Conference Presentations

Rapid and Intelligent Test Engineering
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Today’s IT plans tend to be defined as much by constraints as by requirements. Conventionally, the testing phase starts after the design and build phase. In today’s competitive and...
Mathi Natarajan, Cognizant and Sreeram Gopalakrishnan, Cognizant
We’re Moving to Agile: What Are Our Testers Going to Do?
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As more and more organizations transition to agile, many still do not understand how testing fits into agile teams. Does it simply mean placing a tester on every team? Or does...
Pradeepa Narayanaswamy , Centare
STARCANADA 2014: Security Testing Mobile Applications
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Due to the sensitive nature of the personal information often stored on mobile phones, security testing is vital when building mobile applications. Jeff Payne discusses some of the...
Jeff Payne, Coveros, Inc.
Balancing Exploratory and Automated Testing in Agile
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Transitioning to agile development isn't any easier for the test team than it is for the development team. New features and fixes appear daily, priorities change fluidly as customer...
Matthew Attaway, Perforce Software
Building a Testing Center of Excellence: Experiences, Insights, and Failures
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As organizations mature in their testing processes, the perennial quest to achieve ultimate excellence has led many to establish a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE). Many of these...
Krishna Iyer, Zen Test Labs and Mukesh Mulchandani, Zen Test Labs
Are Your Test Reports a Death Sentence?
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Good software testers often interact more with people than with software, especially when reporting on the results of testing. Yet our industry provides little training or guidance on...
Nancy Kelln, FGL Sports, Ltd.
Test Automation—It’s a Journey, Not a Project
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Organizations implement automated testing in hopes of reducing time and cost while creating higher quality products. They invest in tools, training, and development; identify candidates...
Paul Maddison, The CUMIS Group
Continuous Automated Regression Testing to the Rescue
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A major concern when developing new software features is that another part of the code will be affected in unexpected ways. With a typical development processes, testers often do not run a full set of product regression tests until late in the release when it is much more costly to fix...
Brenda Kise, Proto Labs Inc.
A Year of “Testing” the Cloud for Development and Test
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Jim Trentadue describes the first year his organization used the cloud for its non-production needs: development, testing, training, and production support. Jim begins by describing the components of a cloud environment and how it differs from a traditional physical server structure.
Jim Trentadue, New York Life
Test-Driven Development for Developers: Plain and Simple
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Test-driven development (TDD) is not an easy discipline to establish. However, it provides considerable return on investment for the effort. Rob Myers describes the costs of TDD (the introduction of test-maintenance overhead) and its benefits (greatly improved quality, productivity, and...
Rob Myers, Agile Institute

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