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Alan Barr

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San Jose State University

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QA Engineer at Veterans United Home Loans

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AI / LLM Testing Podcast

AI / LLM Testing Podcast

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Solo, pair program, or mob ?

Solo, pair program, or mob ?

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Is Domain-Driven Design relevant?

Is Domain-Driven Design relevant?

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Down for me?

Down for me?

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Should you ALWAYS write unit tests?

Should you ALWAYS write unit tests?

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Surprising Apps in Testing

Surprising Apps in Testing

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How should I start?

How should I start?

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Security and Observability Platforms

Security and Observability Platforms

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How do you deal with incidents?

How do you deal with incidents?

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When should you build an internal developer platform on Kubernetes?

When should you build an internal developer platform on Kubernetes?

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Who even needs Kubernetes?

Who even needs Kubernetes?

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Export ServiceNow Report CSV to Airtable

Export ServiceNow Report CSV to Airtable

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Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy Stats

Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy Stats

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Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy

Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy

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Selling Bugs for Software Testers Course

Selling Bugs for Software Testers Course

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The Evolution of Software Testing

The Evolution of Software Testing

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QA stands for Questioning Assumptions

QA stands for Questioning Assumptions

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Using teaching techniques to create a better workshop

Using teaching techniques to create a better workshop

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My First Online Testing Conference

My First Online Testing Conference

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How many programming languages should you support for a business?

How many programming languages should you support for a business?

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You are not asking these Four Powerful Questions for higher quality software

You are not asking these Four Powerful Questions for higher quality software

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What do you try when you want to find bugs before your customers do?

What do you try when you want to find bugs before your customers do?

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Should you have a staging server for testing?

Should you have a staging server for testing?

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How do you view bugs?

How do you view bugs?

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How much miscommunication comes from assumptions?

How much miscommunication comes from assumptions?

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Scraping HTML with PHP Node and Puppeteer

Scraping HTML with PHP Node and Puppeteer

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Utilizing a Rubric to share expectations of the QA Engineer Role

Utilizing a Rubric to share expectations of the QA Engineer Role

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Azure Data Lake Custom Extractor

Azure Data Lake Custom Extractor

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The single most powerful action to make better choices and software

The single most powerful action to make better choices and software

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Picking a cloud database?

Picking a cloud database?

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Attending Hack MidWest Hackathon with Veterans United Home Loans

Attending Hack MidWest Hackathon with Veterans United Home Loans

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Creating a Plugin for Netflix Security Monkey

Creating a Plugin for Netflix Security Monkey

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Learning How To Learn

Learning How To Learn

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Agile Testing Days Conference

Agile Testing Days Conference

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What's your testing strategy?

What's your testing strategy?

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How do you think of RISK when you are working on a new feature?

How do you think of RISK when you are working on a new feature?

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How does QA add value in a distributed system world?

How does QA add value in a distributed system world?

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F# Foundation Mentorship Program

F# Foundation Mentorship Program

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How does Quality Engineering Relate to DevOps?

How does Quality Engineering Relate to DevOps?

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What does a Software Quality Engineer Do Exactly?

What does a Software Quality Engineer Do Exactly?

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Teaching Others About What Quality Engineers Do. Teaching Testing to Non-Testers

Teaching Others About What Quality Engineers Do. Teaching Testing to Non-Testers

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Visualizing Quality Attributes with Neo4J and VisJS

Visualizing Quality Attributes with Neo4J and VisJS

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