Upcoming talks
You’re not ready for AI (on Agile Testing Days)
The real problem with AI adoption is maturity, many engineering teams just aren’t ready to move at the pace AI brings.
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You’re not really ready for AI (but testing can help) (on HUSTEF)
Hot take: AI amplifies what’s already there, without testing foundations we just magnify our quality issues faster.
You’re not ready for AI (on Agile Testing Days)
The real problem with AI adoption is maturity, many engineering teams just aren’t ready to move at the pace AI brings.
You’re not ready for QE (on YouTube)
Many testing professionals aren’t aligned with what engineering teams need, here’s how we rebuild trust and credibility.
Shifting testing right (on Ministry of Testing)
Testing in prod was the whole point! An introduction to shift right testing and how it fits alongside agile delivery.
Structured exploratory testing strategies that work (on Richard Seidl)
Chatting about exploratory testing as structured experiments scoped by risk and time, then when to automate findings.
Why testers need to be generalists (on YouTube)
Hard truths about quality engineering with Stu Day, following on from my “You’re not ready for QE” keynote.
Hot takes on quality coaching (on Apple Podcasts)
The hot takes behind my “You’re not ready for QE” keynote with Bryan Jones, from quality engineering to coaching.
How to test continuously (on Spotify)
Continuous testing is the foundation of continuous deployment, we need to test all the way from requirements to live.
Quality coaching (on Ministry of Testing)
What a quality coach actually does and how coaching (rather than doing the testing) builds a culture of quality.
Using quality radars (on YouTube)
Engineering teams often think they’ve solved testing, a quality radar shows them the gaps and the art of the possible.
Leading with quality (on Ministry of Testing)
A panel on leading in quality engineering and how we build quality practices that last in very different organisations.
Live demo: Shifting left (on Ministry of Testing)
Testing ideas before they’re built! A live demo of testing user stories and risk storming while a solution is designed.
Testing rants II (on Testing Peers)
Four of us revisit our biggest frustrations with the testing industry, following on from our first rants episode.
Selling testing into projects (on YouTube)
Testing isn’t a given in every organisation, learn how to sell it into projects so quality is baked in from the start.
Test automation in focus: Tools or fundamentals? (on YouTube)
Does the choice of automation tool really matter? How teams can make pragmatic decisions about their test tooling.
Is manual testing a dirty word? (on YouTube)
Revisiting my “Is manual testing a dirty word?” post with Chris Armstrong, looking at the value of human based testing.
No testers, no problem (on Testing Peers)
Some organisations don’t have dedicated testers, chatting about how quality still works and what it means for products.
Owning your career (on Testing Peers)
Sharing our own career stories and what it really means to take ownership of your career path in quality engineering.
Confidence in FinTech (on Harrington Starr)
Chatting imposter syndrome, confidence and minority representation in fintech, plus what makes a workplace supportive.
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month (on Ministry of Testing)
Visibility matters and you are not alone, talking about LGBTQIA+ visibility in tech for Pride Month and why it matters.
Testing in story shaping (on YouTube)
Shifting testing left with Marie Drake, building quality thinking into how we shape user stories before they’re built.
Feedback (on Testing Peers)
What makes feedback useful, how team culture shapes open reporting and where anonymous feedback fails.
API testing (on Quality Bits)
Don’t worry, API testing isn’t scary! What APIs are, where to start and why testing at that layer is more efficient.
Being LGBTQ+ in tech (on YouTube)
My own experiences of being LGBTQIA+ in tech, the good and the bad of coming out at work and why visibility matters.
Security scanning intro (on YouTube)
A hands on intro to OWASP ZAP, demoing how testers can run basic vulnerability scans on web apps while testing.
Do we all need to be SDETs? (on YouTube)
Do we all need to become developers in test? My answer is no, but we all need to be dangerous as technical testers.
Testers’ Island Discs (on Ministry of Testing)
The songs that shaped me, plus a chat about Pride, my own experiences and my views on exploratory testing.
Interview (on YouTube)
Chatting through my career journey, what I’ve learned from my experiences in testing and how I see quality engineering.
Psychological safety, diversity and D&D (on Nicola Lindgren)
How I use “yes and” to help quiet people speak up, plus the case for diversity, D&D at work and exploratory testing.
Interview (on Extraordinary Tech Stories)
From a psychology degree to principal test engineer, my career story and what I’ve learned growing as a tester.
Diversity of thought (on YouTube)
An engineering monoculture means nothing gets questioned, how diversity of thought makes teams and quality stronger.
Ask me anything: Exploratory testing (on Ministry of Testing)
Ask me anything on exploratory testing, I answer your questions on the techniques that I use and how I use them.
Conversation: Exploratory testing (on YouTube)
Chatting with Simon Tomes about tailoring exploratory testing and how we report on it for different stakeholders.
Testing in the DevOps world (on YouTube)
A panel on why continuous testing has to be built into our CI/CD pipelines to support modern DevOps practices.
Progressive web apps (on Ministry of Testing)
What even is a progressive web app? An overview of PWAs and what we need to think about to test them across devices.
Exploratory testing in modern teams (on YouTube)
Automation checks what we already know, exploratory testing finds out what we don’t, why modern teams need both of them.
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