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State of Testing Survey 2019 – Now Live and ready for your response!

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For the last five years, I have enjoyed answering and reading over the results of the State of Testing Survey produced by PractiTest and Tea Time for Testers.

I was pleasantly surprised today to see that the State of Testing Survey 2019 is now live and ready for responses.

“The State of Testing™  initiative seeks to identify the existing characteristics, practices, and challenges facing the testing community today in hopes to shed light and provoke a fruitful discussion towards improvement.” – PractiTest

Last year’s survey had over 1,500 respondents.

Be sure to take the survey as soon as you can and let’s see if we can get a record number of response!

If you missed the survey results for 2018, you can go to:

https://qablog.practitest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018_state_of_testing_report_1.2.pdf

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State of Testing Survey 2018 – Coming Soon!

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For the last four years, I have enjoyed answering and reading over the results of the State of Testing Survey produced by PractiTest and Tea Time for Testers.

I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see that the State of Testing Survey 2018 is coming out again very soon.  January 10th, 2018 to be exact.

Last year’s survey had over  1500 respondents.

If you missed the survey results for 2017, you can go to:

http://qablog.practitest.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/State_of_testing_2017_final_report.pdf

The 2018 survey “seeks to identify the existing characteristics, practices, and challenges facing the testing community in hopes to shed light and provoke a fruitful discussion towards improvement.”

For all the details of the survey, you can visit:
http://qablog.practitest.com/state-of-testing-survey-2018-is-about-to-begin/

I am looking forward to participating in the survey again and seeing the results. I hope you will too!

Be sure to share the news with other testers that you know.  Let’s try to break last year’s number of respondents.

 

 

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Software QA & Testing Meetup – April 2016 Meetup Scheduled

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Attention Ohio Testers:

Our next meetup is scheduled for April 26, 2016.  We are just a few weeks away!  Matthew Eakin has volunteered to give a presentation on “Cucumber as a Collaboration Tool.”  Having heard Matthew speak on several occasions, I am sure this will be an interesting discussion.

For all of the details for our meetup and to RSVP, be sure to visit the Software QA & Testing Meetup on meetup.com.

If you are going to be in the Columbus area, we would love to see you there!

I am going to endeavor to try to post raw notes or recaps from previous meetups on a more frequent basis than I have in the past.

March’s meeting featured Damian Synadinos speaking on the topic of “Commutication – An Exploration of Idea Transfer With Words.” 

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Software QA & Testing Meetup – March 2016 Meetup Scheduled

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Attention Ohio Testers:

Thank you to all that attended February’s meetup.  What a great turnout as we talked about “What I Learned at QA or the Highway 2016.″

Our meeting on March 29th will have the following topic:

“Commutication – An Exploration of Idea Transfer With Words” with Damian Synadinos

Communication is a key skill for any profession and especially true for testing.  Damian will be sharing an abbreviated version of his workshop that will be presented later this spring at STPCon.

Below is a description taken from his workshop:

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Software QA & Testing Meetup – February 2016 Meetup Scheduled

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Attention Ohio Testers:

Thank you to all that attended January’s meetup.  What a great turnout!  As mentioned in the meeting, I will be posting notes from the meetup soon.  Be sure to watch for it.

Our meeting on February 23th will have the following topic:

“What I Learned at QA or the Highway 2016”

The one day conference, QA or the Highway 2016, is scheduled for February 16th, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio.  There are some excellent tracks and speakers listed for the event.  We are going to dedicate our testing meetup to sharing our experiences at the conference.

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Software QA & Testing Meetup – January 2016 Meetup Scheduled

Software QA & Testing MeetupAttention Ohio Testers:

Happy New Year! The Software QA & Testing Meetup returns from its November/December break.  It’s time to get back together and talk testing.

Our meeting on January 26th will have the following topic:

Finding Your “Testing Spark”

What advice would you give to testers to be the best professional that they can be?  Are you an experienced tester that is feeling burnt out on the job?

Matt Hutchison will give a short presentation and will lead discussion on ways that testers can “Find Their Testing Spark.”