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E v A

05 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by claire in Automation, Exploratory Testing, Podcast, Publications, TestCoachCamp 2012, TWiST

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Back during Test Coach Camp 2012, Michael Larsen made some great recordings of our open space sessions. Subsequently, he published Ken Pier‘s session topic E vs A – Huh? under the title Exploratory vs. Automation in the TWiST podcast feed.

I had fun explaining our testing team’s approach to exploratory testing and automation while learning from some helpful members of the testing community, including Cem Kaner, Doug Hoffman, Matt Barcomb, Phil McNeely, and Michael Larsen.

Check it out!

You can stream these podcasts online or download after registering for the Software Test Professionals’ website, and membership is free.

Here are the direct links (once you log in):

Exploratory vs. Automation, Part 1
Exploratory vs. Automation, Part 2

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(P.S. I can’t resist reading this article that pointed me to the image: The Semiotics of Hello Dolly!)

Favorite moments from TCC and CAST

23 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by claire in CAST 2012, Experiences, TestCoachCamp 2012

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I have so much information swirling in my head from the past week that there’s no hope of writing about it all at this time.

Instead, I present you with my favorite unexpected moments – in no particular order – from Test Coach Camp and CAST 2012:

  • My first conference talk! (Video in case you missed it live)
  • Bizarre kinetic airport sculptures
  • Putting faces to so many Twitter handles
  • the MRS BOND hummer
  • Wade Wachs coaching me on juggling
  • Brian Lawrence teaching me to make gigantic bubbles
  • Late night brainstorming of tester pick up lines
  • Paul Holland‘s interpretive dance
  • Sustainable (fake) grass on Stanford campus
  • Playing Set with lots of testers in the evenings
  • Quiet drinks around the outdoor fire (see image above)
  • Tridentine mass
  • Congenial heckling with the BBQ restaurant waiter
  • Nerdy T-shirts, especially those about testing – and expanding my collection!
  • Comparing family trees (mind maps?)
  • A very merry unbirthday to me! dinner
  • Discussing trees with my sister
  • Finding the facilitated discussion cards that were special (e.g. 42, pi, tau, NaN)
  • Sharing testing war stories, as is tradition
  • Foodie time: unagi pizza, yuzu ceviche, monkfish liver, beef tongue, mead tasting, fresh made tortillas from a street farmers’ market, The Growler, real ramen, potato grenade, “wolf turds”
  • Brushing up on my Dutch
  • Unique identifying elephants (for better automation!)
  • Drive-by sightings of offices of many big names in software
  • Finishing my zombie cross-stitch
  • Marine fog attack
  • Random wheeled office chair in the parking deck
  • Blissful exhaustion poolside
  • Bachelorette party en route to Vegas
  • My first AST board meeting
  • Bird perched on a sculpture inside the airport

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