The Owl Problem (Musical Social)
Agile Testing Days (Nov)
Join the first-ever, full-blown Agile Testing Days MUSICAL, featuring a mix of amateurs and professionals, all from the testing community.
Enjoy an epic story, lots of music, an evil AI, lightsaber duels, and a lot of drama!
CAREER
TESTING PEERS PODCAST (Apr)
Talking about the topic of owning your own career with Ben and Russell.
DON’T DO A STRATEGY, BE STRATEGIC!
PEERSCON (MARCH)
Testing strategies, everybody needs them but what really are they? In a world of highly templated documentation, what makes an actually useful strategy for testing (as opposed to another tick-box document)?
HOW GAMING MADE ME A BETTER TESTER
PRE Test Bash UK MEETUP (sept)
What if I told you that gaming (specifically Dungeons and Dragons) actually helped me to become a better tester and agile team member?
https://www.ministryoftesting.com/events/pre-testbash-uk-2023-meetup
Host
Test Bash UK (sept)
These two days will be packed with talks, workshops, networking, activities, challenges, ask me anything sessions, games and plenty of other opportunities to learn and meet your fellow community members in person!
SELLING TESTING INTO PROJECTS
MINISTRY OF TESTING MASTERCLASS (sept)
Half the battle isn’t how we test, it’s selling the idea that we should test in the first place. As testers, we must advocate for quality and amplify why projects should include testing.
Video Link here (Needs a pro Account)
API TESTING
QUALITY BITS PODCAST (Sept)
APIs – what are they? What should we keep in mind when testing an API? What are the benefits of API testing over UI testing?
API Testing with Callum Akehurst-Ryan – Quality Bits
Feedback
TESTING PEERS PODCAST (Aug)
Talking about the topic of feedback with Chris, David and Tara. The Peers talk about what they find valuable – such as storytelling, actionable feedback relevant to the audience.
BEING LGBTQ+ IN TECH PODCAST
ADOBO & AVOCADOS (JULY)
Developer advocates Marie Cruz and Nicole van der Hoeven speak to Callum-Akehurst Ryan about his experience as an LGBTQIA+ software tester, the importance of diversity and inclusion, and how it can improve testing and quality.
SELLING TESTING INTO PROJECTS
SYDNEY TESTERS (JUNE)
Half of the battle in testing isn’t how we test, it’s selling the idea that we should test in the first place. As testers we need to be able to advocate for quality and why we need to be testing in projects.
THIS WEEK IN TESTING: PRIDE MONTH
MINISTRY OF TESTING (JUNE)
Talking about being a queer person in tech with Simon Tomes as part of Pride month.
DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT IN TESTING
BCS (NOV)
Diversity in teams is useful, not just from a team perspective but to improve quality. in this talk I discuss monoculture in engineering and how having a diverse team can address that.
do we all need to be sdits?
_HAINTON (NOV)
Following the swing in the market with job specs that ask for testers to be automation experts, I ask the question “Do we all need to be Software Developers in Test?”.
INTERVIEW
SMARTCHERRYSTHOUGHTS (SEPT)
I was interviewed for Smart Cherrys Thoughts and talked about my work experience and the roles I’ve worked for.
HOST
TEST BASH UK (SEPT)
Ramone the Testing Otter and I were your Day 1 hosts on the main stage. There were awesome introductions, musical numbers and I moderated the famous 99 second talks.
TESTER ISLAND DISKS
MINISTRY OF TESTING (AUG)
Interviewed for a podcast where I share some musical choices, chats about activities during Pride Month, the importance of embracing people’s authentic selves and exposit my love for the joy of exploratory testing.
BEING LGBTQ+ IN TECH
BCS (JUNE)
Throughout June, BCS Pride will be hosting discussions for university students with successful and inspiring members of the LGBTQ+ community.
HOST
TEST BASH X EDINBURGH (Apr)
I was the host and GamesMaster for this event, introducing the different talks and events.
HOW GAMING MADE ME A BETTER TESTER
TEST BASH X BRIGHTON (Mar)
What if I told you that gaming (specifically Dungeons and Dragons) actually helped me to become a better tester and agile team member?
TESTING IN STORY SHAPING
YOUTUBE (Mar)
In this video Marie Drake and I talk through how you can add testing into your story shaping / Triforce / 3Amigos sessions.
INTERVIEW
NICOLA LINDGREN (Mar)
I was interviewed by Nicola and talked about Exploratory Testing, diversity, work experience in testing and Dungeons and Dragons.
SECURITY SCANNING INTRO WORKSHOP
PROPEL QUALITY (FEB)
I give an introduction to vulnerability scanning and a practical demo of OWASP ZAP.
From this workshop you can learn how to set up and configure this tool to scan for vulnerabilities on your site.
HOST
TEST.BASH; (OCT)
Ramone and I were the hosts for this online event, introducing the different talks and running Q&A sessions.
EXPLORATORY TESTING AMA
MINISTRY OF TESTING (APR)
I answered your questions on Exploratory Testing with Vernon Richards.
CONVERSATIONS: EXPLORATORY TESTING
TESTBUDDY (Mar)
Simon Tomes and I explore how to tailor your testing discoveries and information to suit the needs of your audience and how to inspire people to learn more about the benefits of exploratory testing.
EXPLORATORY TESTING IN MODERN TEAMS
QA IN LONDON (MAY)
Modern software development relies on automation and exploratory testing to be successful. Let’s discuss what exploratory testing is, how it can help with development and how to introduce it to your teams.
SHOULD WE ALL BECOME SDITS?
iO ViRTUAL MEETUP (MAY)
Frequently we’re seeing that the testing job market is asking for pure SDIT (Software Developer in Test) roles. What benefits does it give us? And how do testing (and manual testing) skills fit in?
TESTING IN THE DEVOPS WORLD
SCOTT LOGIC (APR)
In order for continuous integration, deployment and delivery to be successful, one of the biggest cultural changes we need to foster and support is the idea of continuous testing.
HOW DIVERSITY HELPS TESTING & ANALYSIS
BLACKMETRIC (DEC)
Socially designed systems and products benefit greatly from considering different viewpoints and people. Let’s discuss how smashing monoculture can greatly help with designing and testing products.
TESTING PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS
TEST.BASH; (OCT)
First proposed by Google in 2015, Progressive web apps (PWAs) are now in the infant stage of their development.
What are they though? Are they a thick client/native app that runs in the browser or a web app with some thick client/native app functions? I will help with defining this in this talk and draw out how that definition impacts the testing that needs to be done as a result.
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