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Deploy Automated Testing to Create Better Software[article] Receiving feedback on your testing results should yield dividends in quality. And the sooner you get that feedback, the quicker you can start seeing improved and consistent quality and faster time to market. So the question becomes, why wait to jump on the automated testing bandwagon? |
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I Don’t Want to Talk about Bugs: Let’s Change the Conversation[presentation]
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It’s time to change the conversation about testing and quality―from bugs and poor requirements to products and solutions. Instead, Janet Gregory says testers and managers working in agile organizations need to learn more about the business, the market, and the customers. With that... |
Janet Gregory
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The Agile Testing Survival Guide[presentation]
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As innovative businesses reduce their time-to-market and shorten release cycles, the need for continuous delivery methods becomes inevitable. Testers are constantly asked to rapidly and reliably deliver comprehensive test results in ever-decreasing or continuous cycles. Meanwhile, testing... |
Ingo Philipp, Tricentis
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Automate REST Services Testing with RestAssured[presentation]
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Many browser, UI, and Java-based tools and frameworks can help you test REST services. However, in the world of continuous integration and delivery, manual UI- or browser-based tools typically fall short in many aspects—from early test development to developer support. When using... |
Eing Ong, Intuit, Inc.
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The Survival Guide for Testers and Test Managers[presentation]
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As we face new technologies, methodologies, and approaches, the roles and responsibilities of testers are evolving. To stay current, the test professional’s skill set must increase. Due to agile, the strict separation of developer and tester roles is fading. Teams, rather than just testers... |
Bart Knaack
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Manage a Complex Test Effort with Lean and Kanban[presentation]
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“How absurd! She swallowed a bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.” The silly nursery rhyme teaches a serious lesson. Because software products are complex, we seek to manage... |
Mike Duskis, 10-4 Systems
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Lean Test Management: Reduce Waste in Planning, Automation, and Execution[presentation]
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Testing enterprise software requires effective resource management to prevent costly delays, budget overruns, and failed projects. In many software projects, more than 50 percent of development costs are attributed to software testing activities. With testing accounting for such a large... |
Tariq King, Ultimate Software
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Putting Quality First through Continuous Testing[presentation]
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Capital One has a highly integrated environment, which creates many dependencies for its agile teams. Because these dependencies are often not completed until late in their sprints, Capital One faced prolonged integration and regression testing phases, and did not realize the expected... |
Adam Auerbach, Capital One
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Project Management Tips to Improve Test Planning[presentation]
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When done right, testing is more than test plans, test scripts, and executing tests. In fact a test leader should consider testing a sub-project of the larger development project. By applying the same techniques project managers use to plan and manage the overall project, test leaders can... |
Ricki Henry, Clark County Nevada
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Leadership for Test Managers and Testers[presentation]
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Many organizations spend a great deal of time and effort acquiring and learning to use the latest techniques and technology, but they make little or no attempt to train or mentor their staff to be better leaders. It is true that technology is important, but test teams without able leaders... |
Rick Craig, TechWell Corp.
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Things That Really Matter in Testing—Today and Tomorrow[presentation]
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After a twenty-year career at Microsoft, Bj Rollison took some time to reflect on the software testing profession. Bj has seen many positive changes in our field through the years. Unfortunately, he also has seen too many of us still mired in trends and topics that make good fodder for... |
Bj Rollison
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Using Crowd Testing for a Game Engine[presentation]
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Testing a PC-based game poses interesting challenges. With different OS platforms and many different GPUs, the number of combinations to test grows quickly. The large number of hardware configurations used by the players of EVE Online makes it impossible to test them all. This can lead... |
Björgvin Reynisson, CCP Games
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Improve Testing with a Zone Defense[presentation]
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At one time or another, every tester hears the dreaded question, “Why didn’t you guys catch these bugs?” We all have some standard responses, and they are most likely true). But what can we learn about our testing when we look beyond the easy answers? Pamela Gillaspie proposes that the... |
Pamela Gillaspie, TestPlant
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Testing the Internet of Everything[presentation]
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Beyond the publicity and hype about the Internet of Things (IoT), a new term is emerging—the Internet of Everything (IoE). What are people talking about? Should you be interested? What does it mean to testers and development? Paul Gerrard shares his perspective on the scale, variety... |
Paul Gerrard
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Testing Applications—For the Cloud and in the Cloud[presentation]
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As organizations adopt a DevOps approach to software development, they work to shorten test cycles, begin testing earlier, and test continuously. However, one challenge still remains―the unavailability of complete and realistic production-like test environments. Technologies like service... |
Allan Wagner, IBM
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