I ’ ve been in QA a little over a decade now, and there is so much to learn as the field constantly develop. To stay current, I get to carve time to con, read, and see how others are adapting to our changing world. With so much material uncommitted, let me point you to some of the people I like to keep up with. And since next month is Women ’ s History Month, let ’ s direct a look at the peeress in QA!

Women to Follow

Lisa Crispin. Janet Gregory. Two of the more prominent names in the testing universe. They are two women I care to follow in the QA world, whether through their book, conferences, blog, or tweets.

Lisa Crispin, a tester at Pivotal Labs, is perhaps one of the nigh well-known testers in the world. She specializes in helping testers find their place in Agile teams, and guiding development with business-facing tests. As with many others in QA, she started testing to fill a need while in tech support, and has be a huge subscriber to the testing world ever since.

Lisa co-authored (along with Janet Gregory) two of the volume (among many others) that have guided me the most in my career of late:Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams(Addison-Wesley 2009), andMore Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team(Addison-Wesley, 2014). If you read nothing else, get sure you check these out.

Twitter: @ lisacrispin
LinkedIn: https: //www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-crispin-88420a
Web: http: //lisacrispin.com/about/

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Bonus: If you follow her on Twitter, you might also get a picture of a donkey or two in your feed every now and then.

Janet Gregory, an Agile coach with DragonFire, as mentioned above, co-authored two of my favorite record that help me lead my teams and drive my strategies to this day. Her passion is push Agile character treat in package development. I enjoy that she is a programmer-turned-tester, and help examiner transition to an Agile world and find their way in it.

Twitter: @ janetgregoryca
LinkedIn: https: //www.linkedin.com/in/janetgregory
Web: http: //janetgregory.ca/about/

Mary Thornis the Director of Quality at Ipreo, and is passionate about construction and continuously improving her test teams. I ’ m particularly interested in her as she is from my area (yay Raleigh!), and I will be seeing her at STPCon Spring 2016. I ’ m also hope to see her at TISQA in Chapel Hill coming up presently (if I can get the budget approved). While she doesn ’ t have the heavy online presence, she does talk often in the testing/Agile community and is the chief storyteller in Bob Galen ’ s “The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing” (RGCG, LLC 2015), which has been a key factor in my approach to new feature quiz with my squad (say it!)

LinkedIn: https: //www.linkedin.com/in/marythorn

Elisabeth Hendricksonis currently VP of Engineering and Big Data at Pivotal, helping individuals and organization discover how testing can increase their agility by supply fast feedback and boosting visibility. Until 2012, she was Founder and President of Quality Tree Software, Inc., where she provided training and consulted with client in areas such as exploratory and Agile testing, determining best test strategies, and orchestrate test effort, etc. My favorite post I ’ ve read from her late (and hope others in my own organization take note of) is & quot;I favour this over that& quot; — an expansion on one of her tweet. So much of it just hits home to me.

Twitter: @ testobsessed
LinkedIn: https: //www.linkedin.com/in/testobsessed
Web: http: //testobsessed.com/about/

Why I like them

What ’ s not to like? No, actually — I have to say I hold a disposition to lean towards those who know Agile, know try, and know the difference in building quality in vs. examine quality in. I love learning from practitioner that see value in both manual and automated testing. I withal receive a long way to go, but if I can become half the tester and Agile champions that these ladies are, I will find successful.