Add December Testing working group talk (#1830)

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+title: "US-RSE Software Testing Talk Series"
+subtitle: 
+expires: 2025-12-17
+event_date: "December 17, 2025"
+layout: event
+duration: 60
+repeated: false
+category: Software Testing
+time:
+    - - start: 2025-12-17T18:00:00Z
+        end: 2025-12-17T19:00:00Z
+---
+
+The Testing working group is happy to announce a new talk on Software Testing on Wednesday December 17, 1-2 PM EDT.
+
+Title: **"Testing the (almost) untestable: some ideas for automated testing of scientific software that is big, slow or non-reproducible"** 
+
+Presenter: **Gaurav Vaidya**
+
+### Abstract
+
+Testing libraries and tools have made it easier to ensure that scientific
+software work correctly, but some scientific software is too big, slow or
+non-reproducible for simple testing. In this presentation, I will describe the
+testing and validation strategies and tools that I have developed to test and
+validate one such piece of software I currently maintain: the Babel pipelines
+that combine identifier cross-references from dozens of biomedical data sources
+to generate over 490M sets of equivalent identifiers for the NCATS Translator
+project. Please bring your own examples of testing difficult-to-test software
+and the strategies you’ve used to test them to share and discuss!
+
+
+### Biography
+
+Gaurav Vaidya, PhD has been a scientific software developer since his
+undergraduate days at the National University of Singapore in the mid-2000s (and
+was introduced to automated software testing soon afterwards). He completed his
+PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder in
+2017, and has worked as a Semantic Web Technologist at the Renaissance Computing
+Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2019.
+He creates scientific software tools for the NCATS Translator project and the
+HEAL Data Stewardship Group, and tries his best to incorporate software testing
+into his work wherever he can.
+
+#### Registration details
+
+To register follow this link:
+[Testing Talk Series Registration](https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/37-fm9bCQPSi7ntXW0_NZg)