Articles

• For ProjectManagement.com:
  • Agility and Quality Start with No Manual Test Cases, April 2018
  • Finding Agile Testers: Dos and Don’ts, November 2017
  • Can Governance and Agile Get Along?, July 2017
  • The Tester-to-Developer Ratio is a Dead End in Agile, April 2017
  • Deploy Faster by Getting Rid of End-of-Development Testing, November 2016
  • Are Your Agile Testers Fish Out of Water?, September 2016
  • Overcoming Agile Testing Inertia with Mind Maps, June 2016
  • Four Elephants in the Agile Testing Room, March 2016
  • Say Bye to Testing Metrics in Agile Teams, November 2015
  • Acceptance Test-Driven Development 101: Keys to Success, September 2015
  • Agile Testing for Rapid Feedback, June 2015
  • Managing Quality in Agile Projects: Your Three-Part Checklist, April 2015
  • Making the Leap into Agile Testing, January 2015
  • The Music of Agile Testing, November 2014
  • People First: Uprooting Project Management for an Agile World, June 2014
• Exploring in a Financial World, Article, TeaTimeWithTesters.com, April 2012
• Low-tech Tools for the Thinking Tester, Article, AgileConnection.com, April 2012
• Collected thoughts on Session-Based Exploratory Testing, unpublished articles, 2007-2009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

• The Domain Testing Workbook, by Cem Kaner, Sowmya Padmanabhan and Douglas Hoffman, 2013
• Beautiful Testing, Edited by Tim Riley and Adam Goucher, 2010
• Everyday Scripting with Ruby, Brian Marick, 2006

Interviews

• The Test Lab – STAREAST 2015, StickyMinds Interview with Bart Knaack, May 2015
• The Test Lab – STARWEST 2014, uTest interview with Mad Scientist Paul Carvalho, October 2014
• A1QA Blog interviewed me online in April 2014 about Agile and Exploratory Testing. They posted it in two parts: read Part 1 and Part 2, April 2014
• Paul Carvalho Discusses Pitfalls in Agile Testing and the Zero Page Test Plan, Todd Charron, InfoQ, January 2013 (Interview took place during the Agile 2012 conference where I presented these two workshops)
• Five Questions With Paul Carvalho, Michael Hunter’s Dr. Dobbs Journal blog, April 2008

Public and Workshop Presentations

• Step Away from the Test Cases: Achieving Quality in Agile Teams, Track Presentation, 2014 Quality in Agile Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 2014
• A Quality Mind-set: Beyond Defects and Automated Tests, Training Session, Packing List for Your Agile Journey (Online Telesummit), March 2014
• A Tester’s Guide to Continuous Delivery, Track Presentation, Targeting Quality Conference, Waterloo, October 2013
• Testing with an Accent – A Primer for Internationalisation, Track Presentation, StarEast, Orlando, FL, May 2013
• Session-Based Test Management, Track Presentation, STP Online Summit, March 2013
• Understanding Quality – Upping your Testing Game to Awesome, Track Presentation, DevReach 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 2012
• 0-Page Agile Test Plan, Workshop, Agile 2012, Dallas, TX, August 2012
• Pitfalls in Agile Testing and How to Avoid Them, Workshop, Agile 2012, Dallas, TX, August 2012
• Testing with an Accent – A Primer for Internationalization, Track Presentation, Targeting Quality Conference, Waterloo, April 2012
• Pitfalls in Agile Testing and How to Avoid Them, Workshop, Targeting Quality Conference, Waterloo, April 2012
• Real-time Test Design for Exploratory Testing, Track Presentation, StarEast, Orlando, FL, May 2011 – video interview with Yvette Francino
• Exploratory Testing Basics, Workshop, 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, AZ, 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, 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, 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, NY, 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, NY, October 2005
• Effective Testing at the Speed of Change, ER Presentation, Toronto Workshop on Software Testing (TWST 1), Toronto, ON, 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, ON, November 2002

Ruby

Reference sheets I created for my Introduction to Ruby and WATIR workshops:

• Ruby Starter reference sheet
• WATIR reference cheat sheet

Newsletter Editor

I created the TQM newsletter for the KWSQA in 2000. Our mission was to enlighten and entertain our local Testing and QA community with something more than regular meeting updates. I passed the editorship mantle on after the first year and it continued for at least 6 more years (to Volume 7). I am not sure if any other archives exist, so here are PDF copies that I made of the early 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 – article: “What I learned about Quality by Going on a Diet.”