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BCS Sigist next week
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Sat, 10/06/2006 - 16:49. eventsSo June the 15th, for those that do not follow football, soccer for readers in the USA, is a great oppertunity to meet up with a bunch of testers at the next BCS sigist event in London.
There is a good range of speakers and a nice range of subjects; if I was not off on a Management Training course with the new company I would be heading of there for the day as a great excuse to see how other Pr
There is a good range of speakers and a nice range of subjects; if I was not off on a Management Training course with the new company I would be heading of there for the day as a great excuse to see how other Pr
WOPR 7 announcement
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Sat, 10/06/2006 - 16:38. agile[textile] "WOPR7":http://www.performance-workshop.org/content/view/44/86/ has been announced, it will be hosted in the UK, the first in Europe.
I am really quite excited by this, I made my first WOPR this year in April over at the Googleplex in mountainview and came out with some wonderful insights.
Now I have been working on agile projects for a while and was really impressed with Antony Marcano's talk on his experience of doing performance testing on agile projects. Well it is this passion and this powerful new story and set of approaches that can still add value as long as we have a healthy sceptic view of the methodology and keep applying thinking to it.
I am really quite excited by this, I made my first WOPR this year in April over at the Googleplex in mountainview and came out with some wonderful insights.
Now I have been working on agile projects for a while and was really impressed with Antony Marcano's talk on his experience of doing performance testing on agile projects. Well it is this passion and this powerful new story and set of approaches that can still add value as long as we have a healthy sceptic view of the methodology and keep applying thinking to it.
And another peer conference to apply for.
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Thu, 27/04/2006 - 21:47. events[Textile]So I have just got back from a "WOPR":http://www.performance-workshop.org/ at the googleplex in CA. Now once more the nice google people are hosting a conference on testing, but this time I do not need to cross the atlantic, which is nice.
A "Call for Papers":http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/04/our-conference-on-automated-testing.html has been raised for an event to happen in September at the London Googleplex for a test automation conference.
A "Call for Papers":http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/04/our-conference-on-automated-testing.html has been raised for an event to happen in September at the London Googleplex for a test automation conference.
Not a peer conference...
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Wed, 26/04/2006 - 17:06. events[Textile]
...but as "tool events":http://www.testexpo.co.uk/ go this is actually a good one, if a bit far for "Corey Goldberg's":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/3635 comments to be disproved. There are some potentially interesting talks and going on on testing and on tools, some by vendors and some who do not have the seem interest including one on Exploratory Testing which if "James Lyndsay's":http://www.workroom-productions.com/james.html Jet Lag is not too bad he may attending.
...but as "tool events":http://www.testexpo.co.uk/ go this is actually a good one, if a bit far for "Corey Goldberg's":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/3635 comments to be disproved. There are some potentially interesting talks and going on on testing and on tools, some by vendors and some who do not have the seem interest including one on Exploratory Testing which if "James Lyndsay's":http://www.workroom-productions.com/james.html Jet Lag is not too bad he may attending.
More Testing Videos
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Mon, 24/04/2006 - 14:03. industry recognitionAfter talking to various people, including Harry Robinson, at WOPR6 it seems there is more testing goodness to come on google videos.
The tech talk series is going up on the site overtime, there is an excellent security testing talk by Mike Andrews on the site now who I previously met at STARWest 2004.
There is an interesting talk on Predicting Bugs in Code Changes by Jim Whitehead.
It should be noted that there are a number of WOPR attendees who have also recently provided a tech talk or will be providing one and these too over time should appear on google video.
The tech talk series is going up on the site overtime, there is an excellent security testing talk by Mike Andrews on the site now who I previously met at STARWest 2004.
There is an interesting talk on Predicting Bugs in Code Changes by Jim Whitehead.
It should be noted that there are a number of WOPR attendees who have also recently provided a tech talk or will be providing one and these too over time should appear on google video.
London in June is one of my Favorite places to be...
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Sun, 23/04/2006 - 18:04. events | exploratory testingand now there are another two reasons to add to the list.
James Lyndsay who I have just had the pleasure of spending six days with at WOPR6 at the Googleplex in CA, see [Textile]"Antony Marcano's":http://www.testingreflections.com/tracker/2 rather good write ups on the subject, has organised two rather excellent events:
"Lewt3":http://www.workroom-productions.com/LEWT.html which is the original format that the 3 days of SWOPRS were based on and also a two day "exploratory testing workshop":http://www.workroom-productions.com/TestObsessed.html with "Elisabeth Hendrickson":http://www.qualitytree.com/ who is a wonderful tester and teacher of testing.
James Lyndsay who I have just had the pleasure of spending six days with at WOPR6 at the Googleplex in CA, see [Textile]"Antony Marcano's":http://www.testingreflections.com/tracker/2 rather good write ups on the subject, has organised two rather excellent events:
"Lewt3":http://www.workroom-productions.com/LEWT.html which is the original format that the 3 days of SWOPRS were based on and also a two day "exploratory testing workshop":http://www.workroom-productions.com/TestObsessed.html with "Elisabeth Hendrickson":http://www.qualitytree.com/ who is a wonderful tester and teacher of testing.
SWOPR Day 1 & 2
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Wed, 19/04/2006 - 22:50. eventsThere will be a fuller write up later this week once it has been checked that the blog will met the IP agreement.So far an excellent event.
Day One was a SWOPR.
Now this was a new event for the WOPR and was based on James Lyndsay's highly successful LEWT format. This involved a series of short talks that ran for ten minutes and either were experienced based or statements of views on if we were reaching a paradigm shift in our performance test practices and the art of the practice.
Day One was a SWOPR.
Now this was a new event for the WOPR and was based on James Lyndsay's highly successful LEWT format. This involved a series of short talks that ran for ten minutes and either were experienced based or statements of views on if we were reaching a paradigm shift in our performance test practices and the art of the practice.
Interesting.
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Wed, 19/04/2006 - 22:25. testability[textile]
An interesting "press release":http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005983.html found whilst in the "WOPR":http://www.performance-workshop.org/ lab on performance testing with "AJAX":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
Well it is kind of refreshing for this level of kind of honesty.
So if the test tool does not work with the technology then let the test tool vendor dictate the technology you use.
An interesting "press release":http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005983.html found whilst in the "WOPR":http://www.performance-workshop.org/ lab on performance testing with "AJAX":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
Well it is kind of refreshing for this level of kind of honesty.
So if the test tool does not work with the technology then let the test tool vendor dictate the technology you use.
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