Black and White: Software Testing for Scientists - Katrina Clokie

What are the rules for software testing? In a specialist financial domain, where a University education grounded in sciences is the norm, rules are important. How do you teach the curiosity and judgement of testing to those who see the world in black and white? Katrina shares her experiences as a test consultant embedded in a scrum team taking a team from a test strategy of “100% automation” to an approach that pulls together elements of specification by example, mind mapping and session based test management. Her brief was to create a cross-skilled team by training developers, business analysts and subject matter experts in testing. Learn how to expose varied understanding by asking your team to visualise their test strategy. See how to teach and embed new testing skills in a project environment alongside the continued delivery of working software. Know how to customise common testing practices to the skill set of your team so that change is adopted with enthusiasm.

Biography

Katrina Clokie is very active in the New Zealand testing community as the editor of Testing Trapeze magazine, a co-organiser of her local testing MeetUp WeTest Workshops, a regular attendee at the Kiwi Workshop for Software Testing, and frequent blog writer. In 2014 Katrina will be speaking on the international stage for the first time at two fantastic testing conferences. In August at the Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST) in New York, USA. In September at Let's Test Oz near Sydney, Australia.

In her role at Assurity, Katrina wears many hats including Senior Agile Test Engineer, lead trainer for the Agile Testing and Essential Testing courses, Practice Lead for Lean Testing and Graduate Programme Co-Ordinator.