STAR West 2011

It’s official I’ve registered for STAR West 2011 (also know as Software Testing Analysis and Review for the west coast) in Anaheim, CA. I’m only going for Monday and Tuesday, the tutorial days, but I’m excited for the ones I’ve chosen:

Monday:
A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing with Michael Bolton. It’s a full day course. Hopefully it’s interesting so I can stay awake the entire time! http://www.sqe.com/StarWest/Tutorials/Default.aspx?Date=10/3/2011

Tuesday:
The quality of the courses on available on Tuesday is far below Monday’s so I went with two half day classes. In the morning I’m taking Using Visual Models for Test Case Design with Rob Sabourin. In the afternoon I’m taking Testing Web-based Applications: An Open Source Solution with Mukesh Mulchandani. I’m hoping it will broaden my understanding of automation since the full day automation tutorial from Monday isn’t available. http://www.sqe.com/StarWest/Tutorials/Default.aspx?Date=10/4/2011

James Whittaker from Google will be there Monday morning as he mentions on Google’s Testing Blog here. Google has two people presenting on Monday: James Whittaker in the morning talking about How Google Tests Software and Ankit Mehta on Testing Rich Internet AJAX-Based Applications.

If I had more time I’d check those two tutorials out but I don’t. Bummer. Hopefully Google’s Testing Blog will recap some of the things they covered.

http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2011/06/google-at-star-west-2011.html