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By Lynn McKee, August 2, 2011 11:16 pm

Last year I was fortunate to be nominated and elected to AST’s Board of Directors. This year as a board member, I volunteered to be the AST Nominations & Elections Committee Chair responsible for coordinating the 2011 Board of Directors election. Nancy Kelln and Griffin Jones both volunteered as NEC committee members to help with the planning and organizing.

It has been a great experience working with the NEC process and I am really excited about the upcoming election. This is the second time the AST has had more nominees than spots available and we have five excellent candidates this year. There are three open spots on the board this election and the candidates include:

• Matthew Heusser
• Cem Kaner
• Michael Larsen
• Catherine Powell
• Peter Walen

This year’s candidates have been very active in sharing their interest in participating on the AST Board of Directors including providing online bios w/photos, hosting a live ‘Ask the Candidates‘ event on Twitter, and creating the ‘Great AST Board of Directors Debate‘ podcast series. AST members have a wealth of information available to help guide them in making an informed vote in the upcoming election.

AST members will be voting electronically on August 7th at 12:00 am (GMT) – August 9th at 12:00 am (GMT). The results of the election will be announced during the Annual Members Meeting to be held on August 9th from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (PDT), 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (GMT), during the CAST Conference.

For more information regarding this year’s election, please refer to AST’s 2011 Nominations and Elections webpage.

I hope this year’s election has a very strong voter turnout. All the best to each of the candidates!

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By Lynn McKee, June 10, 2010 7:21 pm

At the end of April I shared my blog post “Set to Participate in AST’s BBST Foundations Course”. The course began on May 2 and the following four weeks whizzed by. I found myself spending considerably more time on course activities than the 8 hrs a week I had anticipated which prevented me from providing regular updates. Since the course wrapped up I have been swamped with working on conference materials, articles and attending the Rapid Software Testing course (a blog on that to follow shortly). It is great to finally have a quick moment to catch up.

I have been keen to provide a summary follow up on the BBST Foundations course. However, Selena Delesie and Michael Larsen recently wrote excellent blog posts summarizing their experiences with the course. Michael wrote “Foundations Class Has Ended… and I Passed” and Selena wrote “Learning Testing Again”. My perspective on the course echoes their thoughts. As I do not want to repeat very similar content I encourage you to read their posts.

The BBST Foundations course is invaluable for individuals passionate about software testing at all experience levels. Even for those with years of experience, this course is sure to provide new perspective and strengthen your testing foundation. Register for an upcoming course here.

And in case you were wondering…Yes, I Passed! I am looking forward to the opportunity to take the next course in the BBST series, Bug Advocacy.