Anyone who attends this session will learn about Git version control, GitHub, repositories, merging, pushing, committing, and where to go for more. We’ll also create our own GitHub accounts, contribute to at least one existing project and maybe begin your path to creating your own.

Key Takeaways:

1. Create your own GitHub account.

2. Contribute to an existing project.

3. Learn about forking, pushing, merging and committing to update READMEs, help docs, and other types of text files--including the full git + GitHub workflow.

4. Check in key test artifacts right alongside the code, as a first-class, versioned and branched document.

5. (Stretch goal) Build and host your own website directly from GitHub.

Pre-Requisites:

1. Bring your laptop (fully charged or with a power cable).

2. Signup for your own GitHub account: https://github.com/

• Star or favorite this repo: https://github.com/ckenst/githubforyou-workshop

3. Configure / install Git version control: https://git-scm.com/downloads

MacOS:

• Recommended: Install XCode Command Line Tools
• Install it stand alone: https://git-scm.com/

Windows

• Install it stand alone: https://git-scm.com/

If you run into trouble, we can troubleshoot during the workshop, but please try to install prior to the workshop.

4. Be ready to learn!

Speaker: Chris Kenst

Chris Kenst is a Test Engineer at Laurel & Wolf, a startup disrupting the traditional version of interior design services. Simultaneously he works to improve the understanding of their product and it’s quality while also building infrastructure to help improve testing efficiency.

He was previously in testing and test leadership roles for a few startups, healthcare, telecom, banking and insurance company. Before that, he founded and ran a technical services company in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He hold a Bachelors from San Francisco State University. He has passed all of the Black Box Software Testing (BBST) courses, and is an occasional BBST Instructor. He finds the BBST courses to be the closest and most reputable thing to credentialing in the software testing field.

Sponsors:

The Association for Software Testing (AST) is an international non-profit professional association with members in over 50 countries. AST is dedicated and strives to build a testing community that views the role of testing as skilled, relevant, and essential to the production of faster, better, and less expensive software products. AST values a scientific approach to developing and evaluating techniques, processes, and tools. AST believes that a self-aware, self-critical attitude is essential to understanding and assessing the impact of new ideas on the practice of testing.

Beacon Hill Technologies, the technology specialty division of Beacon Hill Staffing Group, is a national IT staffing organization that operates across industries and provides contract, direct (permanent), consulting and project management services to top companies and their IT departments.

From staff augmentation and project/business specific solutions to direct (permanent) placement services, Beacon Hill Technologies’ dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals, including those with active security clearances, covering all the latest technologies, on a time-sensitive basis.

Beacon Hill Staffing Group has 53 offices nationally with Beacon Hill Technologies present in 31 of those locations. We place IT contractors in all 50 states by seamlessly coordinating recruiting resources in local and regional markets with Beacon Hill Technologies National Recruiting & Delivery, a dedicated national recruiting team that focuses exclusively on national accounts, supporting regional recruiting operations and delivering contractors to markets where Beacon Hill does not have physical office locations.

Whether a start-up or a Fortune 500 company in the public or private sector, Beacon Hill Technologies matches world class talent with exceptional opportunities.