Conference Presentations

Continuous Automated Regression Testing to the Rescue
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A major concern when developing new software features is that another part of the code will be affected in unexpected ways. With a typical development processes, testers often do not run a full set of product regression tests until late in the release when it is much more costly to fix...
Brenda Kise, Proto Labs Inc.
An Automation Culture: The Key to Agile Success
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For organizations developing large-scale applications, transitioning to agile is challenging enough. But if your organization has not yet adopted an automation culture, brace yourself for a big surprise because automation is essential to agile success. From the safety nets provided by...
Geoff Meyer, Dell, Inc.
Test Automation Challenges in the Gaming Industry
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Gaming is a multibillion-dollar industry, and good testing is critical to any game’s success. Game testing has traditionally been black-box through the client—a method clearly insufficient with increasingly more complex software incorporating 3D physics, thousands of linked and interacting...
Brett Roark, Blizzard Entertainment
Automated Testing of a Dynamically Configurable System

You provide your clients a service and product, designed so that each component is customizable and can be dynamically changed right down to screen layout and field location. This greatly increases the amount of testing you have to perform on a release since there could be more than...
Terry Morrish, Synacor
Confessions of a Test Automation Addict
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Feeling fatigued, frustrated, and stressed at work? Wondering how you can stay relevant and highly valued in this fast-changing software development domain? David Rosskopf shares how you can become more productive through a non-traditional approach for automating testing—and much more.
David Rosskopf, LDS Church
Intelligent Mistakes in Test Automation
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A number of test automation ideas that at first glance seem very sensible actually contain pitfalls and problems that you should avoid. Dot Graham describes five of these “intelligent mistakes”—automated tests will find more bugs more quickly; spending a lot on a tool must guarantee great...
Dorothy Graham, Software Test Consultant
How to Survive the Coming Test Automation Zombie Apocalypse
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Test automation is software development. To automate tests well, you have to have brains. Unfortunately, the very brains that make you good at your job also make you highly attractive to zombies. Like all zombies, test automation zombies are brainless, insatiable, and relentless.
Dale Emery, DHE
Achieving Quality in the Future of Software Delivery
Video

Companies are under tremendous pressure to quickly deliver new innovative applications that exploit the unique capabilities of new channels, while building upon decades of IT investment. The meaning of quality and the expectations placed on testing are also evolving. 
Peter Klenk, IBM
Designing Self-maintaining UI Tests for Web Applications
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Test automation scripts are in a constant state of obsolescence. New features are added, changes are made, and testers learn about these changes long after they've been implemented. Marcus Merrell helped design a system in which a "model" is created each time a developer changes...
Marcus Merrell, WhaleShark Media, Inc.
It Seemed a Good Idea at the Time: Intelligent Mistakes in Test Automation
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Some test automation ideas seem very sensible at first glance but contain pitfalls and problems that can and should be avoided. Dot Graham describes five of these “intelligent mistakes”—1. Automated tests will find more bugs quicker. (Automation doesn’t find bugs, tests do.) ...
Dorothy Graham, Software Test Consultant

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