Agile Testing & experiences of an Atlassian graduate

Schedule
5.45pm Welcome and informal chat
6.15pm Introduction
6.30pm Main talk
8.00pm Q&A plus optional visit to a local bar

Main talk summary

Ian Grunert is a recent graduate from the University of Adelaide in 2010 who worked part time at Rising Sun Pictures as a pipeline developer, helping bring the magic into the Harry Potter movies. Five months ago Ian joined the software developer tools company Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com/) where he works on their agile testing tool Bonfire (http://www.atlassian.com/en/software/bonfire).

Ian will talk about agile testing at Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com/) and his experiences as a graduate developer at Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com/), being part of a winning FedEx team (http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2011/06/fedex_17_shippers_are_winners.html) as well his own innovative ideas he works on during 20% time.

Ian will go into detail about how agile testing is done at Atlassian, using Atlassians own products for everything they do (dogfooding). As well as a quick demo, Ian will cover the rationale behind Bonfire (http://www.atlassian.com/en/software/bonfire), the technical challenges behind building it and the future directions of this agile testing tool.

Ian will also highlight the issues that automated testing across four browser extensions poses which he tackled in some very interesting ways.

There will be time for questions and answer sessions which we will take to a local bar.

Thank you.