Posts in Agile Testing

The AgileTD 2024 Program Highlights

The AgileTD 2024 Program Highlights

We are excited to announce the program release for the Agile Testing Days 2024. Get ready for yet another amazing event and truly valuable learning adventure with over 600 professionals from around t…

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Women in Software Testing

Women in Software Testing

In 2023, the Global Gender Gap Report highlighted a concerning reality: Women represented only 29.2% of the STEM workforce. Going deeper into the report, we discover that women accounted for 29.4% at…

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What´s new at AgileTD 2024

What´s new at AgileTD 2024

Our AgileTD team always tries to think of new exciting sessions or elements for our events. We discuss all evaluations we get and try to re-think existing concepts and discuss what is it that YOU rea…

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Building an Influence Framework for Software Quality

Building an Influence Framework for Software Quality

Whether due to a recent company reorganization or business as usual, being a solo tester comes with a unique and demanding set of challenges. As a community builder in the software testing industry, …

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Invest in You: Navigating Your Why with Dr. Rochelle Carr

Invest in You: Navigating Your Why with Dr. Rochelle Carr

Whether you are leading a project or team, we all know that stress in the workplace is at an all time high for leaders. In a recent American Institute of Stress study, researchers estimated that job …

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How to Build More Effective Relationships with Your Developers

How to Build More Effective Relationships with Your Developers

Whether you are struggling with a recent blame-filled, post-mortem or in the middle of a sprint riddled with conflict, we all know the human stressor costs that come with poorly aligned communication…

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Live Event Recap: A Survival Guide for Testers

Live Event Recap: A Survival Guide for Testers

In our recent community conversation about survival strategies for solo testers, Lisi Hocke and João Proença, share key strategies for helping software quality champions and teams …

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Celebrating Unpopular Agile Software Testing Opinions

Celebrating Unpopular Agile Software Testing Opinions

In the Agile TD Zone community, we celebrate diverse leadership styles, perspectives, and team processes. We recently asked our global members, what are some unpopular agile software testing opinions…

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How to Recharge at AgileTD USA 2023

How to Recharge at AgileTD USA 2023

The alarm goes off for another work morning and yet still drained from a restless sleep, you may realize that you have no energy left for yourself, your teams, or customers.

You’re not alone…

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Live Event Recap: Benefits of API Testing

Live Event Recap: Benefits of API Testing

In our recent community conversation, we unpacked the benefits of API testing with Pricilla Bilavendran, Team Leader at Billenium  and Nithin S.S., Engineering Manager at Fave. Read our event re…

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Research for Agile Professionals with Melissa Eaden

Research for Agile Professionals with Melissa Eaden

Today, leveraging research to build for innovation is no longer a role just for product and UX professionals, but a needed asset for all members of the software development life cycle. But how do you…

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Live Event Recap: The Do's & Don'ts of Test Automation

Live Event Recap: The Do's & Don'ts of Test Automation

In our latest TwitterSpace, Jenny Bramble and Jenna Charlton discuss test automation trends that drive them crazy, QA and the future of AI, the hidden costs of connecting test automation solutions to…

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Invest in You: Top 6 Reasons to Attend AgileTD USA

Invest in You: Top 6 Reasons to Attend AgileTD USA

The conference season is upon us and you may be wondering why the Agile Testing Days USA edition is known as North America’s greatest agile testing festival?

The reason is simple. Agile prof…

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Why Agile Leadership Requires Doing the ‘Hard Stuff’

Why Agile Leadership Requires Doing the ‘Hard Stuff’

As a leader, from the moment you engage in your first work exchange to when you close your computer, every day can feel like a trade-off between technical project delivery items made to the humans yo…

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100 Women in Tech to Follow & Learn From

100 Women in Tech to Follow & Learn From

More and more women break into the tech industry. The proportion of women working in large tech companies increases year after a year. Online magazines like Forbes regularly publish article…

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Happy 15th Anniversary, AgileTD!

Happy 15th Anniversary, AgileTD!

... or why you should attend AgileTD 2023!

The Agile Testing Days is Europe’s greatest agile testing event for software testers and QA professionals. Every…

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Defeating Imposter Syndrome Workshop

Defeating Imposter Syndrome Workshop

At Agile Testing Days 2022 in Potsdam, Germany, we facilitated a workshop, “Winning with imposter syndrome: A community effort”. In our introduction, we shared Harvard Business Review&rsq…

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Recap Agile Testing Days USA 2022

Recap Agile Testing Days USA 2022

Tutorial Days at AgileTDUSA

Two days filled with hard work, new learnings, and skills lie behind our tutorial attendees. The tutorial attendees have been challenged with various tasks and thought-…

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Why You Should Attend Agile Testing Days Again

Why You Should Attend Agile Testing Days Again

Let me start this blog post by asking some questions, and I want you to be honest: Have you attended the Agile Testing Days before? Have you attended this world-famous testing festival only once…

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The Future of Women in Agile

The Future of Women in Agile

Virtual Panel Discussion – The Role of Women in Agile in different Times and Cultures
 

In March 2021, I had the privilege of cohosting a panel discussion with Ellen Grove. The discuss…

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20 years of Women in Agile

20 years of Women in Agile

An Anniversary Panel by AgileTD & the Agile Alliance
 

In February 2021, the Agile Manifesto celebrated its 20th year of existence. To commemorate these two decades of the Agile Manifest…

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Recap AgileTD Webinar “Quality Processes in an Agile Environment”

Recap AgileTD Webinar “Quality Processes in an Agile Environment”

Or How the Whole Team is Responsible for a Good Product or Service
 

On Tuesday, June 30, the AgileTD team was fortunate to host a webinar with the wonderful Lisa Crispin and Janet Greg…

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My favorite ATD moment Series - #3 Christian Baumann

My favorite ATD moment Series - #3 Christian Baumann

Hi, my name is Christian Baumann and I´m a software tester. During the last 15+ years, I´ve had many different roles at a lot of different companies in even more projects. But a couple of…

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Why Are the Agile Testing Days the Place to Go for Agile Software Professionals?

Why Are the Agile Testing Days the Place to Go for Agile Software Professionals?

Coming up with a statement of difference

All the best software testing conferences bring to their role something more, something different. At first sight, the Agile Testing Days seem to blend in …

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Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2019

Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2019

And the 2019 MIATPP Award goes to…

For the 9th time the "MIATPP Award" has been awarded by the agile testing community during the Agile Testing Days. At the glamorous and rocking …

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Call for Papers Submission Pitfalls & How to Do it Better! Tales from a Conference Organizer

Call for Papers Submission Pitfalls & How to Do it Better! Tales from a Conference Organizer

In 2018 my colleague Sabine wrote the blog post “It always starts with an idea…”. In this blog post, she gave some great hints on how to write better proposals for conference sessi…

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AI and Testing and Chatbots... Oh My! Part 1 - The Power of Prediction

AI and Testing and Chatbots... Oh My! Part 1 - The Power of Prediction

The terms Machine Learning, AI and Chatbots became buzzwords during 2017. It's hard to think about this area without being lured by the trappings of science fiction. But what's really going o…

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Reflections on an Agile Testing Manifesto

Reflections on an Agile Testing Manifesto

In 2013 we did a talk on Agile Testing at a conference. We wanted a memorable way to summarize the key learnings of the talk. Inspired by the agile manifesto we decided to try an agile testing manife…

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