I declare the inaugural Atlanta Tester Dinner a success

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

• BBST – facilitator led
• BBST – self paced
• Rapid Software Testing

Schools of testing

• Bret’s original deck
• Cem’s clarification on the context school

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)