The following is an Experience Report submitted by Duncan Nisbet, who convened a peer workshop earlier this month, and was supported by the AST Grant Program. Theme The theme of the 4th North West Exploratory Workshop on Testing (NWEWT) was Testing the...

The AST Board of Directors Election for 2019-2020 has been completed, and officers have been selected. The new Board will be sat at the fall AST Board Meeting, and will consist of:President: Eric ProeglerVice President and Treasurer: Chris KenstSecretary: Louise...

Each year AST members elect candidates to the Board of Directors and this year 5 of 7 board seats are open. Of those 5 open seats: 4 are Two Year terms (will serve from 2019 to 2021), and are staggered between years to ensure continuity.1 is a One Year term (serve...

July 2019 Webinar: A developer pair on your team has coded and tested a new story, created a pull request and committed their changes to the source code repository. What all has to happen for those changes to be released in production? Can you draw a diagram of all...

May 2019 Webinar: There is a generally overlooked component in testing that might be compared with our autonomic nervous system. Like the autonomic functions, we don't think about them, but things don’t work at all without them. Every test requires some kind of oracle...

February 2019 Webinar: We are kicking off "Season 2" of the AST Webinar series with Brent Jensen (one half of the AB Testing Podcast duo and long time Microsoft veteran) talking about how people in Test roles can leverage their passion for the Customer and begin their...

For 2019 we are making a few pricing changes for AST-BBST. Effective immediately: All classes for AST members are now $299. All classes for non-AST members are $499. Uniform Pricing Our goal here was to simplify things by making all classes the same price. Previously...

Paul Holland picked up where lunch left off, with some basic reminders. Automation will not increase coverage, decrease costs, save time, or allow an org to reduce headcount, but it will let you do a lot of repetitive steps in sequence repetitively and very fast. In...

Ed. Note - This is Part 2 of a Two-Part blog post produced by James Christie, supported by the AST Committee on Standards and Professional Practices. Part 1 is here. To learn more about why so many senior software testers are interested in Cynefin, come to CAST 2017...

Ed. Note - This is Part 1 of a Two-Part blog post produced by James Christie, supported by the AST Committee on Standards and Professional Practices. Part 2 is here. To learn more about why so many senior software testers are interested in Cynefin, come to CAST 2017...