Deborah Sherwood | Activities

At the recent MoT London meetup, I was excited to finally meet Simon in the 3D! We have spoken a few times online over recent years, but being able to meet in person was awesome!

At the recent MoT London meetup, I was excited to finally meet Simon in the 3D! We have spoken a few times online over recent years, but being able to meet in person was awesome!

Meeting Rosie at MoT London Meetup

Meeting Rosie at MoT London Meetup

The stars aligned, and I happened to be in London for work, in the MoT London meetup was on in June. I was able to meet Rosie in the 3D and did my first 99 second talk on testing with AI. It was an...

The stars aligned, and I happened to be in London for work, in the MoT London meetup was on in June. I was able to meet Rosie in the 3D and did my first 99 second talk on testing with AI. It was an...

Deborah Sherwood and I caught up over a Leading with Quality conversation, and what a pleasure! There are a few things that have been cool about this connection and how we got here: 1. She's be...

1:1 conversations are the best kind of conversations

Deborah Sherwood and I caught up over a Leading with Quality conversation, and what a pleasure! There are a few things that have been cool about this connection and how we got here: 1. She's be...

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Dive into the handy Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet, new and improved for today's modern testing professional. Support your testing efforts and generate test ideas.

Discover how to apply the benefits of full stack testing with this Masterclass webinar led by Ben Dowen. Discover a new model to identify gaps in your system knowledge.

Harvest your testing skills at TestBash Autumn, a Ministry of Testing software testing conference happening on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2023

During this session, James Espie is joined by the fantastic Deborah Sherwood for a Testing Ask Me Anything about Regression Testing

Our automation and technically testing focused TestBash

Share your experiences in investigating failed automated tests by breaking down this task into the steps you need to take.

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Learn how serverless apps work and how we might go about testing them

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Learn how to create a test strategy that considers your working context and what the business needs

Find out which Testing Tool is right for your needs with our next Testing Ask Me Anything with Mirza Sisic

Understand what type of strategy style is best for a project and get your team involved

How can you automate a product if you don't know how it works? In this workshop we explore how to capture and share technical knowledge of a system for an automation strategy

Our Panel Discussions allow you to get direct support to help answer your questions and give you fresh ideas, so join us and get your Test Strategy questions ready!

The success of automation is directly related to how automatable a product is. In this workshops we'll learn what automatability is, how to analyse it and use that knowledge in our strategies

Testability is the foundation of a good automation strategy, which means understanding what Testability is and how to analyse it in a given context