Double feature - Talk + Workshop

Schedule

5.30pm: Networking, food and drinks
6.00pm: Housekeeping and event overview
6.10pm: Talks!

Food and drinks provided by Hudson. Thank you, Hudson, for your support!

Info

Talk (20 minutes)
Let’s Talk About Mental Health

We're very excited to be joined by Tina (bio below) who has been advising and training technology companies around Brisbane and Australia on good mental health practices, and how to give others and yourself Mental Health First Aid (just like physical First Aid)
Topics to be covered
• What is mental health?
• Recognising symptoms of poor health
• Staying well
• Where to go for support

Speaker Bio

Tina Winchester is the Mental Health Director and Co-Founder of the Career Development Centre and Mentally Well Workplaces. Originally, from the UK she has 25 years’ experience working in mental health services, training and awareness and private practice.
Tina is the Head of Employee Assistance Programs at the Career Development Centre in Brisbane, providing bespoke workplace counselling services to employees of multiple organisations. Tina is also a co-author of Australia’s first Online Mental Health Induction Program that provides comprehensive education and induction to employees across all industries.

Workshop (40 minutes)
ATDD - Don't D without it!

Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) is the god-father of test-driven development (TDD) and behaviour-driven development (BDD), so why does it get such little attention? For that matter what is it?
This workshop will give you an overview of ATDD and a run-through of an elaboration session centred on testing.
By the end - you'll never do BDD without ATDD again!
Originally presented at the LAST conference 2019

Speaker Bio

Mike has been in the software industry for over 18 years. He has worked in some of Brisbane's largest and smallest companies as well as companies in London.
Mike's current passion is agile coaching and the technical practices that accompany an agile journey. Mike has worked with a number of teams and a constant throughout his experience is the lack of focus on testing and testing tools.
Mike promotes testing as a first-class citizen and encourages all team members to get involved.
Mike has spoken at a number of agile conferences both within Australia and overseas

About our group:
Brisbane Software Testing Meetup aims to share knowledge in the software community about testing practices, ideas, tools and methodologies. All are welcome, whether you are a tester, a developer, or any other role. Only passion and enthusiasm are required!

About Ministry of Testing:
Brisbane Testing Meetup is a Ministry of Testing Meetup. The Ministry of Testing exists to advance the software testing industry in a fun, safe, professional and forward thinking way. Our meetups exist as a way to bring people together to talk and learn about good and authentic testing.
https://www.ministryoftesting.com/ministry-of-testing-meetups