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	Testing RESTful Web Services[presentation] Slideshow 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
	User Experience Testing—with the Pilots at 18,000 Feet[presentation] Slideshow All testers have users with unique needs. Are these needs included in your requirements? Lisa denDekker-Redemann says that was not always the case at UPS. Were we testing the mobile systems that our crew members use like we should? Sometimes to get it right, we have to go out into the...	Lisa denDekker-Redemann
	Get Ready for Cloud Testing[presentation] Slideshow In the past few years, deployment of applications in the cloud has become an industry standard. Meher Nori believes that it is very important for QA/testing organizations to understand the impact the cloud may have on them and prepare accordingly. The impact primarily involves a change...	Meher Nori
	Move from Scripted Manual Testing to Scenario-Based Testing[presentation] Slideshow Think of manually executed test scripts—like pulling a wagon without wheels. Eventually the wagon will make it to the final destination, but the journey itself will be long and painful. Many people think test scripts are outdated because of the long, painful process of writing and running...	Andrea Fox
	Test Cases Are Dead, Long Live Checklists[presentation] Slideshow For testers, creating tests is critical for a healthy testing process, so it is painful to see how boring writing test cases can be. In classical approaches, test cases are overcrowded with words—mostly project information that everyone already knows. What test cases don’t have is...	Ömürden Cengiz
	Integrate Your Test Automation Tools for More Power[presentation] Slideshow Walk the Expo, and you will see all kinds of test automation tools. Some run scripts. Some communicate with the system under test. Some virtualize system components. Some do interesting things that you may never have considered. Yet, none gives you a complete recipe for testing your...	Mike Duskis
	Test Automation for Data-Centric Applications[presentation] Slideshow Test automation, one of several key technical enablement practices, allows teams to be more successful in their agile journeys. Although there are many test practices and automation tools available for software development teams to leverage, few data-centric testing tools are targeted to...	Cher Fox
	Say Goodbye to Flaky Selenium Tests[presentation] Slideshow 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 stem...	Craig Schwarzwald
	Testing Enterprise Software Rewrites[presentation] Slideshow Most enterprises have legacy code that needs to be rewritten to keep pace with industry standards, new technologies, and modern infrastructures. The primary purpose of an enterprise software rewrite is to ensure functional compatibility before retiring a legacy system. However, replacing...	Umang Nahata
	Service Virtualization: What, Who, When, and How[presentation] Slideshow Service virtualization provides many benefits for both development and test teams. For testers, service virtualization empowers them to work in parallel with their development counterparts and take control of their own schedules. They no longer have to wait for development to...	Kenneth Merkel
	Use Automation to Assist—Not Replace—Manual Testing[presentation] Slideshow Automation is a powerful tool to help testing but too often it is used to replicate existing manual tests. This leads organizations to spend large amounts of time and money constantly updating flaky automated tests and test teams to suffer frustration from having to focus on activities...	Jeffrey Martin
	Testing in the IoT Era[presentation] Slideshow The age of the Internet of Things (IoT) has come. IoT devices enable a new realm of services and applications—medical devices, fitness and fashion, appliances, industrial, etc. The market is expected to exceed $1.7 trillion by 2020 with more than 200 billion connected devices—and 90...	Amir Rozenberg
	The Lean Startup Method: Its Value for Testers[presentation] Slideshow A startup is an organization created to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Approximately 40 percent of all startups will cease operation with investors losing everything; 95 percent will fall short of their financial projections. And the number...	Lee Copeland
	Augmenting Regression Testing in Agile Teams[presentation] Slideshow Today, three things are undeniable facts of business—projects are becoming more agile, teams are learning to function well remotely, and the tester’s role is evolving. Mike Hrycyk believes that testers in agile teams face daunting challenges and often struggle to keep up with the pace of...	Mike Hrycyk
	Mobile Testing: Where to Start Your Journey[presentation] Slideshow Your company has decided to move into the 21st century and is developing a shiny new mobile app. But you don’t know where to start. How many devices do you need to test? Can you take existing tests and modify them? How do you account for conditions such as loss of connectivity, a virtual...	Bambi Rands

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