We are starting a serious of meetups for various QA specialties. Our goal is to build a solid community of QA testers on the Silicon Valley, share our experiences and hacks. Our fierst session will be about Web Testing. Come share your web testing expierence, and learn from other industry leaders.   This is a free event. 

Software quality… Testing, Automation, Metrics, Load and Performance. Repeatable, predictable processes and approaches for everything from start up through large scale high availability organizations. Fun and Passionate about Quality.

Share the adventures and challenges of managing agile software developers and teams. Each session will start with a short presentation on a topic of interest. After that comes a facilitated discussion where participants can share challenges that they are facing and get feedback, ideas, and support from the group. The event is free! Come out, join the discussion, and become a better manager.

This group is for new startup founders and entrepreneurs who are experimenting with Lean Startup practices. We started this SF group as a place to play-test many of the great tools and products that are coming out to help entrepreneurs iterate their products and find Product/Market fit faster. If you have an idea for a product, or if you have an early-stage tech/mobile product that you are working on, this group is a place to experience new ideas, tools and approaches.

… How to build your first Symfony bundle How to manage multiple websites and applications with one Symfony install  Deploying your new Symfony project  How to use Symfony Components outside of Symfony  Testing your Symfony code  I bet you guys can come up with better! ----------------------------------------------------------- "Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web appl …

… Events in this group will range from educational sessions, penetration testing tutorials, hacking demonstrations, hacking competitions and challenges, discussion panels, and hands on workshops. The content of the events will also range from advanced to beginner, the designation of which will be posted in the event description. The primary audience for this group is web developers, but the information presented should be useful to a wide range of professionals. Advanced sessions are more li …

This is a group for anyone that uses, or is considering using Project Sprouts to improve their software development and deployment workflow. Our meetings will generally begin with a quick presentation of Sprouts or a particular aspect of Sprouts, followed by an informal question and answer period from the attendees. Feel free to join whether you're a die hard Flash/Flex/Rubyist or just trying to figure out what all this stuff is... Everyone is welcome!  

What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more, more quickly. Lean UX is about getting more done better for the same investment. Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing your design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing research, testing your hypotheses, and building better hypotheses quickly, based on more information, based on reality. Read 10 Principles for Lean UX on Luxr The intersection between Lean Thinking, Agile Development and UX is a …

Putting some of the great skills in our community to use on socially responsible software projects of any sort, with a preference toward open source, agile development, and great testing, but open to just about anything. Participants will bring projects of interest, or coding/UI skills, give a short intro to the group, and developers and designers will work together on whichever projects inspire them. An example project I'm working on is a creative collaboration remixing engine -- like …

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The SF Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Bay Area. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as …

Meet with other local Mozilla developers, QA team members and users to talk about opportunities for getting involved in the project. Learn about the tools that Mozilla uses to test Firefox. Become involved in a cool open source project that has helped Firefox to become the browser of choice for millions of people all over the world!

Are you an IT professional or software developer and want to learn more about Agile Software development methodologies (XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, etc) and techniques (unit testing, TDD, CI, big visible charts, etc)? Are you an experienced Agile practitioner who wants to share problems and ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues? If you answered yes then join our group!

Learn from and meet with other developers, devops and QA professionals that use JMeter to test web apps.   JMeter User's group is an open forum where JMeter and even Selenium users from all levels (beginner, intermediate, afficianados) can interact, network and share insights and information. Topics include JMeter, Selenium, scripting, performance, load and stress testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, building automated test scripts and other topics.   Feel free to request an …

… Many members have professional but informal diagnoses, for example where a therapist says "I think you have AS" but doesn't do any formal neuropsychological objective testing.   There are some with formal diagnoses, and a significant number who are self diagnosed.  Attendees come from all walks of life, including professionals, creatives, academics, and people who don't or can't work.  Adults of all ages attend: college aged, young adult, middle aged, retirees. By group consensus this meetup is …