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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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.
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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