Conference Presentations

Pivoting Your Testers to Become Agile
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Many organizations struggle with transforming from the old-style specialized silos of skills into agile teams with generalized specialists. Without this pivot, we get sub-optimal agile/Scrum environments. Howard Deiner describes what can go wrong when integrating testers properly into an...
Howard Deiner, BigVisible Solutions
Test (and More) Patterns for Continuous Software Delivery
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Top web companies employ continuous delivery of software to build and deploy systems faster and gain a marked competitive advantage. You can do it, too! Andy Singleton shares the patterns for testing in real time that result in more frequent and more reliable releases. He explains why...
Andy Singleton, Assembla
iOS Test Automation: The Trifecta

In this agile world, as the expectations for rapid mobile application development and delivery get shorter every day, the users’ patience with a buggy app has become almost nonexistent. Elizabeth Taylor shares how to reduce iOS application testing time and gain confidence in your...
Elizabeth Taylor, Digimarc
Don’t Go over the Waterfall: Keep Agile Testing Agile
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All too often an agile iteration resembles a mini-waterfall cycle with developers coding for the duration of the iteration and then throwing code “over the wall” to the test team. This results in the all-too-familiar “test squeeze” with testers often testing code after the iteration has...
Aaron Barrett, Infusionsoft
Courage and Freedom in Exploratory Testing

Exploratory testing (ET) consists of simultaneous learning, test design, test execution, and optimization. Most people are able to adopt the outward behaviors of ET but struggle to adopt an ET mindset. Griffin Jones explains that this mindset requires reflecting on four basic questions...
Griffin Jones, Congruent Compliance
Keynote: The Bounty Conundrum: Incentives for Testing
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When you think of a bounty, do you think of Dog the Bounty Hunter, a reality series featuring a biker dude with a bad mullet, or maybe Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s latest film about a slave-turned-bounty-hunter? Shaun Bradshaw doesn’t have a mullet and isn’t a movie star...
Shaun Bradshaw, Zenergy Technologies, Inc.
What Executives Value in Testing
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Professional testers and test managers are feeling the pressures of low-cost competition and tools that claim to replace them through automation. So, how can test teams add more value to their projects and organization? In a recent survey of executives and testers, Mike Kelly and Jeanette...
Michael Kelly, DeveloperTown & Jeanette Thebeau, Ex2 Partners
Keynote: Testing the Xbox: Lessons for All
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Testing a game console isn’t all fun and games. However, with more than 50 million Xbox 360 consoles sold, and the amazing success of the Kinect sensor, it’s certainly a hotbed of excitement for software developers and testers alike. Veteran tester Alan Page is having a blast on the Xbox...
Alan Page, Microsoft
STARWEST 2013: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes
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Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period. Lightning Talks are the opportunity for speakers...
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
STARWEST 2013: Mobile Testing Trends and Innovations
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As organizations implement their mobile strategy, testing teams must support new technologies while still maintaining existing systems. Melissa Tondi describes the major trends and innovations in mobile technology, usage, and equipment that you should consider when transitioning existing...
Melissa Tondi, ProtoTest

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