When I was in high school, I always enjoyed weekly poker games with my friends. As I began my testing career, I realized many poker skills that I honed years ago are similar to those I need to be a good software tester. In poker, resource allocation (betting with chips) is easier knowing if your opponent has won a World Series of Poker bracelet or if he is a novice. In testing, it helps to know how much business, testing, and technical knowledge each team member has so...
Matthew Eakin
Centric Consulting
With more than twenty years of technical, leadership, and planning experience, Matthew Eakin is the national automation architect (Ruby/Cucumber) with the software quality assurance and testing practice of Centric Consulting. His experience in all aspects of the SDLC, combined with development skills, has helped Matthew to be an effective agile testing practitioner and coach. He speaks extensively on Gherkin Scripting and is in high demand as a behavior-driven development and acceptance test-driven development coach. Matthew now leads his workshops—Agile Testing, Gherkin Scripting, and A Manual Testers Guide to the Ruby/Cucumber Framework—nationally and teaches customized variations of the programs at client sites.