WT formerly known as Bangalore Weekend Testers is the acronym for Weekend Testers. We are a group of testers who have synergy towards testing software and learning from it. We also belong to the group of testers whose vision is to improve the craft. We are bringing Weekend Testing through our first chapter – Bangalore Weekend Testers, to find people with similar synergy.
Mission of WT
A platform for software testers to collaborate, test various kinds of software, foster hope, gain peer recognition, and be of value to the community.
What happens in a typical Weekend Testing session
Testers register for the coming weekend testing session at least a day in advance, by sending an email. A facilitator for the session provides a link to the product to be tested ( typically open source ), creates a group chat and a mission to achieve by the end of one hour testing session. The mission could vary from finding functional issues to exploring testability to writing automated tests to investigating bug reports and so on …
At the end of one hour ( or the decided session end time ) testers start sharing their experiences, bugs, learning, challenges, questions, and so on for about an hour. The facilitator then takes a day or two to prepare an experience report and publishes on this portal for the public to view it and also sends it to the open source developers or project owners for their perusal.
2 hours in total – that’s it. Every minute – worth it.
What surprised us with our experience so far ?
We were surprised that testers started to seek mentorship and guidance from others and also started to blog. Wow. We had little clue that this could do all that. We might be discovering more in future. So watch this space for updates.
Pradeep Soundararajan is a well known tester in the Testing World. Pradeep is a Test Consultant, Coach, Speaker and Mentor to many testers across the world. He is also the Author of 
