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Developing a Testing Center of Excellence[presentation] In spite of well-established testing processes, many organizations still are struggling to achieve consistent, reliable testing results. Are testing deliverables completed incorrectly? Is your organization slow to react to change? |
Mona Lane, Aetna
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Variations on a Theme: Performance Testing and Functional Unit Testing[presentation] The right types of performance tests can reveal functionality problems that would not usually be detected during unit testing. |
Andre Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research
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A Customer-driven Approach to Software Metrics[presentation] In their drive to delight customers, organizations initiate testing and quality improvement programs and define metrics to measure their success. |
Wenje Lai, Cisco Systems
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Debunking Agile Testing Myths[presentation] What do the Agile Manifesto and various agile development lifecycle implementations really mean for the testing profession? Extremists say they mean “no testers”; others believe it’s just “business as usual” for testers. |
Geoff Horne, iSQA
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Futility-based Test Automation[presentation] Developers and other project stakeholders are paying increased attention to test automation because of its promise to speed development and reduce the costs of systems over their complete lifecycle. |
Clinton Sprauve, Borland (a Micro Focus company)
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Testing the System's Architecture[presentation] The architecture is a key foundation for developing and maintaining flexible, powerful, and sustainable products and systems. Experience has shown that deficiencies in the architecture cause too many project failures. |
Peter Zimmerer, Siemens AG
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Grassroots Quality: Changing the Organization One Person at a Time[presentation] Throughout its history, SAS has valued innovation and agility over formal processes. Attempts to impose corporate-wide policies have been viewed with suspicion and skepticism. |
Frank Lassiter, SAS Institute Inc
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Testing with Emotional Intelligence[presentation] Our profession can have an enormous emotional impact-on others as well as on us. We're constantly dealing with fragile egos, highly charged situations, and pressured people playing a high stakes game under conditions of massive uncertainty. |
Thomas McCoy, Department of FaHCSIA
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Testing Embedded Software Using an Error Taxonomy[presentation] Just like the rest of the software world, embedded software has defects. Today, embedded software is pervasive-built into automobiles, medical diagnostic devices, telephones, airplanes, spacecraft, and really almost everything. |
Jon Hagar, Consultant
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Requirements Based Testing on Agile Projects[presentation] If your agile project requires documented test case specifications and automated regression testing, this session is for you. |
Richard Bender, Bender RBT, Inc.
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Operational Testing: Walking a Mile in the User's Boots[presentation] Often, it is a long way from the system’s written requirements to what the end user really needs. |
Gitte Ottosen, Systematic Software Engineering
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Don't Be the Quality Gatekeeper: Just Hold Up the Mirror[presentation] One of the greatest temptations of test managers and their teams is to be the quality gatekeeper-the ones who raise the gate when testing reveals little and keep it closed when they believe that defects (found and unfound) risk the project. |
Mfundo Nkosi, Micro to Mainframe
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Patterns for Test Asset Reusability[presentation] Typically, testers write a test case for the one component and sub-system they are testing, thus limiting its value. What if you could repurpose and reuse previously developed test assets across several components and sub-systems? |
Vishal Chowdhary, Microsoft Corporation
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The Power of the Crowd: Mobile Testing for Scale and Global Coverage[presentation] Crowdsourced testing of mobile applications, a middle ground between in-house and outsourced testing, has many advantages: scale, speed, coverage, lower capital costs, reduced staffing costs, and no long-term commitments. |
John Carpenter, Mob4Hire, Inc.
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Agile Testing: Facing the Challenges Beyond the Easy Contexts[presentation] Don't let anyone tell you otherwise-doing testing well on agile teams is hard work! First, you have to get management over the misconception that you don't need specialist testers within agile teams. |
Bob Galen, iContact
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