In just under 5 days, I’m giving a presentation on Technical Testing at the Online Testing Conference – http://www.onlinetestconf.com/
If you’re wondering, “WTF is technical testing?” I’ll give you my opinions (as well as some examples) along with the usual angry weasel rants.
Here’s the twitter preview if you missed it.
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