Conference Presentations

STARCANADA 2013 Keynote: Cool! Testing's Getting Fun Again
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The last exciting era in testing was the late ‘90s when the web turned technology on its ear, the agile movement overthrew our processes, and the rise of open source gave us accessible and innovative tools. However, since then, Jonathan Kohl finds it has been a lot of the same-old, same-old.
Jonathan Kohl, Kohl Concepts, Inc.
An Agile Test Automation Strategy for Everyone

Most systems are not designed to make test automation easy! Fortunately, the whole-team approach, prescribed by most agile methodologies, gives us an opportunity to break out of this rut. Gerard Meszaros describes the essential elements of practical and proven agile test automation strategy.
Gerard Meszaros, Independent Consultant
Changing the Testing Conversation from Cost to Value
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The software testing business is in the grip of a commoditization trend in which enterprises routinely flip flop between vendors—vendors who are engaged in a race to the bottom on price. 
Iain McCowatt, CGI
STARCANADA 2013 Keynote: Lighting Strikes the Keynotes
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Lightning Talks are a popular part of the STAR conferences. Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period and are an opportunity for speakers to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation.
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
Testing Challenges within Agile Teams
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In her book Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, Janet Gregory recommends using the automation pyramid as a model for test coverage. In the pyramid model, most automated tests are unit tests written and maintained by the programmers,and tests that execute...
Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc.
Driving Down Requirements Defects: A Tester’s Dream Come True

The industry knows that a majority of software defects have their root cause in poor requirements. So how can testers help improve requirements? Richard Bender asserts that requirements quality significantly improves when testers systematically validate the requirements as they are developed.
Richard Bender, BenderRBT
Creating Dissonance: Overcoming Organizational Bias toward Software Testing
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Overcoming organizational bias toward software testing can be a key factor in the success of your testing effort. Negative bias toward testing can impact its perceived value—just as inaccurate positive bias can set your team up for failure through mismanaged expectations. A structured...
Keith Klain, Barclays Capital
Snappy Visualizations for Test Communications

Do you struggle to find the best way to explain your testing status and coverage to your stakeholders? Do numbers and metrics make your stakeholders’ eyes glaze over, or, even worse, do you feel dirty giving metrics that you know are going to be abused? Do you have challenges...
Thomas Vaniotis, Liquidnet
The Seven Deadly Sins of Software Testing
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Many smart, otherwise-capable testers sabotage their own careers by committing one or more of the deadly sins of testing: irrelevance/redundancy, ignorance of relevant skills, obstructionism, adversarialism, nit-picking, blindness to project/organizational priorities, and last-moment-ism.
Rex Black, RBCS Inc.
Usability Testing: Personas, Scenarios, Use Cases, and Test Cases
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To create better test cases, Koray Yitmen says you must know your users. And the path to better test case creation in usability testing starts with the segmentation and definition of users, a concept known as personas. Contrary to common market-wise segmentation that focuses on users'...
Koray Yitmen, UXservices

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