Lisa Crispin
Testing consultant
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Lisa Crispin is a consultant, author and speaker based in Vermont, USA. She and Janet Gregory have co-authored four books, most recently _Holistic Testing: Weave Quality Into Your Product_.
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Mapping the Machine: What Fell Out of an LLM Wiki Idea
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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 question, you let an LLM maintain a compounding, cross-linked...
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LLM Wiki - to create and search your own personal knowledge base
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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 question, you let an LLM maintain a compounding, cross-linked...
On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩2009 me would have no idea that he'd record a conversation with one of the author's of the book that shifted his whole pers...
AI amplifies the good and the bad, so where should your team start?
You've just said goodbye to one of your favourite testing legends off the back of wonderful and insightful Call for Insights. You've shared with your team how nervous you were about it. And th...
The lineup is out and oh my... how exciting is it?These are the contributors we've announced publicly... but let me tell you something. Every single person walking through the Brighton Dome doors b...
What is Holistic Testing? The Holistic Testing model, developed by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin, maps testing activity across every stage of an infinite development loop: discover, plan, underst...
