About
Elisabeth Hendrickson
Hi.
I’m Elisabeth Hendrickson.
I founded Quality Tree Software, Inc., a consulting and training company dedicated to helping software teams deliver working solutions consistently and sustainably. My current interests include test automation, Exploratory testing, and Agile development.
I’ve been involved in software development for a long time: I wrote my first line of code in 1980; moments later, I found my first bug.
In subsequent years, I held positions as a tester, developer, manager, and quality engineering director in a variety of companies ranging from small startups to multi-national enterprises.
I’ve been a member of the Agile community since 2003. I served on the board of directors of the Agile Alliance in 2007/2008 and am currently one of the co-organizers of the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program.
These days, I split my time between teaching, speaking, writing, and working on Agile teams with test-infected programmers who value my obsession with testing. You can also find me on Twitter as @testobsessed.
Hi Elizabeth,
It was great to meet you at NSC-1, and thank you so much for your kind comments about Max’s talk. I did want to mention that Max is actually 13. (It is his brother Jonathan that is 10).
Warm regards,
John
Hi Elizabeth,
Just been enjoying some of your blog entries on test automation! How can I follow your blog? There doesn’t seem to be a “follow” button.
It was interesting to see that the criticisms you raised about traditional tools are the ones that we tried to address in our book 10 years ago! (Maintainability, separation of tests from technical detail, tests written in tester/business language so they can be written first, using the same documentation for either automation or manual tests etc. We are definitely on the same pages here!
I am wondering whether you would be willing / interested in contributing something to a new book on test automation experiences that we are currently working on. I know you have lots of great advice, but what we are looking for in the book is the experiences that you went through that led to you the knowledge you now have. I very much hope that you would be able to contribute – it would be great to have you in the book!
I will be happy to send you more information – we are aiming at system-level or acceptance-level automation rather than unit level.
Hope you have enjoyed the Christmas holidays – all the best for 2010 – hope we meet up at a conference again soon!
Regards, Dot