QCommunity Talks with Isabel Evans-“The notion of quality and the notion of failure”

In this AMA Session on “The notion of quality and the notion of failure, “we hosted the amazing Isabel Evans (Independent Testing Consultant and Practitioner). Isabel took questions about quality and failure, drawing on her experiences of several decades working with people, processes, improvement, and techniques. That included questions and discussion around her research into people’s experiences using tools to support testing.

After more than 30 years in IT, on software industry projects, quality and testing practitioner Isabel Evans is now a part-time post-graduate student at the University of Malta. Her research focuses on human factors in test automation. Her interest in this topic arose from real-life experiences as a test manager, quality manager, and test consultant. Isabel authored Achieving Software Quality Through Teamwork and chapters in Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an extreme Testing Environment, The Testing Practitioner, and Foundations of Software Testing. A popular speaker and story-teller at software conferences worldwide, Isabel has chaired EuroSTAR (2019) and HUSTEF (2018), as well as presenting tutorials and keynotes at conferences worldwide. She is a Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the British Computer Society and received the 2017 EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award.