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STARWEST 2000: Managing the End Game of a Software Project[presentation] How do you know when a product is ready to ship? QA managers have been faced with this question for many years. |
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Test Team Dynamics[presentation] Throughout the years there have been many different management approaches to testing products. Test organizations today follow the "delegation of authority and responsibility" principle. |
Charlie Williams, Compaq Computer Corporation
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Advanced Test Automation Using Programming Languages[presentation] Companies setting up test automation projects find out pretty quickly that the major automation tools on the market today cannot always accomplish what is needed to support a full and complete automation testing project. |
Mary Sweeney, Data Dimensions, Inc.
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Performance Testing a Firewall[presentation] Firewall products pose some interesting challenges. Learn of some of the issues--and their resulting resolution--which occurred while planning the performance and characterization testing of a network security product (firewall). |
Howie Dow, Compaq Computer Corporation
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Bug Reports That Make Sense[presentation] Reporting a problem isn't enough. The more information you can provide the developer, the sooner the problem can be identified and fixed. Learn what developers need in a bug report, and how to create a good report versus a bad one. |
Mary Decker, Aldebaron Financial Solutions
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Capture Replay: A Foolish Test Strategy[presentation] Capture replay is not an effective strategy for test automation. This popular technique seems to enable unskilled testers to generate test scripts quickly. However, there are two reasons why this strategy is generally not effective. |
Bret Pettichord, Independent Consultant
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STARWEST 2000: Data-Driven Automated Testing Using XML[presentation] Test automation is an unavoidable entity for testing Web-based applications where reduced time-to-market is the name of the game. |
Rutesh Shah, Arsin Corporation
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The Habits of Highly Effective Testers[presentation] You've gone to class and learned about the latest testing tools and techniques. You feel academically enriched and ready to change the world. But has all this preparation truly equipped you to become an effective tester? |
Andy Overly, NetIQ Corporation
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Management of Test Case Aging[presentation] Testing continues over a software product's lifecycle, but the test plans--particularly test cases and methods--undergo an evolution and aging as they mature in character, depth, and complexity. |
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Making a Business Case for Test Process Improvement[presentation] Time-consuming and marginally effective test processes are unacceptable in today's marketplace. |
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Is the Software Improving?[presentation] How can you tell if software is improving? Many QA professionals have found calculating statistics and using various metrics useful in monitoring and predicting software development progress. |
Anna Allison, A2 Software Solutions
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Testing in the Cold[presentation] "Testing in the cold" refers to those times when you feel there is no commitment to testing and people or other circumstantial factors are not being cooperative. |
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Validation and Component-Based Development[presentation] Component-based development is the practice of constructing software applications from new or existing encapsulated language-independent modules. |
Rob Harris, Harris Corporation and David Wood, Applied Object Engineering
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Rethinking Requirements[presentation] In my travels, I see many different views about what |
Brian Lawrence, Coyote Valley Software
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A Method for Test Machine Setup for Multiple Operating Systems[presentation] Software testing is becoming more involved all the time: products involve more components; automation tools are used more often; and testing is required on more than one operating system, version, or language. |
Rick Smith, IBM
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