Graham Thomas Independent Software Testing Consultant TMF
Summit IOD, London 28 th January 2009 TEST MANAGEMENT SUMMIT
2009
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Icebreaker 2
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Seminars & Conferences 3
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Self Selecting Groups BCS SIG Standards Working Party UK
Software Testers Retreat LEWT Post Sig meetings in the Volunteer
Post Conference dinner and drinks 4
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Good People my top 10 1. Simon Stillwell- Senior Programmer 2.
Mike Burnup- Senior Consultant 3. Theo Taylor- Boss (Testing Guru)
4. Paul Herzlich W Model; 1 st Sig presentation 5. Paul Gerrard- EA
Challenge Everything 6. Stuart Reid- Compendium of Testing
knowledge 7. Isabel Evans- Shapes the future 8. Geoff Thompson-
Knows how it all fits together 9. Les Hatton- Open your mind for 5
minutes 10. CCB- Encouragement, support,.... 5
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Methods / Latest Thinking Agile methods XP A vs a Devil always
has the best Technology Continuous Integration Pair Programming
Test Driven Development Attitude Agile Good / Non-Agile Bad Active
spinning; Coverage Bingo, Waterfall 2006, Grand Testing Master
Theory Axioms See Paul Gerrards blog 6
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Books or Blogs? Blogging extracts from a blog I'm tired
of......Interviewing people that haven't read a single book about
testing......Interviewing people that don't have regular websites
that they read to keep up to date on what's happening around
matters relating to testing......Interviewing people that boast of
their ISTQB qualification but can't even tell me how to apply
boundary value analysis or basic combinatorial techniques
properly... How can you have 3-6 years experience in testing and
never have read a book or even have regular websites or blogs that
you visit... and then claim that you are passionate about it!!! The
bad book - Object Oriented Software Testing Siegel pp8 Are there
any good books ? Book reviews Personal experience 7
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Things that annoy me Traffic Lights Puffin (Pedestrian
User-Friendly Intelligent crossings) Ariane 5 Flight 501 Shuttle
Columbia Accident Report 8
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Analogies 1 st World War Officer Going over the top Video Ronin
- Driving the wrong way Galaxy Quest - Never Give Up... Brazil -
Dysfunctional process October Sky - Rocket Science Thrust SSC-
Ideal Tester Process Improvement 9
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Other Stuff Nintendo Wii Geo-tagging photos GPS embedded
devices Netbooks My Eee Graphics Tablets Windows Vista / 7... XP
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Mind Mapping The Mind Map Book: Radiant Thinking - Major
Evolution in Human Though Tony Buzan ISBN 978-0563487050 Research
Tools Google Wikipedia 11
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Contact Details 12 Graham Thomas Independent Software Testing
Consultant [email protected] +44 7973 387 853
www.badgerscroft.com