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Artful Testing: Learning from the Arts[presentation] At first glance, art and testing may seem like an odd couple. However, Glenford Myers combined both in his book, The Art of Software Testing-though his "art" referred only to skill and mastery. |
Zeger Hese, CTG
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Testing in the Mobile Environment: A Functional View[presentation] Everyone is talking about mobile testing these days. Testers are focused on the vast and growing number of devices and how to do testing right in this fast-changing technology. |
Karen Johnson, Software Test Management, Inc.
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Talking Quality to Business: Metrics for Improvement[presentation] Are your testing and quality assurance activities adding significant value in the eyes of your stakeholders? Do you have difficulty convincing decision-makers that they need to invest more in improving quality? |
Todd Brasel, Pitney Bowes
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Automated Software Testing for Embedded Systems[presentation] Test automation for an embedded system presents a unique set of challenges. For starters, it requires a specialized set of automation tools that may be expensive or hard to come by. |
David Palm, Trane
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Enhancing Collaboration through Acceptance Tests[presentation] Even though acceptance testing principles and tools are common today, teams often stumble during implementation. In the worst cases, acceptance tests start to feel like a burden rather than a boon. |
Paul Nelson, ThoughtWorks, Inc.
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Test Process Improvement with the TMMi® Model[presentation] The Test Maturity Model integration® (TMMi®) model, developed to complement the CMMI® framework, is rapidly becoming the test process improvement model of choice in Europe, Asia, and the US. |
Erik Veenendaal, Improve Quality Services BV
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Best Practices for Implementing Crowdsourced Testing[presentation] Global markets, quick time to market, and a feature-rich design are major drivers in determining many products’ success. |
Rajini Padmanaban, QA InfoTech
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Performance Testing Earlier in the Software Development Lifecycle[presentation] Historically, performance testing has been relegated to simply adding a few weeks to the back end of a project to run a series of prescripted tests. |
Eric Gee, Raymond James & Associates
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Agile Testing: What Would Deming Do?[presentation] Through his quality practices, Edwards Deming transformed Japanese industry in the 1950s and later American industry, proving that building quality intrinsically into a product dramatically lowers costs. |
Mark Strange, Wood Cliff Consulting
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End-to-End Test Automation of ERP Software: A Case Study[presentation] Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages, which have become a mainstay in many businesses, increase in complexity with each release. Most testers are turning to automation to ease the burdens of testing these packages. |
David Dang, Zenergy Technologies
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The Dirty Secret of Formal Software Testing[presentation] Arguably, James Bach has done some of the most rigorous testing that anyone has done in software testing-testing for court cases that are closely scrutinized by teams of lawyers. |
James Bach, Satisfice, Inc.
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Moving to the Next Level: From Tester to Visionary Manager[presentation] Would you like to chart a better course for your test team but don’t know where to begin? Before you can plan for a better future and take your team to the next level, you first must know where you are. |
George Viegas, Thomson Reuters
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Surviving or Thriving: Top Ten Lessons for a Professional Tester[presentation] As testers and test managers we often find ourselves struggling to survive within our organization-sometimes with the possibility of outsourcing or offshoring just around the corner. |
Lloyd Roden, Lloyd Roden Consultancy
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Simple and Informative Performance Tests You Can Do Now[presentation] When most people think of performance testing, they think about the hard-or the very, very hard-parts, those expensive and complicated tools that simulate the activity of thousands of end-users while collecting tens or hundreds of thousands o |
Scott Barber, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
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STAREAST 2012: Session-based Exploratory Testing on Agile Projects[presentation] One of the challenges associated with testing in agile projects is selecting test techniques that “fit” the dynamic nature of agile practices. How much functional and non-functional testing should you do? |
Bob Galen, iContact Corp
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