About the Quality Assurance Special Interest Group Meeting

The primary goal of the meeting is to facilitate informal discussion relating to agile testing. The meeting starts with a short presentation intended to provide a focus for discussion.

The group is facilitated by Stan Taylor (stan@aphids.com), Automation Lead at Polycom, and Jill Ott (jillott_qa@yahoo.com), Senior Software Tester at Dovetail Software, with special thanks to Kevin Rutkowski (rutkowk@yahoo.com), QA project manager at Catapult Systems, for arranging the location.

The focus of this meeting is testing, but people from all agile specializations are welcome.

If you have questions, email Stan or call him on his mobile at 512-826-4759.

Date
Monday, February 22 at 12:00 noon

Location

Seating is limited! Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.  We want to give everyone the opportunity to attend, so please only sign-up if you are committed to attending.  (These sessions are valuable to both newbies and experienced alike).

Food and Drink

You can bring your lunch, but you can also buy lunch nearby at the TacoDeli at 1500 Spyglass. Sodas will be provided.

Presentation

Kerry Kimbrough will present on the following topic:

Test-Infected? And Coverage-Directed!

Agile testers often focus on elaborating the business-facing examples that drive the team. But they can also jump into the trenches and help with the kind of technology-facing test cases that test-driven developers create. A comprehensive, systematic, coverage-driven approach to testing “inside the box” can produce great results at reduced costs. I’ll talk about a project in which this strategy emerged in a limited fashion, as well as a current project that is beginning to apply it more thoroughly.

Kerry Kimbrough is the owner of Starting Block Technologies, a software engineering service provider specializing in quality engineering. Kerry has helped design and test a broad range of systems, including real-time systems for data acquisition and factory control, interactive tools for microprocessor designers and business modelers, and wireless mesh networks for industrial sensors.

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