{"id":648,"date":"2013-05-23T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2013-05-23T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T05:46:08","slug":"rockin-star-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/rockin-star-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockin&rsquo; STAR West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cat\u2019s out of the bag \u2013 I\u2019m popping out of my no-conference bubble, and making an appearance at a testing conference (<a href=\"http:\/\/starwest.techwell.com\/\">STAR West in October<\/a>). The theme of the conference is \u201cBe a Testing Rock star\u201d,<a href=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/image4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Me, pretending to be a rock star. I&#39;m sure I&#39;m in the middle of some very clever stage banter here.\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Me, pretending to be a rock star. I&#39;m sure I&#39;m in the middle of some very clever stage banter here.\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/image_thumb4.png\" width=\"336\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a> and while I think that theme begs for an appearance from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mkltesthead.com\/\">Michael Larsen<\/a>, I\u2019ll do my best to live up to the hype.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be giving a keynote on testing the Xbox. While I\u2019m certain I\u2019ll have interesting stories and pragmatic examples I can share in a generic fashion, I\u2019m hoping I can share much, much more. I don\u2019t have clearance yet to share too much about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/xboxone\/meet-xbox-one\">Xbox One<\/a>, but assuming I can get my proposals in place, it should be a pretty exciting talk to share. By the time STAR rolls around, I\u2019ll have passed my 20 year anniversary working on software, and working on this product has definitely been the highlight of my testing career.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also signed up to give a half-day workshop on testing. Literally &#8211; \u201con testing\u201d. The title of the workshop is <a href=\"http:\/\/starwest.techwell.com\/sessions\/starwest-2013\/alan-page-testing\">Alan Page: On Testing<\/a>, and I\u2019ll take the time to share some good stories and examples of new testing ideas, but I expect the attendees to drive the content. More details on that as we get closer to the event, but I expect it will be a ton of fun, and especially interesting to those folks who just want to suck up some new and interesting ideas.<\/p>\n<p>More as the conference gets closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cat\u2019s out of the bag \u2013 I\u2019m popping out of my no-conference bubble, and making an appearance at a testing conference (STAR West in October). 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