Conference Presentations

How Spotify Tests World Class Apps
Slideshow

In today’s competitive world, more and more HTML5 applications are being developed for mobile and desktop platforms. Spotify has partnered with world-renowned organizations to create high quality apps to enrich the user experience. Testing a single application within a few months can be...
Alexander Andelkovic, Spotify
Structural Testing: When Quality Really Matters
Slideshow

Jamie Mitchell explores an underused and often forgotten test technique—white-box testing. Also known as structural testing, this technique requires some programming expertise and access to the code. Using only black-box testing, you could...
Jamie Mitchell, Jamie Mitchell Consulting Inc.
STARCANADA 2013 Keynote: Cool! Testing's Getting Fun Again
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The last exciting era in testing was the late ‘90s when the web turned technology on its ear, the agile movement overthrew our processes, and the rise of open source gave us accessible and innovative tools. However, since then, Jonathan Kohl finds it has been a lot of the same-old, same-old.
Jonathan Kohl, Kohl Concepts, Inc.
Load and Performance Testing in the Cloud: Myth vs. Reality
Slideshow

Is the cloud just another overhyped IT buzzword or a transformational technology wave? Steve Weisfeldt helps you get past all the noise and identify how you can leverage the cloud’s flexibility and scalability to save time and money on load and performance testing. Steve describes ways...
Steve Weisfeldt, Neotys
STAREAST 2013: Maybe We Don’t Have to Test It
Slideshow

Testers are taught they are responsible for all testing. Some even say “It’s not tested until I run the product myself.” Eric Jacobson believes this old school way of thinking can hurt a tester’s reputation and—even worse—may threaten the team’s success. Learning to recognize...
Eric Jacobson, Turner Broadcasting
Performance Testing Web 2.0 Applications—in an Agile World
Slideshow

Agile methodologies bring new complexities and challenges to traditional performance engineering practices, especially with Web 2.0 technologies that implement more and more functionality on the client side. Mohit Verma presents a Scrum-based performance testing lifecycle for Web 2.0 apps...
Mohit Verma, Tufts Health Plan
Testing with an Accent: Internationalization Testing
Slideshow

Finding time to test the basic functionality, performance, and security of a system is difficult enough, so how do you find time to add internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) testing? Today’s world is very small, and you may already have international users in your target market.
Paul Carvalho, STAQS
Emotional Intelligence in Software Testing
Slideshow

As test managers and test professionals we can have an enormous emotional impact on others. We're constantly dealing with fragile egos, highly charged situations, and pressured people playing a high-stakes game under conditions of massive uncertainty. We're often the bearers...
Thomas McCoy, Australian Department of Families
Testing—After You’ve Finished Testing
Slideshow

Stakeholders always want to release when they think we’ve finished testing. They believe we have discovered “all of the important problems” and “verified all of the fixes”—and now it’s time to reap the rewards. However, as testers we still can assist in improving software by learning about...
Jon Bach, eBay, Inc.
Mobile Testing Tools 101
Slideshow

The burgeoning use of mobile devices has created enormous opportunities for organizations to leverage mobile to increase sales, advertise products, and collaborate with internal and external resources. However, with increasing usage, the need to perform testing on these devices is...
David Dang, Zenergy Technologies, Inc.

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