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Tuesday 26 November 2019
Monday 18 November 2019
CEWT #7 Abstracts
The seventh Cambridge Exploratory Workshop on Testing, CEWT #7, will be on 24th November 2019, hosted by DisplayLink. The topic is
But how do “traditional” practices in software engineering fit with the challenges of delivering this new technology? Mark will discuss his experiences of grappling with this problem, in particular the dirty testing secrets that evolved and why, when introducing a Machine Learning “Cognitive Investigations” solution that sought to replace the human decision making processes in the Anti Money Laundering operation of a global banking organisation.
Dirty Testing SecretsHere's the abstracts:
Mark Bunce, The Secret of Machine Learning
If you believe the hype and media buzz you’d think we have well and truly entered a new evolutionary age of artificial intelligence. Machine Learning is a hot-topic in many business domains and it is often seen as the magic wand that will quickly solve all problems.But how do “traditional” practices in software engineering fit with the challenges of delivering this new technology? Mark will discuss his experiences of grappling with this problem, in particular the dirty testing secrets that evolved and why, when introducing a Machine Learning “Cognitive Investigations” solution that sought to replace the human decision making processes in the Anti Money Laundering operation of a global banking organisation.
Aleksandar Simic, It's Not a Secret
What makes a secret harmful for me, for us testers or for whoever relies on us? How can we reveal the secret? Can the revealed secret become a secret again?Karo Stoltzenburg, Testing in Half the Time
It seems to me that half of the time, at least, we testers really are not needed; half of the time, at least, the testing we do really is unnecessary; and half of the time, at least, a tester in the team can actually risk destabilizing the team. In this talk I'll explain why and suggest that tester hubris is one of our dirty secrets.James Thomas, We Don’t Know
There are terms in our domain, terms that are fundamental to our work, terms like quality, bug, and even testing itself, that many testers would struggle to define. I’d say it’s an open secret within testing, but would it surprise our colleagues?
Sunday 22 September 2019
CEWT #7 is Coming!
The seventh Cambridge Exploratory Workshop on Testing, CEWT #7, will be on 24th November 2019, hosted by DisplayLink. The topic is
Note: this is not an open call for participants. We try to support the local testing community by inviting those who've attended other Cambridge meetups recently first.
Dirty Testing Secrets
What dirty secrets do you know about in testing? What dirty secrets do you know about in your team’s testing? What are your own testing’s dirty secrets? Come and share them at CEWT #7!As usual, the topic is deliberately open and the discussion we want is open-ended and open-minded.
Practitioners in every industry do things that people outside of it would be surprised about, maybe even horrified by. Different practitioners develop their own ways of working and some of those would upset even their colleagues within their company and industry. We tend to keep quiet about these things. They are our dirty secrets.
We’re interested in exploring what testing’s dirty secrets are perceived to be, what justifications there might be for keeping them secret, and whether they are actually secret rather than visible but not seen or perhaps even deliberately ignored.
We want to discuss occasions when a secret was revealed and what the causes and ramifications of that were. We are curious about attempts to be open that failed, attempts that succeeded, and challenges around openness when trying to fit testing inside a wider software engineering culture.
We want to know what motivates us to perpetuate a secret rather than change things, and what could persuade us to move some existing practice underground, out of view. We are wondering whether secrets are kept from particular kinds of people, at particular times, for particular kinds of practice or data. We are asking whether we ever deceive ourselves in our work.
We are also wondering how we feel about all of the above, and how we deal with those feelings in ways that help us to continue in our role, or perhaps leave it behind and try something else.
Note: this is not an open call for participants. We try to support the local testing community by inviting those who've attended other Cambridge meetups recently first.
Sunday 23 September 2018
Thursday 13 September 2018
CEWT #6 Abstracts
The sixth Cambridge Exploratory Workshop on Testing, CEWT #6, will be on 23rd September 2018, hosted by Roku. The topic is
Chris Kelly, Is it possible to measure good testing?
Customer facing teams can use tools like Customer Satisfaction surveys, employing formulae like Net Promoter Scores. But what do testers have?
Aleksander Simic, Good or good-enough testing?
How can we know if we are ready for, we are doing or we did a 'good testing'? What can we do to prepare for 'good testing' and how can we improve it? Who can judge about it?
Helen Stokes and Claire Banks, Different Perspectives
An exploration into the different perspectives of good testing/tester from a test engineer and a test managers. Working through two case studies for both sides, to see where they overlap and where differ.
Karo Stoltzenburg, A Life Less Ordinary
It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a good tester must have attention to detail, is of a curious nature, thinks outside the box, likes to break things (sic!) and is a fiendish asker of questions. Admirable qualities. Must haves. At least that's what the job adverts, our colleagues, social media and the internet tells us. But is this really it? And is this necessarily helpful?
James Thomas, Testing vs Chicken
In this talk I'll assume that we know what good testing is (for our context, at this time) and wonder how we can judge, during recruitment, that a person being interviewed for a role at our company could do that good testing for us.
Neil Younger, What’s so special about a tester anyway?
I'll be talking though my first attempt at expanding what it means to be a senior tester at DisplayLink. I will provide some examples for the following sections; Technical, Your Team, Sharing, and the business. This is my view for my context, it's imperfect and incomplete, but I hope will promote lively discussion around what it could mean to be a good tester.
What Makes Good Testers and/or Testing?Here's the abstracts:
Chris Kelly, Is it possible to measure good testing?
Customer facing teams can use tools like Customer Satisfaction surveys, employing formulae like Net Promoter Scores. But what do testers have?
How can we know if we are ready for, we are doing or we did a 'good testing'? What can we do to prepare for 'good testing' and how can we improve it? Who can judge about it?
Helen Stokes and Claire Banks, Different Perspectives
An exploration into the different perspectives of good testing/tester from a test engineer and a test managers. Working through two case studies for both sides, to see where they overlap and where differ.
Karo Stoltzenburg, A Life Less Ordinary
It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a good tester must have attention to detail, is of a curious nature, thinks outside the box, likes to break things (sic!) and is a fiendish asker of questions. Admirable qualities. Must haves. At least that's what the job adverts, our colleagues, social media and the internet tells us. But is this really it? And is this necessarily helpful?
James Thomas, Testing vs Chicken
In this talk I'll assume that we know what good testing is (for our context, at this time) and wonder how we can judge, during recruitment, that a person being interviewed for a role at our company could do that good testing for us.
Neil Younger, What’s so special about a tester anyway?
I'll be talking though my first attempt at expanding what it means to be a senior tester at DisplayLink. I will provide some examples for the following sections; Technical, Your Team, Sharing, and the business. This is my view for my context, it's imperfect and incomplete, but I hope will promote lively discussion around what it could mean to be a good tester.
Friday 15 June 2018
CEWT #6 is Coming!
The sixth Cambridge Exploratory Workshop on Testing, CEWT #6, will be on 23rd September 2018, hosted by Roku.
The topic is
Note: this is not an open call for participants. We try to support the local testing community by inviting those who've attended other Cambridge meetups recently first.
What Makes Good Testers and/or Testing?
How do you know when you’ve done a good job? How do you know when others think you’ve done a good job? Whose opinion matters, anyway? When you describe someone, including yourself, as a good tester what do you mean? In what ways good, and good compared to what?
At CEWT #6 we’ll be asking these questions and more, and wondering whether there are any characteristics of goodness that are universal (or even reasonably general) that we can apply to help us to assess ourselves and our testing. (Assuming we want to.)As usual, the topic is deliberately open and the discussion we want is open-ended and open-minded.
Note: this is not an open call for participants. We try to support the local testing community by inviting those who've attended other Cambridge meetups recently first.
Tuesday 30 January 2018
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