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, ...

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...

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...

Running a root cause analysis only addresses half of the problem. Instead of asking, why did we miss this? Ask, why didn’t we think of th...