Last month we held the November session of the Indianapolis Workshops on Software Testing (IWST). At the workshop we tried something a bit new. Instead of working with the same topic for five hours, we had each attendee present at least one short five minute talk on a topic of their choice. Some attendees presented more than once. The participants in the workshop were the following:
In addition to the format switch-up, we also introduced some podcast equipment into the room to capture the talks and the follow up discussion. Below, you'll find links to the audio for each talk along with some notes the IWST organizers put together to help people follow up on some of the topics discussed.
MCOASTER by Mike Kelly
Experiences Testing In Scrum by Patrick Milligan
More Experiences Testing In Scrum by Patrick Milligan
Screen Recording APIs by Jason Horn
Testing Mobile by Jayadev Reddy
Challenges With Hiring Testers by Mike Goempel
Book Review: How To Break Web Software by Chris Scales
One Trick Ponies by Mike Kelly
Testing In The Cloud by Jason Horn
ROI of Test Automation by Ananth Krishnamoorthy
Heuristics For Creating Automated Regression Tests by Mike Kelly
The Omega Tester by Jason Horn
If you like the format, you're in luck... We think we'll be doing something like this a couple times in 2011. Enjoy the audio and if you have any questions or suggestions let me know. You can also help us plan the 2011 workshop topics on the IWST Meetup site, under Ideas.
- John Galligan
- Mike Goempel
- Jason Horn
- Michael Kelly
- Ananth Krishnamoorthy
- Panos Linos
- Patrick Milligan
- Jayadev Reddy
- Chris Scales
In addition to the format switch-up, we also introduced some podcast equipment into the room to capture the talks and the follow up discussion. Below, you'll find links to the audio for each talk along with some notes the IWST organizers put together to help people follow up on some of the topics discussed.
MCOASTER by Mike Kelly
- Dimensions of a Good Test Report: article on applying the MCOASTER heuristic to test reporting.
- The MCOASTER framework image.
- Past blog post on coming up with a heuristic.
Experiences Testing In Scrum by Patrick Milligan
More Experiences Testing In Scrum by Patrick Milligan
- The basics of Scrum on Wikipedia.
- Burn-down Charts on Wikipedia.
- Checkout the TWiki website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the Bugzilla website for more information on that tool.
- The MoSCoW acronym on Wikipedia.
- Checkout the Subversion website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the Watir website for more information on that tool
Screen Recording APIs by Jason Horn
- Checkout the Selenium website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the Sauce Labs website for more on their hosted Selenium testing services. (There is a free plan available.)
- One of the (many) Jason Huggins Google tech talks on Selenium.
- Checkout the uTest website for more on crowdsourcing.
Testing Mobile by Jayadev Reddy
- The topic of using emulators for testing came up during the discussion. This post contains a nice listing of some emulators out there today with links for where to find them.
Challenges With Hiring Testers by Mike Goempel
- During the discussion, the previous workshop on Testing Centers of Excellence was mentioned.
Book Review: How To Break Web Software by Chris Scales
- How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services by Mike Andrews and James Whittaker
- A bit more on supercookies from 33 Bits of Entropy.
One Trick Ponies by Mike Kelly
- Checkout the Stella website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the Website Grader website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the BrowserMob website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the spoon website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the WebPagetest website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the Browsershots website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the Web Developer extension website for more information on that tool.
- During the talk Mike mentioned the concept of blink testing.
- Checkout the QuickTestingTips.com blog for short writeups on these (and similar) tools.
Testing In The Cloud by Jason Horn
- Jason works for BlueLock, a company that offers hosting/services for the cloud. You can learn more about their products on their website.
- Jason mentioned VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V as examples of private clouds.
- Jason talked a bit more about Sauce Labs. Check out their website for more on their hosted Selenium testing services. (There is a free plan available.)
ROI of Test Automation by Ananth Krishnamoorthy
- You can find the Aspire ROI calculator on their website.
Heuristics For Creating Automated Regression Tests by Mike Kelly
- Mike mentioned that this content was co-developed with David Christiansen.
- For more on all pairs testing (and other combinatorics techniques) checkout the Pairwise Testing website.
- During the questions and answers, Pat Milligan mentioned the tool Hudson. Learn more about Hudson and continuious integration on the Hudson website.
The Omega Tester by Jason Horn
- If you've not see the movie, check out the Omega Man. Also mentioned as a useful metaphor was Arrested Development.
- James Bach's article on The Omega Tester.
- Checkout the Balsamiq website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout the Atlassian website for more information on Confluence, JIRA, GreenHopper.
- Checkout the Maven website for more information on that tool.
- Checkout Dan North's website for more on BDD.
If you like the format, you're in luck... We think we'll be doing something like this a couple times in 2011. Enjoy the audio and if you have any questions or suggestions let me know. You can also help us plan the 2011 workshop topics on the IWST Meetup site, under Ideas.