Just a reminder that this is happening this coming Wednesday, and that we are planning to record/broadcast the event for remote participants.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org> 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 > -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
