CITCON 2008 - Melbourne
29 June, 2008 – 10:33 amI recently attended the 2008 conference for Continuous Integration in Melbourne, and mixed with like minded professionals involved with all aspects of CI and testing in general.
In short this is a great (free) opportunity to attend a conference using an open session format. By that I mean the conference is run/organized like a wiki, where the attendees nominate topics they’d like to discuss or facilitate and then a user vote system organizes and makes it happen.
I avoided the performance testing oriented sessions and went for sessions that spoke about exploratory testing, defect management, benefits of test driven development, skills required for test automation and the last one titled ‘do we still need testers?’ …
They all generated a healthy amount of discussion and it was great to hear other people’s experienced opinions on the subject matter. It was also a great opportunity to network, find out who’s working on similar problems in the local industry and from afar. There was a healthy interest in using JMeter as a performance test tool to support CI, so I’ll be posting some more targeted blogs about this in the near future, as well as some consolidated info on performance metrics collection (without SiteScope) which a few people were also interested in.
Anyway, if you haven’t heard about the conference, keep an eye out for next years version. It’s well worth the zero dollar commitment, free beer and t-shirt. All you have to do is ‘use your feet’.
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