Conference Presentations

STAREAST Testing Optimize Performance Testing Using Cloud and DevOps
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Traditional performance testing practices don't scale when you begin delivering software using cloud computing and DevOps. Troy Marshall shares how Ellucian transformed their performance testing program using the same principles DevOps uses to deliver software. It isn't enough just to...
Troy Marshall
STAREAST Testing Effective Test Estimation
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We have experience with testing projects, both large and small. Sometimes our test estimates are accurate—and sometimes they’re not. We often miss deadlines because there are no defined criteria used to create our estimates. Sometimes we miss our schedules due to crunched testing timelines.
Shyam Sunder
STAREAST Testing The Future of Mobile Testing: Hybrid Code, Business Intelligence, and Device Farms
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All organizations doing mobile development have critical decisions in common—selecting which devices to support and how to test their products across the growing range of devices. With the segregation of device brands, organizations are forced to support at least three code bases...
Ardy Signey
STAREAST Testing Continuous Testing of Cloud Applications
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With most organizations now using agile software development methodologies, the software development focus has changed to deliver faster releases—and this affects the way we test within the sprint. We largely develop applications using cloud and mobile technologies with short release cycles.
Ganesh Iyer
STAREAST Testing The Tester's Three C’s: Communication, Criticism, Confidence
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Whether you are in an independent testing team and need to communicate formally or in an agile context communicating face-to-face, it can be difficult to do your job well when you are telling people what they don’t want to hear. Dot Graham presents examples of different types and styles of...
Dorothy Graham
STAREAST Testing Applying Agile Principles to Test Automation Development
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Why do test automation implementations often result in budget and schedule overruns and often diverge from the test objectives they were meant to support? Because test automation is a form of software development—but rarely is treated as such. Lee Barnes discusses how the application of...
Lee Barnes
STAREAST Testing Service Virtualization: What Testers Need to Know
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Unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment—including the application under test and all of its dependent components—is essential for achieving “quality @ speed” with agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery. Service virtualization is an emerging technology that...
Arthur “Code Curmudgeon” Hicken
STAREAST Testing Data Quality at the Speed of Work
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In this fast-paced data-driven world, the fallout from a single data quality issue can cost thousands of dollars in a matter of hours. To catch these issues quickly, system monitoring for data quality requires a different set of strategies from other continuous regression efforts. Like a...
Shauna Ayers
Communication and Testing: Why You Have Been Wrong All Along!
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You ran all the tests you planned for your team, you reported all the bugs with clear and to the point descriptions, and you sent a weekly email with a professional PowerPoint presentation including graphs and statistics pointing out the risk areas and project issues. However, you still...
Joel Montvelisky
STAREAST Testing The Lost Art of Acceptance Testing
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Acceptance testing is often thought of as the little brother of system testing and, in many projects, it ends up as a little phase at the end. Having worked in system testing for most of her testing career, Bettina Faldborg found it was a bigger jump than you might think to move to...
Bettina Faldborg

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