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The Blurred Boundaries Between Dev, Test, and Ops[presentation]

It's like watching a chase scene in a major summer blockbuster movie. You're totally focused on the action when suddenly you realize the background is a blurry mess.

Ken Johnston, Microsoft Corporation
End-to-End Automation: Providing Stakeholders Feedback on Quality[presentation]
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Are you running automated tests during development yet not providing automated feedback to the project stakeholders? Vikas Bhupalam approached this problem by leveraging and integrating monitoring, logging, and defect tracking systems to provide automatic feedback to stakeholders.

Vikas Bhupalam, Intuit Inc.
Mathew Bissett Testing Early and Often: An Interview with Matthew Bissett[interview]

In this interview, Matthew Bissett, the test manager responsible for the integration and testing of his area's flagship system for Her Majesty's Government, shares his thoughts with us on the importance of early testing in order to rapidly speed up software releases.

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Testing Application Security: The Hacker Psyche Exposed[presentation]
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Computer hacking isn’t a new thing, but the threat is real and growing even today. It is always the attacker’s advantage and the defender’s dilemma. How do you keep your secrets safe and your data protected? In today’s ever-changing technology landscape, the fundamentals of producing...

Mike Benkovich, Imagine Technologies, Inc.
A Closer Look at API Testing: An Interview with Ole Lensmar[interview]
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TechWell's Noel Wurst got the chance to sit down with Ole Lensmar, Chief Architect at SmartBear. Ole discussed the differences between unit and API testing, the importance of choosing the best testing methods, and the benefits of reusing test assets.

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STARWEST 2012 Keynote: Leverage Your Test Automation ROI with Creative Solutions[presentation]
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Typical automated tests perform repetitive tasks quickly and accurately to lighten the burden of manual testing. These tests mimic typical interactions with the system, checking for pre-determined outcomes. However, with some creativity and a sound strategy, you can...

Doug Hoffman, Software Quality Methods LLC
Accelerating the Software Development Lifecycle Using Service Virtualization [presentation]
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Remove software and service dependencies enabling continuous integration and testing across the development lifecycle. Stand up test environments faster and at a lower cost accelerating development and test cycles. Balance quality and speed - deliver high quality software faster.

Peter Cole, IBM Rational
STARWEST 2012: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes[presentation]
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Lightning Talks have been a popular part of many STAR conferences. Lightning Talk session consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period and are an opportunity to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation.

Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
STARWEST 2012 Keynote: State-of-the-Art Cloud Testing: Experiences with Bing Search[presentation]
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The cloud is penetrating every technology organization and almost every software product or service. The cloud affects everything inside development, bringing profound changes to how engineers build, test, release, and maintain software and systems.

Ken Johnston, Microsoft
STARWEST 2012 Keynote: Tapping into Testing Mobile Applications[presentation]
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Look around you at all those people gazing into smart phones and tablets, tapping away, seemingly oblivious to what’s going on around them. Like it or not, mobile devices and the applications they host are now enmeshed in our everyday lives. 

Jonathan Kohl, Kohl Concepts Inc.
Testing Requirements in Motion[presentation]
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Regg Struyk of Polarion speaks on how to maximize collaboration with QR technology, integrating QR into your Daily Standup Meeting and how to execute Test Runs using QR Codes

Regg Struyk, Polarion
STARWEST 2012: Finding the Real Value in Load Testing[presentation]
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Understand the processes and tools needed to uncover the real value in load testing. Learn how to reduce the number of load testing cycles yet get more effective results out of the load testing exercise. Eliminate the finger pointing that often accompany the load testing process.

Duane Dorch, Compuware
STARWEST 2012 Keynote: Becoming a Kick-*** Test Manager[presentation]
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Want to be a great test manager for your team? A leader your company values highly? Too many test managers do what their organization asks—rather than what their organization needs—and hope for good things to happen. Great test managers are leaders who don’t accept the status quo.

Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group Inc.
Cloud enabled Mobile App Testing Automation [presentation]
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Challenges of mobile test automation. Approaches for implementing mobile app test automation. Cloud enabled mobile app test automation- A failure proof approach - Characteristics, Best practices and Benefits 

Impetus
Invest in a Testing Framework[presentation]
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HP Automated Testing Solutions. A modern application. Component based testing—why frameworks? Automation evolution. HP Automated functional testing solution. Orginzational Considerations. Resources. 

Heather Taylor, HP Software

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