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Succeeding with Automation Tools[presentation] The problems with using record/playback as your only test automation strategy are well known. But the other option-full script programming-is unattractive to many due to its high cost and long development time. |
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Virtual Test Management: Rapid Testing Over Multiple Time Zones[presentation] With the ever-changing challenges of testing, here comes the latest one: managing multiple test locations. More and more companies are spreading testing organizations throughout the country and the world. |
Jim Bampos, VeriTest and Eric Patel, Nokia
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Advanced Data Driven Testing (ADDT)[presentation] Learn how the Convergys Test Automation Team developed an Advanced Data Driven Testing (ADDT) approach using a test automation engine. |
Shakil Ahmad, Convergys
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The Role of Information in Risk-Based Testing[presentation] With risk-based testing, you identify risks and then run tests to gather more information about them. Formal risk analysis is often necessary for identifying and assessing risks with new domains or technologies. |
Bret Pettichord, Satsfice
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STAREAST 2001: Bug Hunting: Going on a Software Safari[presentation] This presentation is about bugs: where they hide, how you find them, and how you tell other people they exist so they can be fixed. Explore the habitats of the most common types of software bugs. |
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Automated Testing and Monitoring of Large Application Services[presentation] Large application services are very dynamic in their functionality, with some of the business rules hosted by these services changing on a daily basis. |
Ashish Jain and Siddhartha Dalal, Telcordia Technologies
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Is a Use Case a Test Case?[presentation] This presentation draws the following conclusions:
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Collaboration Between Development and Testing Personnel is a Key to Success[presentation] Applications are often designed and developed with little regard for testing. Functional and Load/Configuration testing needs to be a collaborative effort between the development and testing groups for a project to be most successful. |
Tom Igielski, Upstream Solutions, Inc
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STAREAST 2001: Exploratory Testing in Pairs[presentation] Exploratory testing involves simultaneous activities-learning about the program and the risks associated with it, planning and conducting tests, troubleshooting, and reporting results. |
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Removing Requirement Defects and Automating Test[presentation] Organizations face many problems that impede rapid development of software systems critical to their operations and growth. This paper discusses model-based |
Mark Blackburn, Software Productivity Consortium
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STAREAST 2001: The Power of Retrospectives to Improve Testing[presentation] Testing is a tough job! Most test professionals learn the hard way what works and what doesn't. Retrospectives are focused, facilitated reviews of a defined piece of work. |
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Software Testing at a Silicon Valley High-Tech Software Company[presentation] This paper describes a methodology for allocating priority levels and resources to software testing and other quality activities to achieve "customer satisfaction." This methodology is based on understanding of what the market and the target |
Giora Ben-Yaacov and Lee Gazlay, Synopsys Inc.
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Failure is Not an Option: 24 x 7 on the Web[presentation] This paper discusses the factors involved in determining the cost of a twenty-four hour by seven days per week (24 X 7) e-Commerce or internal web site going offline for any length of time. |
Ed Bryce, Reality Test
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Software Customer Satisfaction Surveys[presentation] Satisfying our customers is an essential element to staying in business in this modern world of global competition. |
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Managing Iterative Development: Avoiding Common Pitfalls[presentation] The Rational Unified Process (RUP) advocates an iterative or spiral approach to the software development lifecycle, as this approach has again and again proven to be superior to the waterfall approach in many respects. |
Per Kroll, Rational
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