Posts Tagged ‘conference’

Notes from EuroSTAR 2009 December 8, 2009 5 Comments

It was Stockholm again this year. Good to not have to travel far, but since you are travelling I wouldn’t object to something more exotic, and warmer. Next year it is Copenhagen, again.
I had a full-packed program with 4 days of tutorials, workshops, tracks, short talks, test-labbing, conversations, so in total it is quite an [...]

Long live the Waterfall June 16, 2009 7 Comments

A cheer to those of you who were able to attend this conferance: http://www.waterfall2006.com/
My favorites:
http://www.waterfall2006.com/crispin.html
http://www.waterfall2006.com/jeffries.html
Thank god everyone is not a believer of the hype around the Agile Movement. Process is king!

Notes from Øredev 2008 November 25, 2008 No Comments

I spent one day at Øredev 2008 (http://www.oredev.org) since they invited me to give the Where Testing Creativity Grows (http://www.thetesteye.com/papers/where_testing_creativity_grows.doc) presentation.
I arrived ten minutes after the start of James Bach’s keynote The Renaissance Thinker, where he argued that 1972 (Chapel Hill) ruined good software testing.
People started focusing too much on templates, processes, best practices; people [...]

Notes from EuroSTAR 2008 November 14, 2008 7 Comments

This years EuroSTAR took place in den Haag, a city that had quite some rain, but also beautiful autumn leaves, and big churches.
The theme of the conference was “The Future of Software Testing”, and a recurring image was a traffic sign informing that the future is next turn to the right. I always thought the [...]