Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

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.

I was at Software Testers Speak Up Meeting #1 yesterday at Ericsson Nikola Tesla (in Zagreb, Croatia). It was organized by Karlo Šmid.

It was a good meeting. About 15 of us showed up. We introduced ourselves, talked about what we do, asked questions… After and hour or two talking, pizza arrived but the discussions continued, sometimes in smaller groups or pairs. A really good meeting.

The next one will probably be at the same place in a month or two. We will probably have one or two short 10-20 minute talks the next time. I am really looking forward to it.

If you want to continue the discussion from the meeting, ping Karlo (@karlosmid) or me (@zeljkofilipin) at Twitter, join viaqa Google group or viaqa/Croatian Software Testing Network LinkedIn groups.

Update: Karlo wrote about the meeting too.

This June I was the main organizer of viaqa 11, conference on software testing in Zagreb, Croatia. It was two day conference. The first day was about general software testing topics, and the second day was about Watir.

A have written a lot about the conference at it’s web site, and I plan to write more soon, so if you are interested, visit viaqa 11 web site.