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Mike Harris
Deming Driven Tester
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Mike has been a testing professional doing 'plan-do-study-act' for over twenty years. He also is a co-author of How Can I test this?
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Shifting software testing left with operational definitions
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See how operational definitions bring clarity to requirements and support earlier testing
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Operational Definition
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Definitions of Operational Definition
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Gherkin
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Definitions of Gherkin
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Continuous Learning
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Definitions of Continuous Learning
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Glossary
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On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST).
This year I spoke at the conferen...
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19/07/25 London.
Thanks to the SIGiST team for organising and running a lovely conference. Some solid talks about AI.
At the end of the day myself, Eamon, Ayesha, Andy, Jit and Bug had a de...
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Really enjoyed seeing all the pictures of the back of my head on so many LinkedIn posts from BCS SIGiST 2025 😂
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“Bug! Bug! Bug!” shouted my seven year old son as I said goodbye to him for the day. He loves this Bug t-shirt.
So the two of us (Bug, not my son) stand ready at the train station. We’re all se...
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Me and Bug off to the 2025 BCS SIGiST Conference
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“Bug! Bug! Bug!” shouted my seven year old son as I said goodbye to him for the day. He loves this Bug t-shirt.
So the two of us (Bug, not my son) stand ready at the train station. We’re all se...
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This badge is awarded to members who contribute a talk to the MoT platform
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Was a professional member in 2025
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Do software testing professionals understand what is meant by systems thinking?
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Exploring Systems Thinking - The Testing Planet News - Episode 09
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Enhance your performance tests and more with process behaviour charts
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How does Deming's work on quality help us?
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How The Jobs To Be Done Concept Can Help Quality And Testing
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GraphQL As A Platform For Testing
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My First Panel - The Testing Planet
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Quality attributes
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66% of us seem to think so
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Examples of how to test different sites and apps, along with the test heuristics applied, the reasoning and tool ideas. Nicola Lindgren, Mike Harris, Suman Bala, Philip Wong, and Shawn Shaligram
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Definitions of Quality attributes
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Recognise how different parts of a system influence one another
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Four testers are presenting The Testing Planet news from their respective homes. Each is visible in their own video panel.
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Data from performance and load tests can be difficult to interpret
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Introduction to the work of the 'grandfather of quality' W. Edwards Deming and how his work helps us as testers
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Introduction to the work of the 'grandfather of quality' W. Edwards Deming and how his work helps us as testers
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