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It’s About The Smiles – EuroSTAR Video Competition

By on April 22, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

I entered a competetion to win a ticket to EuroSTAR 2013.  It features smiles, a roar, lots of testers with a stealth ninja type song I’d like to go, so please consider voting for me  

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A Story of A (Testing Planet) Bug

By on April 12, 2013 in Me, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

I’m a tester. I run websites aimed at testers. Strangely testers seem to get this weird pleasure reporting bugs to me. I won’t tell you of all the bugs that I know exist, but I can tell you of one. The one that made me laugh at first then wonder how we were going to fix [...]

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Testing Photo Fun, The Results #testbash

By on April 8, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

In my last blog post I promised to take some photos during ‘TestBash’ week in a self potrait and relaxed style. Here are the results:

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Join Me In Some Testing Photo Fun

By on March 12, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

In the testing community, sometimes I feel like we all don’t know what we all look like. Is it important?  Maybe or maybe not, either way I think we could have a bit of fun along the way whilst getting to know each other a bit better. So next week, when I meet and speak [...]

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Conference Observations

By on February 21, 2013 in Business, Community, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

During my limited time of running conferences I’ve come across some observations that I thought I would share.  This is from experience of organising TestBash. People Advised Me Against It Before starting TestBash I spoke to several people about the idea.  Many of them told me to be very careful. That conferences are very hard [...]

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Child Friendly Meetups

By on February 6, 2013 in Me, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

I have 3 kids.  And lets face it, it’s hard to get out meeting people sometimes.  I’ve long wanted to do some kind of networking/meetup that welcomed kids.  It seems that the time has come for testers of the world/UK With TestBash happening in March I became aware that a few of the attendees were [...]

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Thoughts On Conferences

By on January 11, 2013 in Community, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

Yeah, I’m running a software testing conference.  It’s only our second one. It’s still nerve racking. There’s still alot of work to do, it doesn’t ‘just happen’ and we are still learning with each thing we do. We want to make it something we are proud of and this in my heart especially means giving people [...]

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Should This Be Possible?

By on November 27, 2012 in Software Testing

If the phone has no battery left, then why is it on?

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A Field Guide To Mobile App Testing

By on October 25, 2012 in Me, Software Testing

I’m rather pleased to have had an article (with a positive response!) published over at Smashing Magazine, check out A Field Guide To Mobile App Testing.

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The Business of Freelance Testing

By on September 18, 2012 in Software Testing, Web

Freelance Testing is a funny one and it feels frustratingly behind the times. You don’t have to look very far to find a freelance designer or developer or project manager, but tester? Where on earth do you go if you want a bit of testing done? There are plenty of testing contractors about. Plenty of [...]

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