Conference Presentations

STAREAST Testing Service Virtualization: What Testers Need to Know
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Unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment—including the application under test and all of its dependent components—is essential for achieving “quality @ speed” with agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery. Service virtualization is an emerging technology that...
Arthur “Code Curmudgeon” Hicken
STAREAST Testing Data Quality at the Speed of Work
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In this fast-paced data-driven world, the fallout from a single data quality issue can cost thousands of dollars in a matter of hours. To catch these issues quickly, system monitoring for data quality requires a different set of strategies from other continuous regression efforts. Like a...
Shauna Ayers
Communication and Testing: Why You Have Been Wrong All Along!
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You ran all the tests you planned for your team, you reported all the bugs with clear and to the point descriptions, and you sent a weekly email with a professional PowerPoint presentation including graphs and statistics pointing out the risk areas and project issues. However, you still...
Joel Montvelisky
STAREAST Testing The Lost Art of Acceptance Testing
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Acceptance testing is often thought of as the little brother of system testing and, in many projects, it ends up as a little phase at the end. Having worked in system testing for most of her testing career, Bettina Faldborg found it was a bigger jump than you might think to move to...
Bettina Faldborg
STAREAST Testing When the System Creaks: Lessons Learned in Agile Maintenance
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We often talk about agile in terms of development of new systems, sometimes called greenfield projects. These scenarios present us with a “cleaner” version of agile. But Jim Peers is asking the question: What about agile methodologies when applied to the maintenance of a mature product?
Jim Peers
STAREAST Testing My Failures in Software Testing
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In her more than thirty years in the IT industry, Isabel Evans says she has learned more from her failures than she has from her successes. Why is this? And what has she learned? That making mistakes is the way to learn, and that allowing yourself to be wrong allows you to grow. Join...
Isabel Evans
STAREAST Testing Seven Fundamentals of a Successful Testing Team
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So you want to build an effective testing team and you’re asking yourself, “Where do I begin?” Greg Paskal, a quality assurance engineer with thirty years of testing experience, shares seven keys to building a successful testing team. Learn the fundamentals every tester should know and how...
Greg Paskal
STAREAST Testing Oil & Water, Peanut Butter & Jelly, DevOps & Regulatory Compliance
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DevOps and regulatory compliance are two critically important ingredients in today’s connected organization. The first—DevOps—enables you to move quickly and respond to change in an era where change is increasing at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. The second—regulatory...
Brandon Carlson
STAREAST Testing Use Layered Model-Based Requirements to Achieve Continuous Testing
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Requirements, test cases, and test data are still generally designed and created the same way they have been for the past thirty years—despite the evolution of testing techniques and tools. Requirements are still specified through written natural language, which leads to ambiguity and...
Alex Martins
STAREAST Testing World-Class Test Automation: You Can Build It Too
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Join Chris Loder as he describes the test automation framework they have created from the ground up at Halogen Software. Chris shares the environment they have put together to run in virtual machines, physical hardware, and mobile devices—with Jenkins keeping track of it all. He explains...
Chris Loder

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