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Scrum 2010 NZ at New Zealand

March 1, 2010 at 6pm to March 12, 2010 at 7pm

We are pleased to announce the launch of Scrum 2010 - the nationwide Scrum conference in NZ 2010. We have the inventor of Scrum - Dr Jeff Sutherland attending and are providing multiple Scrum learning streams in all three major cities, including Ce…

February 10

Sherilyn Tasker replied to Joel Montvelisky's discussion 'Playing games to develop your testing skills'

I think anything that you do that makes your brain work harder is going to be good for you no matter what your profession is. We all got hooked on Sudoku at work for awhile and it was good fun....but not all the testers were good at doing them..some…

February 2

Sherilyn Tasker replied to Stephen Hill's discussion 'Thoughts on developer testing approaches requested...'

What about using a smoke test instead that must be passed in development before the software makes it into testing?

January 25

Sherilyn Tasker replied to Nagesh's discussion 'Lotus notes'

We haven't found any easy way to get our testcases out of Lotus Notes. So we are thinking about just starting all new ones in the new tool and leaving the old ones where they are until we have someone who can copy and paste them all across manually.

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January 11

Sherilyn Tasker commented on Dave Whalen's blog post 'The Angry Tester'

I totally agree with you, they sometimes put on the performances of 5 year olds and its cringe worthy. I suspect some heads have got too big to fit through a door. I haven't heard any of your recommended speakers but will certainly look out for them…

November 23, 2009

Sherilyn Tasker replied to Gabi's discussion 'Developers as Testers ?'

I agree whole heartedly with your post.....during our last project regression we had a couple developers help us out with regression testing. They developed a much better appreciation for how hard some of their code is to test and one of them went o…

November 2, 2009

Sherilyn Tasker replied to Mohinder Khosla's discussion 'Using Tools in Agile: Can Tools hinder rather than help Agile processes? How would you employ tools in Agile Development?'

We use a lot of blu-tack and post it notes....best tools ever

October 21, 2009

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About Me:

I've been testing for 20 years for the same company but over a huge range of different types of products over that time including petrol pumps, eftpos, security and access control and agricultural.
I manage a team of 12 testers and still do a bit of testing myself (just because I enjoy it so much).
I'm currently learning the joys of Agile as a scrum master.
I am ISTQB certified (for what that's worth!) and am appalled at the quality of some software out there. It seems once you are a tester you find faults all over the place - even when you aren't looking for them. Websites are a particular annoyance to me. If you are a web tester - pull your socks up!
Apart from testing I love animals (I'm vegetarian) and farming and my ideal job would be one that combined all three things together.

Are you...?

happily employed

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Experience in years...

10+

Do you specialise in any particular area of Software Testing?

Management of testing process

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Agile Learnings (from a lifetime waterfaller)

Ok so it's only been 3 sprints in since we started Agile (each of our sprints being 3 weeks long) but I have already learnt a heap about Agile in that time and I thought I would share some of it in case it might be useful to others. I've also been working as a scrum master on one of our features and really enjoying it. (all the care of a chicken and none of the responsibilities of a pig)

1. Getting training from experienced Agile experts is a must - it all makes sense much sooner when someone w… Continue

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At 10:32am on December 19, 2008, anil said…: hi
i am impressed looking at your profile you have lot of knowledge i am working as manual testing engineer

At 8:19am on October 4, 2008, Tarun Sharma said…: Hi Sherilyn,
I am Testet from indai and would like to make you my guide in the testing arena would you help me i am working as a mannual Test Engineer. I would like to know can you guied me what else should i do??

At 11:14am on November 12, 2007, Srinivas Radaram said…: Hi Sherilyn,
Good Day!!!
I am Srini from Bangalore working as a Automation Test Engineer. I would like to know how is/are the openings for Testing in New Zealand. May l also know the process for a person from india to apply for the same.
Pls reply me at srinivas.radaram@gmail.com

Regards,
Srini.

At 3:58am on September 6, 2007, Anne-Marie Charrett said…: Hi Sherilyn, welcome to the Software testing club. Why not join the ANZACS group, which is a group inside the STC for Australians and New Zealanders. Who knows, one day we may all get to meet!