David Greenlees

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David Greenlees has been testing software for over ten years. Many of these spent in one of Australia's largest government departments, while more recently undertaking a consultant role in multiple organizations. He is a vocal and valued member of the Context-Driven Testing Community and is extremely passionate about the betterment of the software testing craft. He has published several articles and blogs regularly at http://martialtester.wordpress.com/ and http://hellotestworld.com/. In 2012, David founded the Australian Workshop on Software Testing (http://ozwst.wordpress.com/), Australia's only Peer Conference. Currently authoring a book on the subject of software testing and martial arts, his passion outside of work, you can follow David on Twitter@DMGreenlees.

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Testing

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Australia

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	Awareness of Risk Identification in Software Testing When testing software, most of us identify risk seemingly effortlessly. But do we really understand the process we’ve undertaken? Do we know what methods we’ve called upon? Are we aware of how we’re identifying risks? And therefore, are we identifying all the important risks? David Greenlees uses models to assess these questions.
	Usability: Don’t Listen, Just Watch When projects employ professional testers, their focus is generally “functional” testing, and usability quickly becomes an afterthought—if it's thought about at all. David Greenlees writes that getting participants to a state of mind where they are comfortable to honestly raise whatever issues they come across, including emotional responses, is the ultimate goal.
	How the Usability Matrix of Emotions Can Benefit Your Software Testing Emotional response is a big deal in usability, but how much do the emotions preceding those responses play a part? David Greenlees explains how the Usability Matrix of Emotions can capture the more common emotions that users may have when they begin to use the software product you oversee and how understanding these emotions can shape your usability testing.