Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

At the January 2013 “Test Management Summit” I presented a half day tutorial entitled “Lessons Learned with BDD”

Subtitled: Thinking and automating with Domain Specific Languages.

This was an opinionated overview of BDD where the underlying theme was that BDD involves the creation of a DSL.

Slides:

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Lessons learned with Bdd: a tutorial (slides)

On 4th December 2012 I presented a Webinar for Eurostar on Technical Testing. Becoming more technical, gives you more flexibility, more options, and gives you more ways that you can add value on a project.

In November 2012 I presented A Keynote at Eurostar entitled “Unconventional Influences”, and co-presented a tutorial with Simon Stewart the “Selenium Clinic”. The tutorial won an award for best Tutorial at the conference.

Keynote Slides

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Keynote Paper

Since I entitled the talk “Unconventional Influences” I tried to make the paper as unconventional as I could, so it covers the essence of the talk but not the material. I republished this as part of Dear Evil Tester

Hands up who uses generalisation in their modelling strategies? Me too! Here are 5 classifications I use for thinking about the WebDriver API.

Interview

On 16 May 2012 I presented a webinar at the Eurostar 2012 Virtual conference. An overview of many types of visual thinking for software testing

The event was recorded and you can see a video of my talk on the Test Bash page. Markus Gartner

Markus Gartner did a pretty good write up of the talk.

What is Testing?

Do you care?

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This is the supporting web page for the talks, and papers, on “NLP for testers” which I presented at a variety of conferences".

I was working out the kinks in my high level software testing model, and, through a process of speed reading and stichomancy I found that I have re-created an early Buddhist doctrine.