About Me
I am Shmuel Gershon, a Testing Engineer at Gershon.info, providing software quality services for companies big and small.
I am married and have 8 kids, they are all cuter than other kids you've seen (of course). Israel Gershon helps with providing creative solutions and machinery where testing requires.

I am trying to learn enough to be able to understand (yet not always answer) software philosophical question them.
For more content visit the blog page at http://testing.gershon.info.
Please don't be shy of contacting me in any form you like (see sidebar for options...).

What I can offer

1. Testers from over the world and I engage in conversation regarding how to organize tests, how to work with teams and about the tools to use in day to day. Most of these conversations happen on email (sometimes it takes me long to reply, sorry!).
   
2. There are many tools you can find on my site, the most popular is Rapid Reporter.
   
3. If you are looking for someone to dry-run a presentation, I'll be glad to help.

Upcoming Events

24-25th Jul 2014

The Testing Roller Coaster: Focusing and Defocusing
Tel Aviv, Israel
Understanding more about focus and defocus and being able to identify which thinking mode occupies our mind at a given point are strong cognitive skill that helps us be better testers.

24-27th Jul 2014

Six Secrets for Exploring Non-Graphical Systems
EuroStar Conf, Irland
When a system has no graphical interface, the reduced interface requires some expanding. Thinking about these aspects can help a team devise a smart testing method that enables good manual tests while paving the way for worthwhile automation.

Past Events

03rd Apr 2014

JeST 4 Facilitator
Ex-Libris HQ, Jerusalem
A peer conference by software testers to software testers. Built on debates around atendee-defined topics.

28th January 2014

6 Secrets of Exploration in Embedded Systems
Agile Practitioners, Tel Aviv
How do you explore systems that are "out of reach" and expose only a programmatic interface? 6 principles that can enable rich tests in embedded systems.

09th Jan 2014

JeST 3 Facilitator
Cisco HQ, Jerusalem
A peer conference by software testers to software testers. Built on debates around atendee-defined topics.

28th Oct 2013

Atelier on Usability and UX
AdaptWorks, Sao Paulo, Brazil
A full day class all based on exercises and practices, demystifying the "black magic" of User Experience.

23th Oct 2013

6 Secrets of Embedded Systems Exploration
BRATeste, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
How do you explore systems that are "out of reach" and expose only a programmatic interface? 6 principles that can enable rich tests in embedded systems.

24th Oct 2013

Testing Team Leadership
BRATeste, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Leading is more than having a leader badge and completely different than having a management role. Tal on how testers can serve as enablers for the rest of their team.

25th Oct 2013

Tutorial on "NonFunctional" Testing
BRATeste, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Full day tutorial on advanced topics of software testing.

16th Oct 2013

Advanced Software Testing Techniques
AdaptWorks, Sao Paulo, Brazil
A full day class covering non-functional tests, exploration and testing tools.

2nd October 2013

ǝnןɐʌ: Why we have it backwards
GOTO Aarhus, Aarhus Denmark
What is software's real value? Deriving from that, do we understand the real value programmers and testers provide? A new approach to software that change the way we work.

2nd October 2013

Danish Testers Workshop
Aarhus Denmark
"(...) discuss Exploratory Testing in general and a number of specific problems or situations occurring while using ET at work (...)"

24rd July 2013

6 Secrets of Embedded Systems Exploration
SIGiST, Tel Aviv
How do you explore systems that are "out of reach" and expose only a programmatic interface? 6 principles that can enable rich tests in embedded systems.

10th July 2013

Everything is a Story
1st Testing Workshop, Jerusalem
Opening introductory address for a night of lightning talks and discussions.

3rd July 2013

Everything is Persona(l)
InTED Event, Haifa
A TED style presentation on simple methods to keep the user in mind when creating technology products.

30th January 2013

ǝnןɐʌ: Why we have it backwards
Agile Practitioners, Tel Aviv
What is software's real value? Deriving from that, do we understand the real value programmers and testers provide? A new approach to software that change the way we work.

25th Nov 2012

Defocusing methods in Exploration
Intel Corp Training
A hands-on session with introduction and examples to defocusing, and an against-the-clock exercise to demo and practice.

6th Nov 2012

EuroStar 2012
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Program Committee Member for the Innovate/Renovate conference, helping with the selection of presentation and papers.

16th Oct 2012

6 Secrets of Embedded Systems Exploration
QA&Test Bilbao, Spain
Morning Tutorial: How do you explore systems that are "out of reach" and expose only a programmatic interface?

19th Jul 2012

ǝnןɐʌ: Why we have it backwards
SIGiST Tel Aviv, Israel
What is software's real value? Deriving from that, do we understand the real value programmers and testers provide?

2010

People Matter: Using Personas for Design and Tests
Intel Corp Training, Oregon

Jun 16th 2010

People Matter: Using Personas for Usability Testing
Israel SIGiST Conference

Apr 29th 2010

Minimalist Test Session Notetaking Tool
STAREast RebelAlliance, Orlando USA

2010

Fuzz and Fault Injection Techniques
Intercampus lectures, Intel learning system

2009

Fuzz and Fault Injection Techniques
Intel Software Professionals Conference

2009

Software testing Techniques - Flow Control
Intel learning system

2009

Law & Order: Bugs that can cost you your business
Israel SIGiST Conference

2009

Characteristics of Testers around the World
Intel internal

2009

Law & Order: Bugs that can cost you your business
Intel learning system

2009

The essence of bugs and how to deal with rejections
Tech Career Class

2009

Insights from the Graphing Calculator
Intel internal

2008

Intel Legal Guidelines for Software
Intel internal

2008

Intel(R) AMT software host architecture
Intel internal

2008

Bug Rejections - Top 10 reasons
Intel internal

2008

Fuzz and Fault Injection Techniques
Israel SIGiST Conference

2008

Fuzz and Fault Injection Techniques
Intel learning system

2008

Software Testing
Tech Career Class

2007

LAN Devices and Networking
Tech Career Class

2006

OSConfs
Summary of the Open Source Developers Conference.

2006

Regular Expressions
Theory and practice of regular expressions.