BONUS: Quick Thoughts on Risk

Evil Tester Talks

Adding More Security To Your Testing and Automating - SauceCon 2021

Introduction
Session (28:06)
Extra Information (6:33)
Slides and Transcripts
Bonus - Slides Raw File and Description

Automating To Augment Testing - BrowserStack Breakpoint 2020

Introduction
Practice Session (36:35)
Live Session (34:11)
Live Q&A (14:43)
Slides and Transcripts

Tactical vs Strategic - SauceCon 2020

Preview (8:07)
Practice Session - Tactical vs Strategic (21:04)
Extras 001 - Agile is Not Always Strategic (3:59)
Extras 002 - Sub-optimisation (2:37)
Extras 003 - Impact on my work (6:17)
Extras 004 - Problem Solving (5:02)
Extras 005 - Automating Tactically (12:41)
Extras 006 - Goal Based Planning (4:03)
Extras 007 - Tactical vs Strategic Mistakes (11:12)
Extras 008 - Tactical to Strategic (9:13)
Live Recording (23:41)
Live Questions and Answers (2:54)
Materials - Slides, Transcripts

Future of Testing - Virtuoso Webinar April 2020

Preview (4:43)
Practice Session - The Future of Testing (17:20)
Extras 001 - Risk Analysis As Future Prediction (7:32)
Extras 002 - Buzzwords (5:42)
Extras 003 - Coping with Trends and Buzzwords (4:29)
Extras 004 - Contextual Problem Solving (7:41)
Extras 005 - Will Automation Take Over (7:14)
Extras 006 - Optimistic Future (12:06)
Extras 007 - References (3:02)
Extras 008 - Exercises (8:36)
Behind the Scenes - how talk was constructed (10:00)
Live Session - The Future of Testing (12:04)
Materials - Slides, Transcripts

Technical Mobile Testing - Eurostar Mobile Deep Dive 2015

Introduction for Eurostar Mobile Deep Dive 2015 (1:19)
Publicly Available Content & Overview
"Technical Mobile Testing" Talk Recording (48:29)
Closing Remarks (4:46)
Slides, Transcript & Exercises (.pdf)
Testing on a Device is a Risk (2:04)
Bonus Audio: Live Recording from Eurostar Mobile Deep Dive
Bonus Audio: Live Q&A Recording - What if we are not technical?
Bonus Audio: "Technical Mobile Testing" Talk Recording

How to Improve your Technical Test Ability - Keynote AADays 2015 Poland description: How to Improve

Introduction - How to Improve your Technical Test Ability (1:36)
Publicly Available Content & Overview
"How to Improve your Technical Test Ability" Recording (44:27)
Slides, Transcript, Exercises & References (.pdf)
Closing Remarks (2:52)
Bonus Video: Live in Poland "How to Improve your Technical Test Ability" (41:38)
Bonus Video: Live Q&A "Why are you evil" (1:00)
Bonus Video: Own your automation abstractions e.g. Page Objects (5:07)
Bonus Audio: Office Recording
Bonus Audio: Live Recording

Risk Mitigation Using Exploratory and Technical Testing - QASymphony Webinar

Introduction to Risk Webinar (3:56)
Publicly Available Content & Overview
Risk Webinar Talk Recording Video (42:50)
Slides, Transcript & Exercises (.pdf)
Closing Remarks (2:12)
Bonus: Live Q&A Recording Video (8:28)
Bonus: Live Recording Video (47:26)
Bonus: Talk Recording Audio
Bonus: Live Recording Audio

How to Push our functional testing further - Sigist May 2016

Introduction (1:31)
Publicly Available Content & Overview
Sigist 2016 Talk Office Recording Video (40:14)
Closing Remarks (2:06)
Slides, Transcript & Exercises (.pdf)
Bonus: Live Recording Q&A Video (7:02)
Bonus: Live Recording Video (41:57)
Bonus: Live Recording Audio
Bonus: Talk Recording Audio

TestWorksConf 2015 - Automate or Die

Introduction - Automate or Die (1:32)
Publicly Available Content
"Automate or Die!" Talk (Full Version) (50:34)
Slides, Transcript, References & Exercises (.pdf)
Closing Remarks - Automate or Die! (5:17)
Bonus Video: This is not a Pipe (4:11)
Bonus Audio: Full Recording of "Automate or Die!"
Bonus Audio: Live Recording of TestWorksConf 2015 Keynote

Test Automation Day 2015 - Practical Lessons Learned in Test Automation

Introduction - Practical Lessons Learned (2:52)
Publicly Available Content
"Practical Lessons Learned in Test Automation" Talk Recording (32:16)
Slides, Transcript, Exercises & References (.pdf)
Closing Remarks (2:46)
Bonus Video: Unused Historical Notes Video (2:47)
Bonus Video: Unused Case Studies Video (13:52)
Bonus Video: Unused Staffing And Recruitment Tips Video (5:58)
Bonus Video: Unused Abstraction Tips Video (4:24)
Bonus Audio Downloads: for All "Unused" Videos
Bonus PDFs: Unused Slides & Transcript

Lessons Learned from Automating Webinar 2016

Introduction
Publicly Available Information
Welcome (3:06)
Intro Slides (0:25)
How we describe automation (1:43)
Heuristics of what to automate (5:08)
A model of the secrets of automating (2:07)
Problems Encountered when automating (4:23)
Problem Diagnostic Tips (3:16)
Problems faced when more experienced (3:11)
What levels to automate at? GUI? API? (6:51)
What abstractions do you use? (2:04)
Hints to improve testability? (1:20)
How is coding different for testers? (5:08)
How do you estimate the effort to automate? (1:36)
Any tools you recommend other than Webdriver? (1:09)
How do you move into speaking and training? (3:18)
Approaches to decision making and research (5:55)
Future of Testing (2:12)
Closing Remarks (5:00)
Slides and Transcripts
Bonus: WebDriver Lessons Learned (video) (22:23)
Q&A Do too many abstraction layers make automating hard? (2:35)
Q&A What do you mean by Synchronisation? (1:15)
Q&A How do you handle large volumes of data? (1:16)
Q&A What do you think about Appium? (1:04)
Q&A If you don't write frameworks what do you write? (2:17)
Q&A About Page Objects - anything better? (1:21)
Q&A How do you improve yourself and your community? (0:53)
Q&A If I can code, why stay a tester? (2:28)
Q&A Page Objects vs SoapUI? (1:30)
Q&A Our framework is too big to maintain - why? (3:42)
Q&A Doesn't a lot of code equal a framework? (1:32)
Q&A Have you used any BDD frameworks? (1:44)
Q&A What about special app code for synchronisation? (1:36)
Q&A Should we postpone automating until an application is stable? (2:47)
Q&A Should we run our tests on different browsers? (1:45)
Q&A Any examples of bugs that went live despite automating? (2:03)
Q&A What about BDD would that have helped? (2:28)
Q&A What percentage of automating in continuous delivery? (1:29)
Q&A What do we do about tests that fail randomly? (1:13)
Q&A Do you use tools for test coverage? (1:36)
Q&A What about trends? Docker, Devops etc. (4:19)
Video Bonus: Full Webinar Video (50 mins) (50:33)
Video Bonus: Full QnA Video (44:28)
Audio Bonus: Full Q&A Audio (50 mins)
Audio Bonus: WebDriver Lessons Learned (Audio)
Audio Bonus: Full Webinar Audio (50 mins)

Your Automated Execution Does Not Have to be Flaky - Webinar - Feb 2018

Introduction
Publicly Available Content
Live Presentation - video (30 min version) (37:26)
Live Q&A (10:57)
Introduction - video (full version) (26:04)
Synchronisation (12:08)
Parallel Execution (6:39)
Long Running Tests (10:26)
Automatizability (4:19)
Tools (6:24)
State (3:52)
Assertions (3:33)
Data (2:44)
End (4:33)
Slides
Bonus Audio

Agile Tour London 2017 - Effective Software Testing for Modern Software Development

Introduction
Publicly Available Content
Live - pt 0 - "Agile Tour London 2017" Talk (Live) (9:20)
Live - pt 1 - "Agile Tour London 2017" Talk (Live)Untitled Lesson (17:01)
Live - pt 2 - "Agile Tour London 2017" Talk (Live) (19:17)
Practice - Agile Tour London 2017 Talk (40:09)
Slides (.pdf)
Bonus Audio: Talks as MP3

If you want to automate, you learn to code (Automation Guild 2017)

Introduction
Publicly Available Content
If You Want To Automate... Talk (48:49)
Questions and Answers (36:36)
Slides, Transcript & Notes (.pdf)
Bonus Audio: Presentation and Q&A

Fusion Meetup March 2017 - A Technical Deep Dive into Practical Test Automation

Introduction
Publicly Available Content
Office Presentation - video (19:05)
Audio Live With Q&A
Audio Practice
Materials

NSTC2018 How To Survive Agile and DevOps - A Test Management Guide

Introduction
Publicly Available Content
Live - "National Software Testing Conference 2018" Talk (36:41)
Slides
Bonus Audio: Talk as MP3
Bonus Transcript PDF
Bonus Written Case Studies PDF

Technology Based Technical Testing - Agile Testers Conference 2018

Introduction
Publicly Available Content & Overview
Agile Testers 2018 Talk Office Recording Video (37:28)
Slides, Transcript (.pdf)
Bonus: Hands On Demo Technology Based Technical Testing (22:56)
Bonus: Live Using Total Validator Pro to support testing (9:22)
Bonus: Talk Recording Audio

Exploring Testing from First Principles - Eurostar Keynote 2018

Introduction (2:58)
Publicly Available Content & Overview
Eurostar 2018 Talk Office Recording Video (39:11)
BONUS: Live Lightning Talk Recording "Our Agile Project is Screwed Up" (3:35)
Eurostar 2018 Live Recording Video (37:28)
BONUS: Lightning Talk Practice - 5 mins of extra information (8:53)
BONUS: Quick Thoughts on Risk (1:52)
Bonus: Audio Recordings
Slides, Transcript (.pdf)

Automating Pragmatically - Testival Webinar

Automating Pragmatically Webinar (28:30)
Q&A Automating Pragmatically Webinar (10:15)
Slides

Test Tribe AMA

Test Tribe AMA Webinar (65:47)
Notes - Test Tribe AMA

Joy of Coding 2019 - Adventures

Practice Session (27:28)
Joy of Coding Slides
Live Joy of Coding 2019 (25:51)
Bonus Audio - Joy of Coding 2019

A Guide to Testing Web Applications - Dev Fest 2019

Talk Recording (32:16)
Materials for Dev Fest Bishkek

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