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Lisa Crispin
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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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Great article on preventing bugs!Â
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Prevention is the highest form of testing: The value of zero bugs
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Measuring for success and and quality improvement
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Measuring for success and and quality improvement
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2.5.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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ALL the humans making MoTaCon 2026 happen
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Inspired by a LinkedIn post from Reuven Cohen, I decided to test how different models I use daily would write my unhinged bio in 200 words. totally bonkers. For ChatGPT and Gemini, I left the defau...
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What LLMs know about you? Try it with the prompt: Write my unhinged bio in 200 words. totally bonkers.
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What LLMs know about you? Try it with the prompt: Write my unhinged bio in 200 words. totally bonkers.
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What LLMs know about you? Try it with the prompt: Write my unhinged bio in 200 words. totally bonkers.
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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...
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Thank you for your contributions with the Today I learned initiative in the AI chapter.
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Thanks for your session at the BrowserStack conference! I'm always wanting to learn more about accessibility and you always lead the way.
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2.5.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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AI agents are becoming the new OS for building, testing, and shipping software
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A guide to AI agents for testers
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A guide to AI agents for testers
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"This makes a lot of sense. Really promotes the whole-team ownership of quality. I think management in some organizations might be resistant to it, though. I'm curious to see if any of these articles address that. "
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The sense of loss will be outweighed with the joy of influence
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To grow your influence, you might have to drop 'quality' from your title
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To grow your influence, you might have to drop 'quality' from your title
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Software Testing Live
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Episode 08: Risky Business
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Lisa Crispin: How can we be continuously curious?
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The Holistic Testing Model
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I don't know if it was a chapter event, I am having trouble finding the right "reason" for these stars when I award them! Anyway - thank you, Rahul, for all the learning you enabled in your session on AI guardrails today (May 6). You put so much work into this cool app to let us practice our skills, too.
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A tester’s guide to AI guardrails
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The Holistic Testing Model
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The Holistic Testing Model
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The Holistic Testing Model
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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...
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Growing your career as a quality and testing professional: Lisa Crispin
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The transition from specialist to generalist
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The transition from specialist to generalist
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Joined Software Testing Live chapter
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