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	STAREAST 2015: When Testers Feel Left Out in the Cold[presentation] Slideshow When you're responsible for testing, it's almost a given that you will find yourself in a situation in which you feel alone and out in the cold. Management’s commitment for testing might be lacking, your colleagues in the project might be ignoring you, your team members might lack...	Hans Buwalda, LogiGear
	Testers and Testing: A Product Owner’s Perspective[presentation] Slideshow Testers frequently feel that they and their contributions to delivering software are undervalued. These feelings may stem from patterns of important defects being de-prioritized, receiving lower salaries than their peers who code, being assigned seemingly pointless tasks, or being expected...	Scott Barber, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
	Continuous Testing in the Cloud[presentation] Slideshow Are you looking to fulfill the promise of continuous delivery (CD), a process that accelerates the release of software through automation and the practice of continuous integration (CI)? Chris Broesamle can help with that. Explore how to create a full CD solution entirely in the cloud...	Chris Broesamle, Sauce Labs
	STAREAST 2015: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes[presentation] Slideshow Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period. Lightning Talks are the opportunity for speakers...	Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
	Mobile App Testing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly[presentation] Slideshow Mobile app testing has lots of good practices, some not so useful (bad) concepts, and some really ugly, don’t-ever-do ones. In the tradition of James Whittaker’s How to Break Software books, Jon Hagar applies the testing “attack” concept to mobile app software. Jon starts by defining the...	Jon Hagar, Independent Consultant
	Virtualization to Improve Speed and Increase Quality[presentation] Slideshow Many development and test organizations must work within the confines of compressed release cycles, various agile methodologies, and cloud and mobile environments for their business applications. So, how can test organizations keep up with the pace of development and increase the quality...	Clint Sprauve, HP, and Todd DeCapua, HP
	Common System and Software Testing Pitfalls[presentation] Slideshow In spite of many great testing “how-to” books, people involved with system and software testing—testers, requirements engineers, system/software architects, system and software engineers, technical leaders, managers, and customers—continue to make many different types of testing-related...	Donald Firesmith, Software Engineering Institute
	Metrics Program Implementation: Pitfalls and Successes[presentation] Slideshow When we talk about product quality, test team efficiency, and productivity, we always talk numbers. However, very few companies implement metrics programs in a way that supports solid decision making. Many have tried and failed, leaving a negative impression of metrics. Kris Kosyk explains...	Kris Kosyk, SoftServe
	What Do Defects Really Cost? Much More Than You Think[presentation] Slideshow As software increasingly becomes the face of the business, defects can lead to embarrassment, financial loss, and even business failure. Nevertheless, in response to today's demand for speed and “continuous everything,” the software delivery conveyer belt keeps moving faster and faster...	Wayne Ariola, Parasoft
	STAREAST 2015: Leveraging Open Source Automation: A Selenium WebDriver Example[presentation] Slideshow As online activities create more revenue, organizations are turning to Selenium to test their web applications and to reduce costs. Since Selenium is open source, there is no licensing fee. However, as with purchased tools, the same automation challenges remain, and users do not have...	David Dang, Zenergy Technologies
	Release Automation: Better Quality, Faster Deployment, Amazing ROI[presentation] Slideshow A great deal of confusion surrounds the concepts of release automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. Even some industry experts are confused about the differences. How these concepts work progressively to achieve high quality software...	Bryan Linder, tap\|QA
	Performance Testing in the Agile Lifecycle[presentation] Slideshow Traditional large scale end-of-cycle performance tests served enterprises well in the waterfall era. However, as organizations transition to agile development models, many find their tried and true approach to performance testing—and their performance testing resources—becoming somewhat...	Lee Barnes, Utopia
	An Automation Framework for Everyone [presentation] Slideshow Chris Loder shares how his team at Halogen Software has implemented Selenium in a framework that everyone in his company's R&D group can use. With an ever-increasing amount of manual regression testing, the team needed an easy-to-use automation framework. Chris presents an example of...	Chris Loder, Halogen Software
	Testing Blockbuster Games: Lessons for All Testers[presentation] Slideshow We can all learn valuable lessons from game development where, in addition to functional performance, overall experiential quality—user experience (UX)—is of critical importance. Blockbuster game development presents particular challenges with regard to scale, rapid iteration, and fuzzy...	Tulay Tetiker McNally, BioWare Electronic Arts and Alex Lucas, BioWare Electronic Arts
	Survival Guide: Taming the Data Quality Beast[presentation] Slideshow As companies scramble to adjust to the demands of an increasingly data-driven world, testers are told “go test data quality” without any guidance as to what that entails or how to go about it. The fact that the data is often a living, flowing ecosystem, rather than just a single object...	Shauna Ayers, Availity, and Catherine Cruz Agosto, Availity

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