Curriculum Vitae - Vincent Dirks

my cv is a wiki ...and I think that's pretty cool. Welcome and explore! Hopefully you'll find what you're looking for.

It's early days still, but I believe in "do and improve", so there's plenty more things to do. I'd love to hear what you think should come next. feedback is welcome

Blogs I've Written

2016

• Exploratory Automation - Using dynamic data in automation
• How agile helps you spend less time regression testing
• Processes are my Passion
• Agile developers' need for speed - When is fast too fast?

2014

• Oh what fun it is to do a little coding...
• Testers: mind the developer's ego!

What I'm reading...watching...listening

in progress or on the to do list

• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• [https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Learned-Software-Testing-Context-Driven/dp/0471081124/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477450378&sr=1-8&keywords=software+testing

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach. by Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord]

• Opening Keynote Session with Dr. Joseph Sirosh: Azure - the Cloud Supercomputer for AI
• Selenium WebDriver : Difference Between findElement and findElements with example
• Cucumber with Selenium (Automation)

Oct 2016

• Heuristic Testng Dice (Testing)
• Uncle Bob Martin: The Agile Manifesto, 15 years later (Agile)
• 4 essential body language tips from a world champion public speaker (Presenting)
• Testing Trapeze Magazine - October 2016 (Testing)
• Hand Signals at meetings to reduce interruptions (Agile)

New things I'm learning and trying out

Oct 2016

• bootcamp@elementalselenium.com
• Selenium - setting it up on my mac with Maven. Exploring it with ole.saintkentigern.com.
• Bootstrap - writing a static page showing 10 iFrames to show on a mobile - no joy so far
• HTML - showing 10 iFrames side by side horizontally, one for each subject my son has at school.

Sep 2016

• WikiMedia - using the wikipedia engine to set up this cvwiki and other wiki's