Grand Rapids Testers May Meeting
May 8, 2012
Tester Training!
Cool things we're chatting about before the meeting actually starts -
And Away We GO!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm - OK - since there were FOUR of us, we went downstairs to SanChez to talk and nosh since people were kinda hungry - something about dinner time and coming straight from work (or Traverse City) - and we lost internet access... so catching up...
Conferences -
STAR *;
etc., etc.,
Websites/Blogs –
Online Forums / Magazines -
Training sources -
Certifications – well – they may help but…
Do they give us a standard definition across all of them?
What is being learned?
Greg – The one thing that can be said is that it gives people who don’t have a vocabulary at hand, a set of terms available for use.
We can agree on terms only if we have a common understanding -
Wade –
How do we get people atarted? Where do we find reliable sources?
- Reach out and find idea sources –
- You don’t need to AGREE with those sources
- Studying the ideas around what people say can help us re-examine our views on testing – what do we really believe, think – and why.
Linda & Wade both talked about how hard it was to motivate people to learn more about testing on their own (reading books, magazines, blogs, etc.,) This is a challenge for passionate testers when working with people who look at this as "just a job."