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Mobile App Development: It's Harder Than You Think[presentation] You're thinking of creating a mobile application to take advantage of the sky-rocketing potential of mobile phones and other smart devices. Serious and critical choices must be made. Which platforms and technologies do you support? |
Julian Harty, ebay, Inc.
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Everything You Wanted to Know ABout Cloud Computing But Were Afraid to Ask[presentation] What is Cloud Computing? |
Anthony Voellm, Google, Inc.
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Coding for Keeps: How to Write a Function[presentation] Functions are the basic building blocks of computer systems. Object-oriented classes are a way of packaging functions with shared data. Inheritance and polymorphism essentially are all about finding the right function. |
Chuck Allison, Utah Valley University
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Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project's Future[presentation] What clues from a project's history and present status give us the best insight into its future? Realistically, can much be done to "fix" a project if the current signs aren't promising? Or are most projects' fate preordained? |
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group Inc
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Geography Matters: What Data Tells Us About Offshoring, Co-locating, and the Flat World[presentation] Has the digital revolution really made it possible to do almost anything collaboratively with people separated by time and distance? |
Michael Mah, QSM Associates, Inc.
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Deception and Estimating: How We Fool Ourselves[presentation] Cognitive scientists tell us that we are hardwired for deception-overly optimistic about outcomes. In fact, we surely wouldn't have survived without this trait. |
Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
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Cosmic Truths about Software Quality[presentation] Although everyone wants to build and use high quality products, software people often debate the meaning of "quality" and how to achieve it. |
Karl Wiegers, Process Impact
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Building Great Teams[presentation] What allows some teams to deliver results that far exceed expectations? How do these groups differ from most others? What can group members and leaders do to enable these extraordinary experiences? |
Geoff Bellman, GMB Associates, Ltd.
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Testing for Web Accessibility[presentation] Because 10% to 20% of the general population has disabilities that can impact their ability to use software, systems should be developed to accommodate their needs. |
David Leistner, National Archives and Records Administration
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RESTful Web Services Testing[presentation] RESTful web services are gaining popularity due to their features, scalability, ease of development, and the stateless nature of the REST architecture. |
Srichakrabindu Laxminarayan, Overstock.com
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The Right Stuff: Testers in the Agile World[presentation] Agile is a major paradigm shift for software development teams–and especially for testers. |
Vinod Malhotra, Microsoft Corporation
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The Miracle of Change: Transforming a Testing Organization[presentation] Change is the catalyst that sparks creativity and innovation–it's invigorating, inspiring, and synergistic. |
Audrey Garner, AmerisourceBergen Corporation - Lash Group
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Fuzzing and Fault Modeling for Product Evaluation[presentation] Test environments are often maintained under favorable conditions, providing a stable, reliable configuration for testing. |
Shmuel Gershon, Intel Corporation
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When Testing Becomes a Risk[presentation] We test software to prevent bad things from happening when the software is deployed into production. We assess the quality of the software and give well-founded advice on its readiness for release. |
Bart Knaack, Logica
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Better Than a Root Canal: Root Cause Analysis of Defects[presentation] The quality problems many companies face after releasing a new product can be as painful as a root canal. One way to avoid this pain is timely root cause analysis (RCA) during development. |
Jan Moll, Philips Healthcare - Magnetic Resonance Systems
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