On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds interesting. Will there be a video of this event, similar to the > monthly metrics meetings? > Yes, Elisabeth is agreeable, we intend to record the talk and post it if all goes well. -Chris > > Pine > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Arthur Richards <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 the Quality Assurance Group and Team > > Practices Group hope you will join us for a meet-up at the WMF entitled > > 'Exploratory Testing for Complex Software; Lessons from Cloud Foundry' > with > > special guest speaker Elisabeth Hendrickson [1]. We will be discussing > > testing in agile iterative software development, and in particular > > exploratory > > testing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing> [0]. This > will > > be a lively and enlightening conversation, aimed at everyone concerned > > about the overall quality of software - even those who do not necessarily > > contribute code. > > > > *When*: Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 6:00pm - 8:30pm (for WMF folks there > > is a calendar event on the Engineering calendar) > > > > *Where*: > > Wikimedia Foundation > > 6th Floor, collab space > > 149 New Montgomery St. > > San Francisco, CA > > (Accessible for remote participation via Hangouts on Air; link TBA) > > > > *From the meet-up invite > > <http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/>*[2]: > > In modern software development organizations, the days are gone when > > separate, independent Quality Assurance departments test software only > > after it is finished. Iterative development and agile methods mean that > > software is constantly being created, tested, released, marketed, and > used > > in short, tight cycles. An important testing approach in such an > > environment is called Exploratory Testing, and the Wikimedia Foundation > has > > made significant investments to support Exploratory Testing for its > > software development projects. > > > > Elisabeth Hendrickson is "test obsessed". She was an early adopter and > > vocal proponent of all aspects of agile software testing. She has been > > particularly instrumental in encouraging and defining the practice of > > Exploratory Testing. Elisabeth's 2013 book "Explore It!: Reduce Risk and > > Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing" is the standard reference > on > > the subject. > > > > Join us in the Wikimedia Foundation collaboration space to hear Elisabeth > > discuss her experience doing software testing for complex projects, with > > particular examples of Exploratory Testing from her current work as > > Director of Quality Engineering for Cloud Foundry. > > > > This talk is for everyone involved in the overall quality of software, > and > > it will be of particular interest to Project Managers, Product Managers, > > and those working with software development projects who do not > necessarily > > contribute code directly to the projects. > > > > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing > > > > [1] Elisabeth Hendrickson is a tester, developer, and Agile enabler. She > > wrote her first line of code in 1980, and almost immediately found her > > first bug. In 2010 she won the prestigious Gordon Pask Award from the > Agile > > Alliance. She is best known for her Google Tech Talk on Agile Testing as > > well as her wildly popular Test Heuristics Cheatsheet. In 2003, she > learned > > how to do Agile for real from Pivotal Labs while working as a tester on > one > > of their projects. In 2012 she decided it was time to take up permanent > > residence in the Pivotal offices, where she is the Director of Quality > > Engineering for Cloud Foundry, Pivotal's Open Source Platform as a > Service > > (PaaS). > > > > [2] http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/ > > > > -- > > Arthur Richards > > Team Practices Manager > > [[User:Awjrichards]] > > IRC: awjr > > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
