STPCon is considered as one of the top software testing conferences to attend in the testing industry. The biggest reason for this are our workshop and session leaders. This Spring STPCon proves to be no exception, especially in the area of Performance Testing. Listen to the latest episode of STP Radio and hear from three of the most experienced and well seasoned Performance Testing Professionals in the business. Mike Lyles talks with Andi Grabner, Eric Proegler and Mark Tomlinson about their wo...
Feb 24, 2016•50 min
In this episode of STP Radio Mike Lyles chats with Jim Hazen, a veteran of the software testing trenches with over twenty-five years of experience testing applications on the PC and Web platforms. Jim has been involved with the startup of testing groups at multiple companies and has done consulting work for the last 15 years. Mike and Jim talk about Jim’s workshop Practical Process of Implementation of Test Automation and session Demystifying the Test Automation Pyramid. Learn more about these s...
Feb 18, 2016•22 min
Check out this episode of STP Radio covering STPCon coming up this April 4-7 at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel. In this episode, Mike Lyles, your conference host chats with Smita Mishra, Dave Haeffner and Damian Synadinos about their upcoming workshops, sessions and Keynote Panel discussion.
Feb 10, 2016•42 min
We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. Our final Keynote - Brad Johnson challenges how we define and measure quality in his address: The Measures of Quality. Read the full description of Brad's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/keynote-the-measures-of-quality/
Apr 16, 2015•34 min
We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. In this recording Joseph Ours delivers his keynote address: Thinking Fast and Slow – For Testers’ Everyday Life. Read the full description of Joseph's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/thinking-fast-and-slow-for-testers-everyday-life/
Apr 16, 2015•58 min
We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. Check this one out! Listen to Mark Tomlinson deliver his keynote address: It’s Non-Functional, not Dysfunctional. Read the full description of Mark's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/its-non-functional-not-dysfunctional/
Apr 15, 2015•32 min
We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. The first one is ready! Listen to Bob Galen deliver his keynote address: The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy. Read the full description of Bob's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/the-3-pillars-approach-to-agile-testing-strategy/
Apr 15, 2015•56 min
This is the short version of an in-depth conversation with Paul Bruce from SmartBear, who is a recurring sponsor of STPCON conferences and supporter of the STP community. Paul and I chat about the latest suite of SmartBear products for security testing, functional testing, service virtualization, load and performance testing and API tools. Check out more at www.smartbear.com and keep looking for the long-version.
Mar 24, 2015•22 min
Here's a great conversation with the founder and CEO of Zephyr ( www.getzephyr.com ) Samir Shah. Samir shares some enlightening ideas about agile test management, transformation and how our testing practices must mature to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT). We thank Zephyr for their support of the upcoming STPCON ( www.stpcon.com ).
Mar 16, 2015•27 min
In this epsiode, we have an expansive conversation about the latest-n-greatest from HP Software's Product Marketing guru Silvia Siqueira, as they support the upcoming STPCON Spring 2015 as a Gold Sponsor. She shares some of the details behind the top priorities and vision for HP Software products, the copious product features in the 12.20 releases, and building Brazillian artificial intelligence into the new Mobile Center.
Mar 09, 2015•35 min
In this episode we have a great conversation with Paul about his upcoming STPCON session on non-traditional automation techniques. His session shares a pragmatic approach that focuses on value to the testers his team serves and the benefits overall that the organization leverages therein. Paul is also hosting a roundtable at the upcoming www.stpcon.com in San Diego.
Mar 09, 2015•25 min
Brad joins us again for a great conversation on the hottest news from SOASTA, his upcoming sessions and keynote at STPCON Spring 2015 in San Deigo this March and how any attendees can jump into the deep end of the CloudTest pool and get training and certification at the conference. We thank SOASTA sincerely for their sponsorship of the upcoming conference and we hope to see you there! Register today at www.stpcon.com with discount code #SOASTACERTS15
Mar 02, 2015•31 min
Once again we have a great interview to share with you, this time with Andy Tinkham of Magenic Consulting; the only guy I know who officially would become a PhD of Software Testing someday! Andy have a great conversation discussing lenses of testing, employing a game design technique and exploring card #70 to learn how we might include the concept of story in our test strategy. This interview was too short, so I'm sure we'll have Andy back soon to chat about James Bach's ranting about Schools of...
Nov 03, 2014•32 min
This past summer, I interviewed my friend and mentor Seth Eliot about his latest innovations for leveraging data sciences in your practices for software test design. At STPCON in November 2014, Seth and his colleague will actually be teaching a workshop on the subject and they'll be sharing deeper experiences and exercises on how to integrate data analytics and quantitative signalling in your testing. We had a great conversation on this exciting and engaging approach; the next revolution in qual...
Nov 02, 2014•40 min
In this episode of STPRadio I get a chance to speak with Brad Johnson where he shares many of his observations from the wide-angle lens in his role as the VP of Marketing and Business Development at SOASTA. He shares insights about recent industry trends that force testers to adjust their approaches to manual and automated testing, the speed and priority of their efforts and how a healthy dislike of mundane manual testing is a good thing. We get a chance to dig a little deeper than you might exp...
Nov 02, 2014•38 min
What a treat to spend a little time with Anna chatting about her workshop on Tester Awareness and Value based on her recent research on the trends and changes to how our industry engages and derives value from contemporary software testers. We chat about changes to tester professional identity, the roles that testers play, interactional expertise and how the workshop exercises can help you to best learn the interdisciplinary skills that are becoming essential to your success as a tester.
Nov 01, 2014•19 min
Listen in as JeanAnn Harrison conducts yet another interview, this time with STPCon Fall 2014 speaker Philip LewIn this episode JeanAnn and Philip discuss their "Extended Session - McGyvering Through the Mysterious World of Mobile Testing.” Learn more about Philip's other sessions as well... Tune in to this episode and get ready for STPCon coming up in Denver next week! See Philips sessions here: http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/Philip-Lew/
Oct 31, 2014•12 min
Listen in as JeanAnn Harrison conducts even more interviews with STPCon Fall 2014 speakers in episode 2 of our STPCon Speaker Teaser. In this episode JeanAnn first speaks with Howard Chorney - Enterprise Test Architect at SOASTA. JeanAnn and Howard discuss his session and share some thoughts on STPCon. JeanAnn also chats with Bob Galen, Agile Consultant, Coach & Trainer at RGCG, LLC about Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Testing. They also touch on his second extended session with Sha...
Oct 09, 2014•38 min
Join us as JeanAnn Harrison, one of the many speakers at STPCon Fall 2014 being held in Denver Colorado – Nov 3-6, chats with speakers about their upcoming sessions. In this episode, JeanAnn chats with Jay Philips - CEO, Project Realms & TeamQualityPro, Mark Tomlinson - Performagician, West Evergreen Consulting, LLC, and Jim Hazen - Contractor at Nelnet. Listen in and get a teaser of the sessions these testing professionals will be leading this fall.
Oct 03, 2014•38 min
Industry veteran tester Raj Subramanian and I had a great chat a little while ago on the subject of software testing for mobile applications - tools, analytics, techniques, challenges and the changes he experienced as he converted to become a "mobile tester." Raj will be teaching and presenting on different topics at the upcoming STPCON in Denver: http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/raj-subramanian . You can follow him @@epsilon11 and blogging at http://www.rajsubra.com...
Aug 27, 2014•30 min
Following up his lightning talk ("Automation is Just a Tool") at the recent Let's Test conference, Richard Bradshaw joins us to dig a little deeper into the subject of test automation, exploratory testing, automation frameworks, artificial intelligence, DevOps and Skynet. This is a great conversation for manual testers struggling with the challenges to automate their tests, developers adopting automation and managers trying to keep it all working smoothly.
Jul 01, 2014•33 min
Michael "TestHead" Larsen joined us for a long, long conversation about how you can become a great software tester and how his own career developed through ups and downs, turns and twists (no pun intended) to arrive at his current level of genuine guru. Michael is generous enough to share his pointers and advice about tester self-awareness and several modern-day resources to help you in your software testing career.
Jun 30, 2014•48 min
Directly from his home on the West Coast of the USA James Bach, the original self-proclaimed Buchaneer-Scholar himself joins us for "test" of his thinking about the recent STPCON keynote on the schools of software testing and how he might juxtapose his own opinion on ISTQB with a contemporary understanding of systems thinking. We chat about great books and movies to help learn about systems thinking, we talk about chickens who created gravity and how to add some windows and doors to the "silos" ...
May 19, 2014•57 min
Join Rich as he interviews Rachel Obstler the Senior Director Product Management at Keynote. Rachel discusses the advantages of mobile testing by helping organizations through access to fully-equipped device labs to conduct interactive manual testing of any mobile app or website. She discusses some of the best ways to test the functionality, usability and performance of native or web-based mobile apps. The testing of mobile applications is complex due to the many combinations of devices, network...
May 05, 2014•17 min
STPCon speaker Wayne Ariola, Chief Strategy Officer at Parasoft, discusses his new book "Continuous Testing." Wayne outlines the importance of bringing together business executives and the quality teams to maintain the important edge quality software has become for so many organizations. He talks about the importance of setting expectations with the business and reducing the risk of releasing software that fails. Listen now to find out how you can receive your free copy! Limited time only.
May 05, 2014•21 min
Mark Tomlinson host of PerfBytes, Performance Tester, Speaker, and all around Testing guru talks about the similarities of music and testing. Testing and music have many common attributes and it is fun to listen to Mark make the comparison! Mark talks about conferences in general but he gets specific about his upcoming role at STPCon in New Orleans. Mark talks about the mentoring program at the conference he and Mike Lyles are conducting on Thursday. If you are looking for the inside scoop on sp...
May 05, 2014•42 min
Mike Lyles, Senior QA Manager, Lowe’s Company Inc. talks about his upcoming Keynote “What the 80’s Taught Me About Testing”, his session on Metrics, and Service Virtualization along with a number of interesting topics. Mike shares his thoughts on the Industry debates and other random Testing thoughts. Mike talks about how speaking has changed his life, and how he hopes to give back in the session he and Mark Tomlinson are conducting Thursday of STPCon in New Orleans. Definitely take a listen!
May 05, 2014•39 min
Broadcasting live from the Expo hall at STPCON Spring 2014 in New Orleans, LA USA!! In this show, Mark Tomlinson and Rich Hand engage the sponsors in live rounds of question-and-answer so that we may learn more about the great organizations that support the STPCON conference. Learn more from HP Software, SOASTA, XBOSOFT, Orasi and SMARTBEAR. We get a quick chat with Rex Black about his opening keynote debate with Dr. Cem Kaner.
Apr 15, 2014•50 min
On behalf of the Software Test Professionals community, welcome to STP Radio! In this introductory episode of Software Test Professionals STP Radio podcast. Rich Hand and Mark Tomlinson disucss the recent years of audio podcasting at STP with shows such as TWiST (This Week in Software Testing) and PerfBytes. We chat about the future for podcasting at STP with an open invitation to new podcasters and shows sourced from the community on the subjects regarding software testing.
Apr 07, 2014•19 min
