Isabel Evans

Isabel Evans

Isabel Evans
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Isabel is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. She received the 2017 Testing Excellence Award, at the EuroSTAR conference, Copenhagen November 2017. She is honoured to have been the Programme Chair for the EuroSTAR Conference 2019, in Prague. She graduated with a PhD from University of Malta in 2026. Her research is about the experiences of software testers, including examination of stereotyping, common challenges with test tools, and heuristics to improve the design of test tools.

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researcher, writer, speaker, story teller
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Agile
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Lean
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Test Automation
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HCI, UX
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Isabel Evans

Isabel is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. She received the 2017 Testing Excellence Award, at the EuroSTAR conference, Copenhagen November 2017. She is honoured to have been the Programme Chair for the EuroSTAR Conference 2019, in Prague.  She graduated with a PhD from University of Malta in 2026. Her research is about the experiences of software testers, including examination of stereotyping, common challenges with test tools, and heuristics to improve the design of test tools.

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Groups of people networking at a conference Learning to Network: Fake It till You Make ItFailure is part of learning; we have to do things we are not good at in order to become better at them. To learn networking, we have to take the risk of failing and do what we fear. This means taking small steps to open up, asking questions, and listening—and even pretending to be interested until you really are!
People designing software for good user experience Devices and Desires: Understanding How Users Experience Your SoftwareWhen we design, build, test, and deliver software, it is imperative that we provide our users with what they need—not what we want, but what that they want. We need to understand the scope and breadth of the user base. Here are three questions to ask to learn more about how users experience your software.
Pack of lions How You Can Help the Human Animals in Your Group ThriveOn our teams, we deal with many individuals with diverse perspectives. It's not always easy, but we are animals, and many animals live and work—and are only able to survive—in teams. You can look to how animals interact with and react to each other to see how we, as human animals, can not just survive, but thrive.
Failure is part of success How Failure Is Essential to Your SuccessNo one likes to fail, but it is an essential activity in our lives. Each failure gives us a chance to learn and become better. No one is instantly successful at anything; everyone goes through a learning curve, and that may be steep and long. But we need to do better to embrace failure, because it precedes success.
Changing the Narrative: Using Storytelling in Software TestingStories change how we think and how we perceive our surroundings. This applies at work, too. What narrative did we tell ourselves during that project? Do we tell ourselves we are worthy of succeeding, or does our story tell us to fail again? Here are some ways testers can use stories to their advantage.
Finding the Truth in Testing through Folk Tales and Fairy StoriesWhen we test, we build fictions in our minds. We make thought experiments about what the product or system might do, what we could expect the results of an action to be, what they should be, and how they might go wrong. Isabel Evans shows us why you're never too old for folk tales and fairy stories.