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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_.

🎂 MoTaBirthday | February 24, 2016

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1,000 songs in your pocket changed how the world listened to music...

1,000 songs in your pocket changed how the world listened to music. The MoTaverse changes how tech professionals grow their careers.Sixteen features, sixteen stories, one thread running through al...

26 Aug

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Submit proposals for contribution

Submit your contribution ideas!You have unique experiences to share, we can all learn from you. And contributing to MoT is rewarding in many ways. Here are two of my favorites: submitting an artic...

21 Aug

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My thoughts before MoTaCon: Co-owning quality

When I first read Susanne's abstract for her talk, "Can we actually co-own quality?", my answer to that question was "well, of course!" It's how my own teams have approached quality and testing for...

18 Aug

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Thoughts before MoTaCon: You are invited to a testing party, bring a Bug

Continuing with an experiment. Let's look at the talk and workshop descriptions of MoTaCon 2026 and share my thoughts and reflections before the talk/workshop has happened. And then, hopefully, sh...

11 Aug

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Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model

AI amplifies the good and the bad, so where should your team start?

2 Jul

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The transition from specialist to generalist

Our role as quality people is shifting.

11 Aug

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Lisa Crispin: How can we be continuously curious?

Discover how running small, courageous experiments can help any tester or quality-minded technologist truly lead with quality

11 Jun

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Cosmic Conversation: A holistic view of continuous quality

Listen to Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory have a brilliant chat

5 Dec

Thoughts before MoTaCon: there goes the fear Suzanne's topic really resonates with me. I feel like I've lived a lot of my career in fear! And, I feel lucky that I usually had a great team around me and felt confident that I could tackle whatever challenge scared me. I know I am going to get a lot of new ideas from this session! Thoughts before MoTaCon: make it joyful I'm grateful for people like Clare that remind us how important it is to enjoy ourselves at work as well as the rest of life. I do love the "aah" test! Thoughts before MoTaCon: You are invited to a testing party, bring a Bug Hah, I love your point about ignoring instructions! Everyone can join our test party about test parties, just bring your curiosity! We're putting the workshop together right now, it's so fun to plan. And will be even more fun at MoTaCon! Thank you to the MoTaverse Community Very cool! Congratulations! Quality School 001: Spot the difference 😂

Interesting idea of "signal engineering" as a non-deterministic approach to testing (softwaresignalengineering.org)

20 Aug

ai-automation

test-automation-tool

LLM Wiki - to create and search your own personal knowledge base (gist.github.com)

20 Jul

ai

llms

Markdown Context Protocol open source project for creating quality documentation (betsalelw.substack.com)

15 Jul

ai

documentation

Feature Chat Sheet: Conversation Starters (agiletester.ca)

11 Jun

story-shaping

story-refinement

Measuring for success and and quality improvement (lisacrispin.com)

21 May

metrics

ai

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