Janet Gregory

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Janet Gregory

Canada, @DragonFire Inc.

Janet Gregory is the co-author, with Lisa Crispin, of Agile Testing: Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). Based in Calgary, Alberta, she specializes in helping teams build quality system, and her greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes. Over the past ten years, she has helped to introduce development agile practices int

o companies as tester or coach, and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. Her focus is working with the business users and testers to understand their role in agile projects. She has partnered with developers on her agile teams to implement successful test automation solutions.

Janet is a frequent speaker at agile and testing software conferences in North America and Europe. She’s a regular contributor to the North American agile testing community.

Blog: http://janetgregory.blogspot.com/

Articles & Contributions

Agile Projects: 6 Ways to Avoid the ‘Mini-Waterfall’

STP Test and Performance Magazine, January 2010

‘What’s a Tester without a QA Team?‘ co-authored with Lisa Crispin

Agile Journal, March 2010

‘QA vs. Testing in Agile Projects‘ co-authored with Bob Small

Agile Journal, March 2010

Contributed Chapter 92 – When Programmers and Testers Collaborate,

to the book ‘97 Things Every Programmer Should Know’

O’Reilly, February 2010

Public Past Presentations

Seven Key Success Factors for Agile Testing, StarWest 2009

The Tester who Came in From the Cold, Agile 2008

Agile Testing for Beginners, Agile 2008

Focus your Testing Using the Agile Testing Quadrants, Agile Edmonton, 2009

Automation: Evaluation of Tools and Selling the ROI to Management, SQDG 2008
UAT and Beyond, Agile 2007
Pitfalls and Perils of Agile Testing, StarEast 2007, Calgary SQDG 2008
Preparing your Test Team to go Agile, StarWest 2006
How to Integrate a QA Team into an Agile Development Environment 2005
A Tester’s Role on An Agile Team, University of Calgary 2003, 2004, 2007