Past Events

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, Grand Rapids, MI. I gave a half-day Rapid Software Testing tutorial, a lightning talk on Emotions and Oracles, and appeared on a panel discussion software testing certification schemes (I'm not in favour of the current ones).

Live host for a remote presentation by David Platt on Why Software Sucks.

Gave an Ignite Presentation (a lightning talk) on Emotions and Test Oracles at DemoCamp 15, Toronto, ON.

Presented Emotions and Test Oracles, a track presentation at the STAR West conference, Anaheim, CA.

Three-day Rapid Software Testing course for a corporate client in Tempe, AZ.

Presented a three-day Rapid Software Testing course, with an extra day of followup consulting with the test leads, for a corporate client in Waterloo, ON.

A one-day Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing for a modestly-sized corporate client in Redmond, WA.

Presented three papers for the 25th annual Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference in Portland, OR: Two Futures of Software Testing and User Acceptance Testing in Context (two older talks promoted to papers) and An Exploratory Tester's Notebook (a new talk and paper).

At the Software Test and Performance Conference in Boston, MA, I presented a one-day Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing, and three talks—When Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Four; The Metrics Minefield, and User Acceptance Testing in Context. In addition, James Bach and I practiced rapid software testing on a pair of Web kiosks in the hotel. We found many bugs, including a couple of reasonably serious security holes—and in an effort to be good guys, we informed the provider more…

Presented a three-day Rapid Software Testing course, and provided a day of coaching and consulting to a corporate client, Halifax, NS.

Presented Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client, Cupertino, CA.

Presented Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client, Caribou, ME.

Attended the Conference of the Association for Software Testing, Bellevue, WA.

Participant in the Workshop on Heuristic and Exploratory Techniques, Seattle, WA.

Consulting and coaching in rapid and exploratory testing, corporate client, Waterloo, ON.

Participated in Jerry Weinberg's Problem Solving Leadership workshop (co-hosted by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby), Albuquerque, NM.

Presented four one-hour talks (Two Plus Two: Recognizing Oracles and Setting Context; First to Market or First to Fail; The Metrics Minefield; and Numbers vs. Narratives) at Bank of Montreal's Professional Excellence Symposium, Toronto, ON.

Presented "First to Market or First to Fail", a presentation on innovation, at the Better Software Conference and Expo, Las Vegas, NV.

On-site consulting with a corporate client, Montréal, QC.

Content owner with Fiona Charles for the third Toronto Workshop on Software Testing (TWST III), this time on the subject of risk-based testing, Toronto, ON.

Presented Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client in Rome, GA.

Presented two Lightning Talks—one on Rapid Test Estimation, and the other on the role of emotion in software testing—at the STAR East conference in Orlando, Florida. Colloborated with James Bach in the early-morning test tutorials—not an official conference offering!

Presented Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Work onsite with a corporate client in Eden Prairie, MN, presenting Rapid Software Testing, and a day of hands-on and one-on-few consulting before and after the course.

A one-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, plus User Acceptance Testing, When Two Plus Two Equals Four is Wrong, and The Metrics Minefield at Software Test and Performance Conference 2007, San Mateo, California, USA.

Onsite consulting with a corporate client, teaching Rapid Software Testing and testing exercises, at home in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Metrics Minefield, a talk about the dangers of numbers without stories, at Statistics Canada's IT Conference 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

A half-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing; a class on Testing Skills That (Almost) No One Talks About; and another class on An Exploratory Tester's Notebook at the SD West Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California.

Rapid Software Testing three-day course with corporate client in Cupertino, California.

Presentation on building a software testing community, with a followup presentation on Learning About Oracles, hosted by NDS Software in Koramangala, Bengalooru, India.

Rapid Software Testing three-day course with corporate client in Bengalooru, India.

Consulting work with corporate client in Waterloo, Ontario, on rapid and exploratory testing.

Exploratory Testing - The State of the Art—a plenary address for the STeP-IN Forum 2007, Bengalooru, India.

A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing—a half-day tutorial for the STeP-IN Forum 2007, Bengalooru, India.

Rapid Software Testing Explained—a three-hour presentation, with questions and answers, for a group of senior testers at a major services firm in Bengalooru, India.

Rapid Software Testing three-day course for TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.

Rapid Software Testing three-day course for a corporate client in Waterloo, ON.

A three-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing for inQA:labs in Madrid, Spain.

A tutorial on Rapid Software Testing and participation at the 27th Annual QAI Testing Conference, in Orlando, Florida. The conference featured terrific keynotes by Cem Kaner and Jonathan Bach.

Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client, Montréal, Québec.

Rapid Software Testing for the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association.

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, Oregon: Rapid Software Testing One-Day Introduction and an invited talk, First to Market or First to Fail: A General Systems Perspective.

QAI International Software Quality Conference, Toronto: Rapid Software Testing One-Day Introduction and a keynote address, Testing Skills That (Almost) Nobody Talks About.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association, Kitchener, ON: The Metrics Minefield

The Toronto Association of System and Software Quality, Toronto: The Metrics Minefield.

Rapid Software Testing and consulting at a local client here in Toronto.

SD Best Practices, Boston, Massachusetts: Testing Skills That (Almost) Nobody Talks About; Exploring Exploratory Testing; A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing; When Two Plus Two Equals Four is Wrong: What Is The Problem And How Do We Know?

Consultants' Camp, Mt. Crested Butte, Colorado

Teaching Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client, Recife, Brazil

Two presentations on Rapid Software Testing and Exploratory Testing at the Agile2006 International Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Rapid Software Testing, Public Course offered through inQA.labs, Barcelona, Spain

The Toronto Workshop on Software Testing II (Peer Conference), Toronto, Ontario

Rapid Software Testing, Public Course, Toronto, Ontario

Four one-hour presentations for an in-house conference, BMO Financial Group, Toronto, Ontario

Rapid Software Testing, Corporate Client, Singapore

Workshop on Heuristic and Exploratory Techniques (Peer Conference), Palm Bay, Florida; convened by Cem Kaner and James Bach.

User Acceptance Testing: What It Is, And How To Do It Better—In Context, STAR East, Orlando, Florida. People here were very kind. Finally, a presentation that recognizes how important it is that everything must be put into context before its value can be understood or judged. Best presentation so far, by far! Loved the humor—very entertaining and good info. Explained ways to look at UAT. I'll be able to use the info to open discussions at work. Thanks! Reminded me again more…

Rapid Software Testing, Corporate Client, Toronto, Ontario

Rapid Software Testing, Corporate Client, Altoona, Pennsylvania

A (Rapid) Introduction to Rapid Software Testing, QAI Conference, Orlando, Florida

Exploratory Testing, half-day tutorial, QAI Conference, Orlando, Florida

Rapid Software Testing, South Western Ontario Software Quality Group, Kitchener, Ontario

Participant in Jerry Weinberg's Consultants' Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Rapid Software Testing Course, Corporate Client, Stuttgart, Germany

Chaired presentations for plenary sessions, and invited panel member for "Testing: How Do We Stop the Madness?", at STC2006, QAI India, Delhi, India

Presentations of "Two Futures of Software Testing" and "Testing Skills That (Almost) Nobody Talks About, at the Quality Assurance Institute's STC2006, QAI India, Delhi, India.

One-Day Tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, for QAI India, Bangalore, India

One-Day Tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, for QAI India, Mumbai, India

One-Day Tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, for QAI India, Delhi, India

Experience Report on the Exploratory Testing Research Summit to the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association, Waterloo, Ontario.

Introduction to Rapid Software Testing + consulting, Corporate Client, Mississauga, Ontario

Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, hosted by Cem Kaner and James Bach, in Melbourne, Florida.

Exploratory Testing Research Summit, hosted by Cem Kaner and James Bach, in Palm Bay, Florida.

Rapid Software Testing Course, Board Members of the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality

Rapid Software Testing One-Day Workshop, with James Bach, Toronto, Ontario

Rapid Software Testing One-Day Workshop, with James Bach, Kitchener, Ontario

AYE Conference; assisting Jerry Weinberg with "Using Your Yes/No Medallion" workshop, Phoenix, Arizona

A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing; presentation to the Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ontario

QAI International Software Quality Conference; including an overview presentation of Rapid Software Testing.

Software Development Best Practices conference; one-hour presentation of A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing, Boston, MA

Software Development Best Practices conference; one-hour presentation on User Acceptance Testing, Massachussets, USA

Software Development Best Practices conference; half-day tutorial on Exploratory Testing, Boston, Massachussets, USA

Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in Sophia-Antipolis, France.

Presentations of Introduction to Rapid Software Testing for the Software Testing Australia / New Zealand (STANZ) Conference, Wellington New Zealand and Canberra, Australia

Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in South Utica, Michigan, USA

The Toronto Workshop on Software Testing, Toronto, Ontario

Presentation to South Western Ontario Software Quality Group, London, Ontario

Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in Chennai, India

Workshop on Exploratory Testing for the Jornada sobre el Testeo de Software (JTS2005) in Valencia, Spain

Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in Mount Laurel, NJ, USA

Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in Sunnyvale, California, USA