Presentation abstract

The rise of cross-functional agile teams has helped to bring a greater sense of collaboration and mutual respect between developers and testers. But many teams still struggle with the basic issues. What is the role of the tester in an agile team? How many testers do we need? What does a team gain from
having professional testers? Perhaps there is another way to approach these questions.

In this talk I present a number of lessons that testers intrinsically understand about software that would be valuable to developers, and vice versa. I also look at the lessons that we all need to learn in order to work more effectively together

Link to the presentation: What testers and developers can learn from each other

About the speaker – David Evans

David Evans is an independent agile consultant, coach and trainer with over 22 years of IT experience. A thought-leader in the field of agile testing, he has provided training and consultancy for clients in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Israel, South Africa and Singapore. A regular speaker at events and conferences across Europe, David has also had many papers published in international IT journals. He currently lives and works in the UK, where he runs his own company “ThinkAlike Consulting”. He can be reached at david@thinkalikeconsulting.com on email and @DavidEvans66 on Twitter.