Initial 2014 Speaking Engagements

To mark my last planned speaking gig in 2013, I'll post the current list of conferences I have arranged for 2014.

• StarEast 2014
• Where I will be presenting a Tutorial and a Lightning Keynote
• Let's Test 2014
• Where I will be presenting a tutorial and a workshop.

Helsinki Summit 2013 and Winter SIGIST Panel

I have added the following conferences to the site:

• Winter SIGIST 2013
• Software Development Summit 2013 

The conference pages above have links to the slides and/or notes about the events.

Presenting at Lets Test 2014

I will be presenting at Let's Test 2014 from May 26th - 28th 2014

• I'm presenting a half day tutorial on WebDriver Abstraction layers
• A workshop (double length track session) on skill transference and coaching called "Why you should learn skills that have no real application in life"

Hope to see some of you there. It looks like a feature packed conference.

Keynote at Software Development Summit 2013

I have been invited to present a Keynote session at the "Software Development Summit! 2013" in Helsinki on the 9th - 11th of December 2013.

If you're going to be there, and you follow this blog, then please come up and say "Hello"

November Attendence at Eurostar 2013

I will be at the Eurostar Testing Conference 2013 in Gothenberg in November 2013.

I'm on the programme committee, which means I helped choose the presentations that made it through to the conference.

I'll be wandering around for the whole conference, helping out and trying to make sure it runs smoothly. So if you're there, feel free to wander up and say hello.

London Tester Gathering 2013 Workshops

I presented two workshops at the London Tester Gathering 2013

• Black Ops Testing - we may well run this again in the future so sign up to the mailing list for more information
• The Evil Tester's Guide to HTTP Proxies and Browser Developer Tools

If these workshops seem of interest to your teams, and you would like me to run them in your organisation, then please get in touch.

Plenty of photographs were taken of the event.

TestNet May 2013: KeyNote and Tutorial

May 2013 I was allowed to present both a Keynote and a Tutorial at TestNet.

Tutorial:

The Evil Tester's Guide to HTTP proxies Tutorial from eviltester

KeyNote:

Keynote: My Quest for Silver Bullets from eviltester

I also contributed an article to the news letter, which starts on page 4. (Also listed below)

I deleted some book reviews

I tidied up a few of the book reviews.

Some of them I just deleted. And that might explain how you ended up on this page through a redirection.

I deleted some reviews because they didn't add value. Some were a weak summary of the book itself and offered no insight.

I deleted some reviews because they were negative, and the review itself didn't add value. i.e. the review itself didn't educate or have any useful information, it basically just said 'don't read this book'.

And that might in some way add value, but I decided to change focus and start linking to things that I will re-read and go back to, rather than dictate what other people should do and read - you can take responsibility for yourself. I'll tell you where I go and where I find value.

You might still find reviews of books on the site that have a negative tone. Some of those remain because I think the review itself has value in the text, i.e. it explains something useful. Or I may not have acted on my 'remove this book review task yet'.

Remember to read responsibly.

Tutorial: Lessons Learned With BDD

At the January 2013 "Test Management Summit" I presented a half day tutuorial entitled "Lessons Learned with BDD"

Subtitled: Thinking and automating with Domain Specific Languages.

This was an opinionated overview of BDD where the underlying theme was that BDD involves the creation of a DSL.

Slides: