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We've got two great talks lined up now on what I know are both really popular subjects.

Alex Bennel from 3Squared (https://www.3squared.com)will be sharing some of the struggles he has faced being the only Tester in a growing organisation and establishing a QA department from the ground up...

"Two years ago I found myself as the single QA at a growing company, with no formal QA process currently in place, I had to start from scratch. In this talk I'll cover some of the highs and lows of the last two years, from the humble beginnings to the maturing department we are today."

Andrew Shaw will be treating us to an early preview of a talk he will be delivering to the British Computer Society's Software Testing Special Interest Group conference in London in December. This talk will be about what Andrew has learned about Automated Testing, the hard way!

"Andy Shaw talks about some of the automated testing that he has undertaken, the challenges that he (and others) face when automating tests, and understanding how automated testing can add value to software testing.

The automated tests were created for a Geological software system, where there were no tools that were directly applicable, so he had to approach the automation in a different way. Andy explains what worked and what didn’t work, and what he learned from these challenges, as well as the successes achieved with the automated testing.

He concludes by explaining how the automated testing has added value, and gives advice and guidance about the questions to ask when looking to automate tests for a software, mobile or web based system."

It sounds like there's going to be a lot of very useful and relateable information in both talks. I'm currently in a similar situation to Alex so we'll be comparing notes afterwards, and Automation is always a contentious subject in the testing community. I'm looking forward to this one a lot!

Talks kick off at 7pm. Hope to see you all there.