Conference Presentations

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
Test Status Reporting: Focus Your Message for Executives
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Test status reporting is a key factor in the success of test projects. Stephan Obbeck shares some ideas on how to communicate more than just a red-yellow-green status report to executive management and discusses how the right information can influence their decisions. 
Stephan Obbeck, KROLL Consulting AG
STARWEST 2013: Become a Big Data Quality Hero
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Many believe that regression testing an application with minimal data is sufficient. With big data applications, the data testing methodology becomes far more complex. Testing can now be done within the data fabrication process as well as in the data delivery process. 
Jason Rauen, LexisNexis
It’s All Fun and Games: Using Play to Improve Tester Creativity
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The number of software test tools keeps expanding, and individual tools are continuously becoming more advanced. However, there is no doubt that a tester’s most important—yet often neglected and underused—tool is the mind. As testers, we need to employ our intelligence, imagination, and...
Christin Wiedemann, Professional Quality Assurance Ltd.
Mobile Testing Success: Real World Strategies and Techniques
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Today, consumers spend more time on mobile apps than on the web. With this increased demand and paradigm shift toward mobile devices, the role of the software tester is evolving and becoming more complex. Since mobile testing is a relatively new domain, software testers face the challenge...
Clint Sprauve, Hewlett-Packard
Build Your Personal Portfolio of Thinking Skills

How do we improve ourselves as software testers? What are the thinking skills we should develop? How do we refine these skills? Observing is one of the essential skills for software testers. We need to detect changes and differences even when they are subtle. Visual imaging...
Karen N. Johnson, Software Test Management Inc.
Tests and Requirements: Like Ham and Eggs, Sugar and Spice, Lucy and Desi
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The practice of agile software development requires a clear understanding of business needs. Misunderstanding requirements causes waste, slipped schedules, and mistrust within the organization. Developers implement their perceived interpretation of requirements; testers test against...
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
User Acceptance Testing: Make the User a Part of the Team
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Adding user acceptance testing (UAT) to your testing lifecycle can increase the probability of finding defects before software is released. The challenge is to fully engage users and assist them in becoming effective testers. Help achieve this goal by involving users early and setting...
Susan Bradley, Grange Mutual Insurance
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
Automate Mobile App Testing—Or Go Crazy
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During the past decade, test engineers have become experts in browser compatibility testing. Just when we thought everything was under control, along come native mobile applications that need to run across platforms far more diverse than the desktop browser landscape has ever been.
Stewart Stern, Gorilla Logic Inc.

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