Archive for May, 2009

Sessions planned for the rest of the year

May 20, 2009

Our planned sessions run through to the end of August. Here are the sessions plans to date:

Date
Location
Topic

June 16
McAfee
Agile in the Large

Agile portfolio management
Performance metrics

July 21
TBD
Lean Software Development

Guest speaker : Phil Kirby – Thoughtware

August 18
TBD
Agile Tools

Each tool presented by current user/vendor
Interest from Rally, AgileBuddy

2009-05-19: Coding Dojo Results

May 19, 2009

Thanks to everyone that came out to the coding dojo; especially anyone who did some codin’!
It was the first time doing this for everyone and I thought we did rather well. We ended up with some pretty slick C# code for parsing Roman numerals:
using System;

namespace RomanNumeralsCodingDojo
{
public class RomanNumerals
{
[...]

QA groups (local)

May 12, 2009

Here are a couple of links mentioned at the last meeting, so if you are looking to hook up with fellow QA folks check groups out.

Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA) http://qualityconference.ca/ 
Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph Quality Assurance Group on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1835348&goback=%2Egdr_1242163182206_1

2009-05-19 Test Driven Development/Design

May 12, 2009

This upcoming Communitech Peer 2 Peer session will be “coding dojo” where participants will apply test-driven development on some real code in real time. 
This will be valuable to anyone interested in agile development and automated testing, but will be of particular value to developers interested in TDD. This will be done in C# using Visual Studio [...]

Books on Agile Testing

May 12, 2009

Here are some good books on Agile Testing:

Agile Testing
A practical guide for testers and agile teams
Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory
This is a recent book and is a comprehensive and insightful view into all aspects of testing on agile teams. Highly recommended.

Bridging the Communication Gap
Specification by example and [...]