Last week at CAST 2011 we were challenged by James Bach on a testing competition. While I was initially a bit reluctant to join the Miagi-Do team, the opportunity to test with all these fine folks couldn’t be missed. One of the lessons that James later taught us, is that you don’t know someone unless you have tested with her or him. So, we formed a Miagi-Do team consisting of Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen, Ajay Balamurugadas, Elena Houser, Adam Yuret, Simon Schrijver, Justin Hunter and Pete Schneider (sorry, I forgot your last name). Not all of them were Miagi-Do testers, but we kicked butt, I think. Since Matt was part of our team, we knew right from the start that we wouldn’t win any of the US-$ 1401 that James had set as a price. Here is my report on how the competition and the aftermath went.
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CAST 2011: Context-driven leadership
On my final day at CAST 2011 I attended James Bach‘s tutorial on context-driven leadership. He challenged us to challenge the principles of the context-driven school of testing, since he became nervous that no one did that in the past decade. This is my write-up of that challenge as a follow-up.
Continue reading CAST 2011: Context-driven leadershipCAST 2011: Working on a virtual team
At CAST 2011 Karen Johnson presented on working on a virtual team as a tester.
Continue reading CAST 2011: Working on a virtual teamCAST 2011: Crafting our own models of software quality
At CAST 2011 Henrik Emilsson talked about how to create and craft our own models of software quality.
Continue reading CAST 2011: Crafting our own models of software qualityCAST 2011: Are Testing Schools a good idea?
At CAST 2011 Doug Hoffman and James Bach invited to a debate on whether or not Testing schools are a good idea.
Continue reading CAST 2011: Are Testing Schools a good idea?CAST 2011: New cool things
At CAST 2011 James Bach held the second keynote at the beginning of day 2. He was talking about some new cool things in the software testing world and future directions of the context-driven school of testing.
Continue reading CAST 2011: New cool thingsCAST 2011: Build a deeper community of practice – How to organize a peer conference
At CAST 2011 Paul Holland held a presentation on how to organize a peer conference on software testing. Paul gave myself some great pointers for the upcoming organization of the GATE workshop.
Continue reading CAST 2011: Build a deeper community of practice – How to organize a peer conferenceCAST 2011: Economics of Test Automation
At CAST 2011 Matt Heusser spoke about the context of test automation and how to deal with economics around it.
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