The past month has been all about suitcases for me, packing them with the stuff I absolutely can’t live without, weighing them, re-packing them, getting them checked in, getting some-but-not-all of them back from Salt Lake City, Utah. (Yes, really.)
My suitcases and I have landed in Mountain View, California. I am ready to get my head out of the suitcases and back into the testing community. To do this, I’ll be attending the Selenium conference in San Francisco this week.
This will be the 2nd test automation conference I’ve attended. The first was the 2008 Google Test Automation conference. Up to then, I hadn’t thought of the scripts I was writing at work as test automation at all. It was quite a wake-up call to sit in a room filled with extremely nerdy people who had very sophisticated ideas about and experiences with testing software.
I remember going home from GTAC feeling like my eyes had been opened and that I’d found “my people.” In terms of my career path, I felt as if I had come home. As I’ve just moved back to the U.S., I am expecting that the first ever Selenium Conference will also feel like a sort of homecoming. I suspect that I won’t be alone in feeling that way either.
If you are attending the conference, please say “hi” if you see me in passing, poke me on twitter @marlenac, or leave me a comment.
It feels great to be home :)
