Ministry of Testing Prague meetup

The Ministry of Testing Prague meets again! This time at a fabulous venue, generously provided by SentinelOne.

Agenda:
- food and drinks (provided by SentinelOne)
- short talk: Monitoring-based Blackbox Performance Testing
- our famous lightning talks
- talk: The Line of Code That Crashed a Rocket
- open space discussions

A short talk!
Monitoring-based Blackbox Performance Testing - Petr Cyhelský (Sentinel One)
Exploring a basic, but often underestimated method of performance testing…

Lightning talks!
What are lightning talks, you ask? 2-3 people can give a 5 minute presentation about something cool you want to share. These are usually rather informal, so don't worry if you've never done this before - this is a great opportunity to give a talk in a friendly and non-judgmental environment. Or you can just listen - no pressure :-)

A talk!
I will use this opportunity to present a talk I'm preparing for an upcoming conference and get early feedback from you.
The Line of Code That Crashed a Rocket - Eva Podbrdská
On June 4 1996, Ariane 5 flight 501 launched from a spaceport in French Guiana, loaded with expensive satellites full of scientific equipment. Just 37 seconds into the flight, it exploded.
What caused the eight billion dollar failure was a simple software bug. One wrong line of code. One developer's mistake.
Or... was it really?
Can a catastrophic failure in such an extremely complex system be caused by one single person's oversight?
Let's take a look at the offical ESA Inquiry Board report - in the style of Air Crash Investigations. We'll dig deeper into the many hidden causes of the crash of Ariane 5's maiden flight and analyse them from the point of view of a software quality engineer. We will see that there are many lessons to be learned about quality culture that are applicable to our own everyday work.

The Open Space!
We have a couple of designated spaces where 30 minute sessions are run in parallel. A session can be an informal discussion in comfy chairs, a demo or presentation, practicing testing dojo’s together, mob testing, or anything in between. There are no requirements for you before you can join a session - just bring yourself, an open mind and your opinions.
Feel free to add your own discussion topic to our Slido - or upvote topics that are already there. Whether you're an expert on some topic, or you're just getting your feet wet, the only requirement to run a session is that you're there to host it.

A safe space as well.
Our meetup is dedicated to providing a harassment-free meetup experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. To enable this, we expect everyone attending to follow the code of conduct at https://www.ministryoftesting.com/code-of-conduct.

The building has a limited number of parking spots, so public transport is suggested. If you wouldn't have another option than to arrive by car, we're happy to help if you contact us in advance at [vaclav.kotyk@sentinelone.com](mailto:vaclav.kotyk@sentinelone.com). Thank you.

PLEASE NOTE: at the SentinelOne office, all meetup attendees will be required to sign a generic NDA used for all office visitors, to be able to attend the meetup.