<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi testers and friends,</div><div><br></div><div>this is another talk that I think would be really interesting to the people on the list.</div><div><br></div><div>Željko</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rachel Farrand</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfarrand@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">rfarrand@wikimedia.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:32 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Wmfall] Meet-up at WMF: Exploratory Testing for Complex Software, Oct 22 2014<br>To: "<a href="mailto:wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>Cc: Wikimedia developers <<a href="mailto:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>>, Engineering <<a href="mailto:engineering@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">engineering@lists.wikimedia.org</a>>, A mailing list to discuss team practices in Wikimedia organizations <<a href="mailto:teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">~ Sorry, I did not finish that last email before it was sent. ~<span><div><div><br></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px">This meet-up is taking place tonight and starting in 4 hours. </span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><u>Logistics</u></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><b>Date:</b> Oct 22, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><b>Time:</b> <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Cloudfoundry+Meetup&iso=20141022T0130&ah=1&am=30" target="_blank">0130 UTC</a></div></div></span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><b>Remote Participation:</b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWjw9iPWg0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWjw9iPWg0</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><b>Physical Location:</b> WMF HQ, San Francisco, 3rd Floor (<a href="http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/" target="_blank">RSVP</a> necessary). Come at 6pm (0100 UTC) for Pizza and drinks. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><b>IRC Channel for questions and discussion:</b> #wikimedia-office </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px">Hope to see you all there!</div><span><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px">Rachel </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.5714282989502px"><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Rachel Farrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfarrand@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">rfarrand@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">This meet-up is taking place tonight and starting in 4 hours. <div><br></div><div>Logistics</div><div>Date: Oct 22, 2014</div><div>Time: <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Cloudfoundry+Meetup&iso=20141022T0130&ah=1&am=30" target="_blank">0130 UTC</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Arthur Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arichards@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">arichards@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Just a reminder that this is happening this coming Wednesday, and that we are planning to record/broadcast the event for remote participants.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Arthur Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arichards@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">arichards@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">On </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>Wednesday, October 22, 2014</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 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 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">exploratory testing</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> [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.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>When</b>: Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 6:00pm - 8:30pm (for WMF folks there is a calendar event on the Engineering calendar)<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Where</b>:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Wikimedia Foundation</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">6th Floor, collab space</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">149 New Montgomery St.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">San Francisco, CA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(Accessible for remote participation via Hangouts on Air; link TBA)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>From the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/" target="_blank">meet-up invite</a></b>[2]:<br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[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).</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[2] <a href="http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/</a></div></div><span><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Arthur Richards<div>Team Practices Manager</div><div>[[User:Awjrichards]]</div><div>IRC: awjr</div><div><a href="tel:%2B1-415-839-6885%20x6687" value="+14158396885" target="_blank">+1-415-839-6885 x6687</a></div></div>
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