Conference Presentations

Baking In Quality: The Evolving Role of the Agile Tester
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While more and more organizations are practicing agile development methodologies,  many have not learned how to “bake in quality” throughout the process. As an agile tester, you are an integral part of the development team—working on requirements, design, implementation...
Dena Laterza, Agile Velocity
Building Successful Test Teams
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“People are the most important asset of any organization.” Even though we hear that a lot, leaders and managers actually spend very little time focusing on the people side of testing. The skills and makeup of a test team are important and must be managed and cultivated properly.
Lloyd Roden, Lloyd Roden Consultancy
White-box Testing: When Quality Really Matters
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Jamie Mitchell explores perhaps the most underused test technique in our arsenal—white-box testing. Also known as structural testing, white-box requires some programming expertise, access to the code, and an analysis tool. If you only employ black-box testing, you could easily ship...
Jamie Mitchell, Jamie Mitchell Consulting, Inc.
Building an Enterprise Performance and Load Testing Infrastructure
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Are you frustrated by how long it takes your IT department to provision development and test environments? Have you performed load testing on inadequate hardware only to find performance problems emerge in production? Dave Ogletree leveraged virtualization to solve these problems.
Dave Ogletree, Bridgepoint Education
Better Unit Tests with ApprovalTests: An Open Source Library
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When a unit test fails, we want clear, expressive, rich feedback so we can quickly understand the nature of the failure and get a good idea of how to fix it. Unit testing frameworks are fantastic at running tests and alerting us to any failure. Unfortunately, sometimes...
Woody Zuill, Hunter Industries
Keynote: Testing in a Test-driven World
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Agile software development has fundamentally changed the way software testing is performed. No longer is testing relegated to the end of the lifecycle where its budgets are cut and its conclusions ignored. Now we live in a world where testing drives development and, for better or worse...
Jeff Payne, Coveros, Inc.
There’s No Room for Emotions in Testing—Not!
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Software testing is a highly technical, logical, rational task. There's no place for squishy emotional stuff here—not among professional testers. Or is there? Because of commitment, risk, schedule, and money, emotions often do run high in software development and testing. Our ideas about...
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
Introducing Mobile Testing to Your Organization
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Mobile is an integral part of our daily lives, and if it’s not already part of your business model, it soon will be. When that happens, will you be ready to tackle the demands of testing web and native mobile apps? From the perspective of a test lead, Eric Montgomery describes the...
Eric Montgomery, Progressive Insurance
Exploratory Testing on Agile Projects: Combining SBTM and TBTM
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Exploratory testing provides both flexibility and speed—characteristics that are vitally important with the quick pace of short agile iterations. With session-based test management (SBTM), exploratory testing is structured and documented in pre-defined sessions. A newer approach...
Christin Wiedemann, Professional Quality Assurance, Ltd.
Flintstones or Jetsons? Jump Start Your Virtual Test Lab
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The power of virtualization has made it easy and inexpensive to create multiple environments for testing. How you implement your virtualization strategy can boost not only the savings on physical gear and availability of test environments but also your testing productivity. 
David Silk, Verisign, Inc.

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