HCMC Software Testing Club

WHO ARE WE?

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Who are we?

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Who are we?

We, a group of passionate software testers around HCMC, Vietnam, are working together to build the first bricks for this community, called HCMC Software Testing Club (HCMC STC), following the format of Software Testing Club community (http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/).

We aimed to organize the first Testing Conference in July 2014.

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Value Proposition

Commit to non-stop contributing to the development of a better generation of software testing practitioners around HCMC• Through the improvement of their

knowledge and practices• Through promoting knowledge and best

practices in software testing and software testing career

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Targeted audiences

• Testing practitioners: testers, software project managers, automation testers, QAs, Directors and Managers who are working on or in-charge of software quality

• Students and young people who may find a fit in software testing career

• Lecturers at University who are teaching and promoting software testing knowledge and practices

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What would HCMC STC offer?

• Audiences would have chances to get up-to-date knowledge and best practices about software testing and what's happening around the world

• Promote the software testing career and give career advices to people who are pursuing software testing career path

• Inspire and promote best practices in software quality assurance and improvement

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What do we do?

Promote knowledge, practices, careers through • Public seminars, conferences, workshops

with speakers from all over the world as well as experts around HCMC area

• Also promote knowledge improvement through – Discussions, sharing via forum– Monthly news letters – And web site.

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Goals

Between now and July 2014:• Recruit 5-10 active members to act as the board to

run the club • # of members: Reach 500 active members• # of speakers: Recruit 20 experts ready for regular

sharing / talking at seminars• # of conference: 1 every six months for one day

conference • # of monthly event: 2 per month. This is for smaller

group meet-up, dialogues, seminar, sharing • Fund: KMS to sponsor mainly between now and July

2015 with the support from partners like HCA. Need to be financially independent from July 2015 at the latest

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Our plan

May 2014• Officially formed

Board of Members

Mid Jun 2014• Officially launch

web site• Start PR the first

conference

July 12th, 2014• Hold the 1st

Conference

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And this is really who we are

Board of Members1. Thanh Huynh – Software Tester | vntesters.com, Data

Logic2. Binh Nguyen Ngan – Senior QC | vstqb.org,

testervn.com, aiti.edu.vn, CSC Vietnam3. Nhat Do – Sr. Manager | KMS Vietnam4. Thao Vo – QA Architect | KMS Vietnam5. Thong Nguyen – QA Architect | KMS Vietnam6. Quang Xuan Nguyen – Sr. QA | KMS Vietnam7. Hoa Thi Bich Le – Sr. QA | KMS Vietnam8. Viet Hung Nguyen – MD | KMS Vietnam, temporarily

be the chair of the board

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Other information

• Web site: http://www.hcmc-stc.org/• STC group:

http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/group/hcmc

• Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/HCMC-Software-Testing-Club/518090058316500

• Twitter: @HCMC_STC• LinkedIn group:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=6703571&trk=my_groups-tile-grp

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Content of the first conference on July 12th,

2014

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Theme

Stay on the cutting-edgeWith keynote speaker: Paul Holland from US

Inspired by StarEast 2014

One full day conference• With 12-14 topics around Test Management & Process,

Test Techniques, Agile Testing, Testing Automation, Mobile Testing, Performance Testing, Personal Excellences

• Testathon session• One-on-One meeting with speakers

Expected to receive 160 – 200 HCMC software testers

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Keynote speaker: Paul Holland

Paul is a gifted test manager formerly of Alcatel, and is famous for his facilitation skills at context-driven peer conferences. He's the facilitator-in-chief at CAST conferences, and a pillar of the WOPR conference. He's also teaching my RST classes.Paul is a software test consultant and teacher. He has over 16 years of hands-on testing and test management experience, primarily at Alcatel-Lucent. During his time at Alcatel-Lucent he led the transformation of the testing approach for two product divisions to become more efficient and effective. As a test manager and tester he focused on exploratory testing, test automation, and improving testing techniques. He led the creation and worldwide deployment of a new automation environment for the Access division of Alcatel-Lucent.Paul was on the Board of Directors for the Association for Software Testing for 3 years and was on their Executive Committee for 2 years. He has been an organizer for the Workshop on Performance and Reliability (WOPR) since 2005 and has been the facilitator of every WOPR (two per year) since 2003.Paul has been consulting and delivering training both internally at Alcatel-Lucent and externally for the past 5 years. In addition he has delivered training to other large companies such as Progressive Insurance, HP, RIM and General Dynamics and he has facilitated many software testing peer workshops held at many different companies including Microsoft, Intuit, eBay and Google.

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Talk at the conference?

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Notes about the topic

• Topics can be anything related to the following categories in software testing: Test management, test techniques, test automation, Agile testing, mobile testing, performance testing, personal excellences.

• Each session will need to be 45 minutes, including Q&A.• Register to talk at:

http://www.hcmc-stc.org/july-conference-topic-registration.html

• TimelineMay – Jun 27th, 2014•Topic registration and material submission

Jun 27th, 2014•Deadline for topic registration and material submission

July 8th, 2014•Deadline for reviewing/approving topics & materials

© 2014 HCMC Software Testing Club

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