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DevelopSense teaches software testing in plain English, featuring
written by James Bach and Michael Bolton
What's Coming
Up...
I'm returning to Sweden to teach Rapid Software Testing to another corporate
client, March 31 through April 3. This client accepted the offer of one day
of free consulting (hands-on testing or coaching are also offered). After that,
it's the Software Testing and Performance Conference
in San Mateo, CA.
CAST 2008
BAR NONE, the most exciting event on the software testing calendar for 2008
will be the Conference for the Association for Software Testing, July 14-16,
in Toronto. Jerry Weinberg will
be presenting a keynote and a one-day workshop. Cem
Kaner will be presenting a keynote. Rob
Sabourin will be presenting a keynote. Scott
Barber, Hung Nguyen, and Julian Harty
will be presenting one-day workshops. There will be around a dozen track sesssions,
with facilitated discussion after each (and after the keynotes). CAST over the
last two years has attracted a remarkable constituency. You're invited. I hope
you come along. http://www.cast2008.org.
I've been trying with some little success to update my blog more regularly. Other items on the agenda...
If you'd like to subscribe to my very sporadic newsletter, please
click here. It's free, except for the time
it takes you to read it.
My articles from Better
Software Magazine (formerly Software Testing and Quality Engineering) are
now archived right here!
You can find out what I've been doing recently by clicking here,
and you can see my blog here.
"Michael is a bright and engaging
thinker with a passion for professional development."
Cem Kaner,
Author of Testing
Computer Software and Lessons
Learned in Software Testing
Last week I took Rapid Software Testing from Michael Bolton. The three days
of stuffing my brain in the beautiful downtown campus of the University of Toronto
was loads of fun...If you don't go to play each day, or you don't think you
can break the rules, or you simply want to become a better tester, give Rapid
Software Testing a try. I think you will find, as I did, that it is three
days well spent!
Michael Hunter, Microsoft (The
Braidy Tester), "This
is your Brain on RST"
"Michael is a born teacher. He is VERY engaging and
an effective speaker who knows his topic inside and out -- a rare combination!"
QA Manager, Boulder, CO
"This course was highly informative and Michael was
excellent in providing examples from real life."
Quality Assurance Analyst, Nashville TN
Michael is an exceptional teacher with extreme knowledge
and commitment to this topic.
Network Specialist, Toronto, ON
Finally, here's some feedback that came in from a recent student.
..the training was a great exposure to a lot of different concepts and
methods of attacking problems, and the rapid testing strategy looks to be very
useful. On Thursday a support issue came into the group that fell in one of
my feature areas, so I replied. I did a little work before lunch, and while
out at lunch I thought that this would be a time to try some of the rapid testing
methods. Took about 10 minutes, noted steps and thoughts as I was going, and
arrived at a cause and possible solution much quicker than I would have in the
past.
Hello and welcome to the DevelopSense Web page, hosted by me, Michael Bolton. I provide training and consulting services in software testing. In particular, I teach Rapid Software Testing, a course that I co-author with James Bach. We're aligned with the Context-Driven School of Software Testing.
I'm a tester, testing trainer, consultant, and writer living in Toronto. I spent eight years with Quarterdeck Corporation, née Quarterdeck Office Systems, four years in Toronto and four at the company's head offices in Marina del Rey, California. I lived in Los Angeles for six years. For the last five years, I have been providing training and consulting services in testing and quality to organizations in Canada, the United States, and around the world.
In the last several years, I've taught Rapid Software Testing in Sunnyvale, California; Mt. Laurel, New Jersey; Chennai, India; Bangalore, India; Sophia-Antipolis, France; Boeblingen, Germany; Barcelona, Spain; Singapore; Utica, Michigan; Montreal, Quebec; London, Ontario; Waterloo, Ontario; and Toronto, Ontario.
I've given presentations on Rapid Software Testing, Exploratory Testing, and a host of other testing and management topics at conferences in Ottawa, Ontario; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Valencia, Spain; Wellington, New Zealand; Canberra, Australia; New Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai, India; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Boston, Massachusetts; Portland, Oregon; Orlando, Florida; and Toronto, Ontario. In 2005, I co-founded (with my colleague Fiona Charles) the Toronto Workshop on Software Testing , and I've written a regular column for Better Software Magazine (formerly STQE). Through 2005, I also tested almost full-time for a large Canadian financial services organization.
I maintain a mailing list and try send a newsletter occasionally. I use the newsletter to publish my articles, to notify my correspondents of upcoming courses, and to provide other kinds of useful information. Please join my mailing list by clicking here.
I do some programming, mostly oriented towards testing, and mostly in Ruby and Perl. In the past, I've worked with Visual Basic C and C++, and I've done extensive work in Excel. I have done rather a lot of technical writing. You can see samples of this work here.
I'm the Program Chair of TASSQ, The Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.
If you (or your company, or your manager, or your employee) need counselling or instruction on software testing, I can help with engaging and informative courses in plain English that are designed to help your company save lots of time and money; contact me by for details. I also provide consulting services.
I'm a citizen of both Canada and the U.S., so I can work easily in either country.
I set up this Web site as a place to market my services, to host some of my writings on software engineering and program management. and to provide a resource for testers, program managers and other software professionals. These pages are permanently under construction. You'll find lots of text and little glitz. If you find errors, I'd like to know about them.
Resources for Testers
Back issues of my newsletter
Published articles
Articles published exclusively here
A sporadically-updated blog.
Is there something you'd like to discuss? Information you'd like to see on this site? Questions about my consulting services? Please send me mail!
All material on this site is copyrighted © 2008 Michael Bolton.
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