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Zagreb STC MeetUp #4
Yesterday I was at Zagreb STC MeetUp #4. As always, it was organized by Karlo Šmid at Ericsson Nikola Tesla.
As usual, about ten of us appeared. We started by introductions. Everybody said a few words about themselves, and the conversations just started. And lasted for more than 3 hours. We were talking mostly about everyday challenges that we face.
We were also talking about Five Schools of Software Testing, upcoming local conference on software testing viaqa and the talk on software testing that a few of us plan to give at Web::Strategija 14 conference.
A few of us brought the books they own and our little library continues!
Of course there, were pizza and soft drinks. (Thanks Karlo.)
Perfect Software And Other Illusions About Testing
TL;DR: Read the book.
Recently I had the pleasure of reading Perfect Software And Other Illusions About Testing by Gerald M. Weinberg. Since we both know I am really bad at book reviews, I will just quote a few things from the book that grabbed my attention while reading it, enough to make a note.
p.24: All in all, testing can be exhausting, but it can never be exaustive.
p.26: Imagine you are about to dine at the Testing Buffet. (Testing Buffet!? See TL;DR.)
p.28: Diversifying your test team might find more problems than enlarging your test team.
p.70: Under such a system of measurement, a lousy developer is tester’s best friend. (Wondering when this is true? See TL;DR.)
p.76: The only real kind of exhaustive testing is when the tester is to exhausted to continue.
p.135: If you don’t care about quality, you can make any schedule.
p.142: The number one testing tool is not the computer, but the human brain.
p.151: There are many ways of testing without involving computers, but no way of testing that doesn’t involve using brains.
And one bug in the book (or maybe not, who knows):
p.101: A white elephant. (I think it should be gold elephant. Elephants!? See TL;DR.)
Zagreb STC MeetUp #2
Yesterday I was at Zagreb STC MeetUp #2. It was organized by Karlo Šmid at Ericsson Nikola Tesla.
After the first meetup (which was great) I thought the second one could be only worse. But to my great surprise, it was even better than the first one!
About ten of us appeared. Pizza was already there, so we started talking informally while eating pizza. (We even had a snack and refreshment sponsor, Calyx.)
Karlo brought a few books, I brought a few and we organized a little library. I think I got a pretty good deal, I borrowed a few good books:
- Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing by Gerald M. Weinberg
- Lessons Learned in Software Testing by Cem Kaner, James Bach and Bret Pettichord
- Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition by Cem Kaner, Jack Falk and Hung Q. Nguyen
(Book reviews coming soon.)
While we were still eating pizza, Karlo had a talk about The Grinder, a Java Load Testing Framework. After that I talked about Watir (automated testing that doesn’t hurt), Cucumber (making BDD fun) and Sikuli (automate anything you see) and how I use them together.
A really important part of every meetup are informal conversations in pairs or small groups, and we also had plenty of those.
A really good meetup. If you have a chance to attend the next one, I would highly recommend it.
