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	Open Source Test Automation: Riding the Second Wave[presentation] Video After the first wave of open source test automation tools like Fitnesse and Watir, we are now in a stronger, second wave led by Selenium-based frameworks. This powerful swell, fueled by a major shift toward web-based applications on desktops and mobile devices, is changing how corporations...	David Dang
	Ensuring Maximum Quality in the Era of IoT and Wearables[presentation] Slideshow Until recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) was just an idea that techies talked about. Unlike innovations in the past, development and testing of the IoT is significantly more elaborate. After introducing the technology of wearables and IoT, Gauri Arondekar delves into the components and...	Gauri Arondekar
	Defect Metrics for Organization and Project Health[presentation] Slideshow Are you looking for a simple, meaningful approach to gather and report defect metrics? Want to make your project defects more visible? Wondering how to report defects to management and show value? With an ever increasing demand to show the business value of your testing, David Bialek...	David Bialek
	Uncover Untold Stories in Your Data: A Deep Dive on Data Profiling[presentation] Slideshow How well do you know your data? Organizations are discovering the value in their data—as evidence of what they have done and a clue to how they can improve the bottom line. With the increase in analytics, it is no secret that there are more eyes on the data. And analyzing data can give...	Catherine Cruz Agosto
	Helpful Practices in Agile Testing[presentation] Slideshow “Testing” in an agile environment is much different from classic testing on waterfall projects. Testers must be involved in all aspects of software development. Jeroen Mengerink shows you how professional testers can become key contributors in agile projects. First, he explains how to pair...	Jeroen Mengerink
	Turbocharge Your Automation Framework to Shorten Regression Execution Time[presentation] Slideshow Asad Faruqui and Moni Mau say that their old regression automation used to take three-to-four days of execution time as they ran against different browser versions, locales, and currencies. They wanted to make the automation framework more efficient so features could go to market faster.	Asad Faruqui
	Git and GitHub for Testers[presentation] Slideshow GitHub is the repository for the vast majority of today’s open-source software. And that is why many interviewers look at applicants’ public GitHub.com accounts to assess their interests, popularity, helpfulness, and consistency. To collaborate with developers, today’s testers need git and...	Wilson Mar
	Telling Our Testing Stories[presentation] Slideshow As software practitioners focus on technology issues, we often find that our messages to management and the business are either not heard or are misinterpreted. And sometimes we do not hear the messages that they need us to hear. Isabel Evans examines our natural ability to tell stories...	Isabel Evans
	The Canary in the Coal Mine: Create an Early Warning Tool to Help Your Testing[presentation] Slideshow Many organizations are using virtualization technology to increase the number of available test machines. However, this increase creates a new dilemma for testers. How can you confirm that all test systems are running properly and not showing signs of serious defects? Since many companies...	Stephen Burlingame
	Boost Test Coverage with Automated Visual Testing[presentation] Slideshow Joe Colantonio shares how combining your existing automated tests with scalable automated visual testing can help you dramatically increase coverage, reduce maintenance, and substantially boost test robustness, efficiency, and ROI. Joe includes real-life use cases—automating cross-browser...	Joe Colantonio
	From Zero to Hero in 205 Days![presentation] Slideshow As test managers, we face challenging situations that require us to draw on our past experiences, principles, and good practices in order to have any chance at all for success. Michael Wasielczyk faced this challenge immediately after joining T. Rowe Price. He started his new job...	Michael Wasielczyk
	Use Combinatorial Testing for Mobile Device Fragmentation[presentation] Slideshow A common problem in mobile systems testing is the number of hardware, operational, and software configurations that need to be tested. For example, the so-called Android fragmentation problem might lead a test team to test hundreds of device and software configurations, yielding thousands...	Jon Hagar
	Finding Success with Test Process Improvement[presentation] Slideshow When you go on a road trip and want to plan your journey, you need to know where you are, where you want to go, and why you want to go there. You need the same things when you want to improve your test process. It doesn’t matter whether you are agile, waterfall, or part of a Test Center...	Gitte Ottosen
	The Evolution of a Software Tester: From Novice to Practitioner[presentation] Video Once upon a time, Dawn Haynes was a software tester. Now she’s most often found in the classroom, helping others tackle the same day-to-day challenges that she has encountered on projects for the past thirty years. Dawn now recognizes that, although she had great instincts about testing...	Dawn Haynes
	Fostering Long-Term Test Automation Success[presentation] Slideshow In today’s environment of plummeting software delivery cycle times, test automation becomes a more critical and strategic necessity. How can we possibly keep up with software delivery's explosive pace while retaining satisfactory test coverage? How do we keep the reins on costs...	Carl Nagle

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