The Northern Virginia Test Automation Interest Group holds monthly meetings, generally on Wednesday evenings, at Herndon-Reston area facilities.  

NoVaTAIG's generous supporters include:
FaSur Technologies provides managed IT consulting services & software development services. Experience in Higher Education, Government, Heath Care, & Social Media. FaSur has also developed Lorica, a proprietary automated software testing tool available as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or standard licensing packages.

Meeting format:

6:30 - 7:00 Networking, food.
7:00 - 7:30  Each attendee introduces themselves and discuses their test automation interests/news/challenges/successes.
7:30 - 7:40 Announcements from attendees re job openings or re seeking work.
7:40 - 8:40 Presentation or Discussion Topic
8:40 - 9:00 Follow-on discussions


The meetings are participatory and discussion-oriented:
  • Meetings often include informal discussion-oriented presentations.
  • Meetings are technically oriented at times (and may include showing and discussing code). Example topics: unit testing, automation programming languages, tool specifics, vendor presentations, load testing, code coverage.
  • Some meetings are less technical and more oriented to design/strategy/managment subjects related to test automation. Topic examples: choosing a tool, when is a project ready for test automation, open source vs COTS, build vs buy, ROI, how to find a great automation engineer, automation estimation, etc.
  • It is expected that attendees will contribute actively to the discussons and be willing to discuss (in general terms, or, if possible, specific terms) past or current automation experiences, challenges, and successes.  


NOVATAIG President: Rick Hower
   email: rickhower@earthlink.net
Copyright 2008-2012 Northern Virginia Test Automation Interest Group
Northern Virginia Test Automation Interest Group
March 2012 Monthly Meeting
CANCELLED due to the sad and unexpected closing of the Tortilla Factory (after 35 years in business) restaurant meeting location; notice will be sent to the NoVaTAIG email list if/when meetings resume.


Topic:
Managing Test Automation

While we're often focused on automation tools & technologies, it can be helpful to step back and think about how we can maximize the usefulness of our automation for our stakeholders. We can consider the 'management' perspective of our automation work, whether or not we are officially 'managers'. Subtopics may include:
* How can you ensure your test automation is meeting business/stakeholder needs?
* How will you (and others) know if your automation project is 'successful' - and what does 'success' mean in your context?
* How will you (and your stakeholders) keep track of progress
* Will there be only 'happy path automation' or something beyond that?
* How can you be most effective in determining what to automate and prioritize?

  When: Wed. March 14, 2012 6:30 PM
 
  Where: Tortilla Factory Restaurant,
                Herndon (see Registration
                Page for location map & menu)
 
  Cost:  None, other than whatever you wish
              to spend on food/drink.  

 


 

 

 

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