Articles
- Collected thoughts on Session-Based Exploratory Testing, unpublished articles, 2007-2009
- Hiring Software Testers in an Information Age, Article, RedCanary.ca, October 2007
- Putting the “Test” back in Test Plan, Article, February 2006
- Testing with an Accent, Article, Better Software magazine, February 2005
Books Reviewed
- Beautiful Testing, Edited by Tim Riley and Adam Goucher, 2010
- Everyday Scripting with Ruby, Brian Marick, 2006
Interview
- Five Questions With Paul Carvalho, Michael Hunter’s Dr. Dobbs Journal blog, April 2008
Public and Workshop Presentations
- Real-time Test Design for Exploratory Testing, Track Presentation, StarEast, Orlando, May 2011
- Exploratory Testing Basics, Workshop, KWSQA Targeting Quality Conference, Waterloo, April 2011
- Congruent Software Testing, Presentation (watch video), Ignite Waterloo 5, Waterloo, February 2011
- Teaching Exploratory Testing, Birds of a Feather session, Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) Conference, Phoenix, November 2010
- The Road to Successful Exploratory Testing, Workshop, QAI TesTrek Toronto, Toronto, October 2010
- Agile Testing, Lightning Talk (watch video) and Open Space session, Agile Coach Camp Canada, Waterloo, June 2010
- QA vs. Testing, Workshop, KWSQA Targeting Quality Conference, Waterloo, April 2010
- Most valued Testing skill, ER Presentation, Waterloo Workshop on Software Testing (WWST 1), Waterloo, February 2010
- Coaching and Mentoring Testers: Managing the Debrief Process, ER Presentation, TWST 5, Toronto, September 2009
- Intro to Web Application Testing In Ruby, Workshop, KWSQA Targeting Quality Conference, Waterloo, April 2009
- Unscripted Automation, Presentation, KWSQA, Waterloo, March 2009
- Deception in Testing: How Type I and Type II Errors Can Ruin Your Day, ER Presentation, TWST 4, Toronto, July 2008
- Re-Branding Software Testing, Presentation, KWSQA, Waterloo, March 2008
- Consider a Career in Software Testing, Presentation, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, November 2007
- What’s in your Toolkit? A Look at Testing Skills, Presentation, Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality (TASSQ), Toronto, March 2007
- Test Modelling: A Good First Step, ER Presentation, TWST 2, Toronto, June 2006
- Low-Tech Testing Dashboard Revisited, ER Presentation, STiFS 2, New York, May 2006
- Continuous Improvement and Exploratory Testing, Presentation, KWSQA, Waterloo, April 2006
- Exploratory Testing in Financial Services, ER Presentation, Software Testing in Financial Services (STiFS 1), New York, October 2005
- Effective Testing at the Speed of Change, ER Presentation, Toronto Workshop on Software Testing (TWST 1), Toronto, June 2005
- The Four Schools of Software Testing, Presentation, KWSQA, Waterloo, April 2005
- The Softer Side of SQA, Presentation, KWSQA, Waterloo, January 2004
- Managing Risks – Project and Testing based approaches, Presentation, Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA), Waterloo, November 2002
Ruby
Reference sheets I created for my Introduction to Ruby and WATIR workshops:
Newsletter Editor
I created this newsletter for the KWSQA in 2000. It continued on for at least 6 more years (to Volume 7) under the capable Editorship of Rob Bowyer. I am not sure if any other archives exist, so here are copies that I made of these issues.
- The Quality Mark, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Fall 2000), Editor, contributor.
- The Quality Mark, Volume 1, Issue 2 (Winter 2001), Editor, contributor.
- The Quality Mark, Volume 1, Issue 3 (Spring 2001), Editor, contributor.
- The Quality Mark, Volume 1, Issue 4 (Summer 2001), Editor, contributor.
- The Quality Mark, Volume 3, Issue 3 (March 2004), contributor – my first article: “What I learned about Quality by Going on a Diet.”