The 3rd North West Exploratory Workshop on Testing is over & now is the time for reflection in order to weave those lessons learned into the future events.
The full write up is available on the Association for Software Testing website.
The #NWEWT Twitter feed also makes for some good reading & useful links on Innovation in Testing.
The biggest takeaways for me personally - NWEWT needs…
- a bigger organising team
- a more diverse organising team (I unsuccessfully tried to diversify myself…)
- a more diverse range of attendees
- a new venue
Another key takeaway was the attendees - they all contributed & added immense value. Without them & their efforts, the weekend would have been a flop.
Each of the presentations was well prepared & well presented, questions were well thought through & discussion was deep yet respectful.
Unfortunately, we didn’t get a formal picture of the attendees, but here’s one from Jit’s twitter feed (excludes Jit, unfortunately):
And here they are listed in order of my favourite*:
Ash Winter, Chris Chant, Gwen Diagram, Ian Smith, James Hattersley-Dykes, Jitesh Gosai, Marc Muller, Matt Bretton, Matthew Parker, Mike Van de Waal, Patrick Prill, Tim Fretwell & Vernon Richards
*just kidding, it’s actually alphabetical 😀
And now thanks to our sponsors…
This weekend couldn’t go ahead without the continued support of Association for Software Testing Grant program & Testagility
Your passion for building the testing community is awesome - thank you!
Duncs