BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20100314T020000 RDATE:20100314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100301T023846Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T183000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100301T023846Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100315T205459Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458366 DESCRIPTION:Jon Bach is coming to our local agile users group to tell us about his specialty\, exploratory testing. Pizza at 6:30\, meeting at 7 .\n\nTalk: "\;Exploratory Testing: Now In Session"\;\n \nThe agi le nature of exploration and the ability of testers to rapidly apply the ir skills and experience make exploratory testing a widely used test app roach—especially when time is short. But exploratory testing is often dismissed by project managers who assume that it is not reproducible\, m easurable\, or accountable. If you share these concerns\, a solution may lie in a technique called Session-Based Test Management (SBTM)\, develo ped by Jon and his brother James specifically to address these problems. In SBTM\, testers are assigned areas of a product to explore\, and test ing is time boxed in "\;sessions"\; which have mission statement s called “charters” to create a meaningful and countable unit of wor k. Jon discusses—and you can practice—the skills of exploration and demonstrates a freely available\, open source tool to help manage your e xploratoration.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Jon Bach has been in testing for 14 year s\, 12 of which has been as a manager. His experience includes managing teams at Microsoft\, HP and LexisNexis\, and is currently a managing co nsultant for Quardev\, Inc. -- a Seattle test lab. He speaks frequently about test management and exploratory testing\, and is the co-inventor (with his brother James) of Session-Based Test Management. He’s also written a few articles for testing magazines as well as a listed co-auth or of a Microsoft Patterns and Practices book on acceptance testing (ava ilable for free online). Find him on Facebook\, Twitter\, or his presen tations and articles on http://www.quardev.com\, where he also has a blo g.\n\nTags: agile\, testing\, exploratory testing\, agilepdx\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458366 URL:http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xpportland/ SUMMARY:AgilePDX: Jon Bach talks about exploratory testing LOCATION:Portland State University Engineering Building\, Room 86-01: 190 0 SW Fourth Avenue\, Portland Oregon 97201 SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR