Merge pull request #1553 from USRSE/e-t-event

Add Education & Training Talk - August 2024

Author: Chad Dougherty

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+title: Eating Your Own Dogfood (Testing Your Software Before the Scientists Break It)
+subtitle: US-RSE Education & Training Seminar Series
+expires: 2024-08-28
+event_date: "August 28, 2024"
+layout: event
+duration: 120
+repeated: false
+category: education-training
+time:
+    - - start: 2024-08-28T17:00:00Z
+        end: 2024-08-28T19:00:00Z
+---
+
+## US-RSE Education & Training Seminar Series
+
+US-RSE periodically presents technical talks and tutorials related to Education & Training for RSEs.
+
+## Event
+
+The next technical talk of the US-RSE Education & Training Seminar Series will feature Jonathan Woodring "Eating Your Own Dogfood (Testing Your Software Before the Scientists Break It)."
+This event will take place **Wednesday, August 28th at 1-3 PM ET, 12-2 PM CT, 11-1 PM MT, 10 AM - 12 PM PT**
+
+*Abstract*: One of the best ways to test your software is to become your #1 user. While this doesn't catch every single bug, because your users are
+clever, it will catch many of them before they'll ever see them. I'll show how our integrated testing runs "the real world," by continually exercising our
+software with actual scenarios. The benefits include: (1) being annoyed with your own software, so you'll develop new features to assist the users
+(actual features, not "features"), (2) automatically writing the dreaded documentation that we all hate spending our time on, and (3) breaking your
+software before your users, saving you from answering (fewer) phone calls and emails.
+
+*Learning Objectives*:
+1. Understanding testing, documentation, and feature development
+
+*Intended Audience*: Software developers/engineers/scientists.
+
+
+Attendees are expected to follow the [US-RSE Code of Conduct](https://us-rse.org/about/code-of-conduct/).
+
+### Biography
+
+Jon earned his PhD in computer science from The Ohio State University, specializing in computer
+graphics and scientific visualization. He has been a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory since
+2009, where he began his career as a research scientist, developing methods for scientific visualization and
+high performance computing. Currently, Jon develops and supports software tools for scientific simulation
+setup, primarily for creating "code links": using the output of one simulation as the input to another.
+
+### Note
+
+More information about this event can be found on [the flyer](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ew_GsfyjAEqg9wfTUDYrqYs_cD_aWCJs/view?usp=sharing).
+
+### Registration
+
+You can [register on Zoom](https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwoduGpqz0vHd2flEOUmRnQvfwoGMmbmJAR) for this technical talk.