Conference Presentations

Bad Testing Metrics—and What To Do About Them
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Many organizations use software testing metrics extensively to determine the status of their projects and whether or not their products are ready to ship. Unfortunately most, if not all, of the metrics in use are so flawed that they are not only useless but possibly dangerous—misleading...
Paul Holland, Testing Thoughts
STARCANADA 2013: The Tester's Role in Agile Planning
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If testers sit passively through agile planning, important testing activities will be missed or glossed over. Testing late in the sprint becomes a bottleneck, quickly diminishing the advantages of agile development. However, testers can actively advocate for customers’ concerns while...
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
Testing After You’ve Finished Testing
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Stakeholders always want to release when they think we’ve “finished testing”. They believe we have revealed “all of the important problems” and “verified all of the fixes,” and now it’s time to reap the rewards.
Jon Bach, eBay Inc.
STARCANADA 2013: Maybe We Don’t Have to Test It
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Testers have been taught they are responsible for all testing. Some even say “It’s not tested until I run the product myself.” Eric Jacobson thinks this old school way of thinking can hurt a tester’s reputation and—even worse—may threaten team success. Learning to recognize opportunities...
Eric Jacobson, Turner Broadcasting Inc.
Mobile Testing Tools 101
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The burgeoning use of mobile devices has created enormous opportunities for organizations to leverage mobile to increase sales, advertise products, and collaborate with internal and external resources. However, with increasing usage, the need to perform testing on these devices is...
David Dang, Zenergy Technologies, Inc.
Reports of the Death of Testing Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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Have you heard? It’s all over the social media. We are the “last generation of testers.” Testing is dead. No more classical testing—too much inflexible process. Context driven? That is a code phrase for do whatever. Agility? Developers do testing, and testers become developers. DevOps?
Ruud Teunissen, Polteq Test Services BV
Strength in Numbers: Using Web Analytics to Drive Test Requirements
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Once a client’s website is built, you’d think it would be time for a well-deserved break. However, almost immediately, questions come up—can we capture a larger audience? close more orders? increase our sales? And so, it’s time to redesign the site—and the test strategy and plans...
Lindiwe Vinson, Organic, Inc.
The Test Coverage Outline: Your Testing Road Map
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To assist in risk analysis, prioritization of testing, and test reporting (telling your testing story), you need a thorough Test Coverage Outline (TCO)—a road map of your proposed testing activities. By creating a TCO, you can prepare for testing without having to create a giant pile of...
Paul Holland, Testing Thoughts
Crowdsourcing: An Innovative Approach to Testing
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In the perfect world, you would prefer to hire and develop a large number of the most qualified testers to work on your projects. However, when that’s impossible, crowdsourcing may be the answer. Crowdsourcing provides a mechanism for finding and using large numbers of qualified...
Ralph Decker, Alliance Global Services
New Testing Standards Are on the Horizon: What Will Be Their Impact?
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The history of testing standards has not always been auspicious. Testing standards documents have been expensive to obtain, limited in scope, inflexible in expectations, and inconsistent. However, they contain important lessons learned from experienced practitioners—if a tester is willing...
Claire Lohr, Lohr Systems

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