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	Get Testing Help from the Crowd[presentation] Slideshow Crowdsourcing has become widely acknowledged as a productivity solution across numerous industries. However, for companies incorporating crowdsourcing into existing business practices, specific issues must be addressed: What problem are we trying to solve? How do we control the process?	Matt Johnston, uTest
	Beyond Continuous Delivery—All the Way to Continuous Deployment[presentation] Just as those in the software world are getting their hands around agile practices, leading software organizations are going beyond continuous delivery for acceptance testing and now adopting continuous deployment—the practice of immediately releasing new code from development into...	Kris Lankford, Microsoft
	Decoupled System Interface Testing at FedEx[presentation] Slideshow If you work in a large-scale environment, you know how difficult it is to have all the systems “code complete” and ready for testing at the same time. In order to fully test end-to-end scenarios, you must be able to validate results in numerous systems. But what if all those systems are...	Chris Reites, FedEx Services
	STARWEST 2013: Mobile Test Automation with Big Data Analytics[presentation] Slideshow Organizations with a mobile presence today face a major challenge of building robust automated tests around their mobile applications. However, organizations often have limited testing resources for these increasingly complex projects, and stakeholders worry about the quality of the product.	Tarun Bhatia, Microsoft
	The Google Hacking Database: A Key Resource to Exposing Vulnerabilities[presentation] Slideshow We all know the power of Google—or do we? Two types of people use Google: normal users like you and me, and the not-so-normal users—the hackers. What types of information can hackers collect from Google? How severe is the damage they can cause? Is there a way to circumvent this hacking?	Kiran Karnad, MIMOS Berhad
	Introducing the New Software Testing Standard[presentation] Slideshow Software testing standards—who cares, anyway? You should! The new ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 software testing standard, driven by representatives from twenty countries and under development for the past five years, will be released soon. As a professional tester, you need to know about...	Jon Hagar, Grand Software Testing
	Reducing the Cost of Software Testing[presentation] The demand to deliver more software in less time is increasing. Give in to the pressure without thinking, and you end up facing burnout, stress, business risk, and, most likely, even more demands. Refuse, fight the good fight, and it is likely the business will replace you with someone else.	Matthew Heusser, Excelon Development
	Testing Lessons Learned from Monty Python[presentation] Slideshow And now for something completely different...Monty Python's Flying Circus revolutionized comedy and brought zany British humor to a worldwide audience. However, buried deep in the hilarity and camouflaged in its twisted wit lie many important testing lessons—tips and techniques you...	Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
	Intelligent Mistakes in Test Automation[presentation] Slideshow A number of test automation ideas that at first glance seem very sensible actually contain pitfalls and problems that you should avoid. Dot Graham describes five of these “intelligent mistakes”—automated tests will find more bugs more quickly; spending a lot on a tool must guarantee great...	Dorothy Graham, Software Test Consultant
	Working Testing Tasks into the Product Backlog[presentation] If you've worked on an agile project, delivering to production on a regular basis, then you've struggled with the challenge of fitting in all the big tasks—performance, security, usability, and compatibility testing. To make matters worse, over time it becomes more and more challenging...	Michael Kelly, DeveloperTown
	Rapid Performance Testing: No Load Generation Required[presentation] Slideshow Load testing is just one—but the most frequently discussed—aspect of performance testing. Luckily, much of performance testing does not demand the same expensive tools, special skills, environments, or time as load testing does. Scott Barber developed the...	Scott Barber, PerfTestPlus Inc.
	STARWEST 2013: Creating a Better Testing Future: The World Is Changing and We Must Change With It[presentation] Slideshow The IEEE 829 Test Documentation standard is thirty years old this year. Boris Beizer’s first book on software testing also turned thirty. Testing Computer Software, the best selling book on software testing, is twenty-five. During the last three decades, hardware platforms have evolved...	Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
	Key Strategies to Survive the Mega Test Program[presentation] Slideshow Sometime in your career as a test manager, you’ll be assigned to lead the effort for a program so large that the CEO and board of directors monitor it. These are programs that bet the organization’s future and come with a high degree of risk, visibility, pressure, and fixed deadlines.	Robert Goetz, Kaiser Permanente
	Data Warehouse Testing: It’s All about the Planning[presentation] Slideshow Today’s data warehouses are complex and contain heterogeneous data from many different sources. Testing these warehouses is complex, requiring exceptional human and technical resources. So how do you achieve the desired testing success? Geoff Horne believes that it is through test planning...	Geoff Horne, NZTester Magazine
	Model-Based Testing with Keywords[presentation] Slideshow Model-based testing can be a powerful alternative to just writing test cases. However, modeling tools are specialized and not suitable for everyone. On the other hand, keyword-driven test automation has gained wide acceptance as a powerful way to create maintainable automated tests, and...	Hans Buwalda, LogiGear

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