Rewind to my first in person event

10 Feb 2026

A screenshot of a meetup event for May 2019. The schedule includes talks by Dave Christiansen and Alan Page. image
With recent excitement about Chapters, it got me thinking of the first time I ever went to an in person testing event. I had only just switched back from development to test and wanted to engage with the field more.

It kicked off with a great talk on why dev testing sucks and why it shouldn't always reflect badly (something I could appreciate). Then I learnt about the modern testing principles from Alan Page. What a cracking start to my journey into testing and no wonder I got hooked in!
Richard Adams
Senior Test Analyst
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Passionate about quality & testing. Creator of Threat Agents card game and regularly found chatting cyber security.

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