Hi All,

The meetup will start in the SkillsMatter offices at about 6:30. We will start with a presentation of some testing technology, lasting for about 45 mins, then it would be cool to have some Q&A of whatever is on anybody's mind with regards to testing methods, tools, technologies etc. Whenever we feel we have done enough of this, the group will move to the local pub (1 min walk) for a more informal discussion session.

Since this is our first meetup, everything is subject to change :)

If this Meetup group gave a better indication of what technologies were going to be covered at the meeting, I'd be inclined to come along, but it's too vague. I'm not going to waste money on a train fare to find out after the fact you're going to be talking only about .NET or RoR. Testing only say. Be more specific and I can make a more informed decision.

Hi Jeremy,

Good point - I will try to clarify the purpose of the group and how I hope intend the evening to go.

Basically, we are not constrained to any one technology or platform. The idea is that as a group, we discuss different tools and techniques towards agile testing - therefore the group will decide what we are going to be discussing.

Tomorrow, I will be talking about developing a simple keyword testing framework with FitNesse and WebDriver using Java.

I hope that in future sessions other group members will volunteer to talk on a particular subject or technology which they find interesting, and perhaps give a demonstration or workshop on that subject.

I don't expect our sessions to be just one person talking the whole time about a single subject - I would like everyone to get involved and get out of the group whatever they want to.

Other things I would like to do review is what's going on in the world of testing, books reviews etc.

It's great to see so many people with an interest in a group like this, and our first session will be a good opportunity to meet other like minded people as well as learn from each other and socialise in general.

We will be starting off at SkillsMatter offices, and then moving on to the Slaughtered Lamb pub around the corner for a more informal session.

Toby Henderson will be giving a talk on Mono at the same time, so I am sure the 2 groups will merge at the pub sometime around 7:30 - 8pm.

I'm new to Selenium working with it for the past 2 months only. We're using Bromine as the engine and managment of automated scripts developed in the Seleniium IDE. Several VMs cover the various browser - OS combinations with Selenium RC running on them. Bromine's not the best to work with so I'm definitely interested in your demo (I'm new to Java also). I've used FitNesse briefly but I never got as deep as the fixtures, just the script level. Looking forward to meeting everyone...