myVSTS User Group: Are Your Teams Writing Quality Code?

Today I delivered at talk at Microsoft’s auditorium. Thanks a lot for those who spent their time to attend the talk. I’ll be attaching the download URL to the slides in this blog entry. 🙂 We’ll be organizing more of such talks in the near future. If you do have any topcis in mind that you wish the user group to cover in the near future, please don’t hesitate to drop me a mail at ervinloh@hotmail.com.
 
Topic:
Improving Code Quality
Synopsis:
Quality is often neglected during most phases of the software development lifecycle. This talk provides several recommended guidelines to check your code in different ways to ensure that your code incorporates what you intended by your quality design. Join this session and learn the how to enable development teams to incorporate quality, early and often throughout the life cycle.  If you want to improve the quality of code then don’t miss this session.
Agenda:
09:00am – 09:30am Registration
09:30am – 09:45am Keynote
09:45am – 10:45am Are Your Teams Writing Quality Code?
10:45am – 11:00am Coffee break
Speakers:
Patrick Yong, Ervin Loh
 
I would like to thank Patrick (a SharePoint MVP) for helping us to deliver the keynote. Also Chris and Leo for handling the logistics part of the event.
 
 

SOFTEC09 (Software Testing Conference 2009)

Thanks for all the participants who attended our workshop at SOFTEC09. For those who missed our workshop, I’m attaching a download URL to the slides for my session (Quality Management – Ensuring Quality to the Last Mile) in this blog entry. I would to thank Chris for inviting me to speak in this conference. I attended a few workshops from other speakers. 🙂 Gained a lot of insights into what the western countries are doing for software testing. This is the conference URL: http://mstb.org/softec2009/intro.htm
 
Our workshop agenda:
 
Quality Management – Managing Quality from the Start
Speaker: Hoong Fai – Microsoft Malaysia (M) Sdn Bhd
People say, ‘Failing to plan, is planning to fail’. Having a good plan and process in place is essential in managing software quality. Experience how Visual Studio Team System can assist you in putting a great plan and process in place for better quality management.
 
Quality Management– Testing Your Software
Speaker: Chris Leong – Microsoft Malaysia (M) Sdn Bhd
Software testing is a discipline which requires persistence and discipline to make it work. Learn how Visual Studio Team System reduce the load of testers.
 
Quality Management – Ensuring Quality to the Last Mile
Speaker: Ervin Loh – K365Labs Sdn Bhd
You reached the final mile before facing the real world. Learn how Visual Studio Team System assist you in detecting potential performance problems before you deploy your application to the real world.