Conference Presentations

7 Things You Don't Know About Visual Studio
Video

Help simplify the entire development process, from design to deployment. Bring a vision to life using powerful prototyping, modeling, and design tools. Work more efficiently with integrated testing and debugging tools that enable delivery of high-quality solutions.
Microsoft
TOSCA OneView
Video

End to end testing for 21st century business applications (multiple technologies). Rapid test automation for agile software development teams. Test case design as the way to cost effective regression test sets.
Anastasios Kyriakopoulos, Tricentis
Streamlining Cloud Based Testing
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On-premise vis-a-vis Cloud based testing. Look at various cloud based performance testing models, advantages, and pitfalls in performance testing from Cloud. SandStorm - cloud based performance testing solution.
Shirish Bhale, Impetus
Overcome Mobile Testing Challenges
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The importance of automated testing. Mobile fuctional testing with Emulators or Real Devices. Mobile performance testing and factoring in network conditions.
John Jeremiah, Mobile Solutions & Performance Center, HP
Bare Minimum Internationalization of Software

Internationalization isn’t only about dealing with other nationalities and languages. It’s about creating software for a multicultural world. Even if the software you’re testing won’t be translated entirely into another language, it still should meet some basic requirements for international visitors.
Rick Scott's picture Rick Scott
April 16, 2012
Can You Hear Me Now? Yes...and Everyone Else Can Too

Mobile devices-connected to the world through the Internet, web, networks, and messaging-are everywhere and expanding rapidly in numbers, functionality, and, unfortunately, security threats. Not too many years ago, little attention was paid to mobile device security. Now, we hear reports almost daily of phone emails/messages being hacked, apps with worms, phishing via smart devices, and smart device fraud. People often have their records, personal data, and financial records on or accessible by the mobile device. In addition, organizations are using these devices to conduct critical business. Jon Hagar shares and analyzes case histories and examples of mobile application security failures. Based on this analysis, Jon summarizes these attacks and describes how to expose security bugs within these devices.
Jon Hagar, Consultant
Selecting Mobile Application Automation Tools

Today’s mobile application market holds massive promise for devices and applications that exceed user expectations. Despite the hurry-to-market pressures of mobile development, proper testing is vital to differentiating an application in a highly competitive market. Pradeep Govindasamy describes three areas to consider in choosing test automation tools: browser/platform, screen resolution/input mechanism, and external system interface. The first involves selecting different browser and platform combinations-iPhone IOS, Android SDK, etc.-and evaluating GUI Mapping, recording of objects, and reusability. The second area defines the types of interfaces needed for classes, modules, or libraries to ensure that the automation tools provide support.
Pradeepkumar Govindasamy, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Test Process Improvement with TMMi®

The Test Maturity Model integration® (TMMi®) model, developed to complement the CMMI® framework, is rapidly becoming the test process improvement model of choice in Europe, Asia, and the US. Erik van Veenendaal, one of the developers of TMMi, describes the model’s five maturity levels-Initial, Managed, Defined, Management and Measurement, and Optimization-and the key testing practices required at each level. The model’s definition of maturity levels provides the basis for standardized TMMi assessments and certification, enabling companies to consistently deploy testing practices and collect industry metrics. The benefits of using the TMMi model include an improvement of testing methods, reduction in costs, and improved product quality.
Erik van Veenendaal, Improve Quality Services BV
xBTM: Taking Full Advantage of Exploratory Testing

Exploratory testing provides both flexibility and speed, which have become increasingly important as more and more projects adopt agile where scripted tests are struggling to keep up with the quick pace of short iterations. So, how do you retain traceability back to requirements with exploratory testing without losing your creativity? Christin Wiedemann and Michael Albrecht share their experiences using a combination of session-based test management and thread-based test management which they call xBTM. In session-based test management, Michael and Christin structured and documented exploratory testing in sessions. However, sometimes the work environment is too hectic or chaotic and requires more flexibility and freedom, which is provided by thread-based test management. Why not get the best of both techniques? xBTM unites the two exploratory techniques to get the full advantage of both-from test planning to test reporting.
Christin Wiedemann, AddQ Consulting AB
Managing Intrateam Dysfunction

Inspired by her years of consulting with large and small test teams, Dawn Haynes shares her observations of the most common and troublesome dysfunctions within software project teams-absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results. Often team members and managers are so heads-down in the day-to-day tasks that they aren’t even aware of their problems. Without an understanding of the dysfunctions and their root causes, improvement is a non-starter. Dawn provides a roadmap to identify the dysfunctions in any team and maps those issues to a set of recommendations for remediation. Using real project scenarios as examples, Dawn highlights debilitating dynamics-and solutions in context-among software project managers, development teams, and internal/external QA/test teams.
Dawn Haynes, PerfTestPlus, Inc.

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