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A celebration of STEC, the Software Testing Essentials Certificate, going live earlier that year. Big thanks to Scott for supporting with...
This was done for TestBash 2024 99-second-talks. Since day 1 was AI-themed, I immediately thought of Shakespeare and speeches / soliloqui...
A live demo and case study showing how AI can help build real-world vision systems, while human experimentation and testing still do the hardest work.
Published in September 2022, this was written as a 99-second talk. Posting it makes me think I should do another for MoTaCon. We will see...
The Ministry of Testing’s Test.Bash() event on the 28th of October 2021 was a brilliant event, as was to be expected. Despite not being o...
I rarely write ‘serious’ poetry, but this has evolved over the year, and I’m happy with where it ended. I started around May or June and ...
This poem was inspired by the Ministry of Testing’s June 2020 tweet asking, "Who tests the tests?"If testers test… Then what tests t...
Testing earlier pays off when it means questioning earlier too.
Madhuri Mittal shares how a career pause and motherhood reshaped her into a more resilient, empathetic, and adaptable tester.
Rosie Sherry and Generalist World's Ece Kurtaraner talk small-scale events, lifetime membership models, and how they're each using Claude to cut community admin busywork.
I didn't realise how many of these I did in 2019! A bit rushed but less shaky. This poem was performed at Test.Bash() Manchester at...
This poem was performed by me at TestBash Manchester 2019 as a 99-second talk and was inspired by Tony Walsh’s Take This Pen. If you want...
From my TestBash Essentials talk on the Periodic Table of Testing, I was very brave and performed a testing parody of Queen's iconic We W...
Written in 2018, first performed live at TestBash Brighton 2019 as a 99-second talk. Go to 2:41 to see my shaky performance. It was liter...
Written in January 2018In November 2017, I did a presentation at Leeds Tester Gathering. The talk was about how a test manager back in 20...
Written in 2017 ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling was written in 1895. Here’s my version, if Rudyard were a tester. Please excuse the ar...
First published on The Big Test Theory.com in August 2017 Why categorise?There are several reasons, some more personal than others. ...
First published on The Big Test Theory.com in June 2017. PS Personas – Technique Element Sub-section – ApproachesPersonas elem...
This was updated in June 2025. It has been quite some time since I last updated my Periodic Table of Testing. The 10th of December 2018, ...
A panel discussion exploring how AI gains in silos can break feedback loops, shift bottlenecks downstream, and make quality harder to manage at scale.
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read my moment. If you have any comments, feedback, or questions, I'm eager to hear them, so pl...
22 Jul
Lisa Crispin linked Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki over on the MoT Slack. The idea: instead of re-reading raw sources every time you have a q...
Microsoft SharePoint under attack via new exploit (CVE-2026-50522)
(www.cybersecuritydive.com)
21 Jul
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