Ten Years of Agile Testing Days
summary
Conference grows from 150 → 700+ attendees over ten years and spawns recurring rituals: morning lean coffee, evening games and jam sessions, a testing lab where attendees collaboratively assemble a Rube Goldberg machine and a web-connected device that actually runs, plus on-site 3D‑printed unicorn charms and a brewed Agile Testing Days beer. Specific moments include hundreds of self‑certification cards written in 2010, a 2011 award decided by one‑vote margin, demonstrations of the McGurk effect, the four‑pillar testing model, and concrete advice to write stories starting with the outcome.
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- 0:00Agile Testing Days intro
- 1:49First-timers welcome
- 3:35Growth to 700+ attendees
- 5:012009 keynote: Respect the Test
- 6:272010: Certification debate
- 8:34Acceptance TDD and speed
- 10:282011: Jurgen Appelo keynote
- 12:55Testers and devs learning
- 15:072012: Scott Ambler keynote
- 17:21Lola talk: Ambiguity & spec
- 19:342013: Mary Gorman keynote
- 21:21Visualizing quality demo
- 24:362014: Keynotes & Testing Cup
- 26:20Agile testing model pillars
- 28:102015: Keynotes & Rube machine
- 30:02Testable user stories
- 32:122016: Keynotes & Note of Night
- 34:11Language & social identity
- 37:422017: Keynotes & women in tech
- 39:12User story templates
- 41:412018 highlights & closing
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