Resources

Presentations/Talks

You can find all my published slides on Slideshare.

• LASCON 2023 - Defensive API development techniques for Gophers presentation & links - LASCON 2023, Austin, Texas, USA (October 27, 2023)
• HUSTEF 2023 - Tester’s Secret Weapon - Code Reviews presentation & accompanying links - HUSTEF 2023, Budapest, Hungary (October 4, 2023)
• A Tester’s Life - Startup Edition - Agile Testing Days USA, Chicago, IL (May 23, 2023)
• Taskfile - makefiles are fun again: lightning talk at Cloud Austin’s Dog Days of DevOps. Link to slides, GitHub repo with the examples. (August 16, 2022)
• Tips for Improving Email Privacy - OWASP Austin Cryptoparty (January 25, 2022)
• MoT Podcast - Guest on the Ministry of Testing podcast. (October 20, 2021)
• The Generation Of Autonomous Automation And What It Looks Like - Guest on the QA Lead podcast. This episode was also featured in the Coding Jag newsletter. (August 16, 2021)
• Are You Carrying the Weight of Dead Code? - Guest on the Maintainable podcast (April 12, 2021)
• Password Managers - Lastpass - OWASP Austin Cryptoparty (January 26, 2021)
• Building and Scaling a Functional Test Automation Strategy - 99-minute workshop hosted by The Ministry of Testing (January 20, 2021)
• Shift Left in End-to-End Testing using AI - Guest on the TestGuild Automation podcast (August 30, 2020)
• Make DevOps Inclusive, The Dog Days of Summer - 2020 Edition, Austin, TX (August 18, 2020)
• Risk-Based Testing For the Whole Team, Agile Testing Days USA (rescheduled for next year: June 21-24, 2021)
• Improve Quality Culture Using Visualization: video and slides, The Ministry of Testing Boston Meetup, Boston, MA (November 14, 2019)
• Funnels of Hiring Test Engineers, Test Leadership Congress, New York City, NY (June 4-6, 2018)
• Session-Based Testing Made Fun, Test Leadership Congress, New York City, NY (June 4-6, 2018)

Posts

• Optimizing Your Testing Strategy with Automated API Tests (September 2, 2021)
• Test early and often using the mabl CLI (November 17, 2020)
• 6 Strategies to Maximize Your End-to-end Testing Impact (October 6, 2020)
• Exploring together to find and prevent bugs with Elmer Fudd sessions (February 19, 2020)

Additional Resources

• Template for Exploratory Testing Sessions
• Code review guidelines
• DEI resources
• Pull request template

Other References

• Acknowledgement for reviewing the Holistic Testing: Weave Quality into your Product mini-book by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin (April 6, 2023)

• Quote in Rollbar press release (November 18, 2020)