As I mentioned in my last post, the morning tutorial that I went to was by Vipul Kocher, co-founder of Puretesting and President of the Indian Testing Board, who spoke about ”Q-Patterns". I went to that tutorial because I had heard the term Q-Patterns before, but didn't know what

I promised you some posts about SEETest 2008, and here they are. SEETest 2008 was a 2-day conference, the first testing conference focused on the South Eastern Europe testing community. It was held in lovely

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

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

OK, so we come to the last presentation in the Test Management track for the day. There are actually two more test management presentations the following day, but I'm giving my own presentation in the Testing Methodology track, so I'll be missing them. Mieke Gevers, from aQis in Belgium, is our last speaker. Mieke lives and breathes Testing, and in fact she told me that she is "passionate about testing - it is like blood running into her veins". In addition to her 20 years' experience as a software developer, analyst, project manager and ultimately QA Manager for several companies in Europe, including Borland and Segue, she is a regular conference speaker throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia ( I really do envy her!). Mieke is also EuroSTAR's country coordinator for Belgium, and was a team member of the EuroSTAR 2007 committee.  

3rd Session: Dr. Avi Ofer, Intel, on “The Battle for the Mouse: the Art of ATP“. Accompanied by some wonderful photographs from his ATP (acceptance test plan) travels around the world, to India, Taiwan and Italy, Avi explained why getting formal acceptance from the customer is probably the most important milestone in the life cycle of

OK, I've caught up on sleep after 2 very busy days at SIGiST 2008. And looking at my blog posts till now, I think that I'm going to do a few shorter ones for a bit. Here's the next session from Tuesday's Test Management track. 2nd Session: Katy Podolner-Rotman, Aternity, on "Surviving "crunch time": Dealing with constant change, high workload and communication issues". Katy started off by giving us her list of "unwritten rules" about how to deal with these issues at crunch time: DO:

• Plan for tired people
• Make time for rest/fun
• Appreciate people's work and effort
• Improve "while running"
• Communicate - within the team and between teams
• Laugh :-)

• Over schedule
• Multitask
• Overwork yourself and others
• Let small issues develop into huge ones