Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2016

GTR 2016 – Speaker Series – Featuring Renu Rajani

Our third featured speaker who will be at Global Testing Retreat 2016 is Renu Rajani.

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1. What attracted you to speaking at GTR 2016 this year?

I have been part of ATA global gatherings for the last 2 years and found immense content leadership, networking value and learning from community. I don’t go for an hours flying visit, but stay the whole day and interact actively to add to my knowledge base and further shape my ideas. As a member of ATA advisory board and as part of organizing committee of #ATAGTR2016, I have been actively involved in evaluation of technical presentation proposals. This is very important activity to ensure we get focused participants, bring the best speakers and ensure current content to make this event relevant now and in future.

I have been deeply involved in Capgemini’s Digital and DevOps QA offers and I want to share as well as validate my thought leadership on these topics during this event.

Posted on Monday, April 4, 2016

GTR 2016 – Speaker Series – Featuring Schalk Cronjé

Our second featured speaker who will be at Global Testing Retreat 2016 is Schalk Cronjé.

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1. What attracted you to speaking at GTR 2016 this year?

I am one of the initiators of this conference. We have discussed this idea for a long time and along with my friends from QAAgility, this has been realised. I am very excited to play my part in the very active Indian tech industry.

Posted on Sunday, April 3, 2016

Testing Bits – 3/27/16 – 4/2/16

Testing Bits

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 3/27/16 – 4/2/16.

Articles & Blogs

4 approaches to understanding user stories – Christian Kram – http://www.testknight.de/4-approaches-to-understanding-user-stories/
C is for Community (My A to Z of Software Testing, Part 4) – Colin Cherry – https://itesting.com.au/2016/03/31/c-is-for-community/
Can we actually count bugs? – Thomas Ponnet – https://observanttester.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/can-we-actually-count-bugs/
Communicating Testing through Stories: An Interview with Isabel Evans – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/communicating-testing-through-stories-interview-isabel-evans
Conceptualizing Test Intersections – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2016/03/conceptualizing-test-intersections/
Containers: A Tester’s Friend or Foe? – Kevin Dunne – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/containers-testers-friend-or-foe
Engagify Before You Gamify Testing – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/engagify-testing/

Posted on Saturday, April 2, 2016

GTR 2016 – Speaker Series – Featuring Rajini Padmanaban

I first met Aditya Garg while I was working on the QA or the Highway 2016 Speaker Series. After messaging back and forth on LinkedIn, he asked me to become a media partner for the Global Testing Retreat (GTR 2016) that he was helping to organize in Pune, India. As I read over the GTR web site, I liked the spirit behind the conference and couldn’t say no. Leading up to the conference, I will be featuring some of the speakers that will be participating at the event.

Rajini Padmanaban was the first respondent to my inquiry for speaker responses for GTR 2016 and today she is kicking off the “GTR 2016 – Speaker Series.”

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1. What attracted you to speaking at GTR 2016 this year?

I met Aditya at STC 2015. His passion towards software testing, his drive to arranging an exciting event in Pune were the initial factors that drew me towards this. The overall organization including the Quizathons, leader board have all been coming together very well – I have spoken at several conferences nationally and internationally and GTR to me had the appeal of a focused test conference that is neither too small nor too big and hence the niche. I am looking forward to it.