World Conference Next Generation Testing (WCNGT-2013) – User friendly Tech help
Today i thought of sharing our experience for “World Conference Next Gen Testing ” which
nwas held at Bangalore between 11-12th July, 2013. It was our first exposure to any
nconference which was getting organized at an international level, with participation of
neminent personalities from the testing community.
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nOur team was lucky to crack the initial two rounds of “ITL,Indian Testing League” an
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nits type quiz related to testing. Entering into semi-finals, was enough to convince
nour company to sponsor us for the event.
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nWe reached by afternoon(Due to Flight issues), and thought of attending “Design of Test Automation” by Rahul Verma. It was very informative and practical seminar.After that we attended sessions by speakers like “John ShuttleWorth”,Julian Harty”,”Rex Black”,”Shrini Kulkarni”,”Paul Gerrard” and many more known speakers..There were 4 parallel tracks going on,thus to get the maximum out of each, we were shuffling between conference rooms.
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nRegarding the quiz part it was amazing there were 20 questions for semifinalist(16
n Objective + 4 Subjective).We were quite confident to enter the finals but it was not
nour day, and top 5 teams were selected for the finals(3 from CTS itself,i believe it was fair enough, with 27 teams from them).
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nFinals was held on second day, it was combination of audio, visual + audience rounds,
neven our team was banned from answering the open questions(May be organizers felt
nwe had won enough goodie bags).Winning team was given “IPAD Mini”, just to console our self, we were talking that we would have easily won the second position(Provided we
nentered Finals :).
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nTo summarize it was great experience in technology front, where testing is heading,
nkeynotes about testing, lot of networking, branding for our company and making new
nfriends, enjoying weather of Bangalore, moving around MG road, visiting Infy-Mysore and moreover no-office work.
