Swiss Testing Day 2014

As you may have noticed, my blogging has slowed. I’ve been navigating and ramping up on a new team and helping the team shift roles (all fun stuff). I’ve also been figuring out how to work in a big org (our team is “small”, but it’s part of one of Microsoft’s “huge” orgs – and there are some learning pains that go with that.

But – I did take a few days off this week to head to Zurich and give a talk at Swiss Testing Day. I attended the conference three years ago (where I was impressed with the turnout, passion and conference organization), and I’m happy to say that it’s still a great conference. I met some great people (some who I had virtually met on twitter), and had a great time catching up with Adrian and the rest of the Swiss-Q gang (the company that puts on Swiss Testing Day).

I talked (sort of) about testing Xbox. I talked a bit about Xbox, and mostly about what it takes to build and test the Xbox. I stole a third or so from my Star West keynote, and was able to use a few more examples now that the Xbox One has shipped (ironically, the Xbox One is available in every country surrounding Switzerland, but not in Switzerland). Of note, is that now I’ve retired from the Xbox team (or moved on, at least), I expect that I’m done with giving talks about Xbox (although I expect I’ll use examples of the Xbox team in at least one of my sessions at Star East).

I owe some follow ups on my Principles post, and I promise to get to those soon. I’ll define “soon” later.