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STAREAST 2013 Keynote: Surviving or Thriving: Top Ten Lessons for the Professional Tester
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As testers and test managers we often find ourselves struggling just to survive within our organization—sometimes with the possibility of job loss due to outsourcing looming. Often, we are told to become more “effective,” “efficient,” and do “more with less.”
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Lloyd Roden, Lloyd Roden Consultancy
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STAREAST 2013: Finding the Real Value in Load Testing
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Organizations spend countless hours in load testing exercises with the intent of finding and fixing system bottlenecks to improve overall performance. But how much time is spent in the process of preparing and executing the test versus finding and fixing real issues.
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Duane Dorch, Compuware
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Seven Things a Tester Should Know
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Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional is a comprehensive software testing solution targeted at software testing practitioners. In this session you will be introduced to the powerful tools and capabilities of the solution in addressing the demands of full lifecycle software testing...
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Theresa Lanowitz and Charles Sterling, Microsoft
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Cause-Effect Graphing: Rigorous Test Case Design
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A tester’s toolbox today contains a number of test case design techniques—classification trees, pairwise testing, design of experiments-based methods, and combinatorial testing. Each of these methods is supported by automated tools.
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Gary Mogyorodi, Software Testing Services
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Using Mindmaps to Develop a Test Strategy
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Your test strategy is the design behind your plan—the set of big-picture ideas that embodies the overarching direction of your test effort. It captures the stakeholders’ values that will inspire, influence, and ultimately drive your testing.
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Fiona Charles, Quality Intelligence
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Flintstones or Jetsons? Jump Start Your Virtual Test Lab
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The power of virtualization has made it easy and inexpensive to create multiple environments for testing. How you implement your virtualization strategy can boost not only the savings on physical gear and availability of test environments but also your testing productivity.
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David Silk, Verisign, Inc.
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The Test Coverage Outline: Your Testing Road Map
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To assist in risk analysis, prioritization of testing, and test reporting (telling your testing story), you need a thorough Test Coverage Outline (TCO)—a road map of your proposed testing activities. By creating a TCO, you can prepare for testing without having to create a giant pile of...
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Paul Holland, Testing Thoughts
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Mobile Testing Methodologies: Trends, Successes, and Pitfalls
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In today's dynamic mobile marketplace—where new handsets and mobile operating systems are released every day—your ability to deal with these changes which impact your mobile product is vital. The mobile application lifecycle today must be short; must be of great quality; cover...
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Eran Kinsbruner
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Software Testing Is a Game Skilled testing—an important part of creating valuable technology—is under attack. We need to rethink the problem, analyze why people resist testing, and create approaches to make it more engaging. Gamification provides one model to help us improve our approach.
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Specification-by-Example: A Cucumber Implementation
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We've all been there. You work incredibly hard to develop a feature and design tests based on written requirements. You build a detailed test plan that aligns the tests with the software and the documented business needs. When you put the tests to the software, it all falls apart because the requirements were updated without informing everyone. But help is at hand. Enter business-driven development and Cucumber, a tool for running automated acceptance tests. Join Mary Thorn as she explores the nuances of Cucumber and shows you how to implement specification-by-example, behavior-driven development, and agile acceptance testing. By fostering collaboration for implementing active requirements via a common language and format, Cucumber bridges the communication gap between business stakeholders and implementation teams.
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Mary Thorn, Deutsche Bank
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