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	Quality-Driven Delivery in IT[presentation] Slideshow Compromising on quality and customer experience is not an option for IT organizations anymore. To remain relevant, IT organizations and their software development arms must re-imagine how they operate, amplifying their focus on quality while accelerating time to market. Join Doug Sanders...	Douglas Sanders
	How to Build a Fully Open Source Test Automation Framework[presentation] Slideshow Automated testing can be difficult, slow to implement, involve expensive and non-compatible software, and require a high level of technical expertise to use. Join Matt Joste as he presents Ryerson University's Automation Framework, put together using best-in-class open source software.	Matt Joste
	Dell’s Journey to Achieve TMMi Level 3 Certification[presentation] Slideshow The Testing Maturity Model Integration (TMMi) is a model of testing best practices that can help organizations determine whether their testing processes are complete and effective. As a complementary model to the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), TMMi addresses those issues...	Mark Keating
	IoT and Embedded Testing: A Roku Case Study[presentation] Slideshow With big hitters like Time Warner and HBO selectively testing Roku releases, testing these little boxes of joy is becoming more of a necessity in the IoT tester’s playbook. Join Rick Faulise as he shares the secrets of testing on a Roku device including how to get into the Roku interface...	Rick Faulise
	Mindmaps: Agile and Lightweight Documentation for Testing[presentation] Slideshow Quality starts with requirements. In small to mid-size companies, it is not uncommon for the communication chain to be broken. Florin Ursu shares ways to avoid miscommunication through a streamlined process in which requirements are communicated to both developers and testers...	Florin Ursu
	Accessibility Standards and Testing Techniques: Be Inclusive or Be Left Behind[presentation] Slideshow 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, Sandy Feldman, and Rob Harvie
	Combinatorial Black-Box Testing with Classification Trees[presentation] Slideshow A basic problem in software testing often is choosing a subset from the near infinite number of possible test cases. Consider the challenges of testing multiple browsers, multiple mobile devices, mobile applications, or use case paths. Testers must select test cases to design, create, and...	Peter M. Kruse
	Testers in Agile Teams—Isolation or Collaboration?[presentation] Slideshow What exactly are testers doing as organizations evolve from waterfall lifecycles to iterative, incremental agile approaches? Agile transitions, rather than fostering collaboration, often lead to isolation, role confusion, and fear. Many testers are left out in the cold. Agile testers face...	Rob Sabourin
	Performance Testing in Agile and DevOps Environments[presentation] Slideshow As organizations embrace agile and DevOps delivery models, non-functional performance testing becomes a challenge. While functional validation continues to mature in Agile, many organizations are either struggling to integrate application performance into the delivery model or are...	Syed Hossain
	Design for Testability in Practice[presentation] Slideshow With the drive for continuous integration and delivery, the implications and approaches for designing more testable software are receiving substantial discussion and debate. What does testability really mean in practice? How do you take the idea of testability—how easy it is to test...	Nir Szilagyi
	Objects vs. Images: Choosing the Right GUI Test Tool Architecture[presentation] Slideshow Most popular GUI test tools are based on an object recognition architecture. They recognize and manipulate screen objects by communicating with the underlying GUI subsystem. A new breed of tools has been introduced in the past few years that implements an image recognition architecture.	Chip Groder
	Addressing the Challenges of Mobile Test Automation[presentation] Slideshow As technology continues to disrupt every industry, mobile applications are increasingly becoming a primary way to interact with customers. Mobile application test automation tools and frameworks are far from being as mature as web test automation tools. The mobile test automation space...	Pradeep Macharla
	Sensible Test Automation[presentation] Slideshow Your boss has given you the directive to “automate everything.” So, what’s behind this? Is he expecting to reduce costs? Implement the latest silver-bullet tool that will save the company? Increase test coverage to avoid future embarrassment? How should you respond? Jerry Penner shows how...	Jerry Penner
	Test Metrics in Agile: A Powerful Tool to Demonstrate Value[presentation] Slideshow Most understand that an agile development and testing approach improves quality and reduces risks in our projects. In some companies and culture however, there are skeptics. Is the move to agile—and therefore agile testing—really beneficial? Join Iuliia Zavertailo for a closer look at a...	Iuliia Zavertailo
	Continuous Process Improvement Using Balance and Flow[magazine] Finding a balance between too much and too little process can be quite a challenge. Tom Wessel shows how to apply lean change management and kaizen principles to achieve continuous process improvement. Also, Tom suggests the use of simple metrics to verify that improvements are actually taking place.	Thomas Wessel October 21, 2016

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