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A Tester’s Guide to Collaborating with Product Owners[presentation]
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The role of the Product Owner in Scrum is only vaguely defined—owning the Product Backlog and representing the “customer.” In many organizations, Product Owners go it alone, trying...

Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
How Metrics Programs Can Destroy Your Soul[presentation]
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Testers are often evaluated by metrics that don’t really quantify the value of their work. Metrics such as tests planned, tests executed, coverage achieved, and defects reported all...

Scott Barber, SmartBear
Test Design Techniques in Exploratory Testing[presentation]
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Not all testers are lucky enough to get a good foundation for their testing—detailed requirements and system specifications. That, combined with the harsh reality of not having...

Gitte Ottosen, Sogeti Denmark
A Guide to Cross-Browser Functional Testing[presentation]
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The term “cross-browser functional testing” usually means some variation of automated or manual testing of a web-based application on different mobile or desktop browsers...

Malcolm Isaacs, HP
Test Automation for Mobile Applications: A Practical Guide[presentation]
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The world of information technology is undergoing revolutionary changes. Advancements in mobile computing, fueled by mobile applications, are playing an important role in driving these...

Kunal Chauhan, QA InfoTech
STARCANADA 2014: Become a Big Data Quality Hero[presentation]
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Many believe that regression testing an application with minimal data is sufficient. However, the data testing methodology becomes far more complex with big data applications. Testing...

Jason Rauen, LexisNexis
Test Managers: Stop Managing and Start Mastering[presentation]
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To be successful, test managers must keep pace with the constantly changing world of software development. The test manager’s job description—planning, supervising, and reporting the...

Silvio Moser, SwissQ Consulting
We’re Moving to Agile: What Are Our Testers Going to Do?[presentation]
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As more and more organizations transition to agile, many still do not understand how testing fits into agile teams. Does it simply mean placing a tester on every team? Or does...

Pradeepa Narayanaswamy , Centare
STARCANADA 2014: Test Automation Patterns[presentation]
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When implementing test automation, many people encounter problems: where to start with automation, high maintenance costs for the automated tests, or unrealistic management expectations...

Dorothy Graham, Independent Test Consultant
STARCANADA 2014: Creating a Better Testing Future: The World Is Changing and We Must Change With It[presentation]
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The IEEE 829 Test Documentation standard is thirty years old this year...

Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
Agile Test Management and Reporting—Even in a Non-Agile Project[presentation]
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Whether you have dedicated test teams or testers distributed over Scrum teams, you have the challenge of planning, tracking, and reporting their testing not only in a meaningful way...

Paul Holland, Testing Thoughts
Continuous Performance Testing: The New Standard[presentation]
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In the past several years the software development lifecycle has changed significantly with high-speed software releases, shared application services, and platform virtualization...

Obbie Pet, Ticketmaster
“It’s All About Me” (IAAM)—Or Maybe It Isn’t[presentation]
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What we really know about other people is their behavior, their words, and their body language. But we assume a great deal more about what's going on in their heads. We behave...

Steven “Doc” List, Santeon Group
STARCANADA 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
Getting Started with Open Source Testing Tools [presentation]
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In the not-too-distant past, the only viable options for testing complicated web-based applications were commercial (i.e., expensive) tools. These tools were well designed but...

Marcus Merrell, RetailMeNot, Inc.

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