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A Holistic Way to Measure Quality[presentation]

Have your executives ever asked you to measure product quality? Is there a definitive way to measure application quality in relation to customer satisfaction?

Jennifer Bonine, Up Ur Game Learning Solutions
Performance Testing the SMART Way[presentation]

Although testers know the ins and outs of functional testing, many of us don't have a smart process for doing software performance testing.

Mieke Gevers, AQIS
Teach Your Acceptance Tests to Speak "Business"[presentation]

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) uses specification by example to define expressive automated tests that facilitate project communication and drive product design.

Richard Lawrence, Humanizing Work
Servant Leadership in Agile: The End of Command and Control[presentation]

The switch from traditional, top-down management to agile project practices poses a dilemma for managers and the team, including test managers and testers. If agile teams self-manage their work, what does a test manager actually do now?

Dale Emery, DHE
Peer Reviews at PepsiCo: Finding Defects Early[presentation]

Establishing a structured review process offers a simple yet cost effective way to identify, document, and correct requirements and design defects before they create problems later in the project.

Christopher Clark, PepsiCo
Quality and the Cloud: Realities and Costs[presentation]

Testing organizations want to take advantage of the cost savings of cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Clinton Sprauve, Micro Focus
STARWEST 2011: 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
New Generation Record/Playback Tools for AJAX Testing[presentation]

While some in the test community talk about record/playback technology as dead-end test automation approach, a new generation of open source record/playback test tools that every tester should consider is now available.

Frank Cohen, PushToTest
Structural Testing: When Quality Matters[presentation]

Jamie Mitchell explores an underused and often forgotten test type-white-box testing. Also known as structural testing, white-box techniques require some programming expertise and access to the code.

Jamie Mitchell, Jamie Mitchell Consulting
Get Testers Out of the QA Business[presentation]

Why is the testing department often misnamed "Quality Assurance?" We testers usually aren't allowed to control the scope of the product or change the source code.

Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
Testing in Production: Which Version Wins?[presentation]

Would your marketing department like to know which website feature will excite online customers to buy more products, return to your site again and again, and increase revenue and profits?

Harish Narayan, Vistaprint
The Force of Test Automation in the Salesforce Cloud[presentation]

What would happen if your company doubled or even tripled its number of releases and asked you to do the same with your testing? What if the number of developers doubled and your testing staff remained the same size?

Chris Chen, Salesforce.com
STARWEST 2011: Concurrent Testing Games: Developers and Testers Working Together[presentation]

The best software development teams find ways for programmers and testers to work closely together to build quality into their software.

Nate Oster, CodeSquads LLC
Pushing the Boundaries of User Experience Test Automation[presentation]

Although full test automation of the user experience (UX) is impractical and unwise, there are approaches that can save you time and resources.

Julian Harty, eBay, Inc.
Managing Test Data in Large and Complex Web-based Systems[presentation]

Are you testing an application or web site whose complexity has grown exponentially through the years? Is your test data efficiently and effectively supporting your test suites?

Ron Schioldager, Wells Fargo

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