Showing posts with label london tester gathering workshops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label london tester gathering workshops. Show all posts

Friday, 17 March 2017

#LTGWorkshops. Got the right ticket?


Exciting news.  The Ministry of Testing have many great testing events and a community focus.

We are looking forward to seeing what we can do together.

Unfortunately, this meant a de-partnering of #LTGWorkshops and Skills Matter.

Skills Matter are a great organisation with great events and a huge presence in the agile and software development community.
They were instrumental in getting the #LTGWorkshops up and running and I can't thank them enough.

We will continue working together on other events.

As the #LTGWorkshops transition happens there will be some confusion with tickets.



Skillsmatter will be running a testing event in May.

The London Tester Gathering Workshop will take place in June.

Please check your tickets and confirm which organisation they are from so you can go to the right event. Or go to both.

If you have questions about your ticket please contact the organisation.

I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.



Tony Bruce

Saturday, 20 August 2016

#ltgworkshops competition winner - Bhagya Perera's blog post

A short while ago there was a competition to win a ticket to #ltgworkshops 2016.


As part of the competition if you won you had to write a blog post about your #ltgworkshops experience. 

Bhagya Perera was one of the winners. Bhagya has a blog which you should check out.

I've replicated her blog post here.

I had a chance to join by LTGW in June 2016. I took my time in writing this blog because I wanted to see what I would remember after sometime. I normally blog as soon as I come out from a conference but this time I thought to wait and see.
LTGW is different to other conferences because it is only contain workshops. Many interesting workshops. Personally I had went through the list of workshops several times, made my mind, changed it, went through again, changed it to original and changed again. That probably explain how interesting the list of workshops were.
Tony’s (@tonybruce77) power of asking questions workshop was a highlight. Asking questions is easy but asking the right question is difficult. One of key point I remember is that we should ask questions not only for self-benefit but for the benefit of others as well.
Yes true. Many times, I have asked questions where they benefit me but sometimes I have asked questions to make sure the person who explains the situation had thought about them too. Many occasions I have seen people build up conversations based on the question I have asked. I have not thought that the conversations that build, ideas that triggered and areas that discovered are results of a simple question. Sometime your question can be the answer. It is always better to ask the question than being scared of it.
Then I went to another session on Mentoring by Tony and Dan (@DanAshby04). We had discussed about what is Mentoring, Coaching, Teaching and Leadership. In a summary,
Mentoring is about to grow others skills, Listening to others and share experience, provide continuous help on need basis, guiding, encouraging and help
Coaching is about transfer of skills, problem driven, not on going, maximise skills, and have an end goal
Teaching is a structured program, delivered one direction, share Information, inspire, and evolve
Leadership is about being responsible, Delegation, Representation, Accountable, Inspire, Motivate and Organise.
It was nice to see the difference of each sections as sometimes mentoring and coaching described in the same manner.
Both above workshops filled with interesting videos and fun exercises.
I was in two other sessions thinking I should have gone to a different workshop one workshop was too basic for me and the other one did not make any impact on me.
Other than that, it was a great.  Thanks Tony for the free ticket! It was an amazing experience.

Sunday, 19 June 2016

Presentations and materials from the London Tester Gathering Workshops 2016

#ltgworkshops for 2016 have just passed.

There are some photos if you'd like to have a look.
London Tester Gathering Workshops 2016

And here are the presentations and materials:

Programme - 2016.

Hands-on Screen Reader Workshop
Steve Green

Testing web services
www.mwtestconsultancy.co.uk/presentations/understanding_web_services/

www.mwtestconsultancy.co.uk/presentations/what_makes_a_service_restful/

www.mwtestconsultancy.co.uk/presentations/observing_rest/

https://github.com/mwinteringham/restful-booker

Mark Winteringham

Dimensions of Testability
Maria Kedemo

Agile Exploratory Testing
Shared under this Creative Commons License
Creative Commons-Licentie
Agile Exploratory Testing van Jean-Paul Varwijk is in licentie gegeven volgens een Creative Commons Naamsvermelding-NietCommercieel-GeenAfgeleideWerken 4.0 Internationaal-licentie
Jean-Paul Varwijk

Better Check
Peter Houghton

Fast Feedback And Fun Using Ruby
Fast Feedback Using Ruby Book
Stephan Kämper

Questions are powerful. Learn to use them.
Tony Bruce

Get Into Coaching And Mentoring
Dan Ashby and Tony Bruce

Write more robust and extensible BDD tests faster with Serenity and the Journey/Screenplay Pattern
John Smart and Jan Molak

From Example Mapping to Serenity
Kishen Simbhoedatpanday and Arjan Blok


Sunday, 24 January 2016

London Tester Gathering Workshops competition!

The London Tester Gathering Workshops are approaching and they are shaping up nicely.

To read a little bit about previous days have a look at these posts:

London Tester Gathering Workshops - Stephen Janaway
Lessons From The Black Ops Testing LTG Workshops! - Dan Ashby
Using games to aid tester creativity - John Stevenson
Focused Awareness - Simon Knight
Experiences of LTGW Workshops 2015 - Dan Ashby
LTGW2014: resources from our workshop - Carlos Ble
Announcement: Workshop & ebook: “Fast Feedback Using Ruby” - Stephan Kamper

Taking a page out of Richard's book I've decided to have a competition for 3 tickets to the Workshops.*

To enter you have to fill out the form:

  • Explain why you want to attend.
  • If there is a particular workshop you're interested in? And why?
  • What do you think is missing from the Workshops?
  • After the workshops write a blog post about the experience.

The form.

Not all the questions are mandatory.
* The competition is for a single ticket so there are 3 chances to win.
** Travel/accom. is not part of the competition. You will need to arrange and fund that yourself.
*** I have not needed to purchase these tickets as I organise the workshops.
**** Competition ends midnight on the 30th April.

Thursday, 23 July 2015

London Tester Gathering Workshops 2016 - Call for thoughts

The London Tester Gathering Workshops bring together some of the greatest minds in our industry, to learn, share and evolve the tool and techniques that matter to you! A joining of 100+ testers, #LTGWorkshops creates an unrivalled space for meeting fellow testers facing the same engineering problems. At the centre of the conference is a tried-and-true design with a focus on giving you the advantages you won't find in the manual!
Join us at #LTGWorkshops on the 2-3rd of June 2016! Come along to discover and learn good ideas and techniques in testing. At the end of these two days, you will know how to use modern testing practices and provide the information your stakeholders need to make informed decisions.
WARNING - This is not your event if you want to sit and listen. This is your event if you want to discuss, learn, share and do.
All Skills Matter’s conferences are crafted with the community in mind; for people who are passionate about discovering and learning innovative approaches and technologies to crack the engineering challenges in our industry. People like you!
We hope you can help us organise a valuable event that helps you discover and explore those ideas, technologies and practices you need, featuring the experts you want to learn from and formats that best suit you, by sharing your ideas in this Call for Thoughts.

Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Black Ops Testing 1 Day Workshop - 23rd January 2015.

Steve Green, James Lyndsay, Alan Richardson and I have been working on a workshop.

We held a trail run at the 2013 Tester Gathering Workshops London.
See this post for more details: Collected blog posts - #ltgw2013

We're going to be constantly working on the workshop and so it will differ each time we run it.

Register here.

Black Ops Testing Workshop, 23rd January 2015, London
Limited to 32 spaces!
This 1 day workshop will be an intensive event where we lead you through a series of exercises to help you explore different ways of approaching and thinking about your testing.
We, the Black Ops Testing Team, will put into practice all the lessons we learned from our mission at the London Tester Gathering in 2013.
We have joined together to bring our individual experience, knowledge and skill sets in order to bring this unique and variable workshop to you.
Each workshop will differ.
We believe this is a unique workshop for a number of reasons:
  • 4 instructors - this gives you the chance to get 4 different opinions and 4 different perspectives.
  • The instructors have varied backgrounds and each will bring different approaches and ways of thinking.
  • Practicality is the name of the game. You will think, you will test, you will use tools (where it makes sense to use them), you will diagnose, you will report.
  • We will share how we do things, such as sharing our testing sessions.
  • Each workshop will differ as we focus on different techniques and approaches
  • Every workshop takes a different application under test
  • Prior to every workshop we will have tested the application
We will take a system and potentially looking at:

Investigating

  • sharing tips about deeper observation e.g. using proxies
  • discussing in-browser development tools
  • different kinds and types of tools we use
  • css tricks and tips
  • how do we prep?
  • keeping track of what you've done
  • our different thought processess
  • automation suitablity
    • pros
    • cons
  • work on design
  • work on strategy
  • work on modelling

Diagnosing

  • how deep do we diagnose?
  • should we even try?
  • how do we report what/how we diagnosed?

Reporting

  • what for who
  • how?
We will also-
  • mock each other for not trying techniques
  • discuss and compare different ways of keeping testing notes
    • sharing examples
    • experimenting with different methods
  • where possible discuss examples we've come across in our work
  • discuss and answer questions with four different perspectives
  • give you the potential to improve your testing skills
  • give you the potential improve your technical skills
Don't miss out on this unique workshop.

Thursday, 6 March 2014

I'm going to.....

So taking John's example I thought I'd share my plans for this year so far.




As far as I'm aware there are still tickets available for all but get in quick.

NB. Tickets not needed for the #TesterGathering

Friday, 25 October 2013

London #TesterGathering Workshops 2013 - Presentations and materials

Here are the presentations and materials from the London #TesterGathering Workshops 2013

I will add the rest as I get them.

Debugging, testing and hacking JavaScript Web Applications - @carlosble

This workshop will teach effective techniques for testing JavaScript web apps:
  • How to use Firebug and Chrome development tools for debugging
  • Basic overview of the JavaScript language
  • Basic overview of jQuery
  • Online tools: prettifiers and json formatters
  • Automated testing with Cucumber.js, Casper.js and Selenium
Javascript for Testers

Workshop code



Tarantino of BDD - @vsbmeza

There are many patterns on the internet about how to implement feature files. There are even many blog posts that teach us how to improve the style of our scenarios by raising the level of abstraction. Even when following those practices, we often end up with unmaintainable code, brittle tests and frustration. We are going to explore another step towards a state where the tool doesn't interfere with capturing the conversations by constraining the language we use. We'll learn about a pattern that could enable looser coupling between steps, cleaner step definition code, happiness and many more.

Prerequisites

Please have a laptop with Java (1.6+), Maven and your favourite IDE installed on it.
Ensure your laptop can connect to the internet
have 2 twitter accounts you can use. (We will be not spamming, so you are safe to use your main account for one)

Slides

Workshop code



Security Testing for Mobile Apps@Bill_Matthews

In this half day workshop we will begin to explore some of the tools and concepts around security testing for mobile applications. We'll focus on Android apps but the ideas are transferable to any mobile platform. By the end of the workshop you will have a basic security testing tool kit and practical experience of using these to test for common security issues. As this is a practical workshop so you'll need a laptop and the ability to install tools.

Slides


Black Ops Testing - @eviltester @testpartners @workroomprds  @tonybruce77

James Lyndsay, Steve Green, Alan Richardson and Tony Bruce have joined forces to bring you Black Ops Testing: A practical testing workshop. 
We'll be focusing on scouting, intrusion and extraction. Or, if you don't like military metaphors: Thinking, Exploration, Diagnosis 
Either way, this will be a testing workshop like no other. 
Join our crack team of testers. 
They're easier to find than the A-team, but just as hard.

Slides


Website Accessibility Testing with Assistive Technologies@testpartners

Join Steve for a hands on accessibility testing workshop at #ltgw2013! In this session you will learn how to test websites with two assistive technologies - a screen reader and voice recognition software - to extend the scope of your accessibility testing beyond basic WCAG compliance.

Please bring a Windows PC with the following: NVDA 2013 this is free at http://www.nvaccess.org/ Firefox (latest version) & Headphones.

Due to the high cost of voice recognition software this section of the workshop will not be hands-on.

I test a lot of web applications. I use proxy servers to interrogate and manipulate web traffic, and the built in browser developer tools. 

We will cover and go beyond the obvious interrogation and manipulation of traffic and also look at how to use auto-responders, custom rules and traffic generators. The different capabilities of the tools and how to use them in combination. 

We will also look at the new features in modern browsers that help you achieve some of the proxy benefits out of the box, for those moments when you have to test unarmed. 

As well as the tools I want to cover the testing thought processes and models that help you apply the tools in your work. 

Turn up with some modern browsers installed (Chrome, Firefox, Opera), a couple of proxy servers (BurpSuite, Fiddler, Zed Attack Proxy), possibly some plugins (Firebug), to maximize your time in the workshop. 


Did you know that many companies encourage people to find bugs in their software? Martin will be showing how you can have fun, gain fame and money finding issues in software and websites you use every day. He'll also be showing you some of the basic tips and techniques that will enable you to become a great "Bounty Hunter". We will end the workshop with a testing session against sites that pay you for finding issues. There is a real opportunity to earn thousands of pounds during this workshop. 

Need a Windows PC or Mac running Parallels , either one with Fiddler installed, any modern browser will do.