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Devices and Desires: Understanding How Users Experience Your Software
When we design, build, test, and deliver software, it is imperative that we provide our users with what they need—not what we want, but what that they want…
Test Engineer is NASA’s Longest-Serving Woman
Sue Finley, a subsystem and test engineer for NASA’s Deep Space Network, began in 1958 as a human “computer”…
Machine Learning and Artisanal Testing: An Interview with Daria Mehra
Daria Mehra, the director of quality engineering at Quid, explains how people can use machine learning to better contextualize data, details the complexity of test automation…
The Unique Relationship Between Yoga and Testing
When you’re testing software, yoga is probably the last thing on your mind. Especially since you’re often staying just about as stationary as possible—looking to squash bugs and polish your application before users get their hands on it. However, according to Dawn...
When You’re The Lone Voice of (Female) Reason
Thanks to everyone who was at the Women Who Test day this year at STARWEST…
We need to spread our history!
Women have been making an impact in technology for as long as tech has existed. We need to do a better job of championing our own history…
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Do or do not. There is no try. –Yoda
I thought this was a fabulous article on Medium by Lea Alcantara @lealea. Worth reading in general but particularly for those women who are considering speaking. https://medium.com/ladies-in-tech/self-fulfilling-prophecy-a19c75dcedfb#.je40mhoqq
We can help each other succeed!
I am mentoring a junior tester at my company. She was just featured in the Wall Street Journal for her inspiring career path. We can help each other succeed!...
The United States of Women Summit: An Interview with Tania Katan
Axosoft evangelist Tania Katan, who is also the creative instigator of the international viral campaign #itwasneveradress, reports on being invited to the White House’s United State of Women Summit. She talks about agile project management, activism, and Michelle...
Test Tools, IT Projects, and User Experience: An Interview with Isabel Evans and Julian Harty
In this interview from STARWEST 2016, Isabel Evans and Julian Harty reveal the area of software where we're ignoring the user experience. They cover how we're not thinking strongly enough about the tool sets used by IT projects, and dig into why test tools are often...
International Women’s Day 2017
A video recap of how women around the world celebrated International Women's Day 2017, via the New York Times.
The Long Road to Test Automation: An Interview with Dorothy Graham
In this interview from STAREAST 2017, Dorothy Graham, a software test consultant and coauthor of four books, discusses the fact that many teams still have a long way to go with test automation. She explains why getting started in automation can be daunting and details...
The Power of Collective Experience: An Interview with Dawn Haynes
https://youtu.be/bE5ILWPV_KI Jennifer Bonine: All right, as promised, we are back with our last interview for today. Very excited to have Dawn with me. Dawn, it's always awesome to get a chance to talk to you. Dawn Haynes: Likewise, thanks so much. Jennifer Bonine: I...
How The Fired Google Engineer Completely Missed the Point on Diversity
In response to the nowinfamous “anti-diversity” memo written by a male Google engineer, Travis Katz corrects the record about women’s technical acumen…
Women Testers to Follow
Our friends at Agile Testing Days recently highlighted 125 Awesome Testers You Should Keep Your Eye on Always on their blog. See the full list at AgileTestingDays.com.
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