New Working Group: Testing

[mrmundt]

Description

This PR adds the new Testing Working Group (chairs: Nasir Eisty, David Luet) and also officially marks Outreach as inactive.

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[mrmundt]

Previews:

• New page
• Updated WG homepage

[danielskatz]

I haven't been involved in the discussion, but the first sentence of the Testing WG overview

The Testing Working Group aims to leverage valuable industry software testing
practices and methodologies, bridging the gap between research and industry
standards.

seems slightly odd to me. This seems to say that industry has the answers, and we just need to use them. Is this really true? Maybe we could say that this is part, but not all of the answer? And we could start with the problem, rather than a solution.

Perhaps we could change the overview to something more like

The Testing Working Group aims to bring together RSEs, researchers, and practitioners
to discuss current limitations in testing research software, share knowledge, and collectively
address cutting-edge challenges, thereby advancing the reliability and quality of research
software. This will include examining, adapting, and using valuable industry software testing
practices and methodologies, as well as studying and harnessing AI technologies. Some key
focus areas include testing legacy code, ensuring comprehensive code coverage, and enhancing
overall verification and validation processes.

[luet]

Thanks a lot, @danielskatz for your suggestion. Nasir and I would like to use your text on the website. @mrmundt Can you swap the text in the pages/wg/testing.md file or would you rather I open a PR?

[mrmundt]

Thanks a lot, @danielskatz for your suggestion. Nasir and I would like to use your text on the website. @mrmundt Can you swap the text in the pages/wg/testing.md file or would you rather I open a PR?

Edited!

[mrmundt]

@luet - If you are happy with this PR, I will merge it.

[luet]

@mrmundt Thank you for making the change. I am happy with the changes related to the testing group. Assuming that you are ok with the other changes, you can merge this PR.