Lisa Crispin
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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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
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...
22 Jul
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 ...
6 Jul
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...
2 Jul
AI amplifies the good and the bad, so where should your team start?
2 Jul
Discover how running small, courageous experiments can help any tester or quality-minded technologist truly lead with quality
11 Jun
Listen to Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory have a brilliant chat
5 Dec
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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
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From ad-hoc prompting to Agentic Engineering: Latest trends in AI
So much good information packed into such a short time! Thanks so much!
Is MoTaCon secretly a festival now?
Thank you for this summary of all the events!
LLM Wiki - to create and search your own personal knowledge base
(gist.github.com)
20 Jul
Markdown Context Protocol open source project for creating quality documentation
(betsalelw.substack.com)
15 Jul
Growing your career as a quality and testing professional: Lisa Crispin
(lisacrispin.com)
30 Apr
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Thoughts before MoTaCon: You are invited to a testing party, bring a Bug
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Learner completed your lesson
8.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2 days ago
Thanks for your contribution
Thoughts before MoTaCon: You are invited to a testing party, bring a Bug
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3 days ago
Thanks for your contribution
Thoughts before MoTaCon: You are invited to a testing party, bring a Bug
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3 days ago
Learner completed your lesson
8.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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