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Testing the New Disney World Website[presentation]
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At Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Technology, we provide the applications and infrastructure our online guests use to plan, book, explore, and enjoy their stay at our parks and resorts. With millions of page views per day and a multi-billion dollar ecommerce booking engine, we face a unique... |
Les Honniball, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Technology
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Speed Up Testing with Monitoring Tools[presentation]
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The software development lifecycle is a pretty complex process in many organizations. However, by using monitoring tools and methodologies, you can accelerate testing and release higher quality code―the cornerstone of rapid software delivery. These tools provide immediate feedback... |
Jim Hirschauer, AppDynamics
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Testing Compliance with Accessibility Guidelines[presentation]
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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
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Testers, Use Metrics Wisely or Don’t Use Them at All[presentation]
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For thousands of years, human language has provided us with beautiful and complex ways of sharing important ideas. At the same time, language can derail attempts to communicate even the most basic pieces of critical information. We testers are the heralds of vast amounts of data, and... |
Deborah Kennedy, Aditi Technologies
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Five Ways to Improve Your Mobile Testing[presentation]
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Few technology shifts have impacted the way we do business as much as mobile. The new and exciting functionality delivered by mobile apps, the pace at which they are being developed, and their emergence as the “face of the business” requires that organizations deliver unprecedented quality... |
Dennis Schultz, IBM
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Getting Your Message Across: Communication Skills for Testers[presentation]
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Communication is at the heart of our profession. No matter how advanced our testing capabilities are, if we can’t convey our concerns in ways that connect with key members of the project team, our contribution is likely to be ignored. Because we act solely in an advisory capacity, rather... |
Thomas McCoy, Australian Department of Social Services
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End-to-End Test Automation with Open Source Technologies[presentation]
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As organizations continue to adopt agile methodologies, testers are getting involved earlier in product testing. They need tools that empower them to manage varied test automation needs for web services, web APIs, and web and mobile applications. Open source solutions are available in... |
Ramandeep Singh, QA InfoTech
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Making Your Test Automation Transparent[presentation]
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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.
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Balancing the Crusty and Old with the Shiny and New[presentation]
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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
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The Role of Testing: Quality Police or Quality Communicator?[presentation]
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An underwear advertisement in 1985 featured the dedicated and thorough Inspector 12 saying, “They don't say Hanes until I say they say Hanes.” Historically, software testers have been called on to perform a similar role―preventing defective products from reaching customers. However... |
Mike Duskis, 10-4 Systems
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Leading Internationally-Distributed Test Teams[presentation]
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Are you employing your offshore test team to its best advantage—gaining the cost savings and test coverage you expected? Unless correct management methodologies are in place, you will lose rather than gain both time and money with internationally-distributed testers. If you are... |
Dennis Pikora, Symantec
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Your Team’s Not Agile If You’re Not Doing Agile Testing[presentation]
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Many organizations adopt agile software development processes, yet they do not adopt agile testing processes. Then they fall into the trap of having development sprints that are just a set of mini-waterfall cycles. Some software developers still feel they can work more quickly if they let... |
Jeanne Schmidt, Rural Sourcing, Inc.
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Leveraging Automated Testing to Improve Product Quality[magazine] Improving product quality is often a very difficult task for even the best software development organizations. Rajini says the additional benefits of automation include benchmarking, code scanning analysis, end-to-end test cases, and compatibility validation. |
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Introspection and the Postmortem[article] How you handle a postmortem depends on your leadership approach, the culture of your organization, and, of course, your own personal strengths. This article will consider how positive psychology can help you conduct more effective postmortems that lead to process improvements and more effective organizations. |
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Bringing Quality into DevOps [magazine] DevOps is represented by a set of principles and practices that help improve communication and collaboration between development and operations. Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs have put together a great introduction showing how quality assurance needs to commence at the very start of a DevOps project. |
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