Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London
Jun 20, 2025
Create Memory
On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST).
This year I spoke at the conference, reminding the audience once again that you are not your customer. I use having Aphantasia (the inability to visualise) as a tool to question the assumptions that people might make about how we build products and what those products will look like.
While I was there, I had some fantastic conversations with people about their approach to requirements analysis, constructing test plans and asking questions to call out assumptions.
Emily O'Connor
Principal Quality Engineer
She/Her
Automation-savvy QE with a sixth sense for bugs. Avid learner and reader interested in decoding dev-speak to enable engineering teams. I believe good software starts with user-focused problem solving.
Simon Tomes
It was an excellent talk.
Cool to see this photo montage.
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