Conference Presentations

Snappy Visualizations for Test Communications

Do you struggle to find the best way to explain your testing status and coverage to your stakeholders? Do numbers and metrics make your stakeholders’ eyes glaze over, or, even worse, do you feel dirty giving metrics that you know are going to be abused? Do you have challenges...
Thomas Vaniotis, Liquidnet
The Seven Deadly Sins of Software Testing
Slideshow

Many smart, otherwise-capable testers sabotage their own careers by committing one or more of the deadly sins of testing: irrelevance/redundancy, ignorance of relevant skills, obstructionism, adversarialism, nit-picking, blindness to project/organizational priorities, and last-moment-ism.
Rex Black, RBCS Inc.
Usability Testing: Personas, Scenarios, Use Cases, and Test Cases
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To create better test cases, Koray Yitmen says you must know your users. And the path to better test case creation in usability testing starts with the segmentation and definition of users, a concept known as personas. Contrary to common market-wise segmentation that focuses on users'...
Koray Yitmen, UXservices
Bad Testing Metrics—and What To Do About Them
Slideshow

Many organizations use software testing metrics extensively to determine the status of their projects and whether or not their products are ready to ship. Unfortunately most, if not all, of the metrics in use are so flawed that they are not only useless but possibly dangerous—misleading...
Paul Holland, Testing Thoughts
Testing After You’ve Finished Testing
Slideshow

Stakeholders always want to release when they think we’ve “finished testing”. They believe we have revealed “all of the important problems” and “verified all of the fixes,” and now it’s time to reap the rewards.
Jon Bach, eBay Inc.
STARCANADA 2013: The Tester's Role in Agile Planning
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If testers sit passively through agile planning, important testing activities will be missed or glossed over. Testing late in the sprint becomes a bottleneck, quickly diminishing the advantages of agile development. However, testers can actively advocate for customers’ concerns while...
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
STARCANADA 2013: Maybe We Don’t Have to Test It
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Testers have been taught they are responsible for all testing. Some even say “It’s not tested until I run the product myself.” Eric Jacobson thinks this old school way of thinking can hurt a tester’s reputation and—even worse—may threaten team success. Learning to recognize opportunities...
Eric Jacobson, Turner Broadcasting Inc.
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.
Fiona Charles, Quality Intelligence
STARCANADA 2013 Keynote: Testing Lessons from Hockey (The World’s Greatest Sport)
Video

Over the years, Rob Sabourin has drawn important testing lessons from diverse sources including the great detectives, the Simpsons, Hollywood movies, comic book superheroes, and the hospital delivery room. Now Rob scores big with breakaway testing ideas from hockey, Canada’s national sport.
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
The Role of Emotion in Testing
Slideshow

Software testing is a highly technical, logical, rational effort. There's no place for squishy emotional stuff here. Not among professional testers. Or is there? Because of commitment, risk, schedule, and money, emotions can run high in software development and testing. It is easy to...
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense Inc.

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