Past Events

Participant presenter at the second Let's Test conference in Âkersberga, Sweden. I gave a half-day tutorial workshop on Problems with Problems, and a track session on the role of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge in testing.

A public offering of the two-day Rapid Software Testing for Managers class, also presented by PrettyGoodTesting, in Ballerup (Copenhagen), Denmark.

A public offering of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class, presented by PrettyGoodTesting, in Ballerup (Copenhagen), Denmark.

At the STAR East conference in Orlando, Florida, a one-day Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing; a track talk on The Role of Emotions in Software Testing. I also filled in for a speaker who couldn't make it, presenting a track session on regression testing and on test framing.

A one-day class on Critical Thinking Skills for Testers, organized by Assurity.

An evening meeting (in the form of a tiny peer conference) with WeTest, a Wellington, NZ testing group.

Meetings, consulting, and coaching with corporate client in Wellington, New Zealand.

A semi-public session of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class, organized by Assurity.

At the inaugural STAR Canada conference, Critical Thinking for Testers (a one-day tutorial), The Role of Emotions in Software Testing (a track talk), and Attention, Deficit, Disorder (a lightning talk).

Webinar on Exploratory Testing for Tai Xiaomei and her testing community in China.

With James Bach, a visit with Professor Harry Collins for discussions about his books (including Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, The Shape of Actions, and Artificial Experts) and about his keynote presentation, "Testing Machines as Social Prostheses" and his tutorial presentation, Using Sociology to Examine Testing Expertise at EuroSTAR 2013.

Microsponsored TestBash, presented by the Ministry of Testing, in Brighton, England, and delivered a 99-second lightning talk.

A brief informal talk at the London Tester Gathering, organized by Tony Bruce.

Four days of corporate consulting on Rapid Software Testing methodology, management, and automation with Barclays in London, UK.

A two-day meeting of the EuroSTAR Programme Committee in Galway, Ireland, in which we decided on the lineup for this year's conference.

the three-day Rapid Software Testing class for a development services organization in Stavanger, Norway. This also included an evening presentation for some of the development shop's corporate clients, and a one-day visit for presentations and consulting with one of its larger clients.

The three-day Rapid Software Testing class and a free follow-up day of consulting and coaching for a corporate client in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Corporate Q & A: a two-hour online session with a corporate client, provided as a follow-up to a Rapid Software Testing class.

Online coaching and support for the three-day Rapid Testing Intensive Online class, presented by James Bach and Satisfice.

An in-house version of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class, plus a free day of Q & A, coaching, and consulting for a corporate client in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

A flying visit to the offices of EuroSTAR Conferences in Galway, Ireland for a planning session for EuroSTAR 2013.

Corporate training and consulting for a client in Oslo, Norway. This included the three-day Rapid Software Testing class and two days of follow-up work, exercises, and test management training.

Thirty-one days of delightful time at home, doing writing, planning, and maintenance work and spending time with family.

A presentation of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class, plus a couple of days of consulting for a corporate client in Lund, Sweden.

A meeting at SysQA in Almere, Netherlands, where I introduced senior staff to some of the principles and practices of the Rapid Software Testing methodolgy.

At EuroSTAR 2012 in Amsterdam, NL, I presented a one-day class on Critical Thinking for Testers, and a track session called Evaluating Testing the Qualitative Way. I was also named as Programme Chair for EuroSTAR 2013, which was and is a great honour.

Two days of the Rapid Software Testing class, and two days of consulting for a corporate client in Jersey City, NJ and New York, NY.

A three-day public offering of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class, organized by the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.

At the STAR West Testing conference in Anaheim, California, I gave three presentations: a one-day Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing; a one-day presentation of Critical Thinking for Testers; and an experiential track session on The Metrics Minefield.

A live presentation of Things Could Get Worse: Ideas about Regression Testing for the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association.

Things Could Get Worse: Ideas about Regression Testing, a one-hour Webinar in support of the upcoming EuroSTAR 2012 conference. (A link should appear here shortly.)

Training and consulting in exploratory testing for a corporate client in Beijing, China.

A presentation of "Critical Thinking for Testers" at the CAST 2012 conference in San José, California, USA.

Back to Cary, NC, for more private training and consulting in Rapid Software Testing with a corporate client.

Rapid Software Testing class, presentations for managers, and a bonus workshop for a corporate client in Atlanta, GA.

Private training and consulting in Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client.

A public class of Rapid Software Testing for Managers, also presented through Immune-IT.

A public session of the Rapid Software Testing class in Utrecht, Netherlands, presented through Immune-IT.

I presented the opening keynote of the World's Northernmost Testing Conference, which started on board the Hurtigruten (the Coastal Express), sailing from Trondheim, Norway. The conference continued over the next three days in Brønnøysund, where I presented a two-day version of the Rapid Software Testing class. So far as we know, this was both the first testing conference to take place on a ship, and at 65.5°N, the northernmost testing conference in history.

I presented the first keynote and a half-day tutorial at the inaugural Let's Test Conference at the Runö Conference Centre in Âkersberga, Sweden.

The UK's first public offering of Rapid Software Test Management, again organized in London, UK by Electromind.

An impromptu talk (introduced with a song) on the role of emotions in software testing at the London Tester Gathering at the Shooting Star Pub in London, UK.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing public class organized by Electromind in London, UK.

Rapid Software Testing training and consulting, in-house, for a corporate client in Toronto.

A tutorial (A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing) and a keynote, "Evaluating Testing the Qualitative Way", at the STAR East conference, Orlando, Florida.

A three-day Rapid Software Testing class in-house for a corporate client, with a free fourth day of test management consulting in Daresbury, UK.

A three-day Rapid Testing class in-house for a corporate client, with a free fourth day of talks and consulting in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Two keynote addresses, a live demonstration of an exploratory survey session, and a one-day class on exploratory skills and tactics for a corporate client in Erlangen, Germany.

Master classes and train-the-trainer sessions in exploratory testing for a corporate client in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client in Kracow, Poland. For the free fourth day, this client opted for an extra day of in-class discussion and exercises.

Writing and course development work with James Bach in Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington.

Writing work with Cem Kaner and Becky Fiedler in Palm Bay, Florida.

Participated in the Workshop on Teaching Software Testing in Melbourne, Florida, organized by Cem Kaner and Becky Fiedler.

A one-day peer conference on exploratory testing, organized by Maaret Pyhäjärvi in Helsinki, Finland.

A morning's conversation with Juha Itkonen on his studies and academic research into exploratory testing.

A three-day public class of Rapid Software Testing, in Helsinki, Finland, organized by Altom Consulting.

A three-day session of Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client in Calgary, Alberta, with a fourth day of hands-on testing and consulting with managers.

In London, UK, I presented another three-day public offering of Rapid Software Testing in collaboration with Electromind.

In my fifth consecutive year at the EuroSTAR conference (this year in Manchester, UK), I presented a tutorial on measurement, titled "Illustrating The Quality Story" and a track session called "Dashboards: Real-time Test Information For Managers And Teams."    

In Potsdam, Germany, I presented a one-day tutorial on Critical Thinking Skills for Testers (and there's a quick video about it here!) at Agile Testing Days 2011. I also delivered a keynote entitled "No More Fooling Around: Skills and Dynamics of Exploratory Testing".

Rapid Software Testing returned to Nieuwegwein, The Netherlands for a three-day classs presented by Immune-IT.

At the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference in Portland, Oregon, USA, I gave a one-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, and presented a new talk, Standards and Deviations.

At the STAR West conference in Anaheim, California, USA, I gave a one-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, and in a track session, I urged testers to get out of the quality assurance business.

A set of three presentations for customers and colleagues of Cybercom, in Malmö and Lund, Sweden.

Corporate consulting and presentations for corporate clients of PrettyGoodTesting, in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark.

A public offering of Rapid Software Testing in Copenhagen, Denmark, presented by PrettyGoodTesting.

A public offering of Rapid Software Testing in Helsinki, Finland, presented by Altom.

An in-house presentation of Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client in Moscow, Russia.

A keynote talk on context-driven testing for Conference for the Association for Software Testing, in Seattle, Washington, USA. I also presented a one-day workshop on Test Framing.

A presentation on Questioning Measurement, for the inaugural Mississauga meeting of TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.

Five days of Rapid Software Testing in San Mateo, California, for an in-house corporate client.

A Rapid Software Testing class in Leeds, UK, presented by ElectroMind.

Five days of Rapid Software Testing in Utrecht, Netherlands, for an in-house corporate client.

A three-day public presentation of Rapid Software Testing in Helsinki, Finland, sponsored by Testing Experience.

A three-day public Rapid Software Testing in Nieuwegein, sponsored by Immune-IT.

In Nieuwegein (near Utrecht), Netherlands, I presented a workshop on test framing and a keynote talk, Two Futures of Software Testing, at the TestNet conference. I was also an invited guest at the booth for Immune-IT. Notes for the test framing workshop are here, here, and here. An updated version of Two Futures of Software Testing, with some speaker notes, is here.

At the STAR East 2011 conference, I presented a half-day tutorial on Test Framing (slides here, and related papers here and here). I also delivered a workshop called Questioning Measurement; slides for that are here.

For Technobility and Interthink, I presented a Webinar titled Who Does Quality Assurance?

Rapid Software Testing, delivered as a three-day public class in Toronto, Ontario. The class was organized by the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.

Rapid Software Testing in-house, along with a free day of talks and consulting, for a corporate client in Bedford, England.

A presentation on Test Framing at the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association's Targeting Quality conference. You may also wish to refer to my paper on Test Framing, first provided to workshop participants at EuroSTAR 2010.

Yet another wonderful group of participants in a Rapid Software Testing class in London, UK, organised by ElectroMind.

At the London Tester Gathering, I asked (and gave some answers to) the question Why Didn't You Find That Bug?

I delivered Rapid Software Testing in-house, along with a free day of talks and consulting, for a corporate client in southern Sweden.

I gave a keynote address at SAP's Quality Day in Mannheim, Germany. Rapid Software Testing was the subject of the talk, and the presentation slides are here.

A keynote presentation, Testers: Get Out of the QA Business, at the Denver SQuAD Conference.

Two half-day Test Framing workshops at the Denver SQuAD Conference.

Three days of Rapid Software Testing and a day of consulting in-house for a corporate client.

A one-hour presentation on Test Framing for the Software Quality Discussion Group's lunchtime meeting in Calgary, Alberta.

A three-day public offering of the three-day Rapid Software Testing class in Calgary, Alberta.

I was in Oslo, Norway, for three days of the Rapid Testing class and two days of consulting with a corporate client.

EuroSTAR 2010 continued with track sessions and the Test Lab. My account of the proceedings starts here.

At my fourth consecutive EuroSTAR conference, EuroSTAR 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark, I presented a half-day tutorial on test framing, the skill of linking risk, oracles, coverage, and tests—and your account of them—in a coherent logical framework. The EuroSTAR slides and paper nan be be found here. There's an updated version of the paper here.

After a two-day Rapid Software Testing class, I gave a keynote presentation (Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business and a half-day Exploratory Testing Master Class at SQA Days in St. Petersburg, Russia.

A three-day public Rapid Software Testing class in London, UK; organized by Electromind, with testers from the U.K., Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

I was delighted to be invited to speak at the London Tester Gathering, a series of monthly get-togethers hosted by the enterprising Tony Bruce, at the Shooting Star Pub in the City of London. I talked about Burning Issues of the Day.

I presented a talk on two futures of testing at the offsite retreat for a corporate client in the medical field.

A keynote presentation of my talk, Testers: Get Out of the QA Business! at the TesTrek conference here in Toronto.

I presented a track session, Testers: Get Out of the QA Business! at STPCon. I was honoured to have Jerry Weinberg attending and contributing to the presentation.

A two-day version of the usually-three-day Rapid Software Testing course at the Software Test Professionals Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.