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	Blunders in Test Automation[presentation] Slideshow 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
	Machine Learning: Will It Take Over Testing?[presentation] Slideshow 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. Some companies...	Paul Merrill
	Globalization Testing for Cloud Products[presentation] Slideshow Every year, VMware has hundreds of releases for its virtualization products that cover data centers, networking, storage, cloud management, and digital workspace. Testing many different products while adapting to their development lifecycle introduces some special challenges for the...	Vincent Truong
	Elegant Dev and Test Processes for a More Civilized Age[presentation] Slideshow Software engineering as a discipline has come a long way. For some teams, months-long cycles of dev-test-build-release have shrunk down to mere days—or even hours. In the fastest, leanest organizations, most testing happens in parallel with development as part of a slick, continuous...	Melissa Benua
	What to Do—Develop Your Own Automation or Use Crowdsourced Testing?[presentation] Slideshow Modern software products tend to have a rich UI that supports many user workflows, all of which need to be covered in testing. Agile organizations quickly discover that manual end-to-end testing neither supports their velocity nor provides respectable regression coverage. A common...	Daria Mehra
	Story Time for Testers[presentation] Slideshow Stories help us learn. They can be fun or scary, exciting or relaxing. People worldwide tell and listen to stories, and we access them through books, film, TV, and IT. But the direct experience of face-to-face storytelling is still a powerful experience. When Isabel Evans was young, there...	Isabel Evans
	Manage Testing by Dependencies—Not Activities[presentation] Slideshow Traditionally, test management has focused on two areas—test planning and test execution. Test planning creates the test strategy and prepares test cases. Test execution focuses on who is responsible for and assigned to executing the respective test cases and logging defects. These views...	Jim Trentadue
	Where Did My Testers Go? Test Management on Agile Projects[presentation] Slideshow Substantial confusion exists about the roles and responsibilities of test managers in an agile software development process. Agile seeks to streamline project management and leadership under the role of a ScrumMaster. So, what does this mean for test managers? How do they stay...	Jeffery Payne
	Testing in the Year 2020: The Erosion of Governance, Management, and Excellence[presentation] Slideshow Competition is driving our business and IT partners to be ever more nimble. And Byron Glick and Jithesh Ramachandran say that the growing agility is eroding the old foundations of testing—test management, project governance, and centers of excellence. An organization pursuing lean startup...	Byron Glick
	A Shift in Mindset: From Finding Defects to Preventing Them[presentation] Slideshow Although most software companies have adopted agile development, many still treat quality assurance as something that gets handled when coding is finished and ready for test. However, practicing this reactive approach to quality costs teams in rework, context switching, slower code release...	Oscar Gracia and Geordie Speake
	Shift Left Testing: Going Beyond Agile[presentation] Slideshow The concept of “shifting testing left” in the software development lifecycle is not new. Shifting testing from manual to automated and then upstream into engineering is a driving factor in DevOps and agile software development. However, Michael Nauman wonders why test automation...	Michael Nauman
	The Pothole of Automating Too Much[presentation] Slideshow Is your company spending a lot of time and effort on an automation strategy while your customers believe that product quality has not improved? Does management see automation as a silver bullet that will save money, increase coverage, and reduce headcount? Do you work for a company...	Paul Holland
	Traditional Testing: The Silent Killer of DevOps[presentation] Slideshow Many organizations today are adopting DevOps to accelerate software delivery. However, once they have invested significant time and money optimizing most parts of the software delivery process, testing often holds them back from achieving the desired results. Why? Because software...	Wayne Ariola
	Leverage Big Data and Analytics for Testing[presentation] Slideshow 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...	Geoff Meyer
	A Three-Tier Load Testing Program Saved Our Bacon[presentation] Slideshow Ensuring a website will scale with excellent performance under peak levels of load is no easy task. Any number of problems can occur—from switch hardware failure to third party service outages, to a poor choice of algorithms or memory use in the code. Melissa Chawla describes Shutterfly's...	Melissa Chawla

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