Conference Presentations

Better Software Conference West 2015: Lean Software Development Is for Everyone
Slideshow

Lean software engineering emphasizes continuous delivery of high quality applications. Ken Pugh explains the principles and practices that form the basis of lean software development―concentrating on developing a continuous flow by eliminating delays and loopbacks; delivering quickly by...
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
Release Automation: Better Quality, Faster Deployment, Amazing ROI
Slideshow

A great deal of confusion surrounds the concepts of release automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. Even some industry experts are confused about the differences. How these concepts work progressively to achieve high quality software...
Bryan Linder, tap|QA
What Do Defects Really Cost? Much More Than You Think
Slideshow

As software increasingly becomes the face of the business, defects can lead to embarrassment, financial loss, and even business failure. Nevertheless, in response to today's demand for speed and “continuous everything,” the software delivery conveyer belt keeps moving faster and faster...
Wayne Ariola, Parasoft
Survival Guide: Taming the Data Quality Beast
Slideshow

As companies scramble to adjust to the demands of an increasingly data-driven world, testers are told “go test data quality” without any guidance as to what that entails or how to go about it. The fact that the data is often a living, flowing ecosystem, rather than just a single object...
Shauna Ayers, Availity, and Catherine Cruz Agosto, Availity
Virtualization to Improve Speed and Increase Quality
Slideshow

Many development and test organizations must work within the confines of compressed release cycles, various agile methodologies, and cloud and mobile environments for their business applications. So, how can test organizations keep up with the pace of development and increase the quality...
Clint Sprauve, HP, and Todd DeCapua, HP
Measuring Quality: Testing Metrics and Trends in Practice
Slideshow

In today's fast-paced IT world, companies follow “best” testing trends and practices with the assumption that, by applying these methodologies, their product quality will improve. But that does not always happen. Why? Liana Gevorgyan questions and defines, in the language of metrics...
Liana Gevorgyan, Infostretch Corporation
Mindmaps: Lightweight Documentation for Testing
Slideshow

Quality starts with requirements. In small to mid-size companies, it is not uncommon for the communication chain to be broken. Florin Ursu shares ways to avoid miscommunication through a streamlined process in which requirements are communicated to both developers and testers...
Florin Ursu, DMEautomotive
The Perfect Storm: Mobile Application Quality
Slideshow

Mobile applications are fraught with risk. The unique, portable nature and multiple uses of mobile devices bring a wide variety of critical quality properties into play: reliability, usability, security, availability, and maintainability. Allocating the effort to identify and ensure these...
Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.
Service Virtualization: Speed Up Delivery and Improve Quality
Slideshow

“We could not test this because…” Every technology professional has experienced issues during system testing when unit testing was overlooked or cut short. Every project team has hit roadblocks during system testing when dependent systems or complicated data have been unavailable...
Anne Hungate, DIRECTV, and Robb Kelman, DIRECTV
Data-Driven Software Testing: The New, Lean Approach to Quality
Slideshow

The Internet of Things and always connected devices are generating exabytes of user data and device telemetry. Organizations worldwide are leveraging this data for new products and new business insights, but this data is also fundamentally changing how organizations drive, assess, and...
Ken Johnston, Microsoft

Pages

CMCrossroads is a TechWell community.

Through conferences, training, consulting, and online resources, TechWell helps you develop and deliver great software every day.