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Architecting an Agile Test Transformation Program[presentation]
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Transitioning test automation efforts from traditional to agile approaches is challenging because it requires cultural, process, technology, and people changes to create a sustained mindset shift and drive desired outcomes. Join Klaudia Breslavets to learn how a complex organization scaled... |
Klaudia Breslavets
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Leverage Big Data and Analytics for Testing[presentation]
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Sabermetrics turned the baseball world upside down by challenging decades-old measures of individual performance and their perceived linkage to team success. After cementing their legacy as the Lovable Losers for 108 years, the Chicago Cubs were able to leverage a data-driven approach... |
Geoff Meyer
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Automating Performance Testing at Every Step[presentation]
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A major insurance company is building its next-generation claims system and has fifty new APIs to test in twelve months. The entire effort is launched as a first-time agile project with continuous integration. Will the load test, which worked so well with waterfall, serve us when we build... |
Obbie Pet
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Amp Up Your Testing by Harnessing Test Data[presentation]
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The data tsunami is coming—or maybe it’s already here. Data science, big data, and machine learning are the buzzwords of the day. Data is changing our products and the way we build them, so we should also change the way we verify our products. In a world of increasing connectivity and... |
Steve Rowe
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Blunders in Test Automation[presentation]
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In chess, the word blunder means a very bad move by someone who should know better. Even though functional test automation has been around for a long time, people still make some very bad moves and serious blunders. The most common misconception in automation is thinking that manual... |
Dorothy Graham
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Accessibility Standards and Testing Techniques: Be Inclusive or Be Left Behind[presentation]
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While Information and Communication Technology (ICT) accessibility for a wider spectrum of users—including the blind—and their interfaces is being required by law across more jurisdictions, testing for it remains limited, naïve, and too late. The consequences of staying ignorant include... |
David Best
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Transforming Your QA and Test Team[presentation]
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QA and test departments often are composed of employees with business backgrounds who have little training when it comes to software testing. Though they are engaged, these team members can get overwhelmed by the thousands of test cases they have to execute over and over... |
Sophie Benjamin
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A Journey from DevOps to DevTestOps: Infusing Continuous Quality[presentation]
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As companies realize the need for rapid application development, they are embracing DevOps methodologies. But implementing DevOps practices without establishing a culture of quality often results in lower quality software or a poor customer experience, which impacts the business bottom line. |
Gajan Pathmanathan
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Leading, Following, or Managing? You Can Help Your Group Thrive[presentation]
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As testers or test managers, being effective mentors, coaches, and leaders is critical to our team’s success. Quite often we also play important roles in driving change, influencing others, and helping individuals, teams, and the business move from where they are to a higher level of... |
Isabel Evans
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Jump Start Agile Testing with Acceptance Test Driven Development[presentation]
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Does your agile team struggle to find the right level of detail prior to beginning development? You may be suffering from “chunky” user stories—those that are too large or insufficiently defined to implement or test efficiently. Acceptance test driven development (ATDD) can help you... |
Susan Brockley
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Are Your Tests Well-Traveled? Thoughts on Test Coverage[presentation]
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There are many places to visit it the world and it can be interesting to see “where you’ve been”. There are many places in software for tests to visit, and seeing “where the tests have been” can be very interesting for testers. Dot Graham explains what coverage is, and why it can be... |
Dorothy Graham
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Bridging the Bimodal Divide between Waterfall and Agile[magazine] Most software developers are in either the agile or the waterfall camp. Agile is required to be competitive, but many enterprise processes still rely on waterfall practices for stability. They can coexist. |
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For Great Performance, Rethink Your Load Testing[article] The word concurrency is often used to define workload for load testing, as in concurrent users. Too often, it's the only input defined. In reality, there are a number of factors that contribute to workload and affect concurrency, and they all contribute to your load testing abilities—and, ultimately, the performance of your product. |
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The Secrets of High-Performance Software Teams[magazine] Of all issues that impact getting quality products out on time, the team should never focus on simply managing costs. To minimize the risk of perpetual product delivery delays, define what “done” really means. |
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Use Model-Based Testing to Navigate the Software Forest[presentation]
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Even seemingly simple software systems can be a dense forest of intersecting logical pathways which may leave you wondering if your testing was robust enough. Traditional test cases are flawed since they only execute the pathways the tester considered at the time the test case was written... |
Jon Fetrow
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