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Kat Obring
Founder, Director
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Former chef turned software testing expert Kat Obring brings 20 years of experience from Disney, Anaplan, and Accenture. She offers quality leadership coaching and training courses.
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Is the future of test case management at risk? Let's go exploring.
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How to go from being a gatekeeper to being a quality coach
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At the Leeds Testing Atelier I spoke about how we, as testers, can go from being gatekeepers to being quality coaches. One of the practical suggestions was to facilitate a test planning workshop wi...
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23 language shifts every quality engineer can adopt today
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Cosmic conversation: the possibilities of Quality Coaching
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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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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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Join Kat and Callum to discover what's working, examples and traps in QC
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When a bug makes you rich, and a judge rules in your favour
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Definitions of Greenfield project
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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
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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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Testers having dinner at the final TestBash social.
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