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STP Radio is brought to you from the community of Software Test Professionals to showcase contemporary software testing topics, techniques, tools, practices and thought leaders from the industry. More information can be found at: www.softwaretestpro.com.
Hello friends - in this episode we have an in-depth conversation with Cathy Huang from long-time sponsor and supporter of STP, Applause (www.applause.com). Specifically we learn from Cathy's customer feedback and experiences around automation strategy, artificial intelligence and some possible new capabilities coming to the Applause solutions. Thank you for listening and please consider giving us a rating and review online wherever you listening to this podcast.
We welcome back to the show the co-founder and CEO of PinkLion.AI Jennifer Bonine to discuss her upcoming trifecta of a workshop, a session, and a keynote at STPCon in San Diego, California - March 30 - April 2. But please, don't be surprised if you hear Jennifer talk about her world-wide participation in global development projects, socially responsible initiatives, and the future of what we do as testers and quality analysts in the 4th industrial revolution. Learn more about Jennifer's participation in STPCon at https://www.stpcon.com/speakers/jennifer-bonine/ and more about PinkLion business at https://www.pinklion.ai/
Paul Merrill is CEO and Principal Software Engineer in Test of Beaufort Fairmont Test Automation Services. He is also an incredibly ingenious tester, developer and teacher on the subjects of quality and test automation. We had a far-reaching conversation on topics from testing, DevOps, woodworking, and shoes. Learn more about Paul's upcoming keynote, session, and workshop at https://www.stpcon.com/speaker/paul-merrill/.
STP Radio welcomes Nancy Kelln back to the show, where we chat about her upcoming workshop and session at the Spring 2020 Software Test Professionals Conference in San Diego at the end of March. Nancy is a fantastic teacher and speaker, and this year she's going to include robots in her workshop. Real, honest-to-goodness, robots. Don't miss it! Learn more at www.stpcon.com.
Leandro Melendez (a.k.a. Señor Performo) joins us for a pretty in-depth conversation about his upcoming performance workshop in which he helps people to learn one of the hardest and most complex part so performance test scripting: transport level data correlation. Wow! Leandro has been a lead consultant for Qualitest (www.qualitestgroup.com) for more than 10 years and travels the world-over assisting their customers with performance testing and engineering initiatives.
Register for STPCON here: www.stpcon.com
In this episode of STPRadio I catch up with agile testing guru Melissa Tondi at the recent STPCON Conference held in Boston, MA. Melissa shares some insights about her fantastic workshop on agile testing management and strategy, her session on modern testing and even the future of her session proposals for STPCON Spring 2020 in San Diego. New England clam chowder for the win! Visit softwaretestpro.com to learn more!
At the recent STPCON in Boston, MA I had a chance to catch up with Kirk Walton of tapQA - a fantastic bunch of test consulting gurus from my home state of Minnesota here in the Mid-west of the USA. We chatted about hot trends in customer demands of testing, the future of our practices and approaches and we both agreed that broomball is not actually a sport. Learn more about tapQA at their website: https://www.tapqa.com/
It's happened again, on this time Señor Performo Leandro Melendez joins us as we celebrate 10 years of STPCON here in Boston. In this episode, as usual, we have audience participation sharing testimonials from the conference, a heart-warming New of The Damned story, celebration of Dot Graham's lifetime achievement and planes flying overhead! Learn more at www.stpcon.com!
Hola Software Test Professionals! This is an interview with attendee Diego Molina from Sauce Labs with our guest host Leandro Melendez. They had a great conversation about general test automation, new innovations from Sauce Labs and the STPCON conference here in Boston. The entire interview is in Español (Spanish) so for the English speaking audience, you might skip this one!
Estamos en la #STPCon y nos topamos a nuestro amigo Diego Molina! Aprovechamos para platicar con el literalmente secuestrandolo y entrevistandolo! Nos cuenta su trayectoria y movimientos en el mundo del testin con recomendaciones para los amigos Latinos y de habla hispana.sa
Returning to STPCON this Fall 2019 is Robin Goldsmith, the president of the SQGNE - one of the longest running communities in New England. Robin is going to share the teachings from his forthcoming book "Write Right Agile User Story and Acceptance Test Requirements Right" - we had a delightful conversation packed with information for anyone visiting the Boston area for the first time. Learn more about Robin's session here: https://www.stpcon.com/speakers/robin-goldsmith/
In this episode, long-time Software Test Pro contributor and supporter Dawn Haynes joins me to share some insights....and when I mean insights, I'm serious. The connections she makes for the personal and professional experiences of software testers is as unique as it is profound. She's teaching a workshop around testing stakeholders and a session on being more agile in your work as a tester. Learn more about her attendance here: https://www.stpcon.com/speakers/dawn-haynes/
What planet are you from? Did you say Jupiter? Well, let hang on there downward dog, you've gotta tune into what Brendan Connolly is teaching at STPCON this Fall. If you've never heard of Jupyter Notebooks - you're probably not alone. If you've never seen how to apply them to mob testing and automation, then Brendan can help you transport your skills to a whole new planet. Learn more about his workshop and session here: https://www.stpcon.com/speakers/brendan-connolly/
Joyce Lin is a Developer Advocate with Postman - one of the most popular API testing and development tools used across thousands of test practitioners across the industry. In this episode she shares a bit about the introduction workshop and potentially some of the advanced tips-n-tricks she's been teaching a developer conferences in the past few years. Learn more about her session at the website: https://www.stpcon.com/sessions/workshop-test-automation-with-postman/
Paul Merrill is Principal Software Engineer in Test and founder of Beaufort Fairmont Automated Testing Services. Frequent writer and international speaker, Paul works with clients every day to accelerate testing, mitigate risks, and increase the value of testing processes with test automation. Paul has a unique perspective on launching and maintaining quality products. Learn more about test automation at https://beaufortfairmont.com/webinars. Register for the STPCON conference at https://www.stpcon.com
In this episode, we catch up with Jennifer Bonine, the CEO, and co-founder of PinkLion.AI a new company in the artificial intelligence tech space working on integrations and wholistic solutions to help the customer overcome hidden challenges to building effective ML/AI solutions. In addition to her session on Test Data and AI - she's also teaching a workshop on Agile Leadership that you won't want to miss. Find out more at https://www.stpcon.com !
On this episode we take a dive into the AI automation pool with Kevin Surace the CEO & CTO of Appvance.ai - the inventor of AI-driven testing, which is revolutionizing the software QA process. Kevin shares his vast experience in tech innovation and insights into the current challenges for testers in fast-paced, modern software development contexts. We chat about drywall, open source tooling, the Empire State building windows and HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Register at https://www.stpcon.com.
Welcome a community favorite back to the podcast to chat with us about her intriguing keynote at the upcoming STPCON conference which is entitled: “A Tale of Testing the Un-Testable." Angie Jones is an accomplished inventor, programmer, thought-leading automation guru and all-around one of the most passionate techies we know. Visit https://www.stpcon.com to register today!
Please welcome STPCON newcomer Sue Jagodzinski to our show today where in our first conversation, she packs a whole bunch of great ideas about her recent year's agile change experience into a seemingly short amount of time. Sue has been with Paychex for 27 years in several different roles at the organization: tester, developer, project lead, development manager, and test manager. In her latest role, Sue is the development manager for the test automation tool that is utilized across the entire development organization.
Our time-traveling friend Raj Subramanian is back on STPRADIO to share some insights on paired testing and acceptance test driven development (ATDD). After years in many different organizations, Raj currently works as a Developer Evangelist for Testim.io, that provides stable self-healing AI based test automation some of the top tech companies in the world. He actively contributes to the testing community by speaking at conferences, writing articles, blogging, making videos on his youtube channel and his website www.rajsubra.com.
In this episode we hear from the one-and-only Brendan Connolly who is a Software Tester, Developer and blogger based out of Santa Barbara, California with nearly a decade of testing experience in a variety of different roles. He writes tests at all levels from unit and integration tests to API and UI tests and is responsible for creating and executing testing strategies while using his coding powers for developing tooling to help make testers lives easier. His session "Panoramic Quality – The Fellowship of Testing in DevOps" has absolutely nothing to do with the LOTR.
You've probably heard of this guy named Michael Bolton who has flown over a million miles to teach Rapid Software Testing in 35 different countries, who has tweeted more than 62,000 times almost always on software testing subjects and who enjoy's rare whiskies, asian food and playing bluegrass music. For the last 18 years of his nearly three decades in software testing, he has been the leader of DevelopSense, a Toronto-based testing and development consultancy. We had a greatly voluminous conversation on all sorts of subjects from the origins of RST, critical thinking in testing and self-sabotage in our work as testers. This is episode is short - quite edited, so we will be posting the longer, uncut version of the interview on our SoundCloud account: https://soundcloud.com/stpradio
Jason Arbon is the CEO of Test.AI - his company which is the product of his passion for AI-Powered Test Automation. Jason will be joining us at www.stpcon.com to give a workshop, a session and a keynote talk on machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to the software testing disciplines. In our talk he shared a very memorable quote: “Machine learning is fundamentally an automated way to teach a machine to recreate human judgements and behaviors. If you look at it the testing problem is exactly that. We’re trying to recreate production environments, we’re trying to recreate the end user and judge it from their eyes.” Find out more at https://test.ai
Mary and I met almost 10 years ago on project to optimize email marketing campaign automation. So I will now formally apologize for the volume and speed of spam in your inbox. Regardless, Mary is an absolute agile testing guru, author, teacher, leader, manager and mentor. Mary has held VP, director, and manager level positions in various software development organizations. Her expertise is a combination of agile scaling, agile testing, and DevOps that her clients find incredibly valuable. We spend time chatting about her keynote topic and session.
In this episode of This Week in Software Testing (TWiST) we hear from Michael Larsen and his plans for both a workshop on automation frameworks and inclusive design for the upcoming www.stpcon.com conference. If you don't know Michael (@mkltesthead) already, he has been a software tester or worked in software testing capacities for over 25 years. He is a prolific writer, live blogger and podcast producer for “The Testing Show”, a podcast sponsored by QualiTest. He is active as a founder/facilitator of both Weekend Testing Americas and the Bay Area Software Testers Meetup.
After just 30 minutes of interview with Nancy Kelln, you might start asking: "what the hell kind of podcast is that!?" No, not really. Nancy is a passionate Test Manager with 16+ years of diverse IT experience working with teams that are enhancing their exploratory and context-driven testing practices. She has coached test teams in various environments and facilitated numerous sessions, international workshops and presentations. She's an active member of the Calgary Software Quality Discussion Group, Association for Software Testing, and the Software Test Professional community. Nancy and her family live in a mountainous town called Airdrie near Alberta, Canada.
Stacking the Automation Deck is yet another great talk from Paul Grizzaffi, who is a Principal Automation Architect at Magenic (www.magenic.com). Paul and I have a brief chat about the layers of automation framework design and a few architectural patterns that he will describe in detail at his talk. Paul is also an accomplished keynote speaker and writer, having spoken at both local and national conferences and meetings. He is an adviser to Software Test Professionals and STPCon (www.stpcon.com), as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas where he is a frequent quest lecturer. Paul enjoys sharing his experiences and learning from other testing professionals; his most cogent thoughts can be read on his blog (https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com)
Dead, testing is not. In this episode I get to chat with Rex Black who has been thriving in the industry for 35 years of software and systems engineering experience. Rex is the President of RBCS (www.rbcs-us.com), a testing leader, providing consulting, training, and expert services. He has worked with clients from small start-ups to Fortune 20 global enterprises. He has experience helping clients apply testing best practices in a wide variety of development lifecycles, including Kanban, Scrum, DevOps, Waterfall, and Spiral. He is one of the most prolific authors practicing in the field of software testing today, having written fourteen books and dozens of articles over the last 20 years. And we get to chattin' about his history in testing, the testing industry evolution, expert services in testing and Star Wars.
What a great conversation with Melissa Tondi who is the founder of Denver Mobile and Quality (DMAQ), a board member of Software Quality Association of Denver (SQuAD) and the lead of the Professional Services at Rainforest QA (www.rainforestqa.com). We chat about how NOT to test and Testing in DevOps and getting out on the water in San Francisco.
Joel has been in testing for 20+ years as tester, a manager, a consultant and now a speaker. He has worked for companies in Israel and the USA and he is now the Chief Solution Architect at PractiTest (www.practitest.com). Joel supports various industry projects such as the OnlineTestConf (http://www.onlinetestconf.com/), the State of Testing Report and a few secret projects he can't tell you about.
Angie Jones is a Senior Developer Advocate who specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. She shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world, as well as writing tutorials and blogs on angiejones.tech.
Back in 2010, Matt Heusser took some time to talk with Gerald (Jerry) Weinberg. Listen in as Matt chats with Jerry about software and testing from the Project Mercury (1958-1963) all the way to modern times. Jerry provides his insight into testing through his many publications, Jerry and Matt chat about a few of those. Take a listen.
Welcome to another episode of STP Radio. In this episode, Mike Lyles chat with a couple of speakers from STPCon and the organizers of DC Agile Software Testing Group or DCAST (Meet-Up group based in the DC Metro area). Peter Kim and Cynthia Wu chat with Mike about how each of them got into testing and where their careers are today. Interested in Selenium? Learn how turning the page can help you get more robust coverage with your Automation!
Learn More at www.STPCon.com
Returning host Mark Tomlinson (@markontask) and Paul Grizzaffi chat about testing automation and taking the responsibility to only apply it when appropriate. Also, gain a better understanding about the importance of the "language of testing"... Listen to this episode as Paul provides a little insight into his Keynote at the upcoming STPCon in the DC Metro Area (Sept. 25-29). Learn more about Paul's sessions and the conference at:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/paul-grizzaffi/
https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/
Today Mike Lyles, STPCon Spring 2017 Conference host, chats with the guys from Sauce Labs about where they have been and where they are going in the industry. Listen in to hear a little about the upcoming "SauceCon" in San Francisco and find out more about Leo Laskin's workshop; Selenium – Advanced Best Practices – Hands On.
Learn More about Leo's Workshop:
http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/workshop-selenium-advanced-best-practices-hands-on/
Well this STP Radio episode is packed with testing pros! Take a few minutes and hear from the Keynote Panel from the upcoming STPCon in Phoenix, AZ March 14-17. This panel is the third in what is titled: Test (R)evolution III – An Expert Panel on Software Testing.
Mike Lyles chats with Amber Race, Eric Proegler and Henrik Andersson about their expectations for the panel and other sessions and workshops that they will lead at the conference this Spring. Tune in, turn it up and enjoy!
Learn more about Amber Race:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/amber-race/
Learn more about Eric Proegler:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/eric-proegler/
Learn more about Henrik Andersson:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/henrik-andersson/
This STP Radio episode features Jess Lancaster, QA Practice Manager at TechSmith, the makers of Snagit, Camtasia, and other visual communication software applications. Mike Lyles takes some time to find out about Jess’ thoughts on Paired Testing. Jess also tells us how he designed session “40+ of the Best, Free Testing Tools in 60 minutes”. Jess also tells us what he is looking forward to most at the upcoming STPCon in Phoenix, March 14-17. Listen Now!
Learn More about Jess:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/jess-lancaster/
Today on STP Radio we have a true veteran of the software testing industry, Hans Buwalda. A California transplant from his native home, the Netherlands, Hans is a frequent international speaker and co-author of Integrated Test Design and Automation
(http://amzn.to/2m7TvxW).
Mike Lyles learns how the role of test design and a modularized keyword-driven approach can help with automation. Join us for this episode, listen now!
Learn More about Hans:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/hans-buwalda/
Time for another great STP Radio... Today our host, Smita Mishra chats with two testing professionals that are leading both workshops and sessions at STPCon this March in Phoenix. Anand Bagmar, a hands-on and result-oriented Software Quality Evangelist with 20+ years in the IT field, tells us why "just understanding the performance of the product is not sufficient." He explains his message he hopes to convey during STPCon. Smita also chats with Curtis Stuehrenberg, who has spent nearly two decades pursuing the career and craft of software testing and quality assurance. Curtis explains his technique that will help you "ACCelerate Your Agile Testing". Listen now!
Anand Bagmar:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/anand-bagmar/
Curtis Stuehrenberg:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/curtis-stuehrenberg/
Damian started testing software – on purpose and for money – in 1993. Since then, he has helped “build better software and build software better” using various methods and tools in numerous roles at many companies in diverse industries. Damian also enjoys performing improv comedy... How can that help you be a better tester? Listen to STP Radio host Smita Mishra chat with Damian and find out...
Learn More:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/damian-synadinos/
Connor Roberts is a Quality Manager with over 11+ years of testing experience. From building integration software to security testing and web services and test team management, his varied background has provided insight into multiple contexts and perspectives to aid in the build out of high-value artifacts and other material for testers. Smita Mishra chats with Connor about his upcoming workshop at STPCon in Phoenix this March. Listen in and learn more about The Future of Risk-Based Test Chartering...
Learn More:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/connor-roberts/
In this STP Radio episode, Mike Lyles takes some time to talk with Anne Hungate – President, Daring Systems. Anne has more than twenty years of IT experience in major companies and consulting firms. Experimenting with both engineering practices and organizational design. Anne and Mike chat about quality in the digital age and how QA has a new role and value in testing. Listen Now!
Learn More about Anne:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/anne-hungate/
Yet another great STP Radio episode with Mike Lyles! Mike talks with Angie Jones - Consulting Automation Engineer at LexisNexis and Paul Merrill - Principle Software Engineer in Test and Founder of Beaufort Fairmont about "The Dominoes of Automation," Angie and Paul's workshop at STPCon. Also learn more about the other session that both Angie and Paul are presenting at STPCon this Spring in Phoenix, AZ.
Learn More about Angie:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/angie-jones/
Learn More about Paul:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/paul-merrill/
In this episode, Mike Lyles talks with Rajesh Mathur, International speaker, blogger, writer, and Head of Testing at an Australian federal regulatory agency all the way down under in Melbourne, Australia. Mike and Rajesh discuss not only how human skills are just as important as technical skills in testing, but how your team can earn respect among your clients and stakeholders. Listen Now!
Learn More about Rajesh:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/rajesh-mathur/
In this episode of STP Radio, Mike Lyles talks with Christin Wiedemann – CEO & Chief Scientist, PQA Testing about her "Speaker Trifecta" at STPCon in Phoenix, AZ - March 14-17, 2017. Listen in as Mike and Christin talk about the future of testing, building knowledge and how to keep it, juggling at the south pole and promoting diversity on your test team through inclusive leadership.
Learn More about Christin Wiedemann:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/christin-wiedemann/
This episode is a real treat! Mike Lyles spends time with Nancy Kelln, a test manager with 16 years of diverse IT experience. Nancy and Mike discuss how to implement Exploratory Testing into your organization and what's behind the name of her session "What the Hell Kind of Testing Is That?"
Learn More about Nancy Kelln:
http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/nancy-kelln/
Today on STP Radio Mike Lyles chats with Michael Hackett, Senior VP at LogiGear about his upcoming session and workshops at #STPCon in Phoenix, AZ - March 14-17, 2017. Listen in as Mike and Michael touch on DevOps, test case design, offshore teams and the new face of quality in testing.
Learn More about STPCon: http://www.STPCon.com
This special episode of STP Radio was recorded during the Fall 2016 Meet & Greet Reception in Dallas Texas. Mike Lyles spoke with several attendees to get their perspective on the workshops that they attended and what they are looking forward to as the show progresses.
Find out more about STPCon by visiting www.STPCon.com
Today on STP Radio, Mike Lyles interviews Agile Coach Pradeepa Narayanaswamy about her workshop and session at the up-coming STPCon in Phoenix, AZ, March 14-17. Learn the key factors to a successful agile project and how paired testing can make your organization more effective and efficient.
http://www.STPCon.com/
We have a special treat for you on STP Radio today. Damian Synadinos turns the table on Mike Lyles (normal STP Radio host) and interviews him about his STPCon session, workshop and Keynote coming up in Dallas, TX September 19-22. Damian and Mike chat about the 80’s and the piano and how Mike is able to correlate and compare these to testing and his career over the last 20 years. Also, listen in to hear about Mike’s top sessions that he plans on attending during STPCon.
Learn More:
http://www.STPCon.com/stp-radio-mike-lyles-leadership/
Richard Bradshaw a.k.a. the @FriendlyTester and the creator of Whiteboard Testing, took some time to chat with Smita Mishra and Paul Grizzaffi. They discuss Richard's upcoming workshops and sessions at STPCon starting on September 19th in Dallas, TX. Find out how Legos can help you write better automation test scripts and the importance of using proxies in mobile testing. Listen to this episode now!
Learn More:
www.STPCon.com/stp-radio-the-friendlytester/
The always entertaining Eric Proegler, Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley chat with Smita Mishra on another STP Radio episode. Listen in and find out how infuriating Mark's performance puzzler workshop will be, how to interpret performance results with Eric, and how James' workshop will enable you to look at the "application exhaust" to expose defects. There is so much more to this episode - listen now! Don't forget, time is getting short for you to be able to attend STPCon in Dallas this September 19-22. Don't delay, register today!
Learn More: http://www.STPCon.com
It's that time again. Time for our STP Radio host, Mike Lyles, to have a conversation with more of our STPCon speakers. Today, Mike chats with one of our Keynote Speakers, Leo Laskin of Sauce Labs. He also finds out more about Kevin Berg's sessions and the newest workshop just added to the Dallas STPCon program - Selenium – Advanced Best Practices – Hands On! This episode is packed with details about the program and includes other guests as well. Give it a listen and then see what else STPCon has to offer. http://www.STPCon.com
Welcome to another episode of STP Radio. Today, Smita Mishra talks with our opening keynote speaker, Mikko Hypponen - Chief Research Officer at F-Secure. Smita and Mikko chat about his Keynote address; State of the Net at the upcoming STPCon in Dallas - September 19-22. Find out how people believe that security and privacy are so important, yet seem to care little about their personal information being sold and used across the web. Mikko provides examples how F-Secure has tested this across the world wide web.
Learn More:
http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/keynote-state-of-the-net/
In this episode of STP Radio Mike Lyles chats with Amber Race about her session at the upcoming STPCon in Dallas - September 19-22. Amber also reveals how the back end of games are tested at her company Big Fish Games, and the one thing Japanese drums and testing have in common.
See this #STPCon Session:
http://www.stpcon.com/?p=2383
Listen in as Mike Lyles and Smita Mishra chat with the Keynote Panel from the upcoming STPCon in Dallas - September 19-22, 2016.
Paul Grizzaffi, Melissa Tondi, and Mary Thorn share insider information about their sessions and what they are looking forward to most about STPCon. Look for tweets from these speakers that may include valuable discount codes to the conference! Find out more by visiting www.STPCon.com
In this episode of STP Radio, Mike Lyles takes a moment to chat with the well-known testing celebrity and STP Test Luminary Award recipient James Bach. Mike and James discuss how James began in testing and the testing industry today. They also chat about the up-coming Rapid Software Testing class in Charlotte, North Carolina, May 9-11. Check it out! If you are interested in attending this class we are offering 15% off if you register by April 20th. Use Promo Code: RADIO. Thanks for tuning in!
Learn More: http://www.stpcon.com/rapid-software-testing-charlotte-nc/
Today both Greg Sypolt & Ashley Hunsberger take a moment to chat with Mike Lyles about their Hands-On Workshop, BDD & Cucumber Test Automation. This workshop is taking place April 5th at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel for this Spring's #STPCon. Listen is as they also discuss test Automation in general and share other insights that they have learned over their impressive careers in Software Testing, Quality Engineering and Team Leadership. If you like what you hear, there are only a few more weeks to register for STPCon, learn more at www.STPCon.com. Thanks for tuning in!
Both Bob Galen and Mary Thorn are well known in the testing world as strong leaders in agile testing methodologies. We are excited to have them co-present two workshops at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel starting on April 4th. Agile Test Team Leadership – From Concepts to Delivery will give you a firm grasp of successful agile leadership practices. In the Agile Testing – Practices That Deliver the Most Value workshop you will explore the tools, techniques, and mindset you have to bring to the table in order to successfully test in agile contexts. That’s not all! Listen to this podcast to also find out about Bob and Mary’s sessions as well. Learn More: http://www.STPCon.com
Karen N. Johnson has worked as a software test consultant for several years. While focused on software testing and predominantly working with the testers throughout an organization, Karen helps teams and organizations improve quality overall. Her professional activities include speaking at conferences both in the US and internationally. STPCon is very lucky and excited to have Karen as our opening Keynote this Spring at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel on April 6th at 9am. Take a few moments and listen to Smita Mishra as she talks to Karen about her career, thoughts on leadership in testing and her keynote "How Nancy Drew Prepared Me to Become a Software Tester". Learn more at: http://www.stpcon.com/?p=1827
Welcome to yet another episode of STP Radio. In this episode Smita Mishra chats with Paul Grizzaffi, Automation Program Architect and Manager for Revenue Cycle Technology at MedAssets, a healthcare performance improvement company. In Paul’s spare time he works with STP to vet automation sessions for STPCon. Paul is also one of our session leaders this Spring with his session “I’m Hunting Sasquatch – Finding Intermittent Issues Using Periodic Automation”. Paul also is leading the “Automation Challenges – A Round Table Discussion”. Take a few moments and learn more about the STPCon Automation Track and sessions coming up this April 4-7 at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel… www.STPCon.com
STPCon is considered as one of the top software testing conferences to attend in the testing industry. The biggest reason for this are our workshop and session leaders. This Spring STPCon proves to be no exception, especially in the area of Performance Testing. Listen to the latest episode of STP Radio and hear from three of the most experienced and well seasoned Performance Testing Professionals in the business. Mike Lyles talks with Andi Grabner, Eric Proegler and Mark Tomlinson about their workshops and sessions coming up this April 4-7 at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel…
www.STPCon.com
In this episode of STP Radio Mike Lyles chats with Jim Hazen, a veteran of the software testing trenches with over twenty-five years of experience testing applications on the PC and Web platforms. Jim has been involved with the startup of testing groups at multiple companies and has done consulting work for the last 15 years. Mike and Jim talk about Jim’s workshop Practical Process of Implementation of Test Automation and session Demystifying the Test Automation Pyramid. Learn more about these sessions and Jim here: http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/jim-hazen/
Check out this episode of STP Radio covering STPCon coming up this April 4-7 at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel. In this episode, Mike Lyles, your conference host chats with Smita Mishra, Dave Haeffner and Damian Synadinos about their upcoming workshops, sessions and Keynote Panel discussion.
We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. Our final Keynote - Brad Johnson challenges how we define and measure quality in his address: The Measures of Quality. Read the full description of Brad's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/keynote-the-measures-of-quality/
We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. In this recording Joseph Ours delivers his keynote address: Thinking Fast and Slow – For Testers’ Everyday Life. Read the full description of Joseph's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/thinking-fast-and-slow-for-testers-everyday-life/
We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. Check this one out! Listen to Mark Tomlinson deliver his keynote address: It’s Non-Functional, not Dysfunctional. Read the full description of Mark's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/its-non-functional-not-dysfunctional/
We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. The first one is ready! Listen to Bob Galen deliver his keynote address: The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy. Read the full description of Bob's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/the-3-pillars-approach-to-agile-testing-strategy/
This is the short version of an in-depth conversation with Paul Bruce from SmartBear, who is a recurring sponsor of STPCON conferences and supporter of the STP community. Paul and I chat about the latest suite of SmartBear products for security testing, functional testing, service virtualization, load and performance testing and API tools. Check out more at www.smartbear.com and keep looking for the long-version.
Here's a great conversation with the founder and CEO of Zephyr (www.getzephyr.com) Samir Shah. Samir shares some enlightening ideas about agile test management, transformation and how our testing practices must mature to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT). We thank Zephyr for their support of the upcoming STPCON (www.stpcon.com).
In this epsiode, we have an expansive conversation about the latest-n-greatest from HP Software's Product Marketing guru Silvia Siqueira, as they support the upcoming STPCON Spring 2015 as a Gold Sponsor. She shares some of the details behind the top priorities and vision for HP Software products, the copious product features in the 12.20 releases, and building Brazillian artificial intelligence into the new Mobile Center.
In this episode we have a great conversation with Paul about his upcoming STPCON session on non-traditional automation techniques. His session shares a pragmatic approach that focuses on value to the testers his team serves and the benefits overall that the organization leverages therein. Paul is also hosting a roundtable at the upcoming www.stpcon.com in San Diego.
Brad joins us again for a great conversation on the hottest news from SOASTA, his upcoming sessions and keynote at STPCON Spring 2015 in San Deigo this March and how any attendees can jump into the deep end of the CloudTest pool and get training and certification at the conference. We thank SOASTA sincerely for their sponsorship of the upcoming conference and we hope to see you there! Register today at www.stpcon.com with discount code #SOASTACERTS15
Once again we have a great interview to share with you, this time with Andy Tinkham of Magenic Consulting; the only guy I know who officially would become a PhD of Software Testing someday! Andy have a great conversation discussing lenses of testing, employing a game design technique and exploring card #70 to learn how we might include the concept of story in our test strategy. This interview was too short, so I'm sure we'll have Andy back soon to chat about James Bach's ranting about Schools of Testing - ha!
This past summer, I interviewed my friend and mentor Seth Eliot about his latest innovations for leveraging data sciences in your practices for software test design. At STPCON in November 2014, Seth and his colleague will actually be teaching a workshop on the subject and they'll be sharing deeper experiences and exercises on how to integrate data analytics and quantitative signalling in your testing. We had a great conversation on this exciting and engaging approach; the next revolution in quality enhancement.
In this episode of STPRadio I get a chance to speak with Brad Johnson where he shares many of his observations from the wide-angle lens in his role as the VP of Marketing and Business Development at SOASTA. He shares insights about recent industry trends that force testers to adjust their approaches to manual and automated testing, the speed and priority of their efforts and how a healthy dislike of mundane manual testing is a good thing. We get a chance to dig a little deeper than you might expect with this automated testing tool innovator's interview because Brad has such a rich history of experience, a wealth of advice and curiosity about what changes are impacting testers today.
What a treat to spend a little time with Anna chatting about her workshop on Tester Awareness and Value based on her recent research on the trends and changes to how our industry engages and derives value from contemporary software testers. We chat about changes to tester professional identity, the roles that testers play, interactional expertise and how the workshop exercises can help you to best learn the interdisciplinary skills that are becoming essential to your success as a tester.
Listen in as JeanAnn Harrison conducts yet another interview, this time with STPCon Fall 2014 speaker Philip LewIn this episode JeanAnn and Philip discuss their "Extended Session - McGyvering Through the Mysterious World of Mobile Testing.” Learn more about Philip's other sessions as well... Tune in to this episode and get ready for STPCon coming up in Denver next week! See Philips sessions here: http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/Philip-Lew/
Listen in as JeanAnn Harrison conducts even more interviews with STPCon Fall 2014 speakers in episode 2 of our STPCon Speaker Teaser. In this episode JeanAnn first speaks with Howard Chorney - Enterprise Test Architect at SOASTA. JeanAnn and Howard discuss his session and share some thoughts on STPCon. JeanAnn also chats with Bob Galen, Agile Consultant, Coach & Trainer at RGCG, LLC about Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Testing. They also touch on his second extended session with Shaun Bradshaw Yin and Yang: Metrics within Agile and Traditional Lifecycles. Tune in to this episode and get ready for STPCon coming up in Denver this November. Learn more at www.STPCon.com
Join us as JeanAnn Harrison, one of the many speakers at STPCon Fall 2014 being held in Denver Colorado – Nov 3-6, chats with speakers about their upcoming sessions. In this episode, JeanAnn chats with Jay Philips - CEO, Project Realms & TeamQualityPro, Mark Tomlinson - Performagician, West Evergreen Consulting, LLC, and Jim Hazen - Contractor at Nelnet. Listen in and get a teaser of the sessions these testing professionals will be leading this fall.
Industry veteran tester Raj Subramanian and I had a great chat a little while ago on the subject of software testing for mobile applications - tools, analytics, techniques, challenges and the changes he experienced as he converted to become a "mobile tester." Raj will be teaching and presenting on different topics at the upcoming STPCON in Denver: http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/raj-subramanian. You can follow him @@epsilon11 and blogging at http://www.rajsubra.com
Following up his lightning talk ("Automation is Just a Tool") at the recent Let's Test conference, Richard Bradshaw joins us to dig a little deeper into the subject of test automation, exploratory testing, automation frameworks, artificial intelligence, DevOps and Skynet. This is a great conversation for manual testers struggling with the challenges to automate their tests, developers adopting automation and managers trying to keep it all working smoothly.
Michael "TestHead" Larsen joined us for a long, long conversation about how you can become a great software tester and how his own career developed through ups and downs, turns and twists (no pun intended) to arrive at his current level of genuine guru. Michael is generous enough to share his pointers and advice about tester self-awareness and several modern-day resources to help you in your software testing career.
Directly from his home on the West Coast of the USA James Bach, the original self-proclaimed Buchaneer-Scholar himself joins us for "test" of his thinking about the recent STPCON keynote on the schools of software testing and how he might juxtapose his own opinion on ISTQB with a contemporary understanding of systems thinking. We chat about great books and movies to help learn about systems thinking, we talk about chickens who created gravity and how to add some windows and doors to the "silos" in your organization. Be sure to check more about James' teachings around the world on his website www.satisfice.com.
Join Rich as he interviews Rachel Obstler the Senior Director Product Management at Keynote. Rachel discusses the advantages of mobile testing by helping organizations through access to fully-equipped device labs to conduct interactive manual testing of any mobile app or website. She discusses some of the best ways to test the functionality, usability and performance of native or web-based mobile apps. The testing of mobile applications is complex due to the many combinations of devices, networks, and platforms. Rachel discusses the way Keynote helps organizations to become more effective at testing their mobile apps.
STPCon speaker Wayne Ariola, Chief Strategy Officer at Parasoft, discusses his new book "Continuous Testing." Wayne outlines the importance of bringing together business executives and the quality teams to maintain the important edge quality software has become for so many organizations. He talks about the importance of setting expectations with the business and reducing the risk of releasing software that fails. Listen now to find out how you can receive your free copy! Limited time only.
Mark Tomlinson host of PerfBytes, Performance Tester, Speaker, and all around Testing guru talks about the similarities of music and testing. Testing and music have many common attributes and it is fun to listen to Mark make the comparison! Mark talks about conferences in general but he gets specific about his upcoming role at STPCon in New Orleans. Mark talks about the mentoring program at the conference he and Mike Lyles are conducting on Thursday. If you are looking for the inside scoop on speaking at STP in the future, check it out now!
Mike Lyles, Senior QA Manager, Lowe’s Company Inc. talks about his upcoming Keynote “What the 80’s Taught Me About Testing”, his session on Metrics, and Service Virtualization along with a number of interesting topics. Mike shares his thoughts on the Industry debates and other random Testing thoughts. Mike talks about how speaking has changed his life, and how he hopes to give back in the session he and Mark Tomlinson are conducting Thursday of STPCon in New Orleans. Definitely take a listen!
Broadcasting live from the Expo hall at STPCON Spring 2014 in New Orleans, LA USA!! In this show, Mark Tomlinson and Rich Hand engage the sponsors in live rounds of question-and-answer so that we may learn more about the great organizations that support the STPCON conference. Learn more from HP Software, SOASTA, XBOSOFT, Orasi and SMARTBEAR. We get a quick chat with Rex Black about his opening keynote debate with Dr. Cem Kaner.
On behalf of the Software Test Professionals community, welcome to STP Radio! In this introductory episode of Software Test Professionals STP Radio podcast. Rich Hand and Mark Tomlinson disucss the recent years of audio podcasting at STP with shows such as TWiST (This Week in Software Testing) and PerfBytes. We chat about the future for podcasting at STP with an open invitation to new podcasters and shows sourced from the community on the subjects regarding software testing.