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STAREAST 2014: Making Numbers Count: Metrics That Matter[presentation]
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As testers and test managers, we are frequently asked to report on the progress and results of our testing. The question “How is testing going?” may seem simple enough, but our answer... |
Mike Trites, Professional Quality Assurance, Ltd.
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Automation through the Back Door[presentation]
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When working on test automation, it seems that even though you have done everything right—good architecture, efficient framework, and good tools—you still don’t make progress. The... |
Seretta Gamba, Steria Mummert ISS GmbH
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Top Challenges in Testing Requirements[presentation]
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Studies show that at least half of all software defects are rooted in poor, ambiguous, or incomplete requirements. For decades, testing has complained about the lack of solid concrete... |
Lloyd Roden, Lloyd Roden Consultancy
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STAREAST 2014: An Ounce of Prevention...[presentation]
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We QA professionals know that the ideal is to build quality into a product rather than to test defects out of it. We know about the overhead associated with defects and how costs... |
Kirk Lee, Infusionsoft
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Bugfest![presentation]
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Know any testers who have bugs opened more than a year ago and still sitting in their defect queue? More than two years ago? Three? The fact is that many software development efforts... |
Shaun Bradshaw, Zenergy Technologies, Inc.
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Making Testing at eBay More Realistic[presentation]
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Have you had customers report issues that cannot be reproduced in the test environment? Have you had defects leak into production because your test environment is not... |
Kamini Dandapani, eBay, Inc.
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STAREAST 2014: Continuous Testing through Service Virtualization[presentation]
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The demand to accelerate software delivery and for teams to continuously test and release high quality software sooner has never been greater. However, whether your release strategy is... |
Allan Wagner, IBM
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Video: Principles Before Practices: Transform Your Testing by Understanding Key Concepts[presentation]
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It’s one thing to be exposed to new techniques from conferences and training courses, but it’s quite another thing to apply them in real life. A major reason is that people tend to... |
Randy Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to User Acceptance Testing[presentation]
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On large enterprise projects, the user acceptance test (UAT) is often envisioned to be a grand event where the users accept the software, money is paid, and the congratulations and... |
Randy Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
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The Origins and Future of Scrum: An Interview with Ken Schwaber[interview] In this interview with Dr. Charles Suscheck, Ken Schwaber, one of the signatories of the 2001 Agile Manifesto, describes the first days of Scrum, the biggest threats to agile, and the next big idea in the Scrum framework: evidence-based management. |
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Agile Resiliency: An Interview with Jeff Dalton[interview]
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Jeff Dalton is an author, a consultant with more than twenty-five years of software process improvement experience, and president of Broadsword, a management-consulting firm. In this interview, Jeff talks about agile resiliency and large organizations making the agile transition. |
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Excite and Delight Your Customers by Using the Kano Model[article] Chandra Munagavalasa writes that because the requirements change over time, the product backlog is never complete. As the project progresses and more detailed information becomes available, the product backlog items and their rankings change continually. One of the many techniques available for ranking the product backlog is the Kano model. |
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Improving the Efficiency of Your Metrics: An Interview with Mike Trites[interview]
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In this interview, Mike Trites, a senior test consultant, talks about his upcoming presentation at STAREAST 2014, the future of metrics, the importance of improving the efficiency of your metrics, and even an interesting take on the old phrase that numbers never lie. |
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The Three Amigos Strategy of Developing User Stories[article] Developing software correctly is a detail-oriented business. George Dinwiddie writes on how using the Three Amigos strategy can help you develop great user stories. Remember, the goal is to have the work done just in time for planning and development. It should be complete enough to avoid stoppages to build more understanding, but not so far in advance that the details get stale. |
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How Agile Impacts Configuration Management and Testing: An Interview with Steve Berczuk[interview]
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Steve Berczuk is a regular contributor to TechWell and StickyMinds and a principal engineer and ScrumMaster at Fitbit in Boston. In this interview, Steve discusses configuration management and agile, helpful tools, and how testing has evolved over the years with the rise of agile. |
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