EAST meetup in February

It's taken some time to collect myself into writing down my notes from the latest EAST meeting. This time we met at Verisure in Linköping. After some nice greek food we started out to draw the outlines of an ideal testing project. Focusing really on the word "ideal". We had a lot of fun. Things from "clear requirements"* to "resulting in peace in the universe" were added on the whiteboard. At this moment of writing I don't have the time to elaborate on the topic and the result, but I will post the photos from the whiteboard and promise to come back to explain it a bit more later.

We started out with defining the four different phases: Project idea, Planning/strategy, Test execution, Finish. Then we just added whatever came to mind that we wanted to have in place for an ideal test project. Note that perfect and bugfree code is not included in an ideal testing project.

* = actually, looking at the pictures after writing the above text I notice that "requirements" weren't mentioned at all... that's funny! In my memory they were. Apparently we don't really care about requirements in an ideal testing project... that idea probably calls for a separate blog post to figure out!

Here goes:

I did not make any new year resolutions. However I have a few ideas that I want to write down to remember them if I ever get to creating my own "learning experience goal list".

I want to write blog posts about testing, at a recurrent interval.

I want to be more active on twitter.

I want to participate in the EAST network meetings.

I want to host an EAST meeting.

I want to participate in the Let's test conference.

I want to ask a question/comment on something during at least one of the turorials at the conference.

I want to get a personal relation to other testers, especially some of those I follow on twitter.

I want to be a speaker at a conference in 2015, maybe Let's test? Testzonen? other?

I want to watch webinars about testing.

I want to read more stuff about testing.

I want to write my own testing profile - who am I, what are my expert areas, etc.

I want to be more active in my employers' testing strategy work on a national level.

Ok, that's enough for now. 

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This blog has just been created as a step in my individual learning experience. I will use this blog as a tool for stuff I want to remember, stuff I want to elaborate on while at the same time trying to understand them better, and stuff I just feel like writing about. All (mostly at least) related to software testing.

Feel free to read, however I do want to state that I mainly write for myself as audience.