Category: Training

Free half-day workshop with Rex Black in Melbourne, Sydney

ANZTB (http://www.anztb.org/) are hosting a free half day workshop with Rex Black on Risk-based testing.  The workshop is on December 8th in Sydney and December 9th in Melbourne.  Contact Karen Haig at info@anztb.org if you’re interested in attending.  As of this morning there were 17 places left for Melbourne.

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"Tools for testers" course next month at STANZ

Paul Szymkowiak and I will be running a one-day workshop on tools for testers, as part of the STANZ conference. The current run on August 13th is full, but you can register your interest for future courses via SoftEd, or drop me a line. Details of the course are at http://www.softed.com/stanz/speakersandsessions.htm#tst I’ll have the presentation […]

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Context-driven testing course in Melbourne, Sydney

If you’re looking for a course different to the usual fare, you might want to check out Rob Sabourin’s “Just in Time” testing course, which will be running in Sydney on the 12th and 13th of November, and in Melbourne on the 15th and 16th (New Zealand after that). I’ve heard good things about his […]

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Why I call myself a tester

I’ve been sadly busy, finishing a cool project with much learning, and preparing to leave my current employer Revolution IT for Aegeon. This means I get to have another crack at building an army of testing ninjas and sending them out into the world to hopefully make it a better place. Hopefully, that means less […]

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Be a Ninja Tester…

James Bach is going to be in Melbourne early June, teaching his Rapid Software Testing course. If you’re in Melbourne, don’t miss out. If you’re not in Melbourne, try to get there anyway! Details can be found at http://www.softed.com.au/Courses/rst.aspx

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Come, ninja testers…

I was lucky enough to spend three days recently taking James Bach’s Rapid Software Testing course in Adelaide, as well as a personal pre-course one-on-one workout. I am a regular reader of James’ blog, have read his book, and having read through the RST course slides was really, really curious to see how the exercises […]

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Study session difficulties, or the Learning Organisation challenge

In the Yahoo group supporting Cem Kaner’s Black Box Software Testing course, Anil Soni has been describing experiences organising and leading internal training, using the BBST course materials. One point in particular caught my attention: > The major challenge is to have all the testers together in the same time > needed for the group […]

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