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How Testers Can Use a Software Reliability Engineering Maturity Model If you are a novice to the process of software reliability engineering (SRE) or a seasoned practitioner trying to increase efficiency, John Musa can help you! Based upon a new format, this discussion will give you a quick summary picture of SRE, showing the relationships between the level of SRE Maturity and both the efficiency of your testing process and confidence in your product's reliability. Learn how to apply the SRE Maturity Model for self-assessment of projects. Discover how to use this powerful tool to make testing more efficient.
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John Musa, International Consultant
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Building a Responsive Testing Team Where do you begin when building a testing team? Who should you look for and what personal skills and qualifications should they have? How do you keep testers once you get them? Obviously there are many views and opinions on this topic, some of which are often off the mark. Jack Cook examines these questions and more while providing you with a good set of answers. Whether you are a test manager, test coordinator, or test practitioner, this presentation will assist you in building a responsive testing team within your own organization.
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Jack Cook, Qwest Communications International, Inc.
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Five Reasons Why Your Inspection Program May Fail We've all heard that inspection is one of the best ways to improve quality and productivity, yet in our industry, sustained consistent usage of inspection has been elusive. Why is inspection so hard to get going and still harder to keep going? There are five conditions that must be present to build and keep an inspection program.
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Brian Lawrence, Coyote Valley Software
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Automation in Web Testing Observe how one company developed a comprehensive testing suite for a Web site that included functional, integration, and stress testing. Reinhard Weiss highlights his experiences in this project and discusses the Web development details that can radically improve your Web site's testability.
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Reinhard Weiss, Further Inspection
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Should This Test Be Automated? For the decision to automate a test to be a good one, the value of re-running the test must exceed the cost to automate it. People often measure value and cost in the wrong terms. In this double-track presentation, Brian Marick contends that value is not ease of execution, but the likelihood of finding future bugs. And cost is not time spent automating, but rather the manual tests that will never be run.
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Brian Marick, Reliable Software Technologies
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Planning is the First Ingredient in the Test Recipe This presentation focuses on test planning activities at the beginning of a project. By developing a one-page diagram to scope the test strategy and creating a reusable test planning checklist, you will be on the way to a successful test program implementation. Learn why Technical Exchange Meetings are so important and how to get buy-in from your customers.
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Bruce Swahlan, Harris Information Systems
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Event-Based Test Generation for Distributed Systems Examine how a fundamental test design approach can simplify both modeling and scripting. Such an approach allows test cases to be generated for testing of functionality, capacity, concurrency, and performance using various execution tools. David Carman demonstrates this approach while testing an event-based distributed call processing system.
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David Carman, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
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Stepwise Improvement of the Test Process This presentation deals with the Test Process Improvement (TPI) Model, which is based on current state-of-the-art test process improvement practices. This model gives practical guidelines for assessing the maturity level of testing and for step-by-step improvement of the process. Martin Pol gives a general description of the application of the TPI Model, including how to implement and consolidate the improvements.
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Martin Pol, IQUIP Informatica B.V.
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Security Testing for E-Commerce Applications It seems that everyone is creating e-commerce applications these days with security being one of the greatest issues. The role of assessing security often falls to the tester, who may feel ill-prepared for the demands imposed by this new paradigm. Learn how to conduct a security assessment for e-commerce and what to look for.
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Jonathan Beskin, Reliable Software Technologies
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A Model for Successful Software Testing Automation SAIC was tasked with automating the regression testing for a very large customer order processing system containing multiple screens with hundreds of interactive entries and options. Through careful requirement analysis, careful tools selection, and advanced scripting and testing techniques, the job was reduced to two programs with less than 5,000 lines of script and greater flexibility for future enhancements.
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Greg Wust, SAIC
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