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Continuous Testing: A Key Component of Continuous Delivery[presentation]
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In a DevOps approach to software development, extending agile and lean practices across the delivery lifecycle is important to releasing software faster. Delivering software to market quickly is certainly important, but releasing software of low quality can hurt. Delivering higher quality...

Al Wagner, IBM
Continuous Mobile Testing Using Jenkins – A How-To Guide[presentation]
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Mobile developers are moving from the traditional testing environment toward more agile testing practices with many teams adopting continuous integration to speed and streamline their...

Joe Lewis, Keynote
Breaking Bad (Practices)—Testing Your Mobile App[presentation]
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Untested mobile applications are extremely unlikely to survive beyond the walls of your lab.  Let’s spend some time together exploring the very entertaining world of mobile app...

Kelly Emo, HP
Balancing the Crusty and Old with the Shiny and New[presentation]
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In his journeys, Bob Galen has discovered that testing takes on many forms. Some organizations have no automated tests and struggle to run massive manual regression tests within very...

Bob Galen
Achieving Test Automation Critical Mass with Action Based Testing[presentation]
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Despite advances in testing, the reality is that companies often automate less than 30 percent of their functional tests. By practicing Action Based Testing (ABT) you can take your...

John Kane
Growing into Leadership[presentation]
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Pete Walen is not going to tell you how to be a good test manager. Instead, Pete shares ideas on becoming a true leader. While some managers certainly are leaders, testers of all varieties and experience levels can become leaders. Developing technical leadership skills, regardless of job...

Peter Walen, Gordon Food Service
Top Ten Attacks to Break Mobile Apps[presentation]
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To aid development in the mobile and smartphone app world, testers must do more than simply test against requirements; they should include attack-based testing to find common errors. In the tradition of James Whittaker’s How to Break Software books, Jon Hagar applies the testing...

Jon Hagar, Grand Software Testing
User Acceptance Testing in the Testing Center of Excellence[presentation]
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Centralization of testing services into a testing center of excellence (TCoE) for system testing is common in IT shops today. To make this transformation mature, the next logical step is to incorporate the user acceptance testing (UAT) function into the TCoE. This poses unique challenges...

Deepika Mamnani, Capgemini
Planning, Architecting, Implementing, and Measuring Automation[presentation]
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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
The Unfortunate Triumph of Process over Purpose[presentation]
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As a test manager, James Christie experienced two divergent views of a single project. The official version claimed that planning and documentation were excellent, with problems discovered during test execution being managed effectively. In fact, the project had no useful plans, so testers...

James Christie, Claro Testing
Testing Compliance with Accessibility Guidelines[presentation]
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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
STARWEST 2014: Using DevOps to Improve Software Quality in the Cloud[presentation]
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DevOps is gaining popularity as a way to quickly and successfully deploy new software. With all the emphasis on deployment, software quality can sometimes be overlooked. In order to understand how DevOps and software testing mesh, Jeff Payne demonstrates a fully implemented...

Jeff Payne, Coveros, Inc.
The Doctor Is In: Diagnosing Test Automation Diseases[presentation]
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When doing test automation, you sometimes notice that things are not working out as expected, but it’s not clear why. You are so caught up in the day-to-day work that you don't see the bigger picture. It’s like when you get sick―you know something is wrong, but you don’t know what. That’s...

Seretta Gamba, Steria Mummert ISS GmbH
Pairwise Testing Explained[presentation]
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Many software systems are required to process huge combinations of input data, all of which deserve to be tested. Since we rarely have time to create and execute test cases for all combinations, the fundamental problem in testing is how to choose a reasonably-sized subset that will find a...

Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
Testing the New Disney World Website[presentation]
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At Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Technology, we provide the applications and infrastructure our online guests use to plan, book, explore, and enjoy their stay at our parks and resorts. With millions of page views per day and a multi-billion dollar ecommerce booking engine, we face a unique...

Les Honniball, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Technology

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