Keith Yorkston
After a circuitous route into IT, Keith Yorkston has spent the last 23 years involved with software quality and risk. Cutting his teeth early in technical testing, Keith went on to work as a consultant and trainer across the world.
He currently works as an independent consultant, speaker and author specializing in security, performance and environment management. He also has a 60kg puppy!
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26 November
The Human Influence in Testing
The Hawthorne Effect describes how we change our behaviour when we know we’re being observed. It’s an interesting way our behaviour modifies to meet a particular context. Another effect is institutional syndrome – where constant exposure to a particular environment affects how we behave. As testers, our behaviour influences what and how we test. Cyber psychology is a new field looking at how humans interact using technology, how human behaviour is affected by technology, and how technology can be developed for human needs.
Let’s look at how we are affected by the work we do!
25 November - Full Day
Workshop: The Truth About Risk-Based Testing
Today, many projects we work with use a term they call “risk-based testing”. This usually happens when the project begins to run late, and it’s decided we will use the mystical risk-based testing. We then decide which tests we won’t run! This is so wrong…
This full-day workshop session looks at the real way to effectively use risk-based testing to achieve measurable coverage and more effectively test the systems we work with today.
