It might seem that the majority of NYC technology meetups are targeted towards developers and designers. What about the people who make sure that the software designed and built actually works?
Some members of Arc90’s Quality Assurance team–QA Engineer Melissa Adams, business analyst Ravi Rajakumar and I–recently attended the first QA meetup at the Brooklyn office of HUGE.
A short trip from Arc90’s office in Midtown East to DUMBO connected us with others in the QA community. After working in the technology industry for several years, it was rewarding to have our own event.
“QA people finally get a meetup of their very own!” commented Melissa, who has been testing software for two years. “It was a good way to see what others are doing in the field.”
The premier QA session provided introductions to various testing tools, including Selenium and Browsermob. The Arc90 team was familiar with both products since we’ve tested with Selenium and recently started using Browsermob.
Anthony Long, the event’s organizer and the QA Lead at HUGE, provided a walk-through of Selenium, a web application testing system, and explained what is in its future.
“I was interested to hear about Selenium 2 and the fact that Google will be taking the lead on further development,” noted Ravi.
Patrick Lightbody, the founder and CEO of Browsermob, presented the website monitoring and load testing service. Although he was in the in the company’s Portland, Oregon office, Patrick used modern technolgy–Skye and a screencast–to reach his NYC audience.
The next QA meetup will take place at HUGE’s office on Tuesday, June 1st at 7 p.m. Anthony will discuss using the Python programming language, along with Selenium. He will also cover the various Python modules he use in daily testing and explain how others can use them. You can sign up here.