Media

Some of my stuff in or for other places.

Books

• Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester (Association for Software Testing): a practical FAQ for context-driven testing and testers (edited by Lee Hawkins)
  
• Testing Stories: software testers from around the world share a story related to testing in aid of Open Sourcing Mental Illness  (edited by Melissa Fisher).
• Peers Exchanging Ideas (Association for Software Testing): a guide to setting up and running peer conferences.
• An Exploration of Testers: software testers from around the world answer the same questions about testing (edited by Lee Hawkins).
• When Support Calls (Ministry of Testing ebook):  advice for testers (and others) on being asked to get involved in technical support calls.
  
• Your Testing is a Joke (EuroSTAR ebook): how joking and testing are related. Won the Best Paper prize at EuroSTAR 2015. 
  
• My Software Under Test and Other Animals (Ministry of Testing ebook): how to talk about coverage ... in terms of animal hides. 

Articles

• CAST 2021 Experience Report (in Tea-time with Testers)
  
• Using Artificial Intelligence (in The Tester): reprint of  Practical AI
  
• Who Cares? (in Tea-time with Testers):  reprint of Who Cares?
• Should the Public Care about Software Testing? (Association for Software Testing): in-depth report of the AST peer conference with BCS SIGIST summarised in Who Cares?
• Should the Public Care about Software Testing? (in The Tester): reprint of Who Cares?
  
• The Future of Testing (Aleksis Tulonen): notes in advance of a 2016 panel discussion.
  
• When Support Calls (Ministry of Testing):  advice for testers (and others) on being asked to get involved in technical support calls. Kindle version available.
• Is Your Testing Arresting? (Gurock): can testing be beautiful and, if so, how?
• You've Got To See This (Gurock): some ways in which Edward Tufte's ideas on the context-driven presentation of data can help testers.
• Busting Out (Gurock):  stuck in a rut with your thinking? Unblock yourself here.
• Not Sure About Uncertainty (Ministry of Testing): thoughts on known/unknowns, quantifiable and unquantifiable risks, testing models incorporating them and their relationship to risk-based testing.
• Make Like a Tester (uTest): thoughts for testers starting a new job, with butter, elephants, Stephen Hawking and a sponge.
• Show Business (Ministry of Testing): communicate as clearly, correctly, comprehensively, consistently and concisely as you can.
• Skills Paradox (Ministry of Testing): give chance a chance to enhance your skills.

Resources

• Wordsearch Testing Game
• Jerry Weinberg Recordings (see Listening With Jerry)

 Interviews

• Tea-time With Testers November 2022
• Agile Testing Alliance Global Testing Retreat 2022
• Association for Software Testing testimonial
  
• Testers' Island Discs (see Island Records and Testers' Island Links)
• An Exploration of Testers (a book by Lee Hawkins)
• UKSTAR 2018

Podcasts

• Liberated Tester #4 (Testing for Me is featured)
• Testers' Island Discs (see Island Records and Testers' Island Links) 
  

Talks 

 2026-02-03 Ministry of Testing, Cambridge & 2026-04-29 Munich

 2023-06-28 Ministry of Testing, Norwich

2022-12-10 Agile Testing Alliance Global Testing Retreat

 

2022-11-16 BCS Testing, Diversity, AI Conference

 

 

2022-10-20 MoT API Challenge in Python

2022-10-14 Hands-on for CAST 2022 Webinar

 

2022-01-14 EC Utbildning & 2022-01-25 MoT Cambridge

2021-05-21 AST Career Day

 

2020-12-28 QA Daily Inspirational Talks

 

2020-05-20 OnlineTestConf

 

2019-11-25 CEWT #7

 

2019-11-14 Cambridge Agile Exchange

 

2018-08-29 SoftTest Ireland

 

2018-09-23 CEWT #6

 

2018-03-13 UKSTAR

  

2018-01-28 CEWT #5

 

2016-11-06 CEWT #3

2016-04-09 MEWT #5

2016-02-28 CEWT #2

2015-11-04 EuroSTAR

2015-07-10 UKTMF

2015-07-04 CEWT #1