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 <aricha...@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 <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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > >
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