Conference Presentations

Crafting Smaller User Stories: Examples and Exercises
Slideshow

Agile development techniques generally emphasize frequent iterations. But even after adopting agile values, methods, and ceremonies, many organizations struggle to make such iterations work in practice. These organizations inevitably wrestle with agile rhythms until they learn to break up...
Stephen Frein, Comcast
Software Testing’s Future—According to Lee Copeland
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The original IEEE 829 Test Documentation standard is thirty years old this year. Boris Beizer’s first book on software testing, Software Testing Techniques, also passed thirty. Testing Computer Software, the best-selling book on software testing, is more than twenty five. During the past...
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
The Roots of Agility
Video

What we mean by Agile is becoming less and less clear. Rob Myers shares sixteen years of history and observation, noting the amazingly diverse ideologies and...
Rob Myers
Assessing Agile Engineering Practices
Slideshow

Organizations are often reluctant to adopt the more challenging agile engineering practices—first seen together in Extreme Programming and later adopted by the Scrum Alliance as the Scrum Developer Practices. These practices are difficult to implement and sustain, and the benefits are...
Rob Myers, Agile Institute
The Power of an Individual Tester: The HealthCare.gov Experience
Video

Like millions of other Americans, Ben Simo visited HealthCare.gov in search of health insurance and found a frustratingly buggy website that was failing to fulfill its purpose―to educate people on the new health insurance law and help them purchase health insurance. After failing to create...
Ben Simo, eBay Inc.
Softwarts: Security Testing for Muggles
Video

Security testing is often shrouded in jargon and mystique. Security conjurers perform arcane rites using supposed “black hat” techniques and would have us believe that we cannot do the same. The fact is that security testing “magic” is little more than specialized application of...
Paco Hope, Citigal
Quality Principles for Today's "Glueware"—Testing Web Services, Libraries, and Frameworks
Video

In the past, developers knew every line of code in their applications. They designed it, wrote it, tested it, and controlled it. Today’s applications are far different. Rather than written, they are often assembled―from program language libraries, third-party frameworks, encapsulated...
Julie Gardiner, Redmind
Performance Engineering in 2014: Level Up Your Skills
Video

Agile, continuous delivery, and DevOps have changed the way we develop, test, and deploy software. And as performance engineers and architects we need to level up our skills and change the way we do our day-to-day job. Join Andreas Grabner to walk through...
Andreas "Andi" Grabner, Dynatrace
Gamification in Assurance: The Future of QA and Testing Workspace
Video

Quality Assurance and Testing is an interesting and challenging profession. As custodians of the business, we are responsible for assuring both the business and the end customer experience. Even though some testing activities have become mundane and repetitive, testing...
Kannan Subramaniam, Comcast, and Prasad MK, TCS
Eliminate the Testing Swiss Cheese Syndrome
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Test plans and test coverage often resemble Swiss cheese—full of holes in high risk areas of code. And teams may be unaware because they lack sufficient visibility into what areas of...
Rich Newman, Coverity

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