- Deliberately practice servant leadership and why it’s hard! Around 6 months ago, Dan North visited Redgate and spoke to us about this idea of servant leadership and a few stories surrounding it. It all made perfect sense, it all resonated with how we believed we should lead and treat people but it was quite easy to find examples of times when we weren’t doing that so well. Read on if you would like some insight about a time where it didn’t go so well and how we managed to eventually figure out why!
- London Tester Gathering Workshops 2016 Last week I attended the London Tester Gathering Workshops.
- Running your Selenium checks on Microsoft Edge For the last week or so, after spending some time upgrading some of our existing selenium client machines I thought it would be a good idea to find out more about Selenium checks (tests…) on Microsoft’s new browser, Edge.
- My first public talk! I began my professional career as a software tester just over 3 years ago. Back then, if anyone had asked me if in 3 years’ time I would be presenting a topic to a bunch of fellow professionals I would have thought they were crazy.
- Agile Testing Days 2015 November in my work calendar means only one thing: Agile Testing Days 2015.
- Agile Testing Days 2014 Last November I attended Agile Testing Days 2014. If you read my previous posts you would recognise this was the second time I attended the conference.
- CAST 2014 Back in August 2014 I was fortunate enough to attend CAST 2014.
- Agile Testing Days 2013 - Day 3 Talk Notes In the last day, after being in Germany for just over 4 days, I decided to still attend the morning talks and take a look at the sketching workshop (which I left after the break: I was tired, and I’m really poor at drawing, which meant that I couldn’t even concentrate on what we were asked to do, so I thought I’d give it another go another time). Here are the key points in the morning talks I attended.
- Agile Testing Days 2013 - Day 2 Talk Notes The second day of the conference, and when I was already feeling quite exhausted, I attended a couple of talks in the morning and just sat down in the main room during the afternoon to see what the consensus were about. Here are my notes for the day.
- Agile Testing Days 2013 - Day 1 Talk Notes In the first (well technically second if you count the tutorial day) day of the conference I attended the 2 morning talks and in the afternoon I floated between consensus talks and the various workshops and vendor boots. Here are the key points talked about in those talks.
- Agile Testing Days 2013 - Day 3 Keynotes Notes The last day of the conference started off with an interesting keynote by David Evans. Here are my notes for his keynote and also the other 2, including the closing keynote from Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory.
- Agile Testing Days 2013 - Day 2 Keynotes Notes There were again 3 keynotes during the second day of the conference. Here are some of the notes I took:
- Agile Testing Days 2013 - Day 1 Keynotes Notes The conference days, apart from the first day which was a tutorial one, consisted of a morning start keynote, followed by 2 talks (in which you could pick 5 different tracks), an after lunch keynote, followed by 2 more talks or workshops and a closing day keynote.
- Agile Testing Days 2013 - Day 0 (Tutorials) Notes Agile Testing Days in 2013 was the first conference I went to since I started my professional career in the software industry.
- London #TesterGathering with Michael Bolton Earlier this year I was invited to go down to London to attend the monthly tester’s gathering organised by Tony Bruce. It was the first one I went to, and unfortunately I haven’t had the chance to attend any others mainly due to lack of time and the starting time of the meet up is also not ideal for someone that has to travel from Cambridge, where I am based at the moment. Seeing that we also have Cambridge testing meet ups happening regularly my plan is to start attending those instead.
- Agile Testing & BDD Exchange 2013 - Notes Last year, in November (2013), I went to the Agile Testing & BDD eXchange that was held in London and hosted by SkillsMatter.