STAREAST 2009 - Software Testing Conference

PRESENTATIONS

Updating Your Testing Methods for Web 2.0

Web 2.0 moves much of the application functionality directly into the browser. While creating a richer user-experience that everyone craves, these technologies pose significant new challenges for testing. Matt Brayley-Berger discusses areas that are critical in testing Web 2.0 applications. First, Matt presents an overview of a typical Web 2.0 application architecture (tiers, backend databases, and application workflow) to help you plan test designs and test cases.
Matt Brayley, Borland
Using Data Objects to Create Effective Test Data

Fact-the quality of test data directly impacts the quality of testing. Traditional manual methods for creating test data are laborious, time consuming, often ineffective, and error prone. Huw Price explains the concept of test "data objects," an approach he uses to create high quality test data and eliminate the need to access live production data for testing. Data objects are abstractions of the data that capture the essence of a data type that can be quickly assembled to support specific tests.
Huw Price, Grid-Tools Ltd.
Virtual Test Labs: The Next Frontier

Are you spending too much time setting up test environments? Do you have too many "can't repro" defects? Test lab virtualization may be the answer you're looking for. It's no longer just a promise-it can be a reality in modern test labs today. Darshan Desai explains how to leverage virtualization to solve some of your complex testing problems. Virtualization provides the ability to create and share test environments quickly and do more testing in the same amount of time.
Darshan Desai, Microsoft
What Haven't You Noticed Lately? Building Awareness in Testers

"What haven't you noticed lately?" Marshall McLuhan is said to have asked this paradoxical question-a vital one for testers, because it prompts more questions about things that testers could and should notice. Great testing is about noticing things and asking questions about them. Have you ever found a problem in a program without using a named testing technique or found that some testers seem to be magnets for bugs, seeing things that you don't?
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
When to Ship? Choosing Quality Metrics

It's time to ship your product and you're looking at pages of data about the testing work you've done over the last year. How well does this data prepare you for making the recommendation to ship the product or delay it-perhaps once again? Do you rely primarily on the data or do you fall back on "gut feel" and intuition to make your decision?
Alan Page, Microsoft

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