
Software Craft & Testing Day MOIN 2025
For those who care: A full day unconference about sharing, learning and teaching about Software Crafting and Testing.
Meet like-minded people from all over North Germany who share your curiosity and interests and want to learn and share how we can develop software better and more sustainably.
Software Craft is a world-wide grass-roots community of software workers interested in topics such as not only Extreme Programming and Test-Driven-Development, DevOps, Continuous Delivery or Domain-Driven-Design, but also self-organization, sustainability and empathy. And of course coffee and other hobbies!
Everyone is welcome! Join the waiting list now. First raffle is on July 4th 2025!
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Additional Information
Craft and Testing Unconference
Bring your topics and we will take care of the rest! At a SoCraTes unconference, the attendees make the conference happen. Discover paradigm shifts in software engineering, discuss and unravel the state of the industry or network with likeminded people eager to learn and share their knowledge – you make the agenda, you make the unconference happen.
It will be a full day of Software Craft and Testing goodness.
The tickets will cost at most 10€. Excess funds will be donated to a social cause of our choosing. SoCraTes Days are grassroot events without direct commercial interest.
Example topics previous attendees brought to SoCraTes events are for example:
- Testing shapes and testing microservice architectures
- Which XP practices work for you, and why?
- Effective incident analysis
- Practicing extreme programming
- Retrospectives
- Dark agile
- Mental health in software development
- Developer resistance to Extreme Programming
- Deconstructing macho nonsense in software
TL;DR
- Event language will be English
- Safer Space, Code of Conduct will be enforced
- Alcohol-free event (does not apply to after-events)
- COVID: Rapid Antigen Tests will be provided. Positive cases will have their ticket refunded
- Masks are voluntary but explicitly welcome. Harrassment will result in removal from the venue
- Vegan breakfast snacks and lunch (individual bowls by D&D) will be provided
- There are wheelchair-accessible bathrooms and an elevator. Some areas are not wheel-chair accessible, we are clarifying which ones
Schedule
The SoCraTes Day Hamburg is an OpenSpace, so most of the schedule will be defined together by the participants during the day.
The conference check-in will be open from 8:00am to 8:30 am and will not be available later during the day. The conference itself will then start at 8:30 with a short introduction to the format and the opening of the marketplace. Lunch will be between 12:30 and 13:30. We will close the conference by 17:00.
For the times in between, sessions will be organized by the participants, typically with a length of 1 hour. Sessions could be for example talks, coding dojos, discussion rounds, and asking for others who can help you learn a specific topic. They are not limited to any of these formats, though. As this part of the day mostly depends on us all, it is hard to predict what will happen exactly.
All rooms are equipped with flipcharts, screens, markers etc. You are encouraged to find creative formats and spaces (e.g. the rooftop terrace) and use those for your sessions.
Food & Beverages
We are thankful to our sponsors it-agile and crafted. tech collective for sponsoring vegan lunch and snacks. We will serve individual food bowls by Dean & David. The event will be alcohol-free, with no alcohol accessible at the venue. After the event, there may be social activities that may include alcohol.
COVID Policy: Test-driven-conferencing
We recognize that among our attendees, there are those who prefer to protect themselves and others from airborne diseases. To accommodate this, we have the following COVID policy in place:
- At the entrance to the venue, we will provide rapid tests that attendees are to self-administer and control. If you test positive, your ticket fee will be refunded, but you won't be allowed to attend the event
- Masking is explicitly encouraged.
Venue: oose eG
We are grateful to oose for sponsoring the location. They will host us in their beautiful oose.campus. The venue is weelchair-accessible with regards to the elevator and bathrooms. We will follow-up with a final assessment on e.g. conference rooms asap.
Code of Conduct
We are dedicated to creating a conference where everybody can learn, teach, share, network, and have a good time. And we need your help to achieve that. We expect you to behave according to our Code of Conduct - both at the conference and in all discussions around the conference (online and offline).
Please read our full code of conduct before buying a ticket, discussing it online, and before coming to the conference. But please don't feel intimidated by it - these are simple rules, and they will make life better for everyone at the conference.
If someone tells you that they were harmed by what you said or did, we expect an empathetic response from you. The baseline is acknowledging that persons perception, and not e.g. jumping at knee-jerk responses.
Baseline Expectations
- Treat everyone professionally - Everybody at the conference is a professional in their field.
- Treat all attendees as equals.
- Ask before you teach.
- Do not explain things without being asked - the person you are talking to right now might know more or different things about the topic than you!
- Be welcoming, friendly, and patient.
- Ask questions before jumping to conclusions.
- Be respectful.
- Not all of us will agree with each other all the time, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners.
- We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack.
- Be aware of the effect your words may have on others.
- Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants.
- Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren't acceptable.
- Be careful with jokes. We do not tolerate any CoC violations, even if “it was just a joke”.
- Admit when you do not know something. Encourage others to admit when they do not know something - and never joke about it. We are all here to learn.
Unacceptable behaviour
- Harassment, and other exclusionary behavior.
- Deliberate intimidation and threats.
- Aggressive or sexualized language and content.
- Unwanted sexual advances.
- Insulting or putting down other participants.
- Publishing or telling others that a participant belongs to a particular identity channel without asking
- Well-actually: Telling people what they “actually meant to say”.