The Complexities of Testing E-Commerce Applications: An Online Brokerage Example

The rapidly changing world of e-commerce applications poses a variety of challenges to software testing organizations. In this presentation, Michael Rubin uses examples from the world of online brokerage to highlight a number of issues facing testers of Web applications, including environment complexity, capacity and performance automation, time-to-market pressures, and staff retention. Over the past three years, the rapid growth of e-commerce has put these issues into the forefront for many testing organizations. Learn both effective strategies as well as lessons learned from a software test organization that has been testing Web applications since 1995.