SeaSpin

 October 5 Meeting
Free and Open to the Software Engineering & IT Community

Construx Software, 10900 NE 8th St Suite 1350, Bellevue, WA

Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:15 (pizza, salad, soda )
Announcements from 6:15 to 6:30
Presentation from 6:30 to 7:45
Q & A from 7:45 to 8:15
Doors close at 8:30

We start presentating earlier now to allow for questions within the 8:30pm meeting time.

Don’t test too much! [or too little]
(Lessons learned the hard way)

Presented by Keith Stobie, Microsoft

Over- testing can actually be as bad for you as under testing. Whether it is testing to your own lofty expectations (versus those of the project), verifying too much in stress or verifying too much in one test, you might end up with a less useful result than other approaches. You must also be careful of under- testing sequence and state or aspects of the software that are just hard to verify.

This experience report relates parables of mistakes I made and what I learned in the process, so you can avoid these mistakes. These lessons learned are also cross indexed to the book: Lessons Learned in Software Testing (Kaner, Bach, and Pettichord).

Bio:
Keith Stobie is a Test Architect for Bing Infrastructure at Microsoft where he plans, designs, and reviews software architecture and tests. Previously Keith worked in the Protocol Engineering Team on Protocol Quality Assurance Process including model based testing (MBT) to develop test framework, harnessing, and model patterns. With twenty five years of distributed systems testing experience Keith's interest are in testing methodology, tools technology, and quality process. . Keith has a BS in computer science from Cornell University.
ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer, ASTQB Foundation Level
Member: ACM, IEEE, ASQ

View map by MapQuest 

Going North on I-405 toward Bellevue...

1. Take exit 13B for NE 8th Street
2. Take the NE 8th Street West ramp
3. Merge onto NE 8th Street
4. Turn right onto 110th Avenue. Construx is the building on the left, on the corner of 110th Avenue and NE 8th Street
5. Turn left into the parking lot immediately past the building

Going South on I-405 toward Bellevue...

1. Take exit 13B for NE 8th Street
2. Take the NE 8th Street West ramp
3. Merge onto NE 8th Street
4. Turn right onto 110th Avenue.  Construx is the building on the left, on the corner of 110th Avenue and NE 8th Street
5. Turn left into the parking lot immediately past the building

You can join SeaSpin at LinkedIn

SeaSpin is normally hosted by Construx Software and coordinated by Jeff Smith, Steven Smith, and Pamela Perrott. The officers are:

• Chair: Jeff Smith, Northwest Cadence (contact)
• Program Chair: Steven M. Smith

The SeaSpin charter can be found here.

 A great meeting!