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	Social Skills: The Softer Side of Software Testing[presentation] Slideshow Communication breakdowns are a primary cause of IT project failure. Marcia Buzzella believes increasing the success rate of IT projects across waterfall, Agile, and DevOps methods requires a balance of social (soft) and technical (hard) capabilities to improve team performance.	Marcia Buzzella
	Testing and DevOps: Organizations and Their Culture Must Change[presentation] Slideshow The DevOps movement is here. Now, companies with mature systems are breaking down siloed IT departments and federating them into product development teams and departments. Testing and its practices are at the heart of these changes. Traditionally, development organizations have been...	Adam Auerbach
	Agile Testing at Scale[presentation] Slideshow Mary Thorn has had the opportunity in the past twenty years to work at many startups, creating several QA/test departments from scratch. For the past ten years, she has done this in agile software companies. Recently Mary moved from leading small agile test organizations to leading a large...	Mary Thorn
	Get Involved Early: A Tester’s Experience with Requirements[presentation] Slideshow Although requirements provide valuable information that informs and shapes testing, sometimes the information provided is incomplete or unclear. Join Julie Lebo as she shares her experience with requirements engineering and how she has integrated her testing group into the requirement...	Julie Lebo
	Use Model-Based Testing to Navigate the Software Forest[presentation] Slideshow Even seemingly simple software systems can be a dense forest of intersecting logical pathways which may leave you wondering if your testing was robust enough. Traditional test cases are flawed since they only execute the pathways the tester considered at the time the test case was written...	Jon Fetrow
	Blunders in Test Automation[presentation] Slideshow In chess, the word blunder means a very bad move by someone who should know better. Even though functional test automation has been around for a long time, people still make some very bad moves and serious blunders. The most common misconception in automation is thinking that manual...	Dorothy Graham
	Machine Learning: Will It Take Over Testing?[presentation] Slideshow Machine learning (ML), a branch of artificial intelligence, is gaining widespread adoption and interest on software development projects. Paul Merrill says that ML isn't typical programming. Algorithms can be changed and checked for accuracy at runtime to “learn” from data. Some companies...	Paul Merrill
	Globalization Testing for Cloud Products[presentation] Slideshow Every year, VMware has hundreds of releases for its virtualization products that cover data centers, networking, storage, cloud management, and digital workspace. Testing many different products while adapting to their development lifecycle introduces some special challenges for the...	Vincent Truong
	Elegant Dev and Test Processes for a More Civilized Age[presentation] Slideshow Software engineering as a discipline has come a long way. For some teams, months-long cycles of dev-test-build-release have shrunk down to mere days—or even hours. In the fastest, leanest organizations, most testing happens in parallel with development as part of a slick, continuous...	Melissa Benua
	What to Do—Develop Your Own Automation or Use Crowdsourced Testing?[presentation] Slideshow Modern software products tend to have a rich UI that supports many user workflows, all of which need to be covered in testing. Agile organizations quickly discover that manual end-to-end testing neither supports their velocity nor provides respectable regression coverage. A common...	Daria Mehra
	Story Time for Testers[presentation] Slideshow Stories help us learn. They can be fun or scary, exciting or relaxing. People worldwide tell and listen to stories, and we access them through books, film, TV, and IT. But the direct experience of face-to-face storytelling is still a powerful experience. When Isabel Evans was young, there...	Isabel Evans
	Manage Testing by Dependencies—Not Activities[presentation] Slideshow Traditionally, test management has focused on two areas—test planning and test execution. Test planning creates the test strategy and prepares test cases. Test execution focuses on who is responsible for and assigned to executing the respective test cases and logging defects. These views...	Jim Trentadue
	Where Did My Testers Go? Test Management on Agile Projects[presentation] Slideshow Substantial confusion exists about the roles and responsibilities of test managers in an agile software development process. Agile seeks to streamline project management and leadership under the role of a ScrumMaster. So, what does this mean for test managers? How do they stay...	Jeffery Payne
	Testing in the Year 2020: The Erosion of Governance, Management, and Excellence[presentation] Slideshow Competition is driving our business and IT partners to be ever more nimble. And Byron Glick and Jithesh Ramachandran say that the growing agility is eroding the old foundations of testing—test management, project governance, and centers of excellence. An organization pursuing lean startup...	Byron Glick
	A Shift in Mindset: From Finding Defects to Preventing Them[presentation] Slideshow Although most software companies have adopted agile development, many still treat quality assurance as something that gets handled when coding is finished and ready for test. However, practicing this reactive approach to quality costs teams in rework, context switching, slower code release...	Oscar Gracia and Geordie Speake

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