I’m in Atlanta this week for some training and since I don’t know anyone in the area I sent out some inquiries and ended up having dinner last night with Eric Jacobson and Marlena Compton; both local testers. At the end of the evening I suggested they should make such an outing for testers a monthly occurrence, so I’m going to label this the first such event. If you would like to participate in the next one, contact one (or both) of them.
Here is a list of resources and such that came up over the course of the three hour conversation.
Books
- xUnit Test Patterns
- Blink
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- Lessons Learned in Software Testing
- Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar
Courses
Schools of testing
Other
- Not to imply that kanban is cartoony, but here is kanban boards explained as a cartoon
All round, it was a good meal and good, geeky tester talk. Hopefully I didn’t bore them too bad. (Realized later that I talked a lot)
Bore us? Hell no! I loved 95% of it. I felt bad shutting you down. Somehow, even after being up for like 20 hours straight you appeared ready to continue spreading the tester gospel all night long. When the servers started cleaning up the place around us, I figured it was a hint.
Thanks for the inspiration and ideas.