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:

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.

Attention 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.”

Attention Ohio Testers:

Last month’s meeting was a great two part discussion as we discussed CAST 2015 and the importance of a common Testing Language.

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

Testing in Agile: Challenges, Problems & Coping With Them

I found this topic from the Grand Rapid Testers meetup and thought it might be a good idea to discuss at our Columbus meetup as well.

Testing is seen as either a bottleneck because we take “too long” to test or inefficient because we don’t find bugs that are uncovered in later sprints or in regression testing.

• What can we do to deal with some of the common, and not-so-common, problems around testing in Agile environments (perhaps Scrum in particular?)
• What are the problems that you have faced in an Agile testing environment?

This discussion will help people share what they have tried, done and read about.  We will look for sharing and helping each other with new ideas.

Attention Ohio Testers:

Last month’s meeting was full of great discussion as we discussed a wide range of topic during our “open discussion” night.

We covered topics such as:

• Working for startups
• Developer/Tester relationships
• Will “manual” testing stay relevant?
• Automation ROI
• Algorithms vs. Heuristics
• QA vs. QC

Do you know the difference between “testing vs. checking?”  July 28th’s meetup will focus on these key concepts and approaches.

Bring your research, experiences, stories, tips, questions, advice, and resources regarding this topic.  This evening will be entirely a discussion based format.

For all of the details for this 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!

Attention Ohio Testers:

For our last month’s meeting in May we completed our discussion about “Interviewing & Hiring for Software Testing Jobs – Part 2.”

“Let’s Talk Testing, An Open Discussion” is the title of our meeting for June 30, 2015.  As the name suggests, we will not be having a specific topic predetermined.  Rather we will leave the evening as an open topic format where we can discuss a wide range of topics.

– Have a problem you are trying to solve?  Or even a general question about testing or test management?  Bring it to the group and let’s see if we can use our collective brain power to help each other out and share our experiences.

Attention Ohio Testers:

Last month’s meeting was full of so much great discussion that we were unable to cover the topic entirely.  Our meetup group decided to continue the conversation in May.

Topic: Interviewing & Hiring for Software Testing Jobs- Part 2

How do you hire a good tester? This will be an exchange of hiring techniques: what has worked well and what hasn’t.

Attention: Ohio Testers

For our March meeting we had a great interactive learning session where we built out a cucumber framework from scratch.  Many thanks to Matthew Eakin for leading the group!

Our Topic for April 28th:  Interviewing & Hiring for Software Testing Jobs

How do you hire a good tester? This will be an exchange of hiring techniques: what has worked well and what hasn’t
We can talk about what’s easy to see during an interview and what’s not.
What is your hiring process like?
What types of questions do you ask?
Expectations for those being interviewed?