David Evans
David Evans is an independent agile consultant, coach and trainer. He is an evangelist on agile testing, TDD, BDD and Specification by Example, and is a regular speaker at international conferences and seminars.
David Evans is an experienced agile consultant, coach and trainer with over 25 years of IT experience. A thought-leader in the field of agile quality, he has provided training and consultancy for clients worldwide. An in-demand speaker at events and conferences across Europe, David was voted Best Keynote Speaker at Agile Testing Days 2013. He is co-author of the best-selling books “50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories” and “50 Quick Ideas to improve Your Tests”, was a contributor to the book “More Agile Testing”, and has also had several papers published in international IT journals. He currently lives and works in the UK, where he is a partner in Neuri Consulting LLP.
Contact David at: David.Evans@neuri.co.uk or follow him on Twitter: @DavidEvans66
Talks I've Given
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Improving the Value of SBE and BDD artefacts
Featuring David Evans
How do we get the most value out of our specification and test writing effort? How do we create artefacts that serve the whole team, as specifications, acceptance tests and documentation? To do Specification by Example or Behaviour Driven Development well, we need to connect with the needs and...
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Setting a Good Example – How to improve your SbE, BDD and ATDD artefacts
Featuring David Evans
To get the most out of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Specification by Example (SBE) or Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), you need much more than a tool. You need high value specifications. How do we get the most out of our specification and test writing effort? How do we write...
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Setting a Good Example – How to improve your SbE, BDD and ATDD artefacts
Featuring David Evans
To get the most out of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Specification by Example (SBE) or Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), you need much more than a tool. You need high value specifications. How do we get the most out of our specification and test writing effort? How do we write...
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Setting a Good Example – How to improve your SbE, BDD and ATDD artefacts
Featuring David Evans
To get the most out of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Specification by Example (SBE) or Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), you need much more than a tool. You need high value specifications. How do we get the most out of our specification and test writing effort? How do we write...
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Two Sides of the Story
Featuring David Evans and Brindusa Axon
In this talk, David and Bri will debate the pros and cons of using stories and discuss practices and techniques for improving them. We are going to tackle concerns that trouble many agile teams, such as: What is the right level of detail for specifying user stories?
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Finding the Truth behind the Story
Featuring David Evans
User Stories are an almost universally adopted technique for defining units of valuable change for agile teams. But sometimes a Story unfolds in ways the customer does not expect.
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What Testers and Developers Can Learn From Each Other
Featuring David Evans
In this talk, David Evans presents a number of lessons that testers intrinsically understand about software that would be valuable to developers, and vice versa. He also looks at the lessons that we all need to learn in order to work more effectively together.
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Open Space Discussions
Featuring David Evans
Agile Testing UK open space discussions (facilitated by David Evans)
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Test-driving at high speed: Klarna's agile story
Featuring David Evans and Erik Stenman
David Evans and Erik Stenman present an experience report on agile testing at Klarna, transition to Scrum and then Kanban, Erlang test automation environment, the strategies they used to adopt agile acceptance testing and their experience with Fitnesse + SlimErl
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Interactive Agile Acceptance Testing Clinic
Featuring David Evans and Gojko Adzic
Interested in Agile acceptance testing? Come to this interactive workshop with your own test examples to be discussed, critiqued and improved upon in a group setting.
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Two Sides to Every Story: Understanding the duality of agile quality
Featuring David Evans
When considering quality assurance in agile environments, we are faced with many important dualities. In particular, functional vs non-functional views of quality. Remembering that testing is a measurement activity, and that agile success is about making educated and conscious trade-offs...
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Fast Track Test-Driven Development: Testify your project
Featuring David Evans
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is possibly the most effective single technique for improving the quality of applications under development. Yet many teams are either struggling to make successful TDD a reality or have failed to adopt it at all.
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Testable Software
Featuring David Evans and Mike Scott
In this talk David Evans and Mike Scott discuss the effect architectural decisions have on application testability.
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