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	Testing in the Dark: Improving Quality when You Don't Know the Product[presentation] Slideshow Stakeholders drop software on our desks and expect us to test it without any requirements, design, or product knowledge whatsoever. About the only clear thing is the absurd and unrealistic deadline. We are expected to bend over backward, spread magic pixie dust, and heroically test quality...	Rob Sabourin
	Test Management in Agile—What Happened to All My Testers?[presentation] Slideshow Substantial confusion exists about the roles and responsibilities of test management when using an agile software development process. Agile seeks to streamline project management and leadership under the role of a ScrumMaster, but what does this mean for test managers? How do they stay...	Jeffery Payne
	No More Shelfware—Let's Just Drive Test Automation[presentation] Slideshow When Isabel Evans learned to drive a car, she also learned how to check, clean, and change spark plugs, mend the fan belt with a stocking, and indicate speed and direction changes with arm and hand signals. Now, we don’t expect to have to do any of those things; we just drive the car...	Isabel Evans
	Testing at 43,000 Feet: Reporting Risk That Matters[presentation] Slideshow Testing dashboards can give stakeholders the false impression that projects are under control. But are they really? As a tester, you can see a counter indicating a high percentage of passing tests but know that you may still have critical failures in the product. Alexandre Bauduin will...	Alexandre Bauduin
	Improve Testing of AI Systems with "Grey-Box" Testing Technique[presentation] Slideshow There are two main challenges to testing systems that incorporate elements of artificial intelligence. First, the same input can trigger different responses as an AI system learns and adapts to new conditions, and second, it is difficult to understand what the correct response really should..	Yury Makedonov
	Strategies for Selecting the Right Open Source Framework for Cross-Browser Testing[presentation] Slideshow Organizations today are required to test their web application across browsers and mobile devices. Choosing the right framework is a matter of organizational as well as technical fit. With a plethora of test frameworks that span across practices such as behavior-driven development, unit...	Eran Kinsbruner
	Combatting Threats to Payment Processing in the Era of Connected Ecosystems[presentation] Slideshow In an increasingly connected world, protection from security vulnerabilities and threats is essential. Yet providing that protection can be complex to understand, especially with changes in digital technology, consumer demands, and how social media influences consumer shopping and payment...	Elizabeth Koumpan
	Ditch Your Bug-Tracking Tool: 3 Solid Tactics to Minimize Bug Counts[presentation] Slideshow A bug-free product release is an ideal that testers, developers, and project managers strive for, but when it comes to the go/no-go decision, the balance is often struck between "good" and "good enough," leaving behind a rotting to-do pile in the bug-tracking tool that is rarely acted upon...	Jerry Penner
	Use BDD and Product Analytics to Change Your Vision of Quality[presentation] Slideshow DevOps teams struggle to ensure quality in multiple daily deployments. Traditional testing approaches have often failed in this context, but there are exciting new ways to test. Laurent Py and Vincent Prêtre will explain how, at Hiptest, DevOps teams combine behavior-driven development...	Laurent Py
	Gaining Consciousness[presentation] Slideshow Testers make difficult decisions with minimal information in turbulent times on critical projects. Independent consultant, Fiona Charles, suggests that testers must learn to draw a line in the decision-making process between trained intuition and careless assumption. In this...	Fiona Charles
	Docker and the Path to a Better Staging Environment[presentation] Slideshow Staging environments are notoriously difficult to set up and maintain. Unless you have a top-notch DevOps team, staging environments are usually different from production environments, and consequently, they are fraught with problems—failing deployments, "out of disk space" errors...	Gil Tayar
	Telling a Better Story: Finding Quality in the Agile User Story[presentation] Slideshow When delivering agile software development projects and conducting quality assurance and testing assessments, it often seems that “solving the testing problem” doesn’t solve “the quality problem.” The testing problem is much broader than just code quality, testing tools, automation...	Stephan Marceau
	How AI Is Transforming Software Testing[presentation] Slideshow Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning concepts are rapidly being integrated into IT systems. Companies like Apple, Tesla, Google, Amazon, and Facebook have started investing more in AI to solve different technological problems in the areas of health care, autonomous cars...	Raj Subramanian
	Everything I Know about Automation I Learned from Saturday Morning Cartoons[presentation] Slideshow Do you remember sitting in front of the television as a kid, enjoying your favorite Saturday morning cartoons? Chris Loder shows you how the lessons we learned from those cartoons apply to our everyday work in test automation. Wait until you hear what we’ve learned from the likes of Scooby...	Chris Loder
	The Test Expert's Role in DevOps[presentation] Slideshow DevOps is a culture shift that emphasizes collaboration between software developers and other IT professionals while automating software delivery and infrastructure changes. It aims to establish an environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen more rapidly...	Mike Sowers

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