January Meeting Announcement: Start Your Year with Randy and a Sprint Around Visual Studio 2010 Test Elements

Date/Time:
Thursday January 7th, 6PM, Polaris Microsoft Office (4th Floor)

Agenda:

• Are you tired of spending hours trying to reproduce and diagnose bugs?
• Do you have a hard time getting testers and developers to talk to each other?
• Is it difficult to determine which tests are most important to run after you produce a new build?

Software testing is perhaps the #1 area of investment for Visual Studio 2010. During this introductory session we explore the new software testing architecture offered by Visual Studio 2010. We examine the various testing roles played by members of the development and testing teams and show how they will interact with Visual Studio 2010 to more effectively test software and eliminate bugs. We will take a deep look at manual testing, lab management, data diagnostics adapters, the "actionable bug", functional UI testing, test impact analysis, test automation, and much more which will help you more easily find and eliminate defects from your software.

Biography:
Randy Pagels – Sr. Developer Technical Specialist, Microsoft Corporation. Randy is a Developer Technology Specialist and part of the Developer Platform and Evangelism tools team covering the Heartland District for almost 4 years now. He provides expertise on the Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server products. He helps customers get the most out of their ALM tools by explaining best practices, installation, and configuration through presentations, workshops, or quick starts. Prior to Microsoft he worked for 16 years as a developer in the IT area of DTE Energy. He has designed and developed many .Net web applications using agile methodologies.

Randy maintains Team System Cafe website, where you can find a lot of useful information on Visual Studio. You even may find him once in awhile on Twitter :).

General Information:

• As usual COALMG will provide food and drinks!
• We are working on broadcasting the meeting with LiveMeeting, no promises.
• One attendee will get a pass to CODEMASH 2.0.1.0
• One lucky attendee will walk away with Windows7 Upgrade