SPEAKER: Todd Kaufman. Our November meeting had an unexpected and unfortunate interruption due to a fire alarm at the UW DC building. Luckily for us, Todd gave this talk in Detroit at TechCon '17 the past September and it was recorded! You can watch his talk here.

Your boss has given you the "Automate Everything" directive. Is he expecting to reduce costs? Implement the latest silver-bullet tool that will save the company? Increase test coverage to avoid future embarrassment? How do you respond? Jerry Penner shows you how to manage expectations by asking the right questions and framing the capabilities of computer-aided testing in business terms. He talks about what should and should not be automated so you can find more of the important bugs faster. He t...

Come on out to UW DC1302 on January 25th at 11:30am to see Mike Kaufman Present the Red Bead Experiment: The White Bead Corporation is looking for Above Average Employees for expanded production. On the job training provided. Earn bonuses! The White Bead Corporation is a proud producer of shiny, perfect, white beads. We work hard to meet our customer’s exacting demands and won’t settle for anything less than perfection. We need Willing Workers who are Above Average Employees to handle this...

Come on out to see Jason Little: The Structure of Your Organization Limits Your Level of Quality "How to we make testing more agile?" Have you heard people say this? I sure have. It's not a shock to say that most organizations still use a manufacturing metaphor when it comes to software quality. That is, let's make testing more agile in order to inspect quality in during our agile testing phase. Most organizations I've worked with focus on making their existing structures more agile instea...