The Let’s Test testing conference was held from May 26-28 in Runö, Sweden, which is close to Stockholm. During some talks I created a sketchnote which I tweeted just after the talk was over but before the audience left the room. The versions below are scanned versions that have a higher resolution.
The 4th DEWT peer conference took place over the weekend 7-9 Februari at Hotel Bergse Bossen Driebergen, the Netherlands. DEWT is a conference that falls into the series of peer conferences on testing like LAWST, LEWT and SWET. The central theme was Teaching Software Testing, in all its life-forms.
During this workshop I made notes in the form of sketchnotes.
I made a conference poster during the introduction
An experience report by Kristoffer Nordstöm: Learning and Change in a Dysfunctional Organisation
An experience report by Arjen Verweij: Preaching Software Testing – Teaching Non-Testers
An experience report by Markus Gärtner: Training From the Back of the Room!
An experience report by Bart Broekman: Back to the Middle Ages
An experience report by Duncan Nesbit: You Can’t Learn to Drive by Reading a Book
An experience report by Angela van Son: 30 Day Video Challenge – What Made It Work?
The Let’s Test testing conference was held from may 19-22 in Runö, Sweden, which is close to Stockholm. It was one of the best software testing conferences I’ve been to in my career. I think that the main reasons for this experience was the community feeling that was present and the deep conversations I had with many people.
During the peer conference, which is one day before the main conference, and the main conference I made a few sketchnotes. Sessions at a peer conference consist of two parts, a short presentation, 10-15 minutes, and a large Q&A part. This gave an extra dimension to my sketchnotetaking which I didn’t experience before. It was difficult because it was hard to cache ideas and hard to antcipate on what was coming. This shows in the resulting sketchnotes below I think. Sometimes I missed something that I wanted to capture because I couldn’t remember the exact idea or I had to improvise with the layout. The sketchnotetaking at the main conference was intensive but much easier to do because the sessions were mainly unidirectional. The sketchnotes of the main conference were already published via twitter right after the sessions, often before the presenter had left the stage. In this post I publish them again together with the notes I made during the peer conference, but now properly scanned.
Let’s Wet Peer Conference
Main conference
Welcome
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How do I Know I am Context-Driven?
James Bach
Slides
Becoming a Kick-Ass Test Manager
Johanna Rothman
Slides + audio
What is Good Evidence?
Griffin Jones
Slides
I take notes all the time. I carry a paper notebook with me that I use at meetings, workshops and conferences. I also use it as a diary and for capturing ideas. After reading The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking recently, I decided to give sketchnoting a try at the third Dutch Exploratory Workshop in Testing that took place over the weekend 20 – 21 April 2013.
In preparation of the workshop I draw a poster. I used this exercise to select a convenient pen and other materials. With an almost empty visual library, I was left with only my imagination. The results are below.
Workshop poster 
A lecture by James Bach: What is Systems Thinking?
A lecture by Rik Marselis: Besturings Paradigma
An experience report by Derk-Jan de Grood: Who’s Influencing Who?
An experience report by James Bach: Coaching Space
An experience report by Michael Philips: Test Automation in Agile
An experience report by Joris Meerts: What is a Good Tester?
An experience report by James Bach: Credibility
Ruud Cox 