Zappers is a peer sharing community designed for those who believe in learning from each other and sharing testing knowledge. Zappers are from all walks of life, some are professional software testers for large international corporations, whilst others are computer science students looking to see how their skills match up, anyone with an interest in software testing would be most welcome to join us. Zappers believe in raising the standard of software testing internationally so most Zappers come …

This is a community for those who care and are proud of what they do. For those developers, regardless how experienced they are, who want to improve and master their craft. This is a community for those who believe that being average is just not good enough. The Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft. Through this work we have come to value: Not only wo …

A meetup group for people in the UK interested in various aspects of Automated testing including Unit Testing, Browser Automation (Selenium WebDriver), Load, Performance and Soak testing Novices to Experts welcome. Post new ideas for a meetup or come along to our quarterly social event.

We're a bunch of software developers that love to code, play, learn, improve and eat pizza! Every month we meet up in order to practice code katas, clean code, software craftsmanship, pair programming, Test-Driven Development and learn from each other for an hour or two. As it's after work, food and drinks are provided :) If you'd like to learn more about Software Craftsmanship, the best place to start is What Is Software Design? by Jack Reeves. If you'd like more in-depth material, Pete McBreen …

Behat Behat is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool for the PHP applications developed by Konstantin Kudryashov who is known as @everzet on Twitter. Behat is a BDD framework for PHP. There are some tools available for BDD like Cucumber for Ruby, SpecFlow for .NET and Lettuce for Python. Behat is the first BDD tool for PHP applications.Behat can be used for API testing, functional testing and data-driven testing. London Behat users is a group of people following BDD practices using Behat in t …

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 and po …

We are a group of agile practitioners and enthusiasts living and working in the South West of England. This group is open to anyone in Bath and the surrounding areas (inc. Bristol, Newport, Cardiff, Swindon, Exeter and beyond) interested in Scrum and Agile practices. Feel free to come along to one of our meetups to speak to like-minded individuals and share some agile war stories over a drink or two!

A regular Meetup group for software developers who care about and take pride in what they do and how they do it.  Modelled on the London Software Craftsmanship Community, I hope to bring some of their success to the Cambridge software community. Software Craftsmanship has grown out of Agile, with many of the leading lights in the Craftsmanship movement being the founders of the Agile movement as well. The Software Craftsmanship Manifesto describes the movement as follows: As aspiring Software Cr …

UNICOM Seminars has set up DevOps London Group so that people working and interacting between development and operational activities within an enterprise can meet, share ideas, discuss technical problems and make valuable business contacts.

The UK Smalltalk user group is a group of professionals and hobbists who share an interest in the Smalltalk programming languages and related technologies.

Jenkins Jenkins is a Continuous Integration tool developed by Kohsuke Kawaguchi who is currenly working with Cloudbees. Jenkins has boomimg in the market and most of the companies using Jenkins as CI server. Agile software development won't be complete without effective & visible CI and Jenkins fits perfectly into it. London JenkinsCI Users Group London JenkinsCI Users group is a group of IT professionals using Jenkins as a CI server, people want to use/learn Jenkins and people want to share thi …

Growth Hackers Part marketers, part coders, we're lean and data driven. We design for virality and ensure it's intrinsic in our projects. We test fanatically, optimise relentlessly and shoot for hockey-stick growth. We'll meet to discuss tactics, strategies, developments, trends, trade code and hack through some challenges together. Here are some resources on Growth Hacking you might find useful: http://www.vccafe.com/2012/09/05/introduction-to-growth-hacking-for-startups/

Agile Peterborough aims to build a thriving community of technology advocates to enable local business growth, support local schools, share knowledge and learn from each other. Through talks, events, workshops and volunteering we hope to learn and share knowledge, to promote best practice and breed new talent. Peterborough has a wealth of both technology and engineering companies. Agile Peterborough is open to all technology and engineering enthusiasts to meet, discuss and share knowledge.

This is a group for software Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) professionals in London, United Kingdom, who are particularly interested in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). The user group meetings will cover all aspects of ALM including requirements gathering, performance metrics, all forms of testing, code management, configuration, build and deployment. The group will be of interest to Business Analysts, Requirement Engineers, Developers, Testers, Project Managers, Build Engineers a …

Following the same principles as the London Tester Gathering this event will be held monthly with 1 or 2 presentations (though format may change). This is a group for Testers and run by Testers, a chance for people involved in or who are interested in testing to get together in an informal setting. We'll get together at a venue and a few people will talk or give a presentation. This is a group which organically grew out of interest from the Reading/Berkshire Testing community for a Tester Gath …

Connecting people so that they can collaborate and work together in the future. Providing a place for newer coaches to seek support Exchanging coaching skills and experiences Develop new concepts collaboratively that we can use when coaching Develop ideas that will support the discipline of coaching Having fun, sharing and collaboration The target audience is you, peers that you work with or have worked with, ScrumMasters, anybody with potential to be coaches, good ScrumMasters. Please feel fr …

Quarterly meet up for Heads of Test/ QA in London to network with like minded people.... Completely free! Each event will have 4 Key notes speakers discussing HOT topics including Testing in an Agile Environment/ The new role of a Developer in Test and a comparison of new Open Source tools. It will be held in the RBS Building- 280 Bishopgate- Capacity- 200 people. Free Wine/ Beer/ Soft drinks and nibbles. Time afterwards to network .....

This is a group for anyone working or living in Berkshire area to come and discuss, share, learn, listen, explore about Scrum (or rather any agile practices). Come and explore the beautiful world of Agile! Everyone welcome from agile novice to agile extremist :)

Paddington Lean Coffee is in informal discussion group meeting in the Paddington area of London, UK. We share ideas and insights about Lean and Agile approaches to software development and delivery, using the Lean Coffee discussion format (see http://limitedwipsociety.ning.com/page/lean-coffee)