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LONDON TESTER GATHERING 2011 16-05-11

The London Tester Gathering, organised by Tony Bruce, has started!

We will be releasing video of the talks and workshops as Skills Matter SkillsCasts, so you can still learn from the Experts even if you aren't able to attend. We will also announce the publication of each SkillsCast on twitter, using tag: #ltg11

You can find the SkillsCast videos, shortly after each talk has finished, by clicking the 'more' links in the programme below.

Monday 16th May 2011
SPACE INVADERS 09.00 - 09.30 WELCOME, REGISTRATION, COFFEE & TEA Organiser Tony Bruce welcomes attendees to the London Tester Gathering 09.30-11.00 WEB SECURITY Paco Hope: In this half-day tutorial, you will learn the theory behind the two most common vulnerabilities in web applications: cross-site scripting and SQL injection. more... 11.00-12.30 WEB SECURITY TESTING PT2 Paco Hope: In this second part of the tutorial, you will continue to learn the theory behind the two most common vulnerabilities in web applications: cross-site scripting and SQL injection. After you know the theory, though, then you put it into practice. more... 12.30-13.30 LUNCH BREAK Lunch & refreshments 13.30-15.30 DESIGN, TESTING & FEEDBACK James Lyndsay: This hands-on workshop will give you gain a flavour of how information from testing can influence the way a project arrives at a solution. more... 15.30-17.00 DESIGN, TESTING & FEEDBACK PT 2 James Lyndsay: Continuation of a James Lyndsay's hands-on workshop on how information from testing can influence the way a project arrives at a solution. more...	TR2 - SCRAMBLE 09.30-11.00 PENETRATION TESTING Rodrigo Marcos: This full day workshop will cover the theory and the practice of the most relevant steps in the penetration testing process. more... 11.00-12.30 PENETRATION TESTING PT 2 Rodrigo Marcos: This full day workshop continues, covering both the theory and the practice of the most relevant steps in the penetration testing process. more... 13.30-15.30 PENETRATION TESTING PT 3 Rodrigo Marcos: This full day workshop continues, covering both the theory and the practice of the most relevant steps in the penetration testing process. more... 15.30-17.00 PENETRATION TESTING PT 4 Rodrigo Marcos: This full day workshop continues, covering both the theory and the practice of the most relevant steps in the penetration testing process. more...	TR3 - TETRIS 09.30-11.00 HANDS ON ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS Douglas Squirrel: Douglas Squirrel, CTO of youDevise, will demonstrate how his team use root-cause analysis to bring about continuous improvement in their software process. more... 11.00-12.30 GOOGLE & SOFTWARE QUALITY Jack Chant: In this session, Jack Chant will give a 45 minute presentation covering a range of tools and techniques employed by Google to ensure their software is fast to ship, yet robust enough for multi-million dollar transactions. more... 13.30-15.30 BUSINESS STORIES Paul Gerrard: This tutorial explores how stories can be used to provide examples of a system in use to increase the quality of requirements and the quality of delivered systems built to meet those requirements. more... 15.30-17.00 BUSINESS STORIES PT2 Paul Gerrard: In this second part, the tutorials continue to explore how stories can be used to provide examples of a system in use to increase the quality of requirements and the quality of delivered systems built to meet those requirements. more...	TR4 - GALAXIANS 09.30-11.00 INTERVIEWING & IMPROVING YOUR CV Sam Mehta: GCS Ltd will provide tips on interviewing and improving your CV so bring along a copy of your CV and some questions. more... BREAK-OUT DISCUSSIONS : Break-Out Discussions / Open Space more... 13.30-15.30 JENKINS CI John Stevenson: In this workshop, John Stevenson will guide you through using an Ubuntu server (virtual machine) to set up a CI server based on Jenkins. more... 15.30-17.00 JENKINS CI PT 2 John Stevenson: Continuation of John Stevenson's workshop, guiding you through using an Ubuntu server (virtual machine) to set up a CI server based on Jenkins. more...	TR5 - ASTEROIDS COMING SOON .... COMING SOON .... 13.30-15.30 TWO HOSTS ONE HUB - NETWORKING FOR TESTE Stuart Taylor: This session is for Testers who want to understand basic networking principles, including IPv4 and will require your hands-on participation through games and exercises. more... 15.30-17.00 TWO HOSTS ONE HUB PT 2 Stuart Taylor: In this second part, you will continute to learn about basic networking principles, including IPv4 Hands on through participatory games and exercises. more...
Tuesday 17th May 2011
SPACE INVADERS 09.00 - 09.30 WELCOME DAY 2 Organiser Tony Bruce welcomes attendees day 2 of to the London Tester Gathering 09.30-11.00 TALK TO BE CONFIRMED : more... 11.00-12.30 CONTINUOUS DELIVERY Dave Farley: This talk will introduce the ideas of Continuous Delivery as a practical everyday process, using some of the techniques and technologies that LMAX Ltd employ in their development environment as an example. more... 12.30-13.30 LUNCH BREAK Lunch and refreshments, courtesy of our sponsors 13.30-15.00 TDD, BDD WORKSHOP John Stevenson: In this session, you will work through a coding problem that will evolve throughout the afternoon, with a few twists and turns thrown in to see how well your designs cope with those changes. more... 15.00-17.00 TDD, BDD WORKSHOP PT 2 John Stevenson: In the continuation of this session, you will work through a coding problem that will evolve throughout the afternoon, with a few twists and turns thrown in to see how well your designs cope with those changes. more...	TR2 - SCRAMBLE 09.30-11.00 EXPLORATORY TESTING Steve Green: This workshop starts with the basics of exploratory testing, but even if you are an experienced tester you will learn new techniques. The session is highly practical, and provides an approach that you can apply to your projects immediately. You will learn how exploratory testing can be planned, structured and provide traceability -- all the things its critics say it doesn't do! more... 11.00-12.30 EXPLORATORY TESTING PT2 Steve Green: This workshop continues, covering the basics of exploratory testing, but even if you are an experienced tester you will learn new techniques. The session is highly practical, and provides an approach that you can apply to your projects immediately. You will learn how exploratory testing can be planned, structured and provide traceability -- all the things its critics say it doesn't do! more... 13.30-1.00 EXPLORATORY TESTING CONTINUED PT 3 Steve Green: Exploratory testing is the most effective and efficient means of testing software, and in this one-day hands-on workshop you will learn the techniques Test Partners Ltd has developed over more than ten years and 900+ projects. more...	TR3 - TETRIS 09.30-11.00 EXPLORATION & AUTOMATION Andrew Kemp & Al Grimes: The main focus of the talk will be to provide an overview of techniques that will allow testers to utilise existing automated functional tests to support exploratory testing. more... 11.00-12.30 EXPLORATION & AUTOMATION PT 2 Andrew Kemp & Al Grimes: The main focus of the talk will be to provide an overview of techniques that will allow testers to utilise existing automated functional tests to support exploratory testing. more... 13.30-15.00 ANDROID DEVELOPMENT Sam Joseph: This talk covers Android Development basics. It provides an introduction to programming in Android, how to get your app in the android marketplace and how to create a revenue stream through ads or google checkout. more... 15.00-17.00 ANDROID DEVELOPMENT PT 2 Sam Joseph: This talk continues with part 2 of Android Development basics. It provides an introduction to programming in Android, how to get your app in the android marketplace and how to create a revenue stream through ads or google checkout. more...	TR4 - GALAXIANS 09.30-11.00 VERTICAL IT James Pritchett & Kelvin Hewett: Vertical IT will provide tips on interviewing and improving your CV so bring along a copy of your CV and some questions. more... 11.00-12.30 VERTICAL IT PT 2 : Vertical IT will provide tips on interviewing and improving your CV so bring along a copy of your CV and some questions. more... 13.30-15.00 ANDROID TESTING PT 2 Carl-Gustaf Harroch: In this session, Carl-Gustaf Harroch will explore the different solutions offered for you testing your Android apps from unit testing using robolectric (local testing) to acceptance testing using robotium (device testing). more... 15.00-17.00 CURRENT STATE ON ANDROID TESTING PART II Carl-Gustaf Harroch: Android is slowly but surely eating up the mobile market share, adding new devices, OS version, screen sizes into the mix of android platforms you are reaching out to. It can quickly become unmanageable to handle an extensive list of devices. more...	TR5 - ASTEROIDS 09.30-11.00 SELENIUM USER Alan Richardson: In this workshop we will provide an overview of Selenium 2 functionality by converting a set of Selenium 1 tests to Selenium 2. A subset of Selenium 2.0 features will be covered using the context of a small web application and an existing set of sample Selenium 1.0 scripts. more... 11.00-12.30 SELENIUM USER PT2 Alan Richardson: Selenium 2 is approaching a mature release. If you haven’t thought about moving to Selenium 2 then now is the time. Selenium 2 supports the Selenium 1 API, so in this workshop we will provide an overview of Selenium 2 functionality by converting a set of Selenium 1 tests to Selenium 2. A subset of Selenium 2.0 features will be covered using the context of a small web application and an existing set of sample Selenium 1.0 scripts. more... 13.30-15.00 OWASP INTRO Daniel Brzozowski: This is Part I of two sessions on OWASP activity, providing a brief introduction to OWASP activity and its most useful resources, and will be followed by a practical workshop in Part II. more... 15.00-17.00 OWASP WORKSHOP PT 2 Daniel Brzozowski: This second workshop delves deeper into OWASP activity and its most useful resources, through practical workshops, covering using penetration testing framework (OWASP WebScarab / OWASP WebScarab-NG), Static code analysis and automatic tests with OWASP O2 Platform. more...