Conference Presentations

Balancing the Crusty and Old with the Shiny and New
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In his journeys, Bob Galen has discovered that testing takes on many forms. Some organizations have no automated tests and struggle to run massive manual regression tests within very short iterative releases. Other organizations are going “all in”―writing thousands of acceptance tests...
Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
Why Automation Fails—in Theory and Practice
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Testers face common challenges in automation. Unfortunately, these challenges often lead to subsequent failures. Jim Trentadue explains a variety of automation perceptions and myths―the perception that a significant increase in time and people is needed to implement automation; the myth...
Jim Trentadue, Ranorex
Making Your Test Automation Transparent
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Business analysts, developers, and testers are sometimes not on the same page when it comes to test automation. When there is no transparency in test cases, execution, coverage, and data, review of automation by all stakeholders is difficult. Making automation scripts easily readable and...
Subodh Parulekar, AFour Technologies, Inc.
Speak Like a Test Manager
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Ever feel like your manager, development manager, product manager, product owner, or (you fill in the blank) is not listening to you or your team? Are you struggling to make an impact with your messages? Are you “pushing a wet rope uphill” in championing product quality? Are you talking...
Mike Sowers, Software Quality Engineering
The Power of an Individual Tester: The HealthCare.gov Experience
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Like millions of other Americans, Ben Simo visited HealthCare.gov in search of health insurance and found a frustratingly buggy website that was failing to fulfill its purpose―to educate people on the new health insurance law and help them purchase health insurance. After failing to create...
Ben Simo, eBay, Inc.
Testing Compliance with Accessibility Guidelines
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Currently, 2.4 billion people use the Internet, and about 10 percent of the world’s population has some form of disability. This means millions of potential users will have difficulty accessing the Internet. Thus, accessibility testing should not be ignored. Anish Krishnan discusses the...
Anish Krishnan, Hexaware Technologies, Ltd
Build Your Custom Performance Testing Framework
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Performance testing requires knowledge of systems architecture, techniques to simulate the load equivalent of sometimes millions of transactions per day, and tools to monitor/report runtime statistics. With the evolution from desktop to web and now the cloud, performance testing involves...
Prashant Suri, Rackspace
Video: Delivering Velocity and Quality for the New Style of Application Delivery
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Do you want to deliver high performance applications with unprecedented velocity and uncompromising quality?  Join HP Experts, Silvia Siqueira, Michael Cooper, and Shane Evans for an informative discussion about HP’s recent innovations in testing and quality assurance to make...
Michael Cooper, HP, Silvia Siqueira, HP, and Shane Evans, HP
Video: Service Virtualization Enables Continuous Testing
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Build-test-release-deploy processes for today’s interdependent systems are commonly impacted by constraints associated with a staged test environment—for instance, the complexity and...
Wayne Ariola, Parasoft
STAREAST 2014: Test Automation Patterns: Issues and Solutions
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Automating system level test execution can result in many problems. It is surprising to find that many people encounter the same problems, yet they are not aware of common... 
Seretta Gamba, Steria Mummert ISS GmbH and Dorothy Graham, Independent Test Consultant

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