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	Seven Fundamentals of a Successful Testing Team[presentation] Slideshow So you want to build an effective testing team and you’re asking yourself, “Where do I begin?” Greg Paskal, a quality assurance engineer with thirty years of testing experience, shares seven keys to building a successful testing team. Learn the fundamentals every tester should know and how...	Greg Paskal
	Oil & Water, Peanut Butter & Jelly, DevOps & Regulatory Compliance[presentation] Slideshow DevOps and regulatory compliance are two critically important ingredients in today’s connected organization. The first—DevOps—enables you to move quickly and respond to change in an era where change is increasing at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. The second—regulatory...	Brandon Carlson
	Use Layered Model-Based Requirements to Achieve Continuous Testing[presentation] Slideshow Requirements, test cases, and test data are still generally designed and created the same way they have been for the past thirty years—despite the evolution of testing techniques and tools. Requirements are still specified through written natural language, which leads to ambiguity and...	Alex Martins
	World-Class Test Automation: You Can Build It Too[presentation] Slideshow Join Chris Loder as he describes the test automation framework they have created from the ground up at Halogen Software. Chris shares the environment they have put together to run in virtual machines, physical hardware, and mobile devices—with Jenkins keeping track of it all. He explains...	Chris Loder
	The DevOps Challenge: Now Is the Time to Be a Champion of Quality[presentation] Slideshow Software failures continue to make news headlines daily. Yet all the industry hype we hear is about DevOps, a set of practices that seems to exclude quality and testers. Does quality matter? Will it become part of the equation? We must take notice of exclusionary movements and become...	Lisa Dronzek
	Infrastructure Testing: The Ultimate “Shift Left”[presentation] Slideshow Organizations worldwide are continually required to make significant investments in upgrading, re-engineering, and protecting their IT infrastructure. However, unlike application software development, many companies lack a structured quality assurance approach for infrastructure testing.	Carl Delmolino and Hitesh Patel
	Agile Testing at Scale[presentation] Slideshow Over the past twenty years, Mary Thorn has had the opportunity to work at many startups, creating several QA/test departments from scratch. For the past ten years, she has done this in agile software companies. Recently Mary moved from leading small agile test organizations to leading a...	Mary Thorn
	Test Automation at the Speed of Agile: Making It Work Every Build[presentation] Slideshow Join Danny McKeown, Paychex’s lead test enterprise automation architect, to see how a small tools group supports nearly one-hundred agile teams as they move toward achieving continuous delivery. Take part in the conversation to understand how Paychex is progressing in the third year of its...	Danny McKeown
	Pairing: The Secret Sauce of Agile Testing[presentation] Slideshow Finding time to learn test techniques, mentor other testers, grow application knowledge, and cross-train your team members is a daunting task with a complicated recipe. What if you could do these things while testing and finding bugs? Enter Pair Testing. What’s that? Well, maybe you’ve...	Jess Lancaster
	Owning Quality: The Culture of Empowerment at Riot Games[presentation] Slideshow At Riot Games, the League of Legends team faces the challenge of delivering content patches to a global audience on a tight timeline—every two weeks. By employing the tenets of the company’s core values (the Riot Manifesto), QA representatives work to ensure the highest possible quality...	Jane Jeffers
	Adapting Test Teams to Organizational Power Structures[presentation] Slideshow Scapegoats, spin-doctors, white knights, and sycophants—have you found your test team playing these roles? Organizations, both large and small, often have distinct cultures and power structures with significant but insidious impact on how individual testers and teams are expected to operate.	John Hazel
	Continuous Context Driven Test Improvement[presentation] Slideshow Classical test process improvement is often not today’s best solution. With virtualization, SOA, web, cloud, mobile, and integration with social media, the way we develop, test, and manage has drastically changed. Jeroen explores why Agile, context-driven testing, SCRUM, continuous...	Jeroen Mengerink
	Appium, Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration[presentation] Slideshow James Koch demonstrates how to apply test-driven development and continuous integration using Appium, an industry leading open-source automation tool. Appium was inspired by Selenium for web browser testing. Their philosophy—Why do anything different for mobile? Appium allows you to run...	James Koch
	Use Docker to Enhance Your Testing[presentation] Slideshow Wonder how you can make your testing more efficient? Join Glenn Buckholz as he explores Docker, a technology that allows rapid development and deployment via containers. First, he explains exactly what composes a container, and discusses the differences between a container and an image.	Glenn Buckholz
	Rediscover Exploratory Testing[presentation] Slideshow The testing community is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea when it comes to exploratory testing. Although exploratory testing has been around for ages, it often leads to more confusion than clarity. Is exploratory testing an activity—something that you do? Or is it an approach...	Ingo Philipp

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