Conference Talks

A List of Conference Talks, Keynotes and Tutorials

I have presented at conferences world wide since 2003. Most of the conferences below have links to a write up of the talks and slides.

Many of the talks are also available in my Evil Tester Talks online training with transcripts, exercises, recordings and extra content.

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Most of my speaking engagements are invited talks which are uniquely created for the event. You can contact me if you would like me to speak at your event.

 Open Quality Conference 

Create a professional online open source profile

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 October 2020 

 Breakpoint 

Automating to Augment Testing

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 July 2020 

ET Talks

 Virtuoso Webinar 

The Future of Testing

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 April 2020 

ET Talks

 Dev Fest Bishkek 

Exploring and Testing a Web Application

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 December 2019 

ET Talks

 Abn Amro Internal 

Secrets and Mysteries of Automated Execution

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 September 2019 

 Testival 

Automating Pragmatically

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 June 2019 

ET Talks

 Test Tribe 

A Live video Ask Me Anything Webinar

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 June 2019 

ET Talks

 Joy Of Coding 

Becoming a Software Developer

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 May 2019 

ET Talks

 Eurostar 

Testing from First Principles

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 November 2018 

ET Talks

 Agile Testers Conference 

Technology Based Technical Testing

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 October 2018 

ET Talks

 London Tester Gathering 

Testability Audit

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 June 2018 

 UKStar 

Non-Flaky Test Automation

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 February 2018 

 UKStar 

Magic, Cognition and Testing

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 March 2018 

 Rabobank - Internal 

How to Test with Agility

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 February 2018 

 FiSTB Testing Assembly 

Automating Tactically and Strategically

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 September 2017 

 Sigist 

Presentation skills workshop

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 September 2017 

 Nordic Testing Days 

Creating yourself as a tester - make your own testing path

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 June 2017 

 Let's Test 

Evil Tester’s Testing Games

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 May 2017 

 OdinSTAR 

Real World Automating To Support Testing

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 May 2017 

 Fusion Birmingham 

Automating to Support Testing.

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 March 2017 

ET Talks

 Test Focus Group 

QA in Devops

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 March 2017 

 UkStar 

Test Automation and People Conversation

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 February 2017 

 Xebia Meetup 

Resolutions and Trends in Software Testing

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 January 2017 

 SyncHerts 

Automating Tactically

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 January 2017 

 Test Automation Guild 

If you want to automate, you learn to code

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 January 2017 

ET Talks

 QASymphony 

Risk Mitigation Using Testing

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 June 2016 

 Tabara de Testare 

Lessons Learned When Automating

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 February 2016 

ET Talks

 Agile and Automation Days 

How to Improve your Technical Test Ability

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 November 2015 

ET Talks

 TestWorks 

Real World Automation Challenges

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 October 2015 

ET Talks

 Test Automation Day 

Experiences with Automation

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 June 2015 

 Test Management Summit 

Successful Test Automation for Managers

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 April 2015 

 Tabara de Testare 

An Introduction to Technical Testing

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 April 2015 

 Black Ops Testing 

Workshop on Technical and Exploratory Testing

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 January 2015 

 Agile Testing Days 

Helping Testers Add Value to Agile Projects - Keynote, Tutorial

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 November 2014 

 StarWEST 

Page Objects and Abstraction Layers

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 October 2014 

 StarEAST 

Selenium Tutorial

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 May 2014 

 Test Management Summit 

Automation Abstraction layers

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 April 2014 

 SD Summit 

Experiences of Exploratory Testing in Agile

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 December 2013 

 Sigist 

Should testers be able to code

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 December 2013 

 London Tester Gathering 

HTTP Proxies and Developer Tools

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 October 2013 

 Workshop 

Scouting, Planning, Attacking, Automating

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 October 2013 

 TestIstanbul 

Experiences With Exploratory Testing

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 May 2013 

 Let's Test 

Evil Tester's Guide to Web Testing

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 May 2013 

 Test Bash 

99 Second Talk

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 March 2013 

 Test Management Summit 

BDD and How to Manage Technical Testers

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 January 2013 

 Eurostar 

Technical Testing Webinar

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 December 2012 

 Eurostar 

Unconventional influences

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 November 2012 

 Let's Test 

Testing Hypnotically

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 May 2012 

 Eurostar 

Thinking Visually

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 November 2012 

 Test Bash 

The Evil Tester's Guide to Evil

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 March 2012 

 London Selenium 

Web Scraping

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 August 2011 

 Various 

The Missing Years

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 2005 - 2011 

 Test Management Summit 

Exploring Open Source Test Tools

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 January 2009 

 British Computer Society 

Context Driven Testing, A Personal View

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 March 2005 

 Eurostar 

Alternative Test Tools In Action

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 November 2004 

 Sigist 

NLP For Testers, A Brief Introduction

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 June 2004 

 Eurostar 

Be a Better Tester, Be a Beta Tester

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 December 2003