Conference Presentations

Build Your Custom Performance Testing Framework
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Performance testing requires knowledge of systems architecture, techniques to simulate the load equivalent of sometimes millions of transactions per day, and tools to monitor/report runtime statistics. With the evolution from desktop to web and now the cloud, performance testing involves...
Prashant Suri, Rackspace
Why Automation Fails—in Theory and Practice
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Testers face common challenges in automation. Unfortunately, these challenges often lead to subsequent failures. Jim Trentadue explains a variety of automation perceptions and myths―the perception that a significant increase in time and people is needed to implement automation; the myth...
Jim Trentadue, Ranorex
Career and Organizational Development Within a Software Testing Environment
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Being a software tester has its own unique set of challenges. To help testers overcome these challenges, it is vital to set up a system where employees have available a number of development opportunities, including on-the-job mentorship, coaching, classroom training, and a defined career...
Nate Shapiro, Blizzard Entertainment
End-to-End Test Automation with Open Source Technologies
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As organizations continue to adopt agile methodologies, testers are getting involved earlier in product testing. They need tools that empower them to manage varied test automation needs for web services, web APIs, and web and mobile applications. Open source solutions are available in...
Ramandeep Singh, QA InfoTech
Testing Compliance with Accessibility Guidelines
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Currently, 2.4 billion people use the Internet, and about 10 percent of the world’s population has some form of disability. This means millions of potential users will have difficulty accessing the Internet. Thus, accessibility testing should not be ignored. Anish Krishnan discusses the...
Anish Krishnan, Hexaware Technologies, Ltd
Checking Performance along Your Build Pipeline
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Do you consider the performance impact when adding a new JavaScript file, a single AJAX call, or a new database query to your app? Negligible, you say? I disagree―and so should you. Andreas Grabner demonstrates the severe impact small changes can have on performance and scalability.
Andreas Grabner, Compuware
Planning, Architecting, Implementing, and Measuring Automation
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In automation, we often use several different tools that are not well integrated. These tools have been developed or acquired over time with little consideration of an overall plan or architecture, and without considering the need for integration. As a result, both efficiency and...
Mike Sowers, Software Quality Engineering
Your Team’s Not Agile If You’re Not Doing Agile Testing
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Many organizations adopt agile software development processes, yet they do not adopt agile testing processes. Then they fall into the trap of having development sprints that are just a set of mini-waterfall cycles. Some software developers still feel they can work more quickly if they let...
Jeanne Schmidt, Rural Sourcing, Inc.
Before You Test Your System, Test Your Assumptions
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Do you find yourself discussing with your peers what you think the system you’re building should do? Do you argue over what the users want? Do discussions wind up in a heated debate? This result indicates that no shared understanding exists about the system. With a lack of...
Aaron Sanders, Agile Coach
Leveraging Automated Testing to Improve Product Quality

Improving product quality is often a very difficult task for even the best software development organizations. Rajini says the additional benefits of automation include benchmarking, code scanning analysis, end-to-end test cases, and compatibility validation.
Rajini Padmanaban's picture Rajini Padmanaban
October 10, 2014

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