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Thoughts on Women Who Test
It’s Not All Rainbows and Unicorns
When Picture This Clothing launched in August of 2016 and instantly went viral, the media made it sound like Jaimee Newberry was a "simple mom" who stumbled upon a great idea and struck gold. What they didn't share is the teamwork, the trials-and-error, and the years...
Unlearning: The Challenge of Change
The world we live in requires us to acquire new skills and absorb new knowledge in order to stay afloat. We must learn to SHIFT as things around us are changing. We see this on individual, team and organizational levels. However, we are leaving out one crucial piece...
Testing Challenges in Creating Wearable Technology
In this interview, Janna Loeffler, senior manager of experience quality standards at Carnival Corporation, and Jennifer Bonine discuss new technology being implemented on Carnival Cruise Lines to facilitate payments and security. Janna also details the testing...
Spin Your Tale: The Fiction Writers’ Guide to Telling YOUR Story ~ Dona Sarkar, Microsoft
People are talking about you behind your back. Everyone is doing it: Your friends. Your co-workers. Your management. People you don’t even know! What are they saying? (What? You don’t know?!!) Whether you like it or not, your name has a brand attached to it. Like Jeff...
Creative Trespassing: Sneaking Your Spark into Your Work Without Getting Busted
As co-creator of the internationally viral campaign #ItWasNeverADress, Tania Katan knows the power of sneaking creativity into spaces where it belongs but isn’t always a priority in order to start a creative revolution! She shares uniquely developed exercises for...
Failing and Recovering
Do you ever feel you have lost confidence in your own abilities? Why does this happen? Isabel Evans spends a lot of time painting. Someone once commented, “Why are you doing this, when you are not very good at it?” And gradually she stopped drawing and painting, after...
The Top 3 Barriers Women Face in Technology
…and What Tech Companies Can do to Help Although the numbers are increasing in other industries such as law or medicine, women are seriously underrepresented in the technology sector in Canada. In a recent Women in Communication and Technology (WCT) report, women make...
Be the Lord of Your OWN Rings: How to Build Your OWN Insider Testing Program
Many testers just don't plain get listened to. Management doesn’t seem to listen despite you having a really good idea on how to reduce costs without reducing quality. How can a well-meaning tester act as an agent of change and change your corporate landscape? Dona...
5 Rock Star Influencers at STARWEST
When my plane touched down in Los Angeles, I didn’t really know what to expect. I’m new at TechWell and new to the testing community, and sitting on the tarmac, I was just hours away from my first STARWEST conference. By the next day, my nerves had settled, and I...
Guaranteed Methods to Ruin Your Test Automation
In most conferences there are talks or tutorials about how to start or improve test automation. One learns lots of possible best practices, but generally, little time is spent on explaining why they are best practices! Personally, I find it easier to adopt a new...
4 Impediments to Nurturing a Feedback-Rich Culture
Being able to have open, candid conversations that fuel learning, growth, and improvement is critical to a team’s success, so it is important to look out for impediments that can get in the way of having a feedback-rich culture…
Angie Jones: Changing the Narrative about Women of Color in Tech
Women Who Test speaker Angie Jones is a Senior Automation Engineer at Twitter who has designed and developed automation strategies and frameworks…
It’s Time for Testers to Own the Shift-Left Narrative: An Interview with Angie Jones
Angie Jones explains what it means to shift your testing left, why management if often in control of how it’s done, and why testers already have the right skills to test earlier in the lifecycle…
Devices and Desires: Understanding How Users Experience Your Software
When we design, build, test, and deliver software, it is imperative that we provide our users with what they need—not what we want, but what that they want…
Test Engineer is NASA’s Longest-Serving Woman
Sue Finley, a subsystem and test engineer for NASA’s Deep Space Network, began in 1958 as a human “computer”…
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