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You Don’t Talk About THAT at Work

Sophie Küster

There are things you don’t talk about with your colleagues – even less so with your boss. Mental health issues are certainly a big no-no. When I first started working…
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Mama Said My Shape Was Okay – A Better Shape than I, T and X

Jihad Ghandour

“At school, I was the shortest, and I had the darkest skin. Everyone bullied me for that, but Mama said my shape was okay. I always thought I needed to…
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Frustrated? It Might be your Fault – A Guide to Good Communication

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel

Are you trying to change the way you work but running into a brick wall? Maybe trying to do that cross-silo collaboration everyone keeps asking for, but they just don’t…
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Fantastic Biases & Where to Find Them in Software Development

Michael Kutz & João Proença

Why did all our test cases fail because of this simple bug? Nobody tried that out before? How did five people agree to implement this terrible feature? Why are our…
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The Human Side of Testing

Amanda Perkins

We’re known for breaking things and testing the limits, and patience, of our team and our systems. We advocate for quality in all things and we advocate for the end…
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AMA on Building Your Personal Brand

Raj Subrameyer

Raj Subrameyer is an export of the human side of software testing. Join Raj for this exciting talk and AMA where he will share his experience on building a personal…
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Alignment in your test approach and business priorities is vital and will either accelerate or constrain enterprise transformation. Using his 20 years experience in building software quality management and testing…
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Testing Becoming Harder to be Valuable

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

We all like to think that the work we do is valuable, and that testers should be paid same as developers. If we want to talk about getting paid for…
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Career Advancement in the New Normal

Raj Subrameyer

Unlearn everything you know about your career and jobs. It is time we adapt to the new normal. You have worked in a company for over a decade. You have…
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Your Testing Habitat is Rapidly Changing. Are You?

Ryan Volker

Covid-19 led to rapid and immediate changes to our lives, our work, and our habitat. This transformational moment is happening before our eyes. These are not the only changes occurring. Testers…
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What Testers can learn from Elephants

Iris Pinkster-O'Riordain & Greet Burkels

Do you know David Attenborough? He is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He studies, describes and researches wild life to create awareness and secure the preservation of nature. In…
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How to become a Conference Speaker

Fran O'Hara

Key Learnings from this session Why you should consider becoming a speaker Tips on choosing what to speak about How to ‘sell’ your talk to a conference committee 2021 could…
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Turning Uncertainty into a Catalyst for Change

Jan De Coster

Key Learnings: Find out more how you can accelerate your digital transformation Learn about how you can create lasting impacts on application delivery teams with new workloads, higher expectations, more…
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The Quality of Dialogue

Anders Dinsen

To me, quality has four domains. The first two are commonly addressed in testing: One domain is about things that are quantifiable and measureable, e.g. meeting requirements and bugs we…
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Gaining Consciousness

Fiona Charles

What is consciousness? How do we draw a line in our decision-making process between trained intuition and careless assumption? Sometimes, an expert medical doctor makes a dazzlingly accurate diagnosis in…
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Writing for Success

Rob Lambert

During this talk from his communication workshop, Rob Lambert will share plenty of great ideas on how to write effectively. These ideas will help you write better reports, emails,…
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Finding & Developing Good Software Testers

Phil Royston

This webinar explores recruiting and finding good software testers. Doing testing well requires having enough people with the right skills and knowledge. Great testers have always needed to be T-shaped…
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Ignite Your Inner Innovator – Rebalancing for Testers

Chloe Burger

Are you an innovator? The world changes quicker and quicker. Changing from structured testing in waterfall projects to testing complex landscapes. From being a tester in a dedicated test team…
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Leadership: From Monolith to Pebbles

Adam Matlacz

When working with medical products, the verification process can be a real pain – especially when dealing with completely new QA team, complex hardware/software setup and collaboration of multiple scattered…
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The Rapid Software Testing Guide to What You Meant to Say

Michael Bolton

“I break the software.” “Cannot reproduce.” “We need a week to regress the new build.” “We have to do automation.” “It works!” From time to time, testers say things that…
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Develop your Super Power for Work & Life Through Effective Communication

Rob Lambert

In this webinar we’ll cover why communication underpins all problems, successes and frameworks we use at work. We’ll then look at why communication is so hard but essential to master…
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Testers – Is it Our Own Fault we are Underrated?!

Claire Goss

Last year I wrote a blog post under this heading and in March of this year I spoke at UKSTAR and the title of the talk and both sparked a…
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Testers Shape and Influence the Conversation

Ryan Volker

In many industries, software testing is frequently overlooked and underappreciated by senior managers. It is a vital quality component but, unfortunately, typically seen as the last step standing in the…
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Are We Crazy? A Neuropsychological Investigation of Perfection in Testing

Rick Tracy

Testing is dangerous. No, I don’t mean it’s hazard-pay dangerous or wear-your-helmet dangerous, but it is drive-you-crazy dangerous. We work in an industry that is constantly, deliberately, and effectively driving…
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Journey from Rookie Tester to Senior Test Automation Expert

Jani Haapala

Winner of most popular track at the 2018 EuroSTAR Conference as voted by the delegates. Testing used to be a phase in software processes, now it’s a continuous task. Jani…
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Call For Speakers Webinar: Become a Speaker

Isabel Evans

Want to speak at EuroSTAR 2019? This webinar is for you. Isabel Evans, the Programme Chair, will present a short guide for anyone wishing to submit a proposal for EuroSTAR…
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How Do I Think?

Andrew Brown

How do we decide if a desperately needed but problematic release can go live? How do we decide if we have done enough testing, or which parts can be safely…
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Talking about Talking about Testing

Richard Paterson

Description Software testing as a field is arguably still finding its feet, and often struggles to find its voice. There are many experienced testers in the world who could…
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How Did I Miss That Bug: Overcome Cognitive Bias in Testing

Gerie Owen

How many bugs have you, or your teams, missed that were clearly easy to spot? Testers approach all phases of testing hampered by their own biases in what to look…
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Life Testing and Leaps of Faith

Susie Maguire

Human beings are passionate beings. We feel strongly about our families, our work, our politics, our sports teams, our hobbies and more and we are at our very best when we…
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Roles In Test Automation

Jan Jaap Cannegieter and Ruud van Berkum

One of the critical success factors of Test Automation is that the different roles need to be filled in with persons with the right skills. In this webinar we will…
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Being A Track Chair at a Conference: Tips and Tricks

Graham Freeburn

We all like to attend conferences for the content and networking but one of the things that make good conferences work is not always recognised. The programme committee have to…
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Why We Need Diversity in Testing

Rasa Bonyadlou & Matthias Rasking

Not only since the massive discussions regarding “bro culture“ at Uber or “biological differences“ at Google has diversity in the Software Engineering community been a huge topic. It’s time to…
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Thinking Through Your Role

James Bach & Jon Bach

James and Jon Bach recently taught a new class called Reinventing Testers. As part of the class, they developed a style of diagramming roles which they call "rolegrams" and a…
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Stories: realising their potential and power in projects

Isabel Evans

For all the products we build, test and deliver, a good – great - user experience is vital to the success of our projects and organisations. We need to understand…
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Survival Techniques For Testers: Beyond The T-Shaped Tester

Derk-Jan de Grood & Jan Jaap Cannegieter

The T-shaped tester (Rob Lambert, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory) combines need for general knowledge with advanced test skills to be successful. But testing is a versatile profession and demands…
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Let’s Talk About….Women In Testing

Alison Wade & Rajini Padmanaban

As part of our Hangout series, in May we held an event to discuss the issuers surrounding women in testing. Continuing our series of open discussions on various aspects of…
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Stories: realising their potential and power in projects

Isabel Evans

For all the products we build, test and deliver, a good – great - user experience is vital to the success of our projects and organisations. We need to understand…
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Mob Testing: Better Products Through Diversity

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Many different roles contribute to building software: product owners, business specialists, testers. Yet knowledge of programming keeps these roles at a distance. In this webinar, Maaret will discuss a new…
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Good Testers are Often Lucky – Using Serendipity in Software Testing

Rikard Edgren

In a sampling business like testing, it’s no wonder that serendipity is a key factor. But testers seldom take pride in this “luck”, as they are unaware of all skill…
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Programming for Testers. It’s Easy!

Graham T. & Phill Isles

We hear a lot these days about how testers should learn to code, become more technical, and have more development orientated skills. Unless you came into software testing as a…
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Trying to Teach Testing Skills and Judgment

Rikard Edgren

Since 2011, I have spent 1500 hours of actively teaching software testing to higher vocational students in Sweden. It is educations spanning 1 to 2 years aimed at providing professionals…
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Open Access Testbed Facilities Available to Software Companies in Europe

Donal Morris

Software Managers requiring access to infrastructure to test out and validate their new products in the cloud, mobile, wireless, and wired network space will be interested to hear about the…
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Defence Against the Dark Arts

Laurent Bossavit

In this Google Hangout Laurent Bossavit will share ideas from "Defence Against the Dark Arts", the workshop he did with Michael Bolton at CAST 2014. This workshop focused on…
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Surviving as a Tester, Even in Difficult Circumstances

Randall Rice

Most test professionals have worked at some time or other in difficult organisations, dysfunctional cultures, and for unreasonable managers and stakeholders. This causes much internal stress and creates fear instead…
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Testing in the Age of Distraction

Zeger Van Hese

We live in curious times. Knowledge is available at our fingertips, everywhere. Social networks increase communication with peers from around the world but along with these marvels of the information…
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Influence: Why tea can be a great test tool

Dan Ashby

I’m often asked the question “what is your favourite test tool?” to which I respond “tea”. I’m often met with a blank face after my response… You see, the power…
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The Art of Asking Questions

Karen N. Johnson

In this webinar Karen Johnson talks about the art of asking questions. As software testers, we need to learn a product thoroughly, we need to understand the user interface, the…
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Coaching for Software Testers

Anne-Marie Charrett

Charrett uses examples from coaching sessions that demonstrate the coaching we do, as well as give insights as to how this coaching helps to motivate and eventually liberate the tester.…
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Tips for Writing Better Charters for Exploratory Testing Sessions

Michael D. Kelly

This webinar looks at some common pitfalls encountered when chartering your testing for session-based exploratory testing. After a brief overview of the session-based test management process we will jump into…
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