Blog Posts

A List of Conference Talks, Keynotes and Tutorials

I have presented at conferences world wide since 2003. Most of the conferences below have links to a write up of the talks and slides.

Many of the talks are also available in my Evil Tester Talks online training with transcripts, exercises, recordings and extra content.

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Most of my speaking engagements are invited talks which are uniquely created for the event. You can contact me if you would like me to speak at your event.

What would be suitable Code Katas for people wanting to learn how to code to support their testing?

I was testing a system that created particularly long URLs that were hard to read because there were so many query parameters. I needed a way to fix that.

What is Software Testing?

Hard Question. But many people want easy answers. I do provide some easy answers but I encourage you to find your own answers.

Writing a Chrome Extension is pretty easy (getting it in the Chrome Store is much harder!). In this post I will take the snippet code I wrote to generate CounterStrings and convert it into a Chrome Extension.

During the investigation of a CounterString GitHub search issue, I noticed that the search button displayed for the form I was using did not trigger the search functionality when pressed. In this post I investigate that.

When we find a bug in a system we have to make sure we can isolate it and also reduce the risk that our approach caused the bug, rather than the system having a bug.

CounterStrings are an underused technique. Primarily because there are not a lot of tools that implement it. In this blog post I explain how you can use them from within your browser, and as a bonus, using them to find a bug in Github.

Over the years I’ve seen sites crash and burn so I’ve tried to archive content posted on other sites. This post collates answers to questions I answered on Quora.

I use a variety of screenshot tools in my work and for sharing the images, animated gifs, movies and pretty much any file, I use CloudApp.