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STAREAST 2018 Integration and Functional Testing Using Dockerized Dependencies[presentation]
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To emulate production-like conditions that cannot be tested on the unit level, many integration and functional tests need a realistic environment.

Irene Dhong
STAREAST 2018 Devices and Desires: How Do Humans Experience Software?[presentation]
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We consume and still we desire more—more devices, more apps, more data, more bandwidth, more connectivity. The more we have, the more we want. We assume that to be true—those of us who work in the software industry. But is that true?

Isabel Evans
STAREAST 2018 Not Your Parents’ Test Automation: Application of Non-Traditional Automation[presentation]
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Most software organizations have a test automation initiative—some just beginning and others humming right along.

Paul Grizzaffi
STAREAST 2018 Use Path Analysis in Test Design for Better, Faster Testing[presentation]
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No question about it … software is highly complex maze, and it could take many lifetimes to manually test all the paths in a typical business app. Automation doesn’t help much because it’s not smart enough (yet) to design tests.

Robert Sabourin
STAREAST 2018 Testing in a Microservices and Continuous Delivery Environment[presentation]
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The combination of microservice architectures and continuous delivery (CD) create a difficult scenario for integration and release testing.

Robert Williams
STAREAST 2018 Exploratory Testing: Learn to Do It like a Bloodhound[presentation]
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Let’s face it—dogs are born to sniff everything. Using their noses, they gather information from other dogs, people, and most everything.

Susan Zampino
STAREAST 2018 Balancing Tech Know-How with Social Skills[presentation]
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Even today, communication breakdowns are a primary cause of software project failures.

Marcia Buzzella
STAREAST 2018 Testing Digital Interfaces: Chatbots, Home Assistants, Touch ID, Facial Recognition, and More[presentation]
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It seems almost everyday we see a product announced with a clever, new digital interface—and the rush has only just begun.

Amir Rozenberg
STAREAST 2018 Leave Behind Us vs. Them: Transforming a Product Team[presentation]
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For most of his career in test/QA, Jason Wick found the prevailing sentiment to be us vs. them—testers vs. developers or the project team vs. the business.

Jason Wick
How to Test Serverless Cloud Applications[presentation]
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Cloud providers are now offering serverless technology, introducing significant changes to how applications are structured and, importantly, tested. The serverless cloud makes certain parts of testing serverless applications opaque.

Glenn Buckholz
STAREAST 2018 Test Management in Agile—What Happened to All My Testers?[presentation]
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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.

Jeffery Payne
STAREAST 2018 Machine Learning and Data Science for Quality and Performance Engineering[presentation]
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Managing the quality and performance of complex systems requires more than simply executing test cases and running load tests. You need to perform careful analysis of test results and production metrics.

Gopal Brugalette
STAREAST 2018 Selenium Hacks: Improving Your Skills[presentation]
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Although Selenium has become the open source standard for simulating user interactions with the browser, Andrew Krug likes to think of it as more than one tool in your toolbelt.

Andrew Krug
STAREAST 2018 The Four Cs and One T of Requirements “Testing”[presentation]
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Evgeny Tkachenko
STAREAST 2018 Building a Modern DevOps Enterprise Testing Organization [presentation]
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The DevOps movement is front and center across enterprises. Companies with mature systems are breaking down siloed IT departments and federating them into product development teams and departments.

Adam Auerbach

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