Agile Denver will meet at the Tivoli near Downtown Denver next Monday,
February 23rd. Our guest speaker is Lisa Crispin who will present "Who
Does What Tests When On Agile Teams? And Should They Be Automated?"

Everyone on an agile team does testing, right? The developers write unit
tests and do TDD, the testers write acceptance tests - or is it the
customers who writes acceptance tests? And who automates those? What
about performance testing, usability testing, security testing... aren't
we missing some types of testing here?

When you think about it, we need a lot of different kinds of tests to
ensure we're delivering the right business value - how can we possibly
fit them into a two-week iteration?

Never fear - the Agile Testing Quadrants are here to help you.

Originally thought up by Brian Marick in 2003, these quadrants are a
handy framework to help us understand what different types of testing
may be needed, who on the team is best qualified to perform them, and
whether they should be manual or automated.

In this session, Lisa will introduce the Quadrants and how to use them
to help make sure your team fits in all the right tests at the right time.

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local
software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this
announcement along to your colleagues.


AGENDA

5:30 - 6:30 PM Pizza, networking and announcements
6:30 - 8:00 PM Lisa Crispin Presentation


SPEAKER

Lisa Crispin is an agile testing practitioner and coach. She is the
co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for
Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She specializes in
showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to
guide development with business-facing tests. Lisa joined her first
agile team in 2000, having enjoyed many years working as a programmer,
analyst, tester, and QA director. Since 2003, she’s been a tester on a
Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc.

She frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at
conferences in North America and Europe. Lisa regularly contributes
articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software
magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also co-authored
Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House.

For more about Lisa’s work, visit http://www.lisacrispin.com


SPONSORS

The February 2009 sponsors are Mountain Goat Software and ProtoTest.

Through its Certified ScrumMaster, agile estimating and planning, user
story, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and other courses Mountain Goat
Software founder Mike Cohn helps companies adopt and improve their use
of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high
performance development organizations.

For more information, see http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com

Since 1998, ProtoTest has been helping Colorado clients tackle the most
challenging QA and testing issues with the right mix of people, strategy
and technology. They just launched Applied Agile Testing, a 2-day course
for testers moving from traditional processes to agile.

WatirCraft is the commercial organization behind the wildly popular test
automation tool Watir and the brand new WatirCraft framework. Public and
private on-site Watir training is now available.

For more information, see http://www.prototest.com and
http://www.watircraft.com


DIRECTIONS

The February meeting will be held in the Tivoli Student Union (TV)
building, in Room 320 Section A (Baerresen Ballroom).

The Tivoli is located on the Auraria Campus, within walking distance of
Downtown Denver via Larimer Street crossing Speer. You can reach the
campus from the I-25 south Colfax or Speer exits.

Please review or print out the parking map for reference:

http://www.ahec.edu/parking/ParkingMap2008.pdf

Parking on site costs around $5 for attendees of our event and there
should be parking available in the lots off of Auraria Parkway and Ninth
Street. Be sure to mention that you are attending an on campus event
otherwise they might assume you are there for a sports event.


A G I L E D E N V E R
www.agiledenver.org