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The Role of Testing: Quality Police or Quality Communicator?[presentation]
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An underwear advertisement in 1985 featured the dedicated and thorough Inspector 12 saying, “They don't say Hanes until I say they say Hanes.” Historically, software testers have been called on to perform a similar role―preventing defective products from reaching customers. However... |
Mike Duskis, 10-4 Systems
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Testers, Use Metrics Wisely or Don’t Use Them at All[presentation]
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For thousands of years, human language has provided us with beautiful and complex ways of sharing important ideas. At the same time, language can derail attempts to communicate even the most basic pieces of critical information. We testers are the heralds of vast amounts of data, and... |
Deborah Kennedy, Aditi Technologies
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Five Ways to Improve Your Mobile Testing[presentation]
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Few technology shifts have impacted the way we do business as much as mobile. The new and exciting functionality delivered by mobile apps, the pace at which they are being developed, and their emergence as the “face of the business” requires that organizations deliver unprecedented quality... |
Dennis Schultz, IBM
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Getting Your Message Across: Communication Skills for Testers[presentation]
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Communication is at the heart of our profession. No matter how advanced our testing capabilities are, if we can’t convey our concerns in ways that connect with key members of the project team, our contribution is likely to be ignored. Because we act solely in an advisory capacity, rather... |
Thomas McCoy, Australian Department of Social Services
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End-to-End Test Automation with Open Source Technologies[presentation]
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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
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Making Your Test Automation Transparent[presentation]
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Business analysts, developers, and testers are sometimes not on the same page when it comes to test automation. When there is no transparency in test cases, execution, coverage, and data, review of automation by all stakeholders is difficult. Making automation scripts easily readable and... |
Subodh Parulekar, AFour Technologies, Inc.
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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 short iterative releases. Other organizations are going “all in”―writing thousands of acceptance tests... |
Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
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Virtualization: Improve Speed and Increase Quality[presentation]
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Many development and test organizations must work within the confines of compressed release cycles, various agile methodologies, and cloud and mobile environments for their business applications. So, how can test organizations keep up with the pace of development and increase the quality... |
Clint Sprauve, HP
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Leading Internationally-Distributed Test Teams[presentation]
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Are you employing your offshore test team to its best advantage—gaining the cost savings and test coverage you expected? Unless correct management methodologies are in place, you will lose rather than gain both time and money with internationally-distributed testers. If you are... |
Dennis Pikora, Symantec
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Building Quality In: Adopting the Tester’s Mindset[presentation]
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When trying to improve the development process, agile and lean transformations often start by focusing on engineering. Product management and development get a lot of attention; however, tester is not one of the defined Scrum roles. Despite the attention given to automated tests... |
Stephen Vance, Stellar Advances
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Your Team’s Not Agile If You’re Not Doing Agile Testing[presentation]
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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.
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Build Your Custom Performance Testing Framework[presentation]
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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
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The Power of an Individual Tester: The HealthCare.gov Experience[presentation]
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Like millions of other Americans, Ben Simo visited HealthCare.gov in search of health insurance and found a frustratingly buggy website that was failing to fulfill its purpose―to educate people on the new health insurance law and help them purchase health insurance. After failing to create... |
Ben Simo, eBay, Inc.
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Functional Testing with Domain-Specific Languages[presentation]
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Developing high-quality software requires effective communication among various project stakeholders. Business analysts must elicit customer needs and capture them as requirements, which developers then transform into working software. Software test engineers collaborate with business... |
Tariq King, Ultimate Software
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Career and Organizational Development Within a Software Testing Environment[presentation]
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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
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