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STAREAST 2014: An Ounce of Prevention...[presentation]
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We QA professionals know that the ideal is to build quality into a product rather than to test defects out of it. We know about the overhead associated with defects and how costs...

Kirk Lee, Infusionsoft
Designing for Testability: Differentiator in a Competitive Market[presentation]
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In today’s cost conscious marketplace, solution providers gain advantage over competitors when they deliver measurable benefits to customers and partners. Systems of even...

David Campbell, MITRE Corporation
STAREAST 2014: Using DevOps to Improve Software Quality in the Cloud[presentation]
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DevOps is gaining popularity as a way to quickly and successfully deploy new software. With all the emphasis on deployment, software quality can sometimes be overlooked. In order to...

Glenn Buckholz, Coveros
STAREAST 2014: Continuous Testing through Service Virtualization[presentation]
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The demand to accelerate software delivery and for teams to continuously test and release high quality software sooner has never been greater. However, whether your release strategy is...

Allan Wagner, IBM
Video: Principles Before Practices: Transform Your Testing by Understanding Key Concepts[presentation]
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It’s one thing to be exposed to new techniques from conferences and training courses, but it’s quite another thing to apply them in real life. A major reason is that people tend to...

Randy Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
Leaping over the Boundaries of Boundary Value Analysis[presentation]
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Many books, articles, classes, and conference presentations tout equivalence class partitioning and boundary value analysis as core testing techniques. Yet many discussions of these...

Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
Designing and Implementing Automation at a Large Financial Institution[presentation]
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Planning, designing, implementing, and tracking results for QA and test automation can be challenging. It is vital to ensure that any tools selected will work well with other...

Michael Sowers, SQE
The Three Pillars Approach to Your Agile Test Strategy[presentation]
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Far too often, agile transformations focus just on development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as adoption strategies unfold. Often the testing activity and the testing...

Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
Video: The Art of Testing Transformation: Blending Technology with Cutting-Edge Processes[presentation]
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Technologies, testing processes, and the role of the tester have evolved significantly over the past several years. As testing professionals, it is critical that we evaluate and evolve...

Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA, Inc.
Testing in the Wild: Practices for Testing Beyond the Lab[presentation]
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The stakes in the mobile app marketplace are very high, with thousands of apps vying for the limited space on users’ mobile devices. Organizations must ensure that their apps work as...

Matt Johnston, Applause
Accelerate Testing in Agile through a Shared Business Domain Language[presentation]
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In agile projects, when the cycle from ideas to production shortens from months to hours, each software development activity—including testing—is impacted. Reaching this level of...

Laurent Py, Smartesting
Top Practices for Successful Mobile Test Automation[presentation]
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Mobile apps bring a new set of challenges to testing—fast-paced development cycles with multiple releases per week, multiple app technologies and development platforms to support...

Fred Beringer, SOASTA
STAREAST 2014: Leveraging Open Source Automation: A Selenium WebDriver Example[presentation]
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As online activities create more revenue than ever, organizations are turning to Selenium both to test their web applications and to reduce costs. Since Selenium is open source, there...

David Dang, Zenergy Technologies
STAREAST 2014: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes[presentation]
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Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute...

Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
Patterns of Automation: Simplify Your Test Code[presentation]
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Many organizations are introducing test automation only to discover it is more difficult than they anticipated. The fact is that good test automation requires good coding practices...

Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, LeanDog

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