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Karen N. Johnson

Karen N. Johnson
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Karen N. Johnson is an independent software test consultant. Karen’s client work is centered on helping at an enterprise level. In recent years, she has helped teams and testers transitioning to Agile software development. While focused on software testing and predominantly working with the testers throughout an organization, Karen helps teams and organizations improve quality. Her professional activities include speaking at conferences both in the US and internationally. Karen is a contributing author to the book, Beautiful Testing by O’Reilly publishers. She is the co-founder of the WREST workshop, the Workshop for Regulated Software Testing. She has published numerous articles, she blogs and tweets about her experiences with software testing. You can find about more about Karen at her website: http://www.karennicolejohnson.com

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Karen N. Johnson

Karen N. Johnson is an independent software test consultant. Karen’s client work is centered on helping at an enterprise level. In recent years, she has helped teams and testers transitioning to Agile software development. While focused on software testing and predominantly working with the testers throughout an organization, Karen helps teams and organizations improve quality. Her professional activities include speaking at conferences both in the US and internationally. Karen is a contributing author to the book, Beautiful Testing by O’Reilly publishers. She is the co-founder of the WREST workshop, the Workshop for Regulated Software Testing. She has published numerous articles, she blogs and tweets about her experiences with software testing. You can find about more about Karen at her website: http://www.karennicolejohnson.com

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String lights shining on a story book Business Storytelling in an Agile ContextStorytelling in business is about sharing the context—explaining different aspects of the same information through different perspectives, such as the customer’s wishes or various internal department needs. The more each person shares their point of view, the more the knowledge deepens, which provides a solid story in a business context. Here's how storytelling can help your agile team.
Software Product Discovery How a Software Tester Helps During Product Discovery

A software tester can begin testing early—very early—before the software has even been built. Karen Johnson explains that one of the best times to start testing a product is in the product-discovery phase.
The 11th Hour

Testers are often on the critical path for getting a software release out. They must plan carefully in order to minimize the critical path, while still doing a complete job of testing. This schedule pressure is taken to an extreme when a production server must be taken offline in order to deploy the software, and everyone is waiting for the final test results before the system can go live again. Karen Johnson describes her company's carefully planned and orchestrated method for doing a final check of an installed system. Her story is relevant to e-commerce companies as well as IT shops that are under pressure to keep systems updated while minimizing downtime.