STARWEST 2012 - Software Testing Conference

PRESENTATIONS

STARWEST 2012 Keynote: Leverage Your Test Automation ROI with Creative Solutions

Typical automated tests perform repetitive tasks quickly and accurately to lighten the burden of manual testing. These tests mimic typical interactions with the system, checking for pre-determined outcomes. However, with some creativity and a sound strategy, you can...
Doug Hoffman, Software Quality Methods LLC
STARWEST 2012 Keynote: State-of-the-Art Cloud Testing: Experiences with Bing Search

The cloud is penetrating every technology organization and almost every software product or service. The cloud affects everything inside development, bringing profound changes to how engineers build, test, release, and maintain software and systems.
Ken Johnston, Microsoft
STARWEST 2012 Keynote: Tapping into Testing Mobile Applications

Look around you at all those people gazing into smart phones and tablets, tapping away, seemingly oblivious to what’s going on around them. Like it or not, mobile devices and the applications they host are now enmeshed in our everyday lives. 
Jonathan Kohl, Kohl Concepts Inc.
STARWEST 2012: Finding the Real Value in Load Testing

Understand the processes and tools needed to uncover the real value in load testing. Learn how to reduce the number of load testing cycles yet get more effective results out of the load testing exercise. Eliminate the finger pointing that often accompany the load testing process.
Duane Dorch, Compuware
STARWEST 2012: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes

Lightning Talks have been a popular part of many STAR conferences. Lightning Talk session consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period and are an opportunity to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation.
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
STARWEST 2012: Testing in the DevOps World of Continuous Delivery

DevOps is an increasingly popular development approach focused on ensuring that delivered code is immediately stable and works as expected. DevOps team members must be multi-skilled and are expected to perform all the activities of development, testing, and SysAdmin tasks. Manoj Narayanan shares how to implement testing using DevOps tenets and how it differs from its more popular cousin, agile development.
Manoj Narayanan, Cognizant Technology Solutions
State-of-the-Art Cloud Testing: Experiences with Bing Search

The cloud is penetrating every technology organization and almost every software product or service. The cloud affects everything inside development, bringing profound changes to how engineers build, test, release, and maintain software and systems. Sharing his experiences at Microsoft working on the Bing search engine, Ken Johnston reveals how they devised and implemented a test-oriented architecture (TOA) at every layer within their product solution.
Ken Johnston, Microsoft Corporation
Static Testing Comes to Agile: A Simplified Inspection Process that Works

Costs soar when defects are not discovered until system testing-or worse, in production. Inspections can drive down delivery times, drive out defects, and help align business and IT expectations. The benefits of inspections are known and documented, although adding these quality steps can appear to slow down an agile team. Can there be harmony between prevention processes and agile practices?
Anne Hungate, Nationwide Insurance
Stop the Test Automation ROI-based Justification Insanity

In the past, we justified our automation efforts with ROI calculations based on saved test execution time. Unfortunately, those “savings” frequently led to eliminating testers from the organization. Management applauded the “do more with less” reality that these ROI savings promised. Seasoned and slightly askew test leader Bob Galen challenges these traditional views toward automation ROI-based savings.
Bob Galen, RGalen Counsulting Group, LLC
Tapping into Testing Mobile Devices and Apps

Look around you at all those people gazing into smart phones and tablets, tapping away, seemingly oblivious to what’s going on around them. Like it or not, mobile devices and the applications they host are now enmeshed in our everyday lives. And these mobile devices present testers with unique challenges-rapidly changing technologies, multi-platform support, new human factor UI challenges, and how to best employ these devices for testing.
Jonathan Kohl, Kohl Concepts, Inc.

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