Speakers & Sessions

Sessions at CodeChef TechTalks

Topic: Trends in Agile Testing

• A brief background about different types/styles of testing and how they evolved.
• How Agile changes things
• What are the techniques you find most people moving towards these days and the rationale behind the same
• What tools are helpful and what are not
• Concluding thoughts, what is missing in the whole Agile testing space that needs immediate attention and innovation?

Speaker: Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She works as the Director of Agile Software Development at Ultimate Software. Lisa specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Lisa joined her first agile team in 2000, having enjoyed many years working as a programmer, analyst, tester, and QA director. She currently works as a tester and ScrumMaster on a team producing a web-based .Net application. From 2003 until 2009, she was a tester on a Scrum/XP team developing a web-based J2EE application at ePlan Services, Inc. She frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences in North America and Europe. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. For more about Lisa's work, visit www.lisacrispin.com.

Topic: Releasing Every Week to Production
Speaker: Owen Rogers

Owen Rogers is a developer at Pulse Energy, where his team has been deploying releases to production every week for the past year. He is formerly an Agile coach and consultant with ThoughtWorks helping teams make the transition to Agile methods in Sweden, UK, India, China and Canada. He is a regular speaker at Agile conferences and is one of the organizers of the first Agile India conference. He has been the project lead for a number of open source tools including CruiseControl.NET, dbdeploy.net and NMock. For more about Owen's work, visit http://exortech.com/blog/.

Topic: Building Scalable Platforms/Architectures
Speaker: Bhavin Turakhia

Bhavin Turakhia is the CEO and Founder of Directi, a 300+ million dollars group of Business Units, that develop innovative mass-market Web Products serving millions of Customers worldwide. He is chiefly responsible for the vision and architecture of Directi's Products and services. A techie at heart, Bhavin has been designing, architecting and coding applications since the early 90s. Bhavin has been an active speaker in the tech community and blogs at bhavin.directi.com. He spends a fair bit of time in conceptualizing high-available and scalable architectures for various Directi products.