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…
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…
Delve into the essence of continuous testing in today's Agile-driven tech landscape. As an advocate for Agile development, in this article I will demystify how testing seamlessly merges with deve…
On my way back home from ATD2022 I was doing speeds that would get me arrested in most countries, but not on specific sections of the Autobahn in Germany.
As my thoughts reflected on the past few …
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, …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We are proud to share our recent conversation with agile software quality leaders, Erika Chestnut and Vernon Richards. In our TwitterSpaces event, our leaders shared practical tips for how software q…
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…
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…
Last November the AgileTD Fitness Challenge 2022 ended at the Agile Testing Days. In total 20 people joined the cycling challenge, 17 people joined the running challenge and 11 people joined the walk…
Have you ever thought about becoming a public speaker and presenting a topic close to your heart at a professional conference like Agile Testing Days ... but never pursued it? If yes, have you reflec…
... 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…
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…
The MIATPP Costume Party is no ordinary costume contest. Each year, serious agile testing and QA professionals don an array of disguises to awe and are happy to share with you the winners of this yea…
You are about to read the story of Bart Knaack's journey to a healthier life, and an 'one-of-a-kind' conference at the beach. Bart went on a 200+ km cycling tour to challenge hi…
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-…
The announcement for this year’s Agile Testing Days program has been a rollercoaster for many people who have sent in their ideas for our 2022 Call for Papers. There were people who were happy,…
It’s an exciting time in the software testing and quality assurance space as the industry is constantly innovating – providing new ways to optimize testing and integrate it into automated…
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…
At ATD 2021 I gave a presentation ‘Anima Sana in Corpore Sano’ which told the story of my journey to a healthier life (the full talk and video of this session can be found at the bottom o…
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…
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…
an interview with Alexandra Schladebeck - CEO, Head of Quality, International Tech Influencer & Conference Keynote Speaker
I (Uwe Gelfert in the Name of AgileTD) had the wonderful chance to in…
I had the very good fortune recently to attend the 3-day online conference Agile Testing Days 2020 , courtesy of the authors of the books 'Agile Testing' and 'More Agile Testing'. Jan…
Last week we were all together celebrating the Agile Testing Days. Time flies and unfortunately ATD is over.
You probably went home with loads of information and new experiences. We know …
Test your skills with the #AgileTD Online Rube Goldberg Machine.
Our conference is recognized for being an international learning festival where pe…
The international conference scene and business is changing. More and more events are getting cancelled, postponed or replaced by online or hybrid versions.
The Agile Testing Days will be on…
On Tuesday, June 30, the AgileTD team was fortunate to host a webinar with the wonderful Lisa Crispin and Janet Greg…
We follow the movement against black people’s discrimination and abuse and we are happy that many people hear and listen, as we did and do. We all need to keep listening and learning and of cou…
On the 13th of May I did a talk online. This post is about the talk, some questions, and resources that came out of it. If you want to read about the thougths and emotions before and after the talk, …
Like all the conference organizers, we are struggling with the current situation. Some have canceled conferences, some postponed them, like we did with AgileTD USA, some run them as virtual events. W…
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…
Hi, my name is Huib Schoots, I am Quality Coach, Agile Expert, Change Maker, Product Improver, Problem Solver, Tester and Scrum Master. I like to learn and to share knowledge so I became a speaker at…
Hi all,
I am Bart Knaack, testing professional for over 20 years by now and frequent speaker at several (international) conferences, but the Agile Testing Days have always had a special place in m…
The Agile Software testing community is full of love, knowledge and caring.
Everyone has something valuable to share, and we want the AgileTD community to prosper and grow through each other…
As everyone else, the Agile Testing Days are highly impacted by the current situation. Especially in these hard times we want to stay close to our community and think forward.
Our community is wha…
“Are you ready to roooooock ... ?” - This was the 2019 motto of the AgileTD Award Night. We celebrated an 80s Glam Party in a relaxed atmosphere, paired with delicious food and an enterta…
The world is constantly changing and agile software testing is not an exception.
Reading and curiosity are some of the vital skills every agile tester should have, and we strongly believe that the…
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 …
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 …
“Hi, my name is Lisi, and I’m a tester.” This is how I start all of my conference sessions these days. My sessions? My very own talks and workshops? It still feels strange to think …
Taking My Chance: Being a Volunteer
Four years ago, I found out about the Agile Testing Days for the first time. I was working for almost 2 years as a tester and Scrum Master and I was trying to f…
You have probably watched the movie or at least heard the story of one of the most popular unicorns of all times, that finds out it is the last one of its species and wants to know what happened to t…
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…
The MIATPP Award Night is one of the many highlights in the Agile Testing Days calendar. This night is always truly memorable because it honors and announces the most influential agile testing mind o…
A couple of months ago we celebrated 10 years of Agile Testing Days with six intense days filled with collaboration, learning, networking, and many surprises. Over 750 participants experienced a…
The 10th edition of the Agile Testing Days, which took place from November 11-16, 2018 in Potsdam, was very special for me. This year, I did not only help to organize the conference, b…
Having covered off the basic forms of Machine Learning in the previous third vlog episode, we’ll now take a dive into the heart of a commercial chatbot, considering how they work, and how they …
We’ve previously created regression types of Machine Learning in the second part of this vlog series. In this section, Mike will introduce you to examples of classification. We’ll start b…
In the second part of this vlog series, Mike will take you through the “Hello World” of Machine Learning! We’ll work through an example in Python where we’ll collect data on h…
Coming to the Agile Testing Days for the first time can be intimidating. If you are a native European, you just fly into Tegel or Berlin Schönefeld, catch a train, and walk from the tram or bus …
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…
As promised, this is the second part of my highlights from the Agile Testing Days USA conference. Again, I will focus only on the keynotes because as a member of staff I only got a glimpse of th…
A few weeks ago the first edition of Agile Testing Days USA took place in Boston, MA! This conference is very special for various reasons; in 2017 we had to postpone the conference due to the politic…
Bringing change, new structures, new workflows, or even new tools into a team can be a hard, tricky and a never ending process.
I made this experience on my own. In early 2017 I at…
Do you want to become more productive, learn more about the latest trends, tools, and technologies, or boost your testing skills to a new level? If you have answered at least one question with &lsquo…
Agile is an iterative and incremental set of practices of management. It helps teams in an evolving landscape while keeping a focus on the rapid delivery of business value. All the methodologies of A…
Do you wish to speak at your favorite conference? I have a quick fix for you: become a speaker. That's easier said than done, but nothi…
WiT working party (Claudia Badell, Guna Petrova, Anne-Marie Charrett, Lisa Crispin, Nicola Sedgwick, Lisi Hocke, Ale Moreira, Ashley Hunsberger, Alex Schladebeck, Claire Moss and others)
Testing i…
It all started with a Scrum Master course in March 2017. I joined that course as an event manager & conference organizer. I was the only one in that course without a tech background. I initially …
Sometimes in your career, you face obstacles that prevent you from moving forward or you struggle with difficult situations at work. And sometimes you meet people – not necessarily in person &n…
Last week, the 9th edition of the Agile Testing Days took place and I attended for the second time this incredible Agile Testing Festival in Potsdam, Germany. Like last year, I have met a lot of peop…
The annual MIATPP Award (aka “the Oscar of the Agile Testing Community”) is an integral part of the greatest Agile Software Testing Festival - widely known as the Agile Testing Days.…
By Anne-Marie Charrett
WiT working party (Maaret Pyhäjärvi, Lisa Crispin, Nicola Sedgwick, Lisi Hocke, Ale Moreira, Ashley Hunsberger, Alex Schladebeck, Claire Moss and others)
…As a test manager on a waterfall project, there’s nothing more disheartening than finding out on day one of your scheduled testing that that there are major problems.…
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The truth of this saying is evident in almost every aspect of everyday life. But let's face it: in certain situations, it is really, really h…
Most agile practitioners will tell you that you need to have automation. We need those rapidly running safety checks in place so that we can move quickly and not be slowed down by testing. I think fe…
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…
In 1961 IBM introduced a new monster processing system, called 7074. The beast was normally delivered in several trucks, required a room of 40 by 40 feet, and weighed more than 41,000 pounds. It had …
Software development and testing often involve very complex and abstract problems, and sometimes a shared understanding of the problem is difficult to achieve amongst team members. Furthermore, it ca…
Last week, I was a “first timer” at the Agile Testing Days in Potsdam – the biggest agile software testing event in Germany. I have neither experienced an agile software testing eve…
Agile is the most inclusive of the modern tech subgroups. It welcomes people from various roles and specialties to work in close collaboration, extending well beyond the realm of software development…