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

[Rachel Farrand]

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

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Date: Oct 22, 2014
Time: 0130 UTC
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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
>>
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