Conference Presentations

STAREAST Testing Effective Test Estimation
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We have experience with testing projects, both large and small. Sometimes our test estimates are accurate—and sometimes they’re not. We often miss deadlines because there are no defined criteria used to create our estimates. Sometimes we miss our schedules due to crunched testing timelines.
Shyam Sunder
STAREAST Testing Oil & Water, Peanut Butter & Jelly, DevOps & Regulatory Compliance
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DevOps and regulatory compliance are two critically important ingredients in today’s connected organization. The first—DevOps—enables you to move quickly and respond to change in an era where change is increasing at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. The second—regulatory...
Brandon Carlson
STAREAST Testing The Tester's Three C’s: Communication, Criticism, Confidence
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Whether you are in an independent testing team and need to communicate formally or in an agile context communicating face-to-face, it can be difficult to do your job well when you are telling people what they don’t want to hear. Dot Graham presents examples of different types and styles of...
Dorothy Graham
STAREAST Testing When the System Creaks: Lessons Learned in Agile Maintenance
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We often talk about agile in terms of development of new systems, sometimes called greenfield projects. These scenarios present us with a “cleaner” version of agile. But Jim Peers is asking the question: What about agile methodologies when applied to the maintenance of a mature product?
Jim Peers
STAREAST Testing Adapting Test Teams to Organizational Power Structures
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Scapegoats, spin-doctors, white knights, and sycophants—have you found your test team playing these roles? Organizations, both large and small, often have distinct cultures and power structures with significant but insidious impact on how individual testers and teams are expected to operate.
John Hazel
STAREAST Testing Service Virtualization: What Testers Need to Know
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Unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment—including the application under test and all of its dependent components—is essential for achieving “quality @ speed” with agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery. Service virtualization is an emerging technology that...
Arthur “Code Curmudgeon” Hicken
STAREAST Testing Test Automation at the Speed of Agile: Making It Work Every Build
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Join Danny McKeown, Paychex’s lead test enterprise automation architect, to see how a small tools group supports nearly one-hundred agile teams as they move toward achieving continuous delivery. Take part in the conversation to understand how Paychex is progressing in the third year of its...
Danny McKeown
STAREAST Testing The Lost Art of Acceptance Testing
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Acceptance testing is often thought of as the little brother of system testing and, in many projects, it ends up as a little phase at the end. Having worked in system testing for most of her testing career, Bettina Faldborg found it was a bigger jump than you might think to move to...
Bettina Faldborg
STAREAST Testing The DevOps Challenge: Now Is the Time to Be a Champion of Quality
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Software failures continue to make news headlines daily. Yet all the industry hype we hear is about DevOps, a set of practices that seems to exclude quality and testers. Does quality matter? Will it become part of the equation? We must take notice of exclusionary movements and become...
Lisa Dronzek
STAREAST Testing An Agile Testing Dashboard: Metrics that Matter
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Has your organization moved to agile but your metrics have not? Do you spend multiple hours each week generating separate sets of metrics for your agile squad, management, and C-level executives? Do you find yourself questioning the things you measure and actions you take as a result...
Prachi Maini

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