[QA] Fwd: [Wmfall] Meet-up at WMF: Exploratory Testing for Complex Software, Oct 22 2014

Thu Dec 4 21:04:23 UTC 2014

Hi testers and friends,

this is another talk that I think would be really interesting to the people
on the list.

Željko

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand at wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Wmfall] Meet-up at WMF: Exploratory Testing for Complex
Software, Oct 22 2014
To: "wmfall at lists.wikimedia.org" <wmfall at lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, Engineering <
engineering at lists.wikimedia.org>, A mailing list to discuss team practices
in Wikimedia organizations <teampractices at lists.wikimedia.org>

~ Sorry, I did not finish that last email before it was sent. ~

This meet-up is taking place tonight and starting in 4 hours.

*Logistics*
*Date:* Oct 22, 2014
*Time:* 0130 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Cloudfoundry+Meetup&iso=20141022T0130&ah=1&am=30>
*Remote Participation:* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWjw9iPWg0
*Physical Location:* WMF HQ, San Francisco, 3rd Floor (RSVP
<http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/> necessary). Come
at 6pm (0100 UTC) for Pizza and drinks.
*IRC Channel for questions and discussion:* #wikimedia-office

Hope to see you all there!

Rachel

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> This meet-up is taking place tonight and starting in 4 hours.
>
> Logistics
> Date: Oct 22, 2014
> Time: 0130 UTC
> <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Cloudfoundry+Meetup&iso=20141022T0130&ah=1&am=30>
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 <
>> arichards at 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
>>
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