Conference Presentations

Innovation for Existing Software Product: An R&D Approach
Slideshow

In the world of software, innovating an existing product often makes the difference between continued success and rapid irrelevance and failure. Although innovation can come from many different sources, it can be difficult to develop breakthrough innovations while simultaneously...
Aaron Barrett, Infusionsoft
A Wearables Story: Testing the Human Experience
Slideshow

Testing wearable devices is fundamentally more complex than any other mobile device. Wearables become extensions of us, so testing should focus on the total user experience—the emotional, physical, and sensory reactions including the biases and mindset of the wearer. It involves testing...
Gerie Owen, Eversource Energy and Peter Varhol, Technology Strategy Research
The Tester Role in the Agile Release Train
Slideshow

In a classical agile team, testers and developers work together on feature teams to produce functioning software in each sprint. As enterprises scale up their agile adoption, the agile feature teams must work in concert with many other teams, such as component teams and system teams. They...
Malcolm Isaacs, HP
Requirements Are Simply Requirements—or Maybe Not
Slideshow

People talk about requirements, use identical terms, and think they have a common understanding. Yet, one says user stories are requirements; another claims user stories must be combined with requirements; and another has a still different approach. These “experts” seem unaware of the...
Robin Goldsmith, Go Pro Management, Inc.
Business Analysis: From Interviews through Implementation
Slideshow

The keys to delivering better software lie in understanding what customers want―even when they are unable to articulate what they want―and being able to create a system that will improve the end users’ work. This is why your starting point should be understanding the differing, and...
Barry Harvey, Florida Virtual Campus
Continuous Testing: A Key to DevOps Success
Slideshow

As IT organizations adopt a DevOps strategy, continuous testing (CT) becomes a key ingredient of the DevOps ecosystem. CT enables faster release cycles, more changes per release, upfront isolation of risks, and reduced operations costs. The approach to scale the traditional automation...
Sujay Honnamane, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Conflict: To Know It Is to Love It
Slideshow

We all talk about conflict. We all experience it. But do we really understand what causes it and how we deal with it? Do we have any idea what to do about it? Much research and study has been done, but that doesn't help when you're in the middle of conflict. You don't have time to...
Doc List, Doc List Enterprises
Mobile App Testing: Design Automation Patterns You Should Use
Slideshow

In mobile app development, better test design is important to project velocity and user satisfaction. Jon Hagar explores underused or poorly practiced test design automation approaches that you should employ in development and testing. Jon begins by defining the domain of mobile app...
Jon Hagar, Grand Software Testing
Cloud-Based, Automated Mobile App Testing for the Enterprise
Slideshow

Mobile applications are now a required component of enterprise operations, with both consumers and workers relying on mobile technologies for communications and productivity. To ensure a functional, secure, and worthwhile mobile experience, enterprises must stay abreast of growing...
Joe Schulz, Orasi Software
Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps Conference West 2015: EARS: The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax
Slideshow

One key to specifying effective functional requirements is minimizing misinterpretation and ambiguity. By employing a consistent syntax in your requirements, you can improve readability and help ensure that everyone on the team understands exactly what to develop. John Terzakis provides...
John Terzakis, Intel

Pages

AgileConnection is a TechWell community.

Through conferences, training, consulting, and online resources, TechWell helps you develop and deliver great software every day.