I’m doing a 3.5h tutorial on Scripting Recipes for Testers next week at GLSEC and am starting to collect all my notes and thoughts together to not make a complete fool of myself. I know there are a number of people who read this and consider themselves scripters, so a question.

What do you think of this format?

  1. Why testers should learn to script, scripting is not hard, etc.
  2. Introduction to Recipe (why it is useful and the concepts it helps / assists)
  3. Presentation of the script (walk through the logic, show customizations, etc.)
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 6 or 7 different recipes (though I suspect I am going to have to have a number in the hat as well)
  5. Some hands-on time to work with participants on their own scripting problems

Depending on the make-up of the class, the content could be too simplistic, or too complicated but I guess that is part of the “fun” of speaking. Last year at GLSEC I did the developer tutorial and not the QA one so I’m not sure of the expected demographic.

But any thoughts on the format itself? I seem to think that if I was in a similar one that it would be useful to me. Especially since all the scripts shown will be available to attendees.

I’ll be posting the recipes over the next couple days.