TDD, BDD Workshop (mini code retreat)

Featuring 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.

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Exploratory Testing Part III

Featuring 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.

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Continuous Delivery

Featuring 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.

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Exploratory Testing

Featuring 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,...

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Thoughtworks Twist: Where Exploration and Automation meet

Featuring Andrew Kemp and 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.

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Grails 1.4.0.M1: All changes great and small

Featuring Peter Ledbrook

For this month's Grooby Grails User Group, Peter Ledbrook will take you through all changes -- great and small -- of Grails 1.4.0.M1. Afterwards, he will introduce Groovy++ and discuss how to use it within your own projects, how it compares to pure Groovy, and when you might want to use it.

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Dave Gardner on Brisk

This month, Dave Gardner will present on the subject of Brisk, the enhanced open-source Apache Hadoop and Hive distribution. Brisk provides integrated Hadoop MapReduce, Hive and job and task tracking capabilities.

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OpenSource service by Jenkins CI -- Part II

Featuring 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.

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Using Business Stories to Test Requirements and Systems Part II

Featuring 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.

stories scenarios regression-testing agile

OpenSource service by Jenkins CI

Featuring 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.

jenkins

Using Business Stories to Test Requirements and Systems

Featuring 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.

stories scenarios regression-testing agile

Hands-On Web Security Testing Part II

Featuring 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.

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Hands-On Web Security Testing

Featuring 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.

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Hands on Root Cause Analysis

Featuring 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.

Interviewing & Improving your CV

Featuring Sam Mehta

GCS Ltd will provide tips on interviewing and improving your CV so bring along a copy of your CV and some questions.

Lightning Talks: Agile Web Development

Featuring Tom Blomfield

Demos and presentations from 6:30, with beers afterwards at The Slaughtered Lamb. This talk comes from Tom Blomfeld -- co-founder at GrouPAY.co.uk -- on "Agile Web Development or: What we learned from launching a start-up from a bedroom"

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Lightning Talks: Acunu -- Cassandra on Steroids

Featuring Emmanuel Marchal

Demos and presentations from 6:30, with beers afterwards at The Slaughtered Lamb. This talk comes from Emmanuel Marchal -- business development and community marketing lead at Acunu -- on "Acunu: Cassandra on Steroids"

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Lightning Talks: Social Ties App

Featuring Ian Ozsvald

Demos and presentations from 6:30, with beers afterwards at The Slaughtered Lamb. This talk comes from Ian Ozsvald -- Founder at The Artificial Intelligence Cookbook -- on "Social Ties App"

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Lightning Talks: Startup superfoods

Featuring Aisha Yusaf

Demos and presentations from 6:30, with beers afterwards at The Slaughtered Lamb. This talk comes from Aisha Yusaf -- Co-founder at Said.fm -- on "Startup superfoods"

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Lightning Talks: Songkick's Y Combinator summer

Featuring Pete Smith

Demos and presentations from 6:30, with beers afterwards at The Slaughtered Lamb. This talk comes from Pete Smith -- co-founder & COO of Songkick -- on "Songkick's Y Combinator summer".

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