AST Test Forum in India

The Association for Software Testing is sponsoring its first “AST Test Forum” in Pune, India on February 13th, from 5 to 7 pm at the IDB auditorium, Cognizant phase I, Hinjewadi. The forum will include an introduction to the AST by current board member Keith Klain, an open Q&A session, and a chance to network with testing professionals from different industries. Special thanks to our friends at Cognizant for hosting this event. You can register for the forum at the here. Thanks and we hope to see you there!

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Exposing and Erasing Organizational Bias: An Interview with Keith Klain

In this very informative and revealing interview, Keith Klain discusses where biases among testing teams originated from, and who’s to blame for its negative, lingering effects to projects of all shapes and sizes. We learned that testers don’t have themselves to blame exclusively, but some serious self-reflection is definitely in order. Continue reading

Improving the State of your Testing Team: Part Three – Strategic Objectives

Whenever we start a new testing effort, one of the first activities is to define the mission. Why are we testing? Who are our clients? What information are we trying to find? Knowing your mission is an important part to successfully meeting your projects objectives and the driver for what you produce during the life of the project. Continue reading

Improving the State of your Testing Team: Part Two – Principles

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”Thomas Jefferson

To inspire intelligent, thinking people to work together to solve large, organizational problems is a tremendous challenge. Creative people should not be constrained by process or managerial constructs that don’t add any value to their work. Continue reading

Support the skilled testing revolution! – attend AST CAST and TestBash 2.0

The Association for Software Testing CAST 2013 and the Ministry of Testing Test Bash are fantastic opportunities to meet thought leaders in the testing industry and learn something from the pros. Aside from being fantastic value for money, they are the kind of conferences testers need to improve their skills and build our community. Support the skilled testing revolution!

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Improving the State of your Testing Team: Part One – Values

As I run large testing teams for fairly large organisations and have done so for some time now, the questions I get asked most often are about how to improve testings position and how do I talk about testing with “senior management”. Continue reading

QAI QUEST 2013 Conference

I’m giving a new talk on changing the perception your test team at QAI Quest 2013 this year!

Wednesday, April 17, 2013: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Creating Dissonance: Overcoming Organizational Bias toward Software Testing

http://www.qaiquest.org/2013/speaker/keith-klain-barclays/

STAR Canada Track Talk

I’m giving a new talk for 2013 at the inagural STAR Canada conference…great line up for Toronto – hope to see you there!

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 – 12:45pm – 1:45pm

Creating Dissonance: Overcoming Organizational Bias toward Software Testing

http://starcanada.techwell.com/sessions/starcanada-2013/creating-dissonance-overcoming-organizational-bias-toward-software-testing

The skilled testing revolution…

Over the last couple of years, the rumors of software testing’s imminent demise have been widely reported – and I am happy to confirm that it’s true. There are testing zombies walking all over the planet right now that are starting to realize that their approach to their profession is either dead or on life support. Continue reading

AST CAST 2013 – Call For Participation

The theme for CAST 2013 is “Old Lessons applied and new lessons learned: advancing the practice and building a foundation for the future.” What we learn from our experiences helps shape us as human beings. What we learn from the experiences of others can give us new insight and new perspectives.

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AST Test Forum in Singapore

Had a great time in Singapore hosting the first ever AST Test forum there…excellent write up by Leah Stockley!

Wednesday, the 5th of December saw the inaugural AST sponsored Test Forum in Singapore.  The first software testing community event for Context Driven testers by testers held in Singapore. Continue reading

Welcome to Quality Remarks

Welcome to Quality Remarks…after several requests and much thought, I have jumped into the world of software testing blogging…if you don’t know who I am, my name is Keith Klain and I have almost 20 years of experience managing enterprise-wide quality programs for financial services and global IT consulting firms. I love solving organizational problems through better software testing and am passionate about coaching and empowering testers. This is a collection of my thoughts, experiences and things I think are important to managing and improving software testing. Thanks – KK