Exploratory Testing Appreciation Map

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Maaret is a feedback fairy and exploratory tester extr'ordinare with quarter of a century of industry experience. On side of her day job as principal test engineer she delivers trainings, and is a popular speaker with conference talks counted in hundreds, in 25 countries. She is the creator / owner of this site, and these appreciations reflect her appreciations towards people she continues to learn from

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Mirja Pyhäjärvi

Mirja still remembers what it is like to be new to testing, since she started her tester and programmer career just half a year ago. She tests a web application, writes most of her test automation with Robot Framework and some in python and javascript. Her current specialty is making sense into the vocabulary of the industry, and finding bugs the devs she works with want to fix.

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Elizabeth Zagroba

Elizabeth is an awesome exploratory tester with eye for detail and skills to dig out information. She is a self-proclaimed introvert, holding an extraordinary power of observation and categorization. If there ever was an ensemble testing session where she appears, you can expect both to learn on the method but also learn on testing. I'd trust her in recognizing good testing.

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Alex Schladebeck

Alex is a CEO with the heart and brain of a tester. You may see her on various stages sharing on exploratory testing in general, and on microheuristics in exploratory testing in particular. As a practitioner with a platform, she reaches great number of people to share importance of testing and connecting the pieces for success as humans.

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Carol Brands

Carol is a brilliant tester. She may not be the most visible in the social media spotlights, but if you ever end up in a room with her, doing any testing activity, she leaves you in awe. I will always know her as the tester with most superpowers, or at least the appreciation of versatility of superpowers as she directed a group in recognizing the foundations they contribute from in a conference.

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Anne-Marie Charrett

Anne-Marie is creator of contents teaching us all testing. She facilitates sessions where we get to learn exploratory testing through hands-on exercises, teaches and shares on numerous topics and runs a company specializing in all things quality. Her podcast, quality coaching roadshow is a must listen.

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Ru Cindrea

Ru is a testing guru delivering exceptional projects, and a managing partner at Altom. She is Romanian living in Finland and gives me the privilege to regularly compare notes on exploratory testing with her. Her combination of automation in exploratory testing is excellent, and I still look for an excuse to work with her beyond community organizing.

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Angela Riggs

Angela is quality advocate with skills to do great testing and heart to ensure others get that chance. She lives in Portland, Oregon, USA. Her background in education makes her perfect for knowing how learning works and how to enable learning when testing and learning to test better.

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Parveen Khan

Parveen is a senior test specialist and a popular conference speaker from UK. She is known for her contributions in the DevOps space, where she helps paves the way for other testers coming to the changes of work DevOps introduces.

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Irja Straus

Irja is a quality advocate, and she knows her way around the practice of creating software. Living in Croatia, she has acquired significant expertise that she is now sharing internationally. Twitter | LinkedIn

Sergio Freire

Sergio is a fellow exploratory testing expert working to figure out the world of testing. He works for a company creating test support tooling, and has a good holistic idea of testing - one he often dubs as OmniTesting. Twitter | Website

Zeger Van Hese

Zeger is one of my all time favorites in the exploratory testing space, and on my short list of the best speakers you can get for your testing conference. His work on focus on exploratory testing comes close to legendary. Twitter | Website