Northern Virginia Test Automation Interest Group

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

NoVaTAIG's generous supporters include:
XYZ Inc. - looking for test autom engineers
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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

October 2011 Monthly Meeting

Topic:
Measuring and Optimizing Website Performance - presentation by Patrick Meenan, Google Inc.

Patrick will discuss various aspects of a website that can impact performance, techniques for measuring them accurately and some of the techniques for improving performance. Topics covered will include:
* Back-end vs. Front-end performance
* Pitfalls of synthetic testing
* Real-User Monitoring
* Upcoming browser enhancements

Presenter Bio:
Patrick Meenan created WebPagetest, a free online website speed test service, while at AOL and now works at Google with a team that is working to make the web faster. He has been working on optimizing low-level networking performance for various applications (among other responsibilities) over the last 15 years.

When: Wed. October 12, 2011 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.

Please register -
Meeting registration page