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HuddleTalk: Episode 4, Bart Knaack

Our guest on this episode is Bart Knaack. Bart is a long time friend of EuroSTAR  and made his entrance to the test subject after his computer science and doctoral research into formal methods in 1998. He has seen all roles in the field, from test automation to test advisor and test data management specialist.

In his career Bart has spoken at various (inter) national conferences and he has given several guest lectures at high schools and universities, but he has also taught in schools about software development and testing. He spent years in the TestNet events committee and contributed to the organization of the Agile Testing Day NL 2013.

In addition, Bart is co-founder of the TestLab, with which he, together with James Lyndsay, has provided countless conferences and conferences, including several Eurostars

Bart is a go-getter who, with a healthy dose of pragmatics, clarifies the most diverse jobs, even if the path is not yet ready. He is decisive, straightforward and knows how to adapt to the organization of which he is a part. He is ISEB Practitioner certified, Professional Scrum Master I certified and has thorough knowledge of both Tmap, TestFrame, Agile testing, Exploratory testing and Test Driven Development.

In the podcast we chat about:

  • How the testers’ role has evolved.
  • The skills that a tester needs now.
  • The importance of Critical Thinking.
  • The birth of the TestLab.

Huddle Talk Episode 3: Isabel Evans

Our guest on this episode is Isabel Evans. Isabel is a independent software testing consultant. Isabel has worked in the software testing industry for the past thirty years. Her quality management work focuses on encouraging IT teams and customers to work together via flexible processes designed and tailored by the teams that use them. Isabel  has authored books on software testing including “Achieving Software Quality Through Teamwork” and chapters in Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an eXtreme Testing Environment; The Testing Practitioner; and Foundations of Software Testing.  Isabel was the winner of the EuroSTAR 2017 Testing Excellence Award. She will be speaking at UKSTAR 2018 with a talk titled: Leadership, Fellowship and Followership.

In the podcast we chat about:

  • Her career in testing
  • How Automation has had a long history and its re-birth
  • Emotions in Software and Software teams
  • How Academic research and industry can come together

 

Huddle Talk Episode 2: Paul Gerrard

Our guest on this episode is Paul Gerrard. Paul is the owner of Gerrard Consulting. Paul has over thirty years experience in the software industry and in this podcast we explore his story in testing and lots more including:

  • How He got involved in Testing
  • The New Model of Testing
  • Where is Testing Going
  • What Skills will be essential for Future Testers

Huddle Talk Episode 1: On Agile with Ray Arell

This episode features Ray Arell. Ray is the founder of nuCognitive,  and is the company’s principal consultant and coach. He has over  30 years experience in the software development, management and testing industry. Ray has been responsible for building and transforming a number of successful worldwide organisations. Over the past five years he has been coaching other leaders to do the same with their own teams.  He is recognised as an industry leader in large scale adoptions of Agile, lean, and complex systems, and he has delivered over 20 keynotes and talks sharing his knowledge across the globe.  Prior to nuCognitive, Ray was an engineering director/engineer at Intel Corporation where he helped deliver a number of cutting edge semiconductor products.

In this episode Ray talks about:

  • His career at Intel
  • How he Implemented Agile at Intel
  • How he Implements Agile Now
  • Dealing with Resistance to Agile in a Team
  • Why Scrum Must Die and more

 

Huddle Learn Episode 1: Do We Need Testers On Agile Teams?

Do we need testers on agile teams? It’s the same argument again and again. One side says “team members should all be able to do everything, and the programmers should do their testing and all testers should be writing code”. The other side says “No, that can’t possibly work – programmers don’t know how to test, they don’t have the right mindset”. And the debate goes on and on

To address this common question, we caught up with Janet Gregory, co-author of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team. Here’s what Janet had to say…