Indianapolis Workshops on Software Testing

Helping connect the Indianapolis software testing community.

May 2011: Being an Effective Omega Tester

Workshop artifacts and notes:

  • Visit our Meetup page for the workshop for ratings, reviews, and pictures from attendees.

Attendees:

  • Rick Grey
  • Michael Kelly
  • Miguel Barreno
  • Lee Black
  • John McConda
  • Charles Penn

May 2011: Testing Rails Apps

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Rick Grey
  • Brent Bonnington
  • Margie Weaver/li>
  • Aaron Lerch
  • Michael Kelly
  • Miguel Barreno
  • Anthony Panozzo
  • Joel Meador
  • Kyle Shipley
  • Miles Z. Sterrett
  • Chad Molenda

March 2011: Teaching Software Testers

Workshop artifacts and notes:

  • Visit our Meetup page for the workshop for ratings, reviews, and pictures from attendees.

Attendees:

  • Mike Goempel
  • Rick Grey
  • James Hill
  • Michael Kelly
  • Panos Linos
  • Brian Lockrey
  • John McConda
  • Natalie Mego
  • Margie Weaver

February 2011: Working Effectively with Global/Virtual Teams

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Lee Black
  • Rick Grey
  • Jason Horn
  • Michael Kelly
  • Ananth Krishnamoorthy
  • Patrick Milligan
  • Allen Montgomery
  • Cathy Nguyen
  • Jason Pitcher
  • Charles Penn
  • Preeti Tikia
  • Hua
  • Marvin

November 20: Testing Lightning Talks

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • John Galligan
  • Mike Goempel
  • Jason Horn
  • Michael Kelly
  • Ananth Krishnamoorthy
  • Panos Linos
  • Patrick Milligan
  • Jayadev Reddy
  • Chris Scales

September 2010: Building a Software Testing Center of Excellence (CoE)

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • Patrick Beeson
  • Howard Clark
  • Matt Dilts
  • Randy Fisher
  • Mike Goempel
  • Rick Grey
  • James H. Hill
  • Michael Kelly
  • Panos Linos
  • Natalie Mego
  • Hal Metz
  • Patrick Milligan
  • Charles Penn
  • Brad Tollefson
  • Bobby Washington
  • Tina Zaza

November 2009: Managing focus while doing exploratory testing

Workshop artifacts and notes:

  • Notes on 'Managing your focus while exploratory testing' by Christina Zaza
  • Slides for 'Tips for more effective test chartering' by Michael Kelly
  • Slides 'Using different testing polarities to help manage focus while testing' by Michael Kelly
  • Slides for 'Software testing in the conceptual age' by Brett Leonard
  • Trip Report by Mike Kelly

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • James Hill
  • Sreekala Kalidindi
  • Michael Kelly
  • Brett Leonard
  • Brad Tollefson
  • Christina Zaza

October 2009: Panel on Time Management

Workshop artifacts and notes:

September 2009: Automation and performance logging

Workshop artifacts and notes:

  • Experience Report notes on logging in Watin by Brad Tollefson
  • Slides for 'Using System Execution Traces to Validate Distributed System Quality-of-Service: An Introduction to Logging in CUTS' by James H. Hill
  • Code for custom performance/automation logging in VSTS by Jason Horn
  • Trip Report by Mike Kelly

Attendees:

  • Sameer Adibhatla
  • Randy Fisher
  • Mike Goempel
  • James Hill
  • Jason Horn
  • Gabriel Issah
  • Michael Kelly
  • Natalie Mego
  • Chad Molenda
  • Cathy Nguyen
  • Charles Penn
  • Debby Polley
  • Kumar Ramalingam
  • Tam Thai
  • Brad Tollefson
  • Chris Wingate

June 2009: Test Design and Development

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Charlie Audritsh
  • William Eby
  • Poin Geisler
  • Mike Goempel
  • Rick Grey
  • Sreekala Kalidindi
  • Michael Kelly
  • Tracy Land
  • Brett Leonard
  • John McConda
  • Charles Penn
  • Vishal Pujary
  • Lee Rector
  • Elizabeth M. Shaw
  • Charles Tippett
  • Joshua Ward

March 2009: Test-Driven Development

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Chris Achard
  • Patrick Bailey
  • Anthony Bye
  • Jason Gladish
  • Matthew Gordon
  • Tim Harvey
  • Frank Jaloma
  • Courtney Jones
  • Michael Kelly
  • Baher Malek
  • Joel Meador
  • Elijah Miller
  • Steve Pollak
  • Russell Scheerer
  • Elizabeth M. Shaw
  • Dustin Sparks
  • Miles Z. Sterrett
  • Jon Strayer
  • Nick Voll
  • Jeff White

February 2009: Presenting test results

Workshop artifacts and notes:

This was a roundtable discussion on presenting test results. There were no formal artifacts that resulted from the workshop.

Attendees:

  • Allen Logan
  • Elena Anaya
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Poin Geisler
  • Michael Goempel
  • Rick Grey
  • Michael Kelly
  • Brett Leonard
  • John McConda
  • Charles Penn
  • Kia Rice

September 2008: Testers who write code

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Howard Bandy
  • Isaac Chen
  • David Christiansen
  • Jennifer Dillon
  • Michael Goempel
  • Jeremy D. Jarvis
  • Michael Kelly
  • Brett Leonard
  • Charles McMillan
  • Natalie Mego
  • Chris Overpeck
  • Anthony Panozzo
  • Charles Penn
  • Drew Scholl
  • Beth Shaw
  • David Warren

April 2008: SOA Testing

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Ken Ahrens
  • Michael Goempel
  • Ingrid Grant
  • Michael Kelly
  • John McConda
  • Matt Osgatharp
  • Eddie Robinson
  • Jeff White
  • Jeffrey Woodard
  • Christina Zaza

December 2007: Scripting for Testers and Test Automation with Open Source Tools

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Michael Goempel
  • Michael Kelly
  • John McConda
  • Chad Molenda
  • Cathy Nguyen
  • Charles Penn
  • Mike Slattery
  • Gary Warren
  • Chris Wingate
  • Jeff Woodard

July 2007: Techniques for Exploratory Testing

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Howard Clark
  • Michael Goempel
  • Jason Horn
  • Karen Johnson
  • Michael Kelly
  • Steve Lannon
  • Kelvin Lim
  • John McConda
  • Scott McDevitt
  • John Montano
  • Vishal Pujary
  • David Warren
  • Gary Warren

March 2007: Web Application Security Testing

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Dave Christiansen
  • Michael Goempel
  • Karen Johnson
  • Michael Kelly
  • Steve Lannon
  • Baher Malek
  • Rick Moffatt
  • Charles Penn
  • Chad Pressler
  • Dana Spears
  • Michael Vance
  • Chris Wingate

January 2007: Effective Corrective Action for Test Projects in Trouble

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Lisa Etherington
  • Michael Goempel
  • Michael Kelly
  • Baher Malek
  • John McConda
  • Kenn Petty
  • Vishal Pujary

December 2005: Security Testing

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Mike Goempel
  • Michael Kelly
  • Marc Labranche
  • Kenn Petty
  • Vishal Pujary
  • Tate Stuntz

November 2005: Automated Testing

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Michael Kelly
  • Mike Slattery
  • Dana Spears
  • Gary Warren
  • Chris Wingate

August 2005: Maintaining testing skills

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Taher Attari
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Laura DeVilbiss
  • Mike Goempel
  • Michael Kelly
  • Dana Spears

July 2005: Assessing test coverage

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • Mike Goempel
  • Michael Kelly
  • Jeffrey Mexin
  • Susan Morgan
  • Dana Spears
  • Kim Titus

June 2005: Open source testing tools

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Taher Attari
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Mike Goempel
  • Michael Kelly
  • Marc Labranche
  • Jeffrey Mexin
  • Patrick Milligan
  • Richard Moffatt
  • Dana Spears
  • Jon Strayer

April 2005: Testing in an agile environment

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Rajasimba Admal
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Joe Batt
  • Kartik Gaddam
  • David Holscher
  • Michael Kelly
  • Brian Marick
  • Kenn Petty
  • Dana Spears

March 2005: Unit testing

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Chad Campbell
  • Jason Halla
  • Michael Kelly
  • Joshua Rafferty
  • Dana Spears
  • Allen Stoker
  • Cheryl Westrick

February 2005: Performance data analysis and interpretation

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Andrew Andrada
  • Charlie Audritsh
  • Denise Autry
  • Jason Halla
  • Michael Kelly
  • Marc Labranche
  • John McConda
  • Kurt McKain
  • Dana Spears

January 2005: Database testing

Workshop artifacts and notes:

Attendees:

  • Denise Autry
  • Linda Ellison
  • Mike Goempel
  • Jason Horn
  • Michael Kelly
  • Steve Lannon
  • Rick Wellinghoff