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Kat Obring
Founder, Director
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Kat Obring has spent 20+ years in software delivery: DevOps QA engineer, Head of Delivery, and now a quality coach who helps engineering teams build measurable improvement practices. She runs Kato Coaching Ltd and has presented at PeersCon, Agile Testing Days, HUSTEF, and TestBash, among others. She is direct, opinionated, and has strong feelings about the word "quality."
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Continuous Quality - The Testing Planet News - Episode 07
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Debugging the Mind: Teaching Developers to Think Like Testers
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The Hobbit's Guide to Testing Tools - Small Steps to a Powerful Choice
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Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 28
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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That just-finished-a-talk feeling
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From Gatekeepers to Quality Coaches
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The metrics we suffer
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The final social meetup after TestBash
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Snapped just after Kat Obring finished her talk at Leeds Testing Atelier, one of the most packed sessions of the day, with people standing at the back to hear her speak.
Kat is pictured here wit...
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Kat Obring’s talk at Leeds Testing Atelier explored how QA roles can evolve from blockers at the end of a pipeline to enablers of quality throughout it.
Kat shared practical ways testers can shi...
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Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of metrics, they suffer from the wrong ones.
I’ve seen dashboards full of numbers that no one looks at, and reports that generate more questions than clarity....
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Greenfield project
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I live here now.
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A computer, and through it's screen we see a bug on a sofa, comfy with a drink in it's hand.
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I asked the bug what it was doing there.
It said "I live here now".
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Tech Debt
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The words we use every day matter, let's tweak them!
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This badge is awarded to members who contribute content towards a Ministry of Testing certification.
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Despite your expertise and commitment to quality, you remain “just the tester”. It’s frustrating. It’s demoralising. And unfortunately, it’s incredibly common.
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This badge is awarded to members who confirm their tickets to TestBash Brighton 2024
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Join Kat and Callum to discover what's working, examples and traps in QC
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This badge is awarded to members who contribute a new term or an alternative definition to the software testing glossary.
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When a bug makes you rich, and a judge rules in your favour
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Achieving 5 or more Community Star badges
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Definitions of Greenfield project
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This badge is awarded to a member who has spoken at a TestBash conference.
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Definitions of Quality Engineering
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Join Simon Tomes and his team of reporters for another round of news
is Open to Speak
is Open to Teach
is Open to Write
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A four-panel comic illustrating the concept of technical debt. In the first panel, two stick figures dressed as miners, wearing helmets and holding tools, excitedly say 'This way!' as they enter a ...
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Helping the team to move quickly while embedding quality into our processes has become more crucial than ever
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Great to make it to the end of TestBash and chill at the social.
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Boost your career in software testing with the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate. Learn essential skills, from basic testing techniques to advanced risk analysis, crafted by industry experts.
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Join Kat Obring on a journey through the world of test automation solutions with The Hobbit’s Guide to Testing Tools - Small Steps to a Powerful Choice
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