Anita Squires
Automated Tester at BJSS
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Anita has always been interested in computers from an early age; very early on, her dad gifted her a ZX spectrum. However, it took until she was later in her career to actually move directly into a coding career by becoming an automated tester. Before that, she spent many years working in a support role in various financial technology institutes, working closely with analysts, developers and testers, noticing the lack of young women in the space.
Outside of her day job, she has focused on trying to encourage more young women into technology roles with the Dell Stem Apire Mentoring program.
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Agile and the Tester
A short talk about the issues that can be faced, including testers in an Agile Sprint, to get the best out of everyone in the team.
Hidden voices/lost ideas
If you ask most people to name a famous person associated with the internet, they will probably say Tim Berners-Lee. He did create the World Wide Web, but without the work of Radia Perlman, Elizabeth Fienler and Karen Spark-Jones, it would not be half as useful to the everyday person. Let my talk introduce you to 10 women who helped shape the technology we use today and explain why not forgetting them can help us find more hidden voices in our day-to-day lives and use their ideas to move us forward.
For the past forty years, fewer women have enrolled in technology courses. Several articles pinpoint 1984 as the year that enrolment dropped off in a steep decline. There were several factors to this drop off, including just a general view that women did not belong in the field, with Steven Levy labelling them “horribly inefficient and wasteful things” in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.
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