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Software Testing & Startups Talk in Dublin and Belfast

If anyone is interested there will be a softtest event this month (May) in Dublin and Belfast. I am giving a talk on software testing and startups. Here’s the abstract Software Testing in the world of Start Ups This presentation offers a glimpse into software testing in the world

Date set for Dublin Software Testers Meetup

Date set for Dublin Software Testers Meetup

Put the 16th of June into your diary. Is the inaugural meetup for the Dublin Software testers. The venue is the Library Bar, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street [http://www.pininthemap.com/pp1efb30208acdac9d7]. Its on the first floor. Time is from 7.30 pm This is a social event for software

Dublin Software Testing Group

Online networks are great for sharing knowledge and meeting fellow testers. In particular, I am a fan of the software testing club [http://softwaretestingclub.com] . However, even better is a face to face meet. Thats why I’m setting up a Dublin monthly software testers group. The aim is to

This heuristic is backwards

This heuristic is backwards

Recently, I’ve been asked to make some comments on a book. I’m using a technique I ‘discovered’ in my early days of testing. I am calling it the ‘Backwards Heuristic’. In my early days of testing when I had to review documents, I lacked the confidence to speak

Better than Beta? You Betcha!

Software testing has gone through a few renaissances in the last twenty years or so. From the dark ages of the waterfall process, there has emerged new theories, schools and test tools. We even have online clubs and networks. One noticeable difference between then and now is testing was traditionally

A scrum in Croke Park

A scrum in Croke Park

I’m attending the SQS conference on Software Testing in Croke Park, Dublin. I thought it was appropriate to go to an Agile Testing session involving Scrum amongst other techniques in the same hallowed ground where not to recently a game of Rugby was played out between England and Ireland.

I'm glad I'm not a piece of software

I'm glad I'm not a piece of software

I joke about my personal development lifecycle (PDLC) as my work in test management often requires consistency & repeatability in the form of a test process. In comparison my own PDLC is often very erratic and ill behaved. In fact its not really a typical lifecycle at all except perhaps