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Scaling Agile Thinking through Empowered Teams[magazine] Just because a software team adopts agility doesn’t mean they’ll see results. Being flexible has its benefits, but ensuring that the team is given total responsibility to make decisions may be more important. |
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The Next Big Thing: Testing AI and Machine Learning Applications[presentation]
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Our world is changing. Artificial intelligence is being employed in many walks of life—from virtual assistants and robots to self-driving cars. How does this new way of life impact software testing? |
Angie Jones
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Lightning Strikes the Keynotes[presentation]
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Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. |
Rob Sabourin
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What’s Our Job When the Machines Do Testing?[presentation]
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After its highly hyped introduction decades ago and followed by a long, quiet “winter,” artificial intelligence (AI) has slowly crept back into our consciousness. |
Geoff Meyer
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Testing Your Metal: Parallels between Testing and Heavy Metal Music[presentation]
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A self-proclaimed rock-a-holic, Paul Grizzaffi is greatly affected by music and quite the aficionado of heavy metal. Not only does he love music, he’s also an expert in testing and automation. |
Paul Grizzaffi
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The Secret Life of Testers: Where Your Time Really Goes[presentation]
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Testing is on the schedule. Your title is Tester. It is time to test. The team is waiting for you. Everybody thinks you spend your time testing. So, why does it seem that you spend so little time actually testing? Michael Bolton will show you a training and research tool to visually... |
Michael Bolton
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Implementing a Test Dashboard to Boost Quality[presentation]
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You are responsible for addressing quality problems that are plaguing your product and having an adverse impact on the business. Have you been challenged to provide a simple mechanism for quantifying and tracking key performance indicators selected by your organization. The ultimate goal... |
Scott Acker
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Flaky No More: Find the Right Framework for Your Selenium Tests[presentation]
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Selenium has an industry reputation of being a flaky tool where individual tests pass, then fail—sometimes with no production changes at all. Such flakiness in your test suites can be extremely difficult, time-consuming, and frustrating to debug. The vast majority of these issues come from... |
Craig Schwarzwald
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The Three Pillars Approach to an Agile Testing Strategy[presentation]
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Far too often, organizations focus solely on the development teams and their technical practices as their agile adoption strategy. And then there’s the near constant focus on acquiring development tools. Often the testing activity and the testing teams are left behind in agile adoption... |
Bob Galen
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Behavior Driven Development—A Guide to Agile Practices[presentation]
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It seems as if the agile methods have lots of DD’s going on. BDD – Behavior Driven Development, ATDD – Acceptance Test Driven Development and several others. Adopting BDD allows for testing to be done as early as possible in the software development life cycle, promoting accurate testing... |
Josh Eastman
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Story Time for Testers[presentation]
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Stories help us learn. They can be fun or scary, exciting or relaxing. People worldwide tell and listen to stories. We access them through books, film, TV, and computers. But direct, face-to-face storytelling is still a powerful experience. When Isabel Evans was young, there was a program... |
Isabel Evans
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Defining the Optimal Level of Test Automation[presentation]
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Test automation scripts are largely run against stable functionality with repeatable results. But automation does not have to be just about running reliable tests against a fixed code base to make them effective; rather, you can determine the right level of automation you need to meet your... |
Jim Trentadue
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Scale Your QA & Test: Testing with Multiple Teams in Large Agile Organizations[presentation]
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Agile practices are maturing, and more agile teams are making development and testing work in an effective way thanks to TDD, BDD, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. However, there are many challenges still to conquer in agile practices, such as the lack of accountability for... |
Pablo Garcia Munos
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Testing RESTful Web Services[presentation]
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A lot of folks doing testing (QAs, BAs, and Devs alike) are experienced with testing applications through the front end—a graphical user interface or a mobile app. However, Hilary Weaver-Robb says that with this type of testing we often miss the internal web services and APIs that power... |
Hilary Weaver-Robb
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Machine Learning: Will It Take Over Testing[presentation]
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Machine learning (ML), a branch of artificial intelligence, is gaining widespread adoption and interest on software development projects. Paul Merrill says that ML isn't typical programming. Algorithms can be changed and checked for accuracy at runtime to “learn” from data. |
Paul Merrill
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