I probably just broke a whole pile of Branding, SEO and blogging rules, all in one go. And I did it by winning a competition !! The competition was organized by David Shaw of www.Protycoon.com, who was giving away 6 free advertising banners on his site to the first 6 visitors

Once upon a time, I was a full-time employee of a big multi-national. I spent 11 years in that company, 10 of them managing groups of test engineers, developers, and quality assurance (process) engineers. We had a "conference budget" which allowed a small percentage of employees to attend international conferences every year. I was a

I always believed that Quality Assurance and Testing are a combination of Science and Art. One of the arts of testing is Exploratory Testing, where experience is a key factor to the test engineer's ability to perform effectively. Well, Blogging is also a combination of a science and an art, and to

For those of you who attended my presentation at SIGiST 2008, below are the results of the Ambiguity Review exercise that you all did :-) Sorry about the length of this post - even by MY standards it's a bit long. But if you're into Quality in particular, and

And now, last but absolutely not least, the "Best Presentation Award", which went to Danny (Danko) Kovatch. Danny's talk was a double session, and it could easily have been a 1 or 2-day tutorial. His subject was "Scrum: the Roles and Responsibilities of QA", and included a short

OK, you've heard me talk in length about the presentations that I listened to all the way through SIGiST Israel 2008. You've even (hopefully) read my post about Vipul Kocher's keynote. Well, unfortunately, some of the keynotes should really take a lesson from the presentations. True, in many cases, keynotes are

I must say that I had fun giving this presentation, and I guess that the audience felt it too. Requirements Review - it sounds dreadfully boring. Months ago, when I was asked to speak, I thought "what can I do to make it a bit more interesting?". I came up with the idea of involving