Agile has been touted by people (who understand it) as an approach, a value centre, a mindset and philosophy. I wrote a short spiel on Agile some time ago in an effort to clarify how I see it. For quite a while I have been observing some interesting posts and...
STPCon published this article on their website. I am happy to share it on my blog as well. http://www.stpcon.com/quality-index-fooled-by-measurement/ The software industry seems to have an obsession with metrics and measurement. We want to quantify...
The very successful Australian Testing Days 2016 conference helped the TEAM gain tremendous respect in the community. Many conferences offer meaningless gifts to speakers, instead we made a large donation on the speaker’s behalf to BeyondBlue. So, when Epic...
Ever since we (Test Engineering Alliance Melbourne) started our meetup in June 2015, both Dr. Lee Hawkins and I have spoken about the great experience we had learning from James Bach and Michael Bolton through our direct interactions with them and also by attending...
Recently, I was invited to deliver a talk at a local meetup group that focuses on automation in testing, the Software Test Automation Group. Since this group has a strong leaning towards technical aspects of testing, I decided to explain the terms testing and checking...
Many of us would like to take advantage of the numerous workshops and conferences available in order to further our knowledge and professional growth. However when it comes to convincing our employers to sponsor these events some of us find it difficult to justify the...
On 16th of March, the TEAM group organized its ninth meetup in a sophisticated office at Australia Post. Thanks to the Digital Delivery Team of Australia post for being supportive and proactive in sponsoring the event and providing the venue, pizzas and drinks....
On 24th of Feb 2016 we organized our latest Test Engineering Alliance Melbourne (TEAM) meetup at Envato’s cool (figuratively speaking) office. Envato graciously sponsored the event and arranged for venue, pizzas and drinks for our event. We had observed that the...
On my recent visit to India, Santhosh Tuppad (@santhoshst) decided to travel to New Delhi with few of his colleagues so that we all can meet. On my suggestion Santhosh organized a public event instead. The Delhi Testers Meetup (or TEAM-Delhi) was born and was planned...
