The Latest
The Test Manager's Dashboard: Making It Accurate and Relevant[presentation] Gathering and presenting clear information about quality-both product and process-may be the most important part of the test manager's job. |
Lloyd Roden, Grove Consultants
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Multi-level Testing in Agile Development[presentation] Before they could begin automated testing, test teams used to wait on the sidelines for developers to produce a stable user interface. Not anymore. |
Roi Carmel, Hewlett-Packard
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Handling Failures in Automated Acceptance Tests[presentation] One of the aims of automated functional testing is to run many tests and discover multiple errors in one execution of the test suite. |
Alexandra Imrie, BREDEX GmbH
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End-to-End Testing-When the Middle Is Moving[presentation] State-of-the-art development technologies and methods have increased our ability to rapidly implement new systems to support continuously changing business needs. |
Ruud Teunissen, POLTEQ IT Services BV
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Developing a Testing Center of Excellence[presentation] In spite of well-established testing processes, many organizations still are struggling to achieve consistent, reliable testing results. Are testing deliverables completed incorrectly? Is your organization slow to react to change? |
Mona Lane, Aetna
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Variations on a Theme: Performance Testing and Functional Unit Testing[presentation] The right types of performance tests can reveal functionality problems that would not usually be detected during unit testing. |
Andre Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research
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A Customer-driven Approach to Software Metrics[presentation] In their drive to delight customers, organizations initiate testing and quality improvement programs and define metrics to measure their success. |
Wenje Lai, Cisco Systems
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Debunking Agile Testing Myths[presentation] What do the Agile Manifesto and various agile development lifecycle implementations really mean for the testing profession? Extremists say they mean “no testers”; others believe it’s just “business as usual” for testers. |
Geoff Horne, iSQA
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Futility-based Test Automation[presentation] Developers and other project stakeholders are paying increased attention to test automation because of its promise to speed development and reduce the costs of systems over their complete lifecycle. |
Clinton Sprauve, Borland (a Micro Focus company)
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Testing the System's Architecture[presentation] The architecture is a key foundation for developing and maintaining flexible, powerful, and sustainable products and systems. Experience has shown that deficiencies in the architecture cause too many project failures. |
Peter Zimmerer, Siemens AG
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Grassroots Quality: Changing the Organization One Person at a Time[presentation] Throughout its history, SAS has valued innovation and agility over formal processes. Attempts to impose corporate-wide policies have been viewed with suspicion and skepticism. |
Frank Lassiter, SAS Institute Inc
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Testing with Emotional Intelligence[presentation] Our profession can have an enormous emotional impact-on others as well as on us. We're constantly dealing with fragile egos, highly charged situations, and pressured people playing a high stakes game under conditions of massive uncertainty. |
Thomas McCoy, Department of FaHCSIA
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Testing Embedded Software Using an Error Taxonomy[presentation] Just like the rest of the software world, embedded software has defects. Today, embedded software is pervasive-built into automobiles, medical diagnostic devices, telephones, airplanes, spacecraft, and really almost everything. |
Jon Hagar, Consultant
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Requirements Based Testing on Agile Projects[presentation] If your agile project requires documented test case specifications and automated regression testing, this session is for you. |
Richard Bender, Bender RBT, Inc.
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Operational Testing: Walking a Mile in the User's Boots[presentation] Often, it is a long way from the system’s written requirements to what the end user really needs. |
Gitte Ottosen, Systematic Software Engineering
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