Past Events

On my way back to Toronto from Melboune, I dropped in on the Sydney Testers' Meetup for An Evening with Rapid Software Testing.

An in-house, private session of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class in Melbourne, Australia.

In Melbourne I gave the opening keynote at the inaugural Australian Testing Days conference, organized by TEAM.

My Melbourne junket continued with a one-day session of Rapid Software Testing for Managers, again organized by Rajesh Mathur and TEAM.

My first visit to Australia in years—and my first ever to Melbourne—began with a three-day public Rapid Software Testing class, organized by Rajesh Mathur and Test Engineering Alliance Melbourne (TEAM).

The annual pilgramage to Orlando, Florida, for the STAR East conference, organized by Techwell.

The first-ever occasion on which James Bach and I have co-taught the three-day Rapid Software Testing class. The class was organized by House of Test Switzerland.

A week of on-site consulting and teaching for a private client in Christchurch, NZ.

Critical Thinking for Testers and Technical People yet again, this time in Auckland. All thanks to Vicky Price, Merridy Marshall, and Edwin Dando of Assurity for organizing the two-week, pan-New-Zealand excursion of public classes and events.

Assurity hosted me in Auckland for another one-day Rapid Software Testing for Managers class.

Assurity sponsored an evening of How to Get What You Want from Testing for an Auckland audience.

Critical Thinking for Testers and Technical People in Christchurch, once again set up by Assurity.

Assurity continues the Grand Tour of New Zealand with a one-day public version of the Rapid Software Testing for Managers class in Christchurch.

After class, a talk on How to Get What You Want from Testing for the Christchurch Agile Professionals Network, kindly hosted by the Christchurch office of SLI Systems.

Critical Thinking for Testers and Technical People, a one-day class organized by Assurity in Wellington.

A three-day public Rapid Software Testing class, organized by Assurity, in Wellington, New Zealand.

A public Rapid Software Testing class, leading into the TestBash conference in Brighton, England, organized by the Ministry of Testing.

A one-day private Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client in Cambridge, England.

Eleven days of Rapid Software Testing classes and consulting work with a corporate client in Xi'an, China.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing class and a day of consulting with a corporate client, arranged by House of Test Switzerland.

A testers' meetup in Zurich, organized by House of Test Switzerland. I delivered an updated version of The Rapid Software Testing Guide to What You Meant to Say.

My eighth annual trip to the EuroSTAR conference, this time for a one-day class and a track session on Exploratory Testing 3.0, among the usual events and diversions, in Maastricht, Netherlands.

Three days of the Rapid Software Testing class and a fourth day of consulting work with a corporate client on Long Island, NY.

A return visit to Vancouver, BC, for another three-day Rapid Software Testing class and other events, organized by PQA Testing.

A three-day session of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client, who provides RST on Gran Canaria as a signing bonus for new employees. How about that?

A day of training and a day of participation at an in-house testing conference for a corporate client in Chicago, Illinois.

Two tutorial workshops and a track session at the STAR West conference, organized by SQE.

A two-day presentation of Rapid Software Testing for Managers, organized by PrettyGoodTesting, at the Tivoli Congress Center in downtown Copenhagen.

Three days of Rapid Software Testing work in Copenhagen, Denmark, organized by PrettyGoodTesting for a corporate client.

A return to Malmö, Sweden, for another accelerated two-day session of Rapid Testing approaches.

A three-day public Rapid Software Testing class, organized by Improve Quality Services, in Utrecht, Netherlands.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing class in-house for a corporate client in Mississauga, Ontario.

Four days at the China Test conference in Beijing, including a one-day Exploratory Testing Masterclass, a one-day Testing Workout, a one-hour track talk, and a keynote address.

Ten days of Rapid Software Testing classes and consulting work with a corporate client in Wuhan, China.

The The Better Software Conference West, in Las Vegas, Nevada, organized by SQE. I gave a presentation with Laurent Bossavit on how not to get fooled by people wielding numbers.

My first public Rapid Software Testing class in New York City, organized by Doran Jones.

Two days of consulting and new-tester training on Rapid Testing approaches with a corporate client in Malmö, Sweden.

A private afternoon event and an public early evening event at Sogeti in central Stockholm, Sweden.

The Let's Test Conference, an intensive three-day meetup held in beautiful, isolated Åkersberga, Sweden. Laurent Bossavit and I presented a workshop on Defense Against the Dark Arts—a session on critical thinking about numbers and published research.

A day of conversation and consulting in-house for a corporate client in Auckland, New Zealand.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing class, with a fourth day of extra stuff, in-house for a corporate client in Auckland, New Zealand.

The STAR East Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, organized by SQE. I gave one-day tutorials on Rapid Software Testing and on Critical Thinking for Testers, plus a track session (with James Bach) on our Rapid / Agile Software Testing ecosystem.

A three-day session of Rapid Software Testing (with an extra day for consulting) for a corporate client in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.

For the first time in Vancouver, a three-day public Rapid Software Testing class, organized by PQA.

The three-day Rapid Software Testing class returns to Brighton for a public course, hosted by the Ministry of Testing.

At TestBash in Brighton, UK, a keynote presentation called The Rapid Software Testing Guide to What You Meant to Say, in which I noted ways in which imprecision in language can sometimes cause problems for testers and project teams. You can see this presentation here.

Rapid Software Testing visited Armenia for the first time, for a private class for a corporate client in Yerevan.

For Rapid Software Testing's first visit to Japan, I presented a tutorial and a keynote address—How To Get What You Want from Testing—at JaSST, the Japan Symposium on Software Testing in Tokyo.

Two days of consulting in Rapid Software Testing approaches with a team at a corporate client in downtown Montréal, Québec.

A three day Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client on the outskirts of London.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client in Manchester, UK, this time with the free day preceding the class.

Three days of a private Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client in Amersfoort, Netherlands.

The second day of the Dutch Exploratory Workshops on Testing, in Driebergen, Netherlands.

A new country for the list: three days of Rapid Software Testing in the classroom, followed by two days of consulting for a corporate client in Brno, Czech Republic.

A private three-day Rapid Software Testing class with an extra day of consulting and presentations, in-house for a client in Athabasca, Alberta.

A public three-day Rapid Software Testing class organized by PQA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Off to sunny, warm, Calgary, Alberta for three days of Rapid Software Testing in the classroom, and then a day of consulting for a corporate client. At least the welcome was warm!

Metrics and Measures and Numbers, Oh My!—a presentation on measurement and metrics for a receptive audience at Tabara de Testare Bucuresti, a Bucharest testing meetup group.

In Romania again—this time in Bucharest—to present the three-day Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client. I provided some consulting and a testing game for the test dojo on the fourth day.

In Stockholm, Sweden, I gave a presentation at a quarterly meeting of SAST, the Swedish Association for Software Testing on Rapid Testing and the Rapid / Agile Software Testing Ecosystem.

I visited a corporate client and did an information talk on Rapid Testing and the Rapid / Agile Software Testing Ecosystem.

A half-day tutorial and a track session at the EuroSTAR 2014 conference in Dublin, Ireland. The tutorial was called "What's the Problem?", on the nature of oracles and their role in recognizing problems that happen during testing. I compiled some notes on the subject. The track session, "Every Tester Has a PRICE" was essentially a brainstorming session and discussion on sources of project information. I gathered the ideas offered in the brainstorming session and created a mind map from them more…

On my first trip to Romania I went to Cluj-Napoca, where I presented a three-day public Rapid Software Testing class and a one-day public class on critical thinking sponsored by Altom.

A return visit to China, this time to Chengdu, for two more weeks of training and consulting in Rapid Software Testing with a corporate client.

The STAR West conference in Anaheim, California, USA. I presented a one day Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing, and a one-day class on Critical Thinking for Testers.

I was delighted to attend and present at the Vienna Tester meetup, thanks to Kindly Host Tom Mansch and the sponsorship of Ebcont proconsult GmbH. This was also the first time that my daughter attended a presentation, such that I was able give her in-person credit for introducing the Horse Lunge Game that we often use as a testing toy.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing class (with an extra day of consulting work and another extra day of Rapid Software Testing for Managers) for a corporate client in Vienna, Austria.

While in New York City, I gave a short talk at the first NYC Testers' Meetup, which I hope was the first of many. Many thanks to Huge Inc., the host of the event; to Doran Jones, the sponsor; and to the organizers: Kate Falange, Anna Royzman, and Perze Ababa.

An intensive session of Rapid Software Testing with participants from Per Scholas. I'm excited about all of my classes, but this one was special. I owe a blog post on it.

At the Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST) in New York City, I had the privilege of giving a workshop with Laurent Bossavit called "Thinking Critically About Numbers: Defence Against the Dark Arts". In addition, this was the conference at which the context-driven community, inspired by James Christie, initiated the Stop 29119 movement and Karen Johnson launched the Professional Tester's Manifesto.

I gave a half-day presentation for the Dublin testing community as a warm-up event for the EuroSTAR 2014. The topic was How To Get What You Really Want from Testing, along with a brief diversion into the Rapid Software Testing Agile Ecosystem, which James Bach and I are developing as a radical revision to the ideas introduced in the Agile Testing Quadrants.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing class, in-house for a corporate client in Dublin, Ireland.

For the second time, I was lucky to attend the annual Per Scholas ROI dinner in New York, which this year honoured the work of the Per Scholas graduates and my colleage and friend Keith Klain.

The third annual Let's Test conference in Åkersberga, Sweden, the leading conference for the context-driven community in Europe. This year I presented a workshop on testing games and what we can learn from them with my partner in crime Paul Holland.

A full-day tutorial and a track session at the STAR East conference in Orlando, Florida.

A return visit to a client in London, UK, for four days (!) of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class.

A keynote talk at an in-house testing conference, in Beijing, China, followed by a Rapid Software Testing class and a day of in-house consulting for a corporate client.

A full-day tutorial, a keynote address, and a track session at STAR Canada in Toronto.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing class, organized by ImmuneIT for its testing consultants, on Gran Canaria. If you're going to train your employees, why NOT send them to an island resort for a three-day class and then a few days of hanging around the pool?

An in-house, three-day Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client in Porto, Portugal.

A plenary talk at the Blip Ripple conference, in Porto, Portugal. More information can be found here. I gave a talk entitled Testing Is More Than Checking.

A public three-day class Rapid Software Testing, in Breda, Netherlands, organized by CodeCentric.

Tasting Let's Test Netherlands, held in Utrecht, Netherlands, was a one-day, appetizer-sized version of the main-course Let's Test conference in Âkersberga, Sweden in May. Here I presented a talk called "Getting Serious About Emotions in Software Testing".

Yet another London Tester Gathering, hosted by the inimitable Tony Bruce.

Yet another London Tester Gathering, hosted by the inimitable Tony Bruce. Here I presented a short version of the

An in-house session of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client near Heathrow, London, UK.

A three-day in-house Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client near Haifa, Israel.

A keynote presentation at the first CopenhagenContext, a one-day conference on context-driven approaches, hosted by PrettyGoodTesting. Other speakers included Carsten Feilberg, Louise Perrold, Huib Schoots, and Henrik Emilsson.

A day of consulting and presentations on context-driven testing approaches in Agile environments for a corporate client in Copenhagen, Denmark.

A three-day in-house Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client in Copenhagen, Denmark.

A visit to Eindhoven, Netherlands, for an evening talk in Sioux Software's "Hot or Not" series. The topic: "A Very Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing"

A visit to Dordrecht, Netherlands to present the three-day Rapid Software Testing class, organized by CodeCentric.

I was first-ever non-European Programme Chair for the EuroSTAR 2013 in Göteborg, Sweden. EuroSTAR is Europe's largest testing conference.

A private session of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class for a corporate client in Malmö, Sweden, along with a fourth day of consulting, coaching, and outside presentations.

I gave the keynote presentation at the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association's Targeting Quality Conference 2013 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The topic was The Role of Emotions in Software Testing, and the presentation materials are here.

Rapid Software Testing's first foray into Belgium for a three-day course and a one-day testing retreat—a kind informal workshop with discussions, problem-solving, and exercises—in Mechelen. The events were organized by Co-Learning, InfoSupport, and ZSharp Consulting.

Eight days of training classes, consulting, coaching, and presentations on Rapid Testing methodology to a corporate client in Shenzhen, China.

Nine days of training classes, consulting, coaching, and presentations on Rapid Testing methodology to a corporate client in Xi'An, China

Attended the Per Scholas ROI Dinner, honouring Joe Squeri of Barclays. Here I am participating a heads or tails contest. I prevailed over 1:512 odds, only to lose to a woman who made ten correct guesses (1:1024). That's QA Symphony's Josh Lieberman in the foreground, and Perze Ababa to the right.

A visit to Gothenburg, Sweden, to scope out the site of EuroSTAR 2013, and also to deliver a presentation on How to Get What You Really Want from Testing for the Swedish Association for Software Testing. I also was given the privilege of a question-and-answer session with some of Martin Jansson's students.