Conference Presentations

STARCanada Logo Dell’s Journey to Achieve TMMi Level 3 Certification
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The Testing Maturity Model Integration (TMMi) is a model of testing best practices that can help organizations determine whether their testing processes are complete and effective. As a complementary model to the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), TMMi addresses those issues...
Mark Keating
STARCanada Logo Testers in Agile Teams—Isolation or Collaboration?
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What exactly are testers doing as organizations evolve from waterfall lifecycles to iterative, incremental agile approaches? Agile transitions, rather than fostering collaboration, often lead to isolation, role confusion, and fear. Many testers are left out in the cold. Agile testers face...
Rob Sabourin
STARCanada Logo Mindmaps: Agile and Lightweight Documentation for Testing
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Quality starts with requirements. In small to mid-size companies, it is not uncommon for the communication chain to be broken. Florin Ursu shares ways to avoid miscommunication through a streamlined process in which requirements are communicated to both developers and testers...
Florin Ursu
STARCanada Logo Design for Testability in Practice
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With the drive for continuous integration and delivery, the implications and approaches for designing more testable software are receiving substantial discussion and debate. What does testability really mean in practice? How do you take the idea of testability—how easy it is to test...
Nir Szilagyi
STARCanada Logo Combinatorial Black-Box Testing with Classification Trees
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A basic problem in software testing often is choosing a subset from the near infinite number of possible test cases. Consider the challenges of testing multiple browsers, multiple mobile devices, mobile applications, or use case paths. Testers must select test cases to design, create, and...
Peter M. Kruse
STARCanada Logo Performance Testing in Agile and DevOps Environments
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As organizations embrace agile and DevOps delivery models, non-functional performance testing becomes a challenge. While functional validation continues to mature in Agile, many organizations are either struggling to integrate application performance into the delivery model or are...
Syed Hossain
STARCanada Logo Sensible Test Automation
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Your boss has given you the directive to “automate everything.” So, what’s behind this? Is he expecting to reduce costs? Implement the latest silver-bullet tool that will save the company? Increase test coverage to avoid future embarrassment? How should you respond? Jerry Penner shows how...
Jerry Penner
STARCanada Logo Objects vs. Images: Choosing the Right GUI Test Tool Architecture
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Most popular GUI test tools are based on an object recognition architecture. They recognize and manipulate screen objects by communicating with the underlying GUI subsystem. A new breed of tools has been introduced in the past few years that implements an image recognition architecture.
Chip Groder
STARCanada Logo Addressing the Challenges of Mobile Test Automation
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As technology continues to disrupt every industry, mobile applications are increasingly becoming a primary way to interact with customers. Mobile application test automation tools and frameworks are far from being as mature as web test automation tools. The mobile test automation space...
Pradeep Macharla
STARCanada Logo Add Security Testing Tools to Your Delivery Pipeline
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Developing a delivery pipeline means more than just adding automated deploys to the development cycle. To be successful, quality testing of all types must be incorporated throughout the process to ensure that problems aren’t slipping through. Those checks must include security, or you risk...
Gene Gotimer

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