Conference Presentations

Mobile Testing Success: Real World Strategies and Techniques
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Today, consumers spend more time on mobile apps than on the web. With this increased demand and paradigm shift toward mobile devices, the role of the software tester is evolving and becoming more complex. Since mobile testing is a relatively new domain, software testers face the challenge...
Clint Sprauve, Hewlett-Packard
Build Your Personal Portfolio of Thinking Skills

How do we improve ourselves as software testers? What are the thinking skills we should develop? How do we refine these skills? Observing is one of the essential skills for software testers. We need to detect changes and differences even when they are subtle. Visual imaging...
Karen N. Johnson, Software Test Management Inc.
Tests and Requirements: Like Ham and Eggs, Sugar and Spice, Lucy and Desi
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The practice of agile software development requires a clear understanding of business needs. Misunderstanding requirements causes waste, slipped schedules, and mistrust within the organization. Developers implement their perceived interpretation of requirements; testers test against...
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
User Acceptance Testing: Make the User a Part of the Team
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Adding user acceptance testing (UAT) to your testing lifecycle can increase the probability of finding defects before software is released. The challenge is to fully engage users and assist them in becoming effective testers. Help achieve this goal by involving users early and setting...
Susan Bradley, Grange Mutual Insurance
Confessions of a Test Automation Addict
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Feeling fatigued, frustrated, and stressed at work? Wondering how you can stay relevant and highly valued in this fast-changing software development domain? David Rosskopf shares how you can become more productive through a non-traditional approach for automating testing—and much more.
David Rosskopf, LDS Church
Automate Mobile App Testing—Or Go Crazy
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During the past decade, test engineers have become experts in browser compatibility testing. Just when we thought everything was under control, along come native mobile applications that need to run across platforms far more diverse than the desktop browser landscape has ever been.
Stewart Stern, Gorilla Logic Inc.
STARWEST 2013: Security Testing Mobile Applications

Due to the sensitive nature of the personal information often stored on mobile phones, security testing is vital when building mobile applications. Jeff Payne discusses some of the characteristics that make testing mobile applications unique and challenging. These characteristics include...
Jeff Payne, Coveros
Get Testing Help from the Crowd
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Crowdsourcing has become widely acknowledged as a productivity solution across numerous industries. However, for companies incorporating crowdsourcing into existing business practices, specific issues must be addressed: What problem are we trying to solve? How do we control the process?
Matt Johnston, uTest
Beyond Continuous Delivery—All the Way to Continuous Deployment

Just as those in the software world are getting their hands around agile practices, leading software organizations are going beyond continuous delivery for acceptance testing and now adopting continuous deployment—the practice of immediately releasing new code from development into...
Kris Lankford, Microsoft
Introducing the New Software Testing Standard
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Software testing standards—who cares, anyway? You should! The new ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 software testing standard, driven by representatives from twenty countries and under development for the past five years, will be released soon. As a professional tester, you need to know about...
Jon Hagar, Grand Software Testing

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