Past Events

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. read more…

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

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

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" read more…

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

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

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. read more…

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. read more…

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. read more…

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

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

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 more … read more…

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 more … read more…

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. read more…

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

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

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. read more…

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

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

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

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

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). read more…

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

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. read more…

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

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

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

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

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. read more…

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. read more…

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

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

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. read more…

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

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. read more…

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

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

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. read more…

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. read more…

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. read more…

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

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. read more…

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

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.) read more…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more … read more…

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. read more…

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

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. read more…

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

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

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

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. read more…

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. read more…

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. read more…

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

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. read more…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. read more…

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

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."     read more…

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". read more…

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

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. read more…

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. read more…

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

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

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

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

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

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. read more…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more … read more…

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. read more…

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

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. read more…

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

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. read more…

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

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

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

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. read more…

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

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