Lisa Crispin

YouTube video by Agile Testing Fellow "Testing and AI" with Brittany Stewart.

Our latest @agiletfellow.bsky.social Donkeys & Dragons video chat is available! @janetgregoryca.bsky.social and I talk with the awesome Brittany Stewart about testing, AI and much more - we squeezed a lot into 15 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxL6...

Mini donkey in work harness hitched to cart, looking off to the side of the hay field where there are wildflowers and birds. Round hay bales in distance.

We’ve been driving together 22 years and we both enjoy it so much. 💜💜💜 Grateful for cool weather today because it’s been way too hot to go driving lately.

And yet I messed up my actual post, I meant to say “enough donkey pictures “ 😂

Mini donkey grazing in field of wildflowers

I don’t post every donkey pictures here.

STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY with Champlain Valley Indivisible! · Indivisible Join friends and neighbors during high traffic hours to show our fellow Vermonters - and visitors - that we're standing up for democracy, standing up for the Constitution, and standing against the Tru...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY with Champlain Valley Indivisible!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Hey lady! Where’s our breakfast?

#PolyglotProblems: I no longer have a consistent mental sort order for countries and languages—in any language 😅

I always expect "Germany" to sort under "D" and "Dutch" to sort under "N" 😂

Representative Seth Moulton draws a primary challenge after criticism over trans athlete remarks - The Boston Globe Bethany Andres-Beck, a transgender software engineer, said Moulton's comments about trans athletes are “part and parcel of being out of touch with America.”

NEW: Representative Seth Moulton draws a primary challenge after criticism over trans athlete remarks www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...

Yesterday I had someone on my team say “Oh Meg is really against AI” & then I was told I have to use it or I’ll get left behind. They just assumed I wasn’t using it or I was using it wrong. I have been using it for years now & I dislike that folks assume I’m ignorant because I criticise it.

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If you are in leadership, like it or not your in involved in the business of empire building. The question to ask yourself is whose empire are you building? And if it was your empire, what would you want it to look like?

The conclusion I’m coming to, is that what matters is how you build your empire, not what your empire ends up as.

I say this as a beginner in intentional empire building. Most times I run away from this crap. But not today.

Today I fight for my way.

Soooo - that electrical engineering knowledge (and soldering skills) become even more important. Despite being operated well within spec one of the capacitors blew up.

Hopefully that should be easy to fix.

a woman wearing a hoodie and sunglasses is sitting in a crowd of people and making a peace sign . Alt: a woman wearing a hoodie and sunglasses is sitting in a crowd of people and making a peace sign .

I'm a rebel. I tweak my slide color choices to be WCAG AA compliant rather than company slide police compliant.

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Where are you on your #testing with #AI and #automation path?

All in?
Cautiously optimistic?
A pox on thee?
Keeping an eye on things?

Here are some of my thoughts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7PU...

Photo of flip chart showing the following list of gathered bumps holding us back when it comes to building secure enough products: Authentication and authorization: boring and annoying, complicated and easy to mess up Knowledge: where to even start, lack of imagination what attackers might do "We had more important things to do" Implied trust Poor observability: complex, what to consider malicious "Let's hide this - we can't use the paper trail" Unclear incident response process: what now when the heat is on Insecure defaults Regulation: just ticking boxes, overinterpreting what is sensitive data Third party tools: no insights, so many supply chain attacks Performance drops: additional auth requests Poor usability of security features: people find workarounds

Photo of flip chart showing the following list of gathered boosters helping us move forward when it comes to building secure enough products: Authentication and authorization: enabler for features Check and update dependencies through tools Knowledge sharing: helpful security team, security champions, threat modelling Awareness by example: CTFs, cheat sheets Use helpful security products - trustworthy ones Define "secure enough" and risk appetite Use metrics for the win: show progress, motivation Regular external penetration tests Do security testing yourself first Regular fire drills and dry runs for emergency cases Regulation: what data do we really need? Security features supporting user experience: SSO Iterate Standardization: don't reinvent the security wheel Competitive advantage: customers expecting level Zero trust: guardrails, limit blast radius Celebrating success stories: reinforce good practices

Joined very interesting sessions at #SoCraTes2025 today and gave two myself. "Building Secure Enough Products - Bumps & Boosters" led to an impactful experience exchange of what holds us back & what helps us move in good directions. 💡

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Our July @agiletfellow.bsky.social blog post is up! @janetgregoryca.bsky.social and I look at task-switching. Are there any scenarios where it can work? What is your experience? agiletestingfellow.com/blog/post/ta... #HolisticTesting #AgileTesting

NEW: #Wimbledon wrap is out now! "Luck Be a Sinner This Fortnight"

🔹Swiatek figures out grass
🔹Sincaraz final doesn't deliver this time, but Sinner does
🔹Ackman at the Newport Casino like it's 1884 again
🔹Get yourself a dedicated hater like Sally Jenkins

thebodyserve.podbean.com/e/luck-be-a-...

YouTube video by YvesHanoulle Who is agile: Lisi Hocke is happy with her current life

A while ago, I had the pleasure to get interviewed by @yveshanoulle.bsky.social. The recording just got published: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-h... If you want to learn more about where I'm coming from, how I got to where I am today, and who inspired and supported me on my journey, have a listen. :)

Part 1/2: Secure Development Lifecycle Applied - How to Make Things a Bit More Secure than Yesterday Every Day | NDC Porto 2025 Building valuable solutions is a complex endeavor that requires a breadth of knowledge. That not being enough, we’re also getting asked to build secure solutions in a secure way - yet what does that e...

Have you heard? I'm giving my workshop "Secure Development Lifecycle Applied - How to Make Things a Bit More Secure than Yesterday Every Day" at NDC Porto this year! Super excited to experience this conference, share and learn with folks. 🤩

ndcporto.com/workshops/pa...

#NDCPorto #AppSec #DevSecOps

International Non-Binary People's Day - Wikipedia

A day to take note of! It's International Non-Binary People's Day. 🌞

You weren't aware? No shame in that! What does non-binary mean, you ask? What a great opportunity to learn more! And how to do this better than through non-binary folks themselves?

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Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!

#NonBinaryDay #enby #NonBinaryAwarenessWeek

Digital artwork of three seals in various poses. The seal on the left is a black and white ribbon seal, holding a non-binary flag in its left flipper, and wearing a bandana around its neck with the colors of the demigender flag. The seal on the right is a harbor seal holding a heart painted like the non-binary flag, and is wearing non-binary flag rainbow boppers along with being painted on the side of its head. The seal on the bottom is a harp seal pup with a large non-binary flag draped on its back, holding a non-binary flag with its left flipper. The text 'NONBINARY PRIDE!' is at the top of the image.

some art of seals celebrating non-binary pride 🦭🦭🦭
happy non-binary day and non-binary awareness week!!!!
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#art #artist #illustration #seal #sealsky
#nonbinary #enby #nonbinaryday #nonbinaryawarenessweek

International Non-Binary People's Day - Wikipedia

So here's your quest: Check out the hashtags below and you'll find lots of posts you might not have seen in your bubble so far. Find at least one non-binary person's profile where you like the content, and follow them! Bonus points for boosting their content so even more people can learn. 🎉

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Four-panel cartoon comic for software testers. Panel 1: Three diverse cartoon characters with the text "We may look different." Panel 2: A tester thinks of a magnifying glass and a bug, with the text "We may test using different tools and approaches." Panel 3: Four smiling testers holding hands with the text "But inside us, we have one thing in common." Panel 4: A large blue figure labeled "Imposter Syndrome."

We may look different,
we may test using different tools and approaches,
but inside us, we have one thing in common...

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The best part about the Mirra-Conchita partnership is that it appears so wholesome. Wish everyone had that

I enjoyed meeting three awesome teams last year! We discussed their biggest obstacles and brainstormed experiments to overcome them. And found conference sessions & speakers to help them too.

Our @agiletfellow.bsky.social July newsletter is out! @janetgregoryca.bsky.social and I share some of our experiences and thoughts on diversity, equity and inclusion.

It’s so sad. And, I’m a Sinner fan as well as a Grigor fan now.