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John Stevenson

John Stevenson
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John Stevenson has over 20 years of testing experience and 24 years in the IT industry. He is passionate about bringing outside disciplines—such as anthropology, cognitive science, and design thinking—into software quality. An active community member, John shares his insights via his blog (steveo1967.blogspot.com) and on Twitter (@steveo1967). He currently specializes in mentoring teams in exploratory testing and SBTM, and is authoring the book The Psychology of Software Testing.

Company
Cisco
Job Function
Testing
Job Title
Technical Test Leader
Industry
Computer Software - SaaS
Interests
Agile
Cloud
Leadership
Lean
Process Improvement
Test Automation
Development Lifecycles IT Operations Quality Assurance Testing
Country
United Kingdom
Profile picture for user steveo1967
John Stevenson

John Stevenson has over 20 years of testing experience and 24 years in the IT industry. He is passionate about bringing outside disciplines—such as anthropology, cognitive science, and design thinking—into software quality. An active community member, John shares his insights via his blog (steveo1967.blogspot.com) and on Twitter (@steveo1967). He currently specializes in mentoring teams in exploratory testing and SBTM, and is authoring the book The Psychology of Software Testing.

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Testers in an Agile Environment The Role of Testers in an Agile Environment

There are many diverse ideas about what being a tester means in agile development environments. This leads to confusion between how agile testers and agile QA “fit” into agile teams and what the QA tester responsibilities are. John Stevenson explains why there appears to be some fear and a little distrust of agile environments among some testers, then offers suggestions for dealing with their confusion.