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Performance Testing Web 2.0 Applications—in an Agile World[presentation]
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Agile methodologies bring new complexities and challenges to traditional performance engineering practices, especially with Web 2.0 technologies that implement more and more functionality on the client side. Mohit Verma presents a Scrum-based performance testing lifecycle for Web 2.0 apps... |
Mohit Verma, Tufts Health Plan
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A Year of Testing in the Cloud: Lessons Learned[presentation]
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Jim Trentadue describes how his organization first used the cloud for its non-production needs including development, testing, training, and production support. Jim begins by describing the components of a cloud environment and how it differs from a traditional physical server structure. |
Jim Trentadue
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Keynote: Testing in a Test-driven World[presentation]
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Agile software development has fundamentally changed the way software testing is performed. No longer is testing relegated to the end of the lifecycle where its budgets are cut and its conclusions ignored. Now we live in a world where testing drives development and, for better or worse... |
Jeff Payne, Coveros, Inc.
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Cutting-edge Performance Testing on eCommerce Websites[presentation]
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Having problems with your website’s performance? Does it take too much time and effort to determine the cause of a particular page’s poor performance? Would you like to find the root cause of client-side issues in an automated way? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then... |
Ron Woody, GSI Commerce
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Load and Performance Testing in the Cloud: Myth vs. Reality[presentation]
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Is the cloud just another overhyped IT buzzword or a transformational technology wave? Steve Weisfeldt helps you get past all the noise and identify how you can leverage the cloud’s flexibility and scalability to save time and money on load and performance testing. Steve describes ways... |
Steve Weisfeldt, Neotys
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Data Masking: Testing with Near-real Data[presentation]
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Organizations worldwide collect data about customers, users, products, and services. Striving to get the most out of collected data, they use it to fuel many day-to-day processes including software testing, development, and personnel training. The majority of this collected data is... |
Martin Kralj, Ekobit
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Building an Enterprise Performance and Load Testing Infrastructure[presentation]
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Are you frustrated by how long it takes your IT department to provision development and test environments? Have you performed load testing on inadequate hardware only to find performance problems emerge in production? Dave Ogletree leveraged virtualization to solve these problems. |
Dave Ogletree, Bridgepoint Education
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Testing with an Accent: Internationalization Testing[presentation]
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Finding time to test the basic functionality, performance, and security of a system is difficult enough, so how do you find time to add internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) testing? Today’s world is very small, and you may already have international users in your target market. |
Paul Carvalho, STAQS
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Reports of the Death of Testing Have Been Greatly Exaggerated[presentation]
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Have you heard? It’s all over the social media. We are the “last generation of testers.” Testing is dead. No more classical testing—too much inflexible process. Context driven? That is a code phrase for do whatever. Agility? Developers do testing, and testers become developers. DevOps? |
Ruud Teunissen, Polteq Test Services BV
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Keynote: Surviving or Thriving: Top Ten Lessons for the Professional Tester[presentation]
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As testers and test managers we often find ourselves struggling just to survive within our organization—sometimes with the possibility of job loss due to outsourcing looming. Often, we are told to become more “effective,” “efficient,” and do “more with less.” However, most testers and test... |
Lloyd Roden, Lloyd Roden Consultancy
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A Firsthand Agile Transition Success Story: An Interview with Penny Wyatt[interview] In this interview, Penny Wyatt discusses her Agile Development Conference West session, "Transform Your Agile Test Process to Ship Fast with High Quality," to share some of the ways she and her team achieved success, and how they—and you—can continue to develop and grow together. |
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Mobile Testing Methodologies: Trends, Successes, and Pitfalls[presentation]
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In today's dynamic mobile marketplace—where new handsets and mobile operating systems are released every day—your ability to deal with these changes which impact your mobile product is vital. The mobile application lifecycle today must be short; must be of great quality; cover... |
Eran Kinsbruner
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Security Testing in an Agile World: An Interview with Jeff Payne[interview] Jeffrey Payne sat down with Noel Wurst to discuss a range of topics, including advice for teams that are attempting agile for the first time, the importance of clear communication between teams, and the ways that security testing has changed alongside modern technology. |
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On Sumo, Architecture, and Enterprise Agile[article] In order to be successful in the ring, a sumo wrestler needs to maintain a heavy body weight and at the same time be in peak physical condition. Just as these Japanese athletes have to find the right balance through a well thought-out combination of diet and training regimen, software development organizations need a balanced approach to implementing application architecture on agile projects. |
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Programming with an Agile Mindset[article] Agile is recognized as a system-software development approach used to get quick feedback to keep the customer involved at every stage, build a disciplined team, and have working software at any given point in time. Sameer Arora writes on how things can fall out of place when agility on the programming side is ignored. |
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