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Conference Presentations

Enough about Process, Let’s Use Patterns
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When new developers and testers join the company, we want them to learn the “way we do software here.” So we give them the “stone tablets”―the volumes of process documentation― to study. However, the problem is that the details in this documentation are primarily for beginners and don’t...
Paul E. McMahon, PEM Systems
The Tester Role in the Agile Release Train
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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
Better Software Conference West 2015: Making Numbers Count: Metrics That Matter

As testers and test managers, we are frequently asked to report to stakeholders on the progress and results of our testing. Questions like How is testing going? may seem simple enough, but the answer is ultimately based on our ability to extract useful metrics from our work and present...
Mike Trites, PQA Testing
Integrate V&V within Scrum: How Does That Work?
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Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for delivering business value. It is not a Verification and Validation (V&V) approach. So how do we merge Scrum and V&V when a product must be subjected to formal V&V activities? How do we plan V&V work, incorporating it into a...
Kathryn Aragon, Sandia National Laboratories and Julie Bouchard, Sandia National Laboratories
Business Analysis: From Interviews through Implementation
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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
Comcast XFINITY Home: An Agile Case Study
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Today's mobile application development is a complex endeavor made more difficult by teams often working at cross purposes. Separation of roles and responsibilities leads to intricate technological and personnel dependencies that makes projects challenging. Mark Hashimoto shares personal...
Mark Hashimoto, Comcast
Innovation for Existing Software Product: An R&D Approach
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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
How Agile Can We Go? Lessons Learned Moving from Waterfall
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How agile are you? Once you jump off the waterfall and drink from the agile pool, there will probably be varying opinions as to the state of the organization’s agility. Some will be concerned that they are not agile enough; others will think they are agile while still adhering to old...
Max McGregor, Venafi
Requirements Are Simply Requirements—or Maybe Not
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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.
Overcome DevOps Adoption Barriers to Accelerate Software Delivery
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Many organizations want to create systems delivered in a DevOps framework with diverse services implemented via API building blocks. Chris Haddad says that people, processes, and tools often hinder a team's ability to comply with security policies, streamline collaboration, and rapidly...
Chris Haddad, WSO2

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