most out of your software testing. This was an interesting challenge as the I wasn’t speaking to software testers but developers. How could I help developers and small companies test better? I decided to go down

Are you a Buccaneer Parrot?

Are you a Buccaneer Parrot?

I’ve had a couple of ‘epiphanies’ this morning and consequently have that weird floaty, happy/anxious feeling that I get at moments like this. I didn’t go to StarEast but I, along with countless other software testers have been watching the virtual show through twitter. Some of it

When the dog bites, when the bee stings....

When the dog bites, when the bee stings....

I wonder if the software testing community has a collective consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness] ? So often I go to write a post on something that I’ve been thinking about and wham, some great blogger has posted it before me, expressing in far more succinctly than