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How Can I Develop the Ability to Collaborate?[magazine] In this installment of FAQ, SQE Trainer Bob Payne and consultant Ryan Olivett answer one of the questions students ask them most often. |
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Achieving a Project's Benefits and Goals: How Change Management Can Help[magazine] Studies have shown that leading organizations frequently have less than successful results when incorporating significant changes. Kris presents useful advice dealing with staff, communication, and what to do for the long term after the change takes place. |
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iOS Test Automation: The Trifecta[presentation] In this agile world, as the expectations for rapid mobile application development and delivery get shorter every day, the users’ patience with a buggy app has become almost nonexistent. Elizabeth Taylor shares how to reduce iOS application testing time and gain confidence in your... |
Elizabeth Taylor, Digimarc
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Don’t Go over the Waterfall: Keep Agile Testing Agile[presentation]
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All too often an agile iteration resembles a mini-waterfall cycle with developers coding for the duration of the iteration and then throwing code “over the wall” to the test team. This results in the all-too-familiar “test squeeze” with testers often testing code after the iteration has... |
Aaron Barrett, Infusionsoft
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Courage and Freedom in Exploratory Testing[presentation] Exploratory testing (ET) consists of simultaneous learning, test design, test execution, and optimization. Most people are able to adopt the outward behaviors of ET but struggle to adopt an ET mindset. Griffin Jones explains that this mindset requires reflecting on four basic questions... |
Griffin Jones, Congruent Compliance
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Keynote: The Bounty Conundrum: Incentives for Testing[presentation]
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When you think of a bounty, do you think of Dog the Bounty Hunter, a reality series featuring a biker dude with a bad mullet, or maybe Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s latest film about a slave-turned-bounty-hunter? Shaun Bradshaw doesn’t have a mullet and isn’t a movie star... |
Shaun Bradshaw, Zenergy Technologies, Inc.
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What Executives Value in Testing[presentation]
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Professional testers and test managers are feeling the pressures of low-cost competition and tools that claim to replace them through automation. So, how can test teams add more value to their projects and organization? In a recent survey of executives and testers, Mike Kelly and Jeanette... |
Michael Kelly, DeveloperTown & Jeanette Thebeau, Ex2 Partners
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Keynote: Testing the Xbox: Lessons for All[presentation]
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Testing a game console isn’t all fun and games. However, with more than 50 million Xbox 360 consoles sold, and the amazing success of the Kinect sensor, it’s certainly a hotbed of excitement for software developers and testers alike. Veteran tester Alan Page is having a blast on the Xbox... |
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Alan Page, Microsoft
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STARWEST 2013: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes[presentation]
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Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period. Lightning Talks are the opportunity for speakers... |
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
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Keynote: Selling (and Buying) “Live Site Quality” at eBay[presentation]
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In the February Fortune magazine, eBay made the cover with the title “eBay is Back!” The article cited improvements in the look and feel of the site, strategic investments in fulfillment, and technology partnerships with retailers to establish it as more than just an online... |
Jon Bach, eBay, Inc.
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Applying Agile to Distributed Development: A Format for Success[article] Alexey Krasnoriadtsev has been managing globally distributed projects for more than ten years, applying agile methods to improve process efficiency, increase team productivity, and deliver quality products to market faster. With teams split across the globe, he shares with us his approach he's adopted to overcome the communication, process, and quality assurance obstacles facing team members who are a date line and time zone away. |
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Do Your Demos Smell?[article] In the agile world, there is a concept of “smells,” or symptoms that things aren’t going well. Introduced by Kent Beck and expanded on by practitioners, smells now describe problems involving adoption, coaching, design, code, and teams. When we see these symptoms, we can identify opportunities to improve. |
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STARWEST 2013: Mobile Testing Trends and Innovations[presentation]
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As organizations implement their mobile strategy, testing teams must support new technologies while still maintaining existing systems. Melissa Tondi describes the major trends and innovations in mobile technology, usage, and equipment that you should consider when transitioning existing... |
Melissa Tondi, ProtoTest
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Test Automation Challenges in the Gaming Industry[presentation]
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Gaming is a multibillion-dollar industry, and good testing is critical to any game’s success. Game testing has traditionally been black-box through the client—a method clearly insufficient with increasingly more complex software incorporating 3D physics, thousands of linked and interacting... |
Brett Roark, Blizzard Entertainment
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Test Status Reporting: Focus Your Message for Executives[presentation]
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Test status reporting is a key factor in the success of test projects. Stephan Obbeck shares some ideas on how to communicate more than just a red-yellow-green status report to executive management and discusses how the right information can influence their decisions. |
Stephan Obbeck, KROLL Consulting AG
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