The document summarizes the HCMC Software Testing Club, which aims to organize conferences and events to promote software testing knowledge and careers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The club is made up of a board of software testing professionals and plans to hold its first conference on July 12th, 2014. The conference will have talks on various software testing topics like test management and automation, and is expected to attract 160-200 local software testers. The club's goals are to recruit active members, reach 500 total members, and become financially independent by July 2015.

1. HCMC Software Testing Club
WHO ARE WE?

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Who are we?

3. Who are we?
We, a group of passionate software testers around
HCMC, Vietnam, are working together to build the
first bricks for this community, called HCMC
Software Testing Club (HCMC STC), following the
format of Software Testing Club community
(http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/).
We aimed to organize the first Testing Conference
in July 2014.
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4. Value Proposition
Commit to non-stop contributing to the
development of a better generation of software
testing practitioners around HCMC
• Through the improvement of their knowledge
and practices
• Through promoting knowledge and best
practices in software testing and software testing
career
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5. Targeted audiences
• Testing practitioners: testers, software project
managers, automation testers, QAs, Directors
and Managers who are working on or in-charge
of software quality
• Students and young people who may find a fit in
software testing career
• Lecturers at University who are teaching and
promoting software testing knowledge and
practices
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6. What would HCMC STC
offer?
• Audiences would have chances to get up-to-
date knowledge and best practices about
software testing and what's happening around
the world
• Promote the software testing career and give
career advices to people who are pursuing
software testing career path
• Inspire and promote best practices in software
quality assurance and improvement
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7. What do we do?
Promote knowledge, practices, careers through
• Public seminars, conferences, workshops with
speakers from all over the world as well as
experts around HCMC area
• Also promote knowledge improvement through
– Discussions, sharing via forum
– Monthly news letters
– And web site.
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8. Goals
Between now and July 2014:
• Recruit 5-10 active members to act as the board to run
the club
• # of members: Reach 500 active members
• # of speakers: Recruit 20 experts ready for regular
sharing / talking at seminars
• # of conference: 1 every six months for one day
conference
• # of monthly event: 2 per month. This is for smaller
group meet-up, dialogues, seminar, sharing
• Fund: KMS to sponsor mainly between now and July
2015 with the support from partners like HCA. Need to
be financially independent from July 2015 at the latest
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9. Our plan
May 2014
• Officially formed
Board of Members
Mid Jun 2014
• Officially launch web
site
• Start PR the first
conference
July 12th, 2014
• Hold the 1st
Conference
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10. And this is really who we are
Board of Members
1. Thanh Huynh – Software Tester | vntesters.com, Data
Logic
2. Binh Nguyen Ngan – Senior QC | vstqb.org,
testervn.com, aiti.edu.vn, CSC Vietnam
3. Nhat Do – Sr. Manager | KMS Vietnam
4. Thao Vo – QA Architect | KMS Vietnam
5. Thong Nguyen – QA Architect | KMS Vietnam
6. Quang Xuan Nguyen – Sr. QA | KMS Vietnam
7. Hoa Thi Bich Le – Sr. QA | KMS Vietnam
8. Viet Hung Nguyen – MD | KMS Vietnam, temporarily be
the chair of the board
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11. Other information
• Web site: http://www.hcmc-stc.org/
• STC group:
http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/group/hcmc
• Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/HCMC-
Software-Testing-Club/518090058316500
• Twitter: @HCMC_STC
• LinkedIn group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=67
03571&trk=my_groups-tile-grp
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Content of the first conference
on July 12th, 2014

13. Theme
Stay on the cutting-edge
With keynote speaker: Paul Holland from US
Inspired by StarEast 2014
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One full day conference
• With 12-14 topics around Test Management & Process, Test
Techniques, Agile Testing, Testing Automation, Mobile
Testing, Performance Testing, Personal Excellences
• Testathon session
• One-on-One meeting with speakers
Expected to receive 160 – 200 HCMC software testers

14. Keynote speaker: Paul Holland
Paul is a gifted test manager formerly of Alcatel, and is famous for his
facilitation skills at context-driven peer conferences. He's the facilitator-
in-chief at CAST conferences, and a pillar of the WOPR conference.
He's also teaching my RST classes.
Paul is a software test consultant and teacher. He has over 16 years of
hands-on testing and test management experience, primarily at Alcatel-
Lucent. During his time at Alcatel-Lucent he led the transformation of the
testing approach for two product divisions to become more efficient and
effective. As a test manager and tester he focused on exploratory
testing, test automation, and improving testing techniques. He led the
creation and worldwide deployment of a new automation environment
for the Access division of Alcatel-Lucent.
Paul was on the Board of Directors for the Association for Software
Testing for 3 years and was on their Executive Committee for 2 years.
He has been an organizer for the Workshop on Performance and
Reliability (WOPR) since 2005 and has been the facilitator of every
WOPR (two per year) since 2003.
Paul has been consulting and delivering training both internally at
Alcatel-Lucent and externally for the past 5 years. In addition he has
delivered training to other large companies such as Progressive
Insurance, HP, RIM and General Dynamics and he has facilitated many
software testing peer workshops held at many different companies
including Microsoft, Intuit, eBay and Google.
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Talk at the conference?

16. Notes about the topic
• Topics can be anything related to the following
categories in software testing: Test management, test
techniques, test automation, Agile testing, mobile testing,
performance testing, personal excellences.
• Each session will need to be 45 minutes, including Q&A.
• Register to talk at: http://www.hcmc-stc.org/july-
conference-topic-registration.html
• Timeline
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May – Jun 27th, 2014
•Topic registration and material
submission
Jun 27th, 2014
•Deadline for topic registration and
material submission
July 8th, 2014
•Deadline for reviewing/approving
topics & materials

17. © 2014 HCMC Software Testing Club
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