Scottish Testing Group — Autumn Meet-up 2026

A four-hour afternoon of quality-engineering talks at CodeBase, the Scottish Testing Group's autumn meet-up.

The line-up is Dr Andrew Brown, Jamie Gagnon, Bryan Jones and Douglas MacIntyre. Brown's keynote, "Lies, Damned Lies, and Software Projects", is about the fictions that circulate around delivery — the bid with the impossible deadline, the status report greener than the evidence, the term sheet that glosses over dilution — and argues testers and founders see the gap between claim and reality earlier than anyone. In person, 13:00 to 17:00, free, with time for networking between sessions.

Why go: testing communities are where delivery problems get discussed without the marketing layer, and a free half-day with four speakers is a lot of signal for an afternoon. Best for QA and test engineers, SDETs, and engineering leads who own release quality.