The cat’s out of the bag – I’m popping out of my no-conference bubble, and making an appearance at a testing conference (STAR West in October). The theme of the conference is “Be a Testing Rock star”,
and while I think that theme begs for an appearance from Michael Larsen, I’ll do my best to live up to the hype.
I’ll be giving a keynote on testing the Xbox. While I’m certain I’ll have interesting stories and pragmatic examples I can share in a generic fashion, I’m hoping I can share much, much more. I don’t have clearance yet to share too much about the Xbox One, but assuming I can get my proposals in place, it should be a pretty exciting talk to share. By the time STAR rolls around, I’ll have passed my 20 year anniversary working on software, and working on this product has definitely been the highlight of my testing career.
I’m also signed up to give a half-day workshop on testing. Literally – “on testing”. The title of the workshop is Alan Page: On Testing, and I’ll take the time to share some good stories and examples of new testing ideas, but I expect the attendees to drive the content. More details on that as we get closer to the event, but I expect it will be a ton of fun, and especially interesting to those folks who just want to suck up some new and interesting ideas.
More as the conference gets closer.