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Put on a Gamer's Hat with Data Flow Testing[presentation]

Designing tests from the point-of-view of the data is like playing a first-person-shooter game. It's fun-and it can give you a deeper understanding of the application under test.

Mitch Goldman, Mitch Goldman (Self)
STAREAST 2006: Lightning Talks: A Potpourri of 5-Minute Presentations[presentation]

Lightning Talks are nine five-minute talks in a fifty-minute time period. Lightning Talks represent a much smaller investment of time than track speaking and offer the chance to try conference speaking without the heavy commitment.

Robert Sabourin, AmiBug.com Inc
Agile Software Development: What's in it for Testers?[presentation]

Agile software development methods change the ways teams work together to build software systems. Testers often are wary of what these changes will mean to them.

Alan Ridlehoover, Microsoft
STAREAST 2006: Branch Out Using Classification Trees for Test Case Design[presentation]

Classification trees are a structured, visual approach to identify and categorize equivalence partitions for test objects to document test requirements so that anyone can understand them and quickly build test cases.

Julie Gardiner, QST Consultants Ltd.
Tester Skills for Moving Your Automation to the Next Level[presentation]

Job interviews for test automation engineers are often limited to, "How proficient are you with the tool vendor XYZ's scripting language?" This approach does little to help the hiring manager choose those individuals who are or will become hi

Dion Johnson, DiJohn Innovative Consulting, Inc.
The Software Vulnerability Guide: Uncut and Uncensored[presentation]

Warning: This talk contains graphic examples of software failure . . . not suitable for the faint of heart. This "no holds barred" session arms testers with what they really need to know about finding serious security vulnerabilities.

Herbert Thompson, Security Innovation LLC
STAREAST 2006: Testing Dialogues - Management Issues[presentation]

As a test manager, are you struggling at work with a BIG test management issue or a personnel issue? If so, this session is for you.

Facilitated by Esther Derby and Johanna Rothman
Testing: The Big Picture[presentation]

If all testers put all their many skills in a pot, surely everyone would come away with something new to try out. Every tester can learn something from other testers. But can a tester learn something from a ski-instructor?

Brian Bryson, IBM Rational Software
Build Rules: A Management System for Complex Test Environments[presentation]

Due to the interaction of many software components, there is increased complexity in testing today's software solutions.

Steve Hagerott, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Logic Corporation
Progressive Performance Testing: Adapting to Changing Conditions[presentation]

An inflexible approach to performance testing is a prelude to disaster. "What you see at the start isn't always what you get in the end," says Jeff Jewell.

Jeff Jewell, ProtoTest LLC
Test Metrics in a CMMI Level 5 Organization[presentation]

As a CMMI® Level 5 company, Motorola Global Software Group is heavily involved in software verification and validation activities.

Shalini Aiyaroo, Motorola Malaysia Sdn. Bhd
STAREAST 2006: Apprenticeships: A Forgotten Concept in Testing[presentation]

The system of apprenticeship was first developed in the late Middle Ages. The uneducated and inexperienced were employed by a master craftsman in exchange for formal training in a particular craft.

Lloyd Roden, Grove Consultants
ISQTB Certification: Setting the Standard for Tester Professionalism[presentation]

Sandra Bourgeois has 25 years experience as an IT professional project manager, test manager, developer and QA lead. She is a Director and Project Manager at MassMutual

Rex Black, Rex Black Consulting
Using Production Failures to Jump Start Peformance Test Plans[presentation]

Learning from a production system failure is not a model MassMutual Financial Group would have chosen.

Sandra Bourgeois, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
S-Curves and the Zero Bug Bounce: Plotting the Way to Better Testing[presentation]

The use of objective test metrics is an important step toward improving your ability to effectively manage any test effort. With the two test metrics-the S-Curve and Zero Bug Bounce-you can easily track the progress of the test effort.

Shaun Bradshaw, Questcon Technologies, A Division of Howard Systems Intl.

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