{"id":206,"date":"2010-10-06T23:03:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-08-02T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:39:04","slug":"free-test-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/free-test-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Test Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=200\" target=\"_blank\">some thoughts<\/a> on how <em>I<\/em> approach test strategy and what the term means to me a week or so ago. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testingratpack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rat Pack<\/a> had some questions on the post and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testingratpack.com\/2010\/10\/04\/isnt-there-a-word-for-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">I answered them<\/a>. But the conversation made me realize that it may be beneficial if I take some time to talk not only about what I choose to put into a test strategy, but <em>why<\/em> I approach the strategy that way. Chance are that my approach won\u2019t work for you, but my \u201capproach to the approach\u201d likely will.<\/p>\n<h3>So I\u2019m going to give one of those web-talk prezo things on Thursday, October 14 at 9:00am Pacific time.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Come hear Alan Page talk about how he defines a\u00a0test strategy and how he decides what to include.\u00a0 Ask questions, get answers, learn something, have fun.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll post the login information here prior to the meeting \u2013 just add the time to your calendar, come here a bit early and sign in and we&#8217;ll see what happens. I\u2019ll post details on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alanpage\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Logistics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The discussion will end at 10:00am. I\u2019ll plan to talk from 9:05 to 9:30. We\u2019ll use the rest of the time to discuss your thoughts on the subject and to answer a whole\u00a0 bunch of questions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2e2e2e;\">I\u2019ll be presenting from the brand new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/lync\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Lync<\/a> console \u2013 this gives\u00a0 you a few options that you can use to attend the meeting<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #2e2e2e;\">You can use the Lync Attendee Only Console. This comes in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/en\/details.aspx?FamilyID=1772a5ad-9688-4861-8387-ec30411bf455\" target=\"_blank\">Administrator version<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/en\/details.aspx?FamilyID=68a3ca04-a058-4e47-98ea-9e9af7ebd6e3\" target=\"_blank\">User level version<\/a>. (the main difference being that you can install the non-admin version if you\u2019re not an administrator). If you want to use this, just install it ahead of time and you\u2019ll be ready to go next Thursday.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t feel like installing software, you can use the web client. I\u2019ve tested it on IE8, IE9, Firefox, and Chrome, so hopefully it will work for you. It does, however, require <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/silverlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silverlight<\/a>, so if you install that ahead of time, you should be in good shape.<\/li>\n<li>We do have a Mac client, but as far as I know, it\u2019s not available as part of the public RC (sorry).<\/li>\n<li>If you work at MS, and you really want to hear what I have to say\u2026you\u2019ll figure out what to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As an added incentive &#8211; since you are all testers, you\u2019re welcome to do anything you want to try to make the meeting go badly (short of heckling me <em>too much<\/em>). I may regret this, but I challenge you to make bad (software) things happen while we talk about test strategy. My goal, of course, will be to be so engaging that you forget to break stuff \u2013 we\u2019ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The background: I posted some thoughts on how I approach test strategy and what the term means to me a week or so ago. The Rat Pack had some questions on the post and I answered them. But the conversation made me realize that it may be beneficial if I take some time to talk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}