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| + | * Introductions | ||
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| + | * Nicholas Collins | ||
| + | ** Software tester for a few years, knowledge of how ''his'' company works | ||
| + | ** But two years isn't a long time compared to some software testers | ||
| + | ** Nick has prepared notes, will be presenting slightly differently from other KWNPSA sessions | ||
| + | ** SysAdmin in insurance industry; laid off (as are many of us); back to school to upgrade IT skills | ||
| + | ** Uses Visual Studio, C#, other languages | ||
| + | ** People he's met were developers, or business-specific skills; when software testers are needed these people are thrust into the role | ||
| + | ** This might change as more universities offer software testing as a major | ||
| + | ** There are very few courses or certificates in software testing, more prevalent in the US | ||
| + | *** but Fanshawe college in London has a certificate program | ||
| + | ** Some institutions have a couple of courses in tech writing, project management, quality management; maybe a night course in software quality testing | ||
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Revision as of 18:31, 8 April 2019
Software Testing
- Date
- Monday, 8 April 2019 Year from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/260073069/
- Location
- Room 1300 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
If you work in software development, how much of your job involves testing? If you're a project manager, do you work closely with the testers to keep an eye on their results and bug reports as a project progresses? If you are a developer, do you do your own unit testing and work with testers on test plan reviews and fix the bugs they find when they do integration and regression testing? If you are a software tester, how do you balance the need to be thorough with the need to deliver on time? How does that affect writing test plans? When a project team has to deal with a lot of changes in the middle of development and testing, how do you cope with updating test plans with limited time? Since you should be considerate when reporting bugs in software, especially when people have worked hard on it, how can you do this tactfully? How do testers work with people like technical writers who use test plans as a reference when writing documentation like user manuals?
Nicholas Collins, a long-time member of KWNSPA and a professional software tester will give us an overview of the deep art of testing software.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Resources
TechSoup Canada catalogue: Developer Software
Meeting Notes
- Introductions
- Nicholas Collins
- Software tester for a few years, knowledge of how his company works
- But two years isn't a long time compared to some software testers
- Nick has prepared notes, will be presenting slightly differently from other KWNPSA sessions
- SysAdmin in insurance industry; laid off (as are many of us); back to school to upgrade IT skills
- Uses Visual Studio, C#, other languages
- People he's met were developers, or business-specific skills; when software testers are needed these people are thrust into the role
- This might change as more universities offer software testing as a major
- There are very few courses or certificates in software testing, more prevalent in the US
- but Fanshawe college in London has a certificate program
- Some institutions have a couple of courses in tech writing, project management, quality management; maybe a night course in software quality testing
