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Test Improvement for Highly Reliable NYSE Trading Systems[presentation] With billions of dollars changing hands every day, financial trading systems demand extremely high accuracy and reliability. |
Steve Boycan, SIAC
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Web Testing Circus: An Expert-Led Search for Security Defects[presentation] Step right up! Come see the sights! Join in the fun! The circus is in town and admission is free with your STAREAST badge. |
Michael Andrews, Foundstone Professional Services
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Applying Use Case-Driven Testing in Agile Development[presentation] Use Cases provide a user-focused sequence of events that also can serve as a template for functional testing activity. |
Dean Leffingwell, Consultant
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STAREAST 2005: Planning for Successful Test Automation[presentation] You have the automation tool. You have the right technical skills. You have the application experts at your disposal. It’s time to jump in and start coding! Or is it? |
Steve Walters, Dell Computer Corporation
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Software Inspections for the Common Folk[presentation] Many have tried to implement software inspections in commercial development shops ... and failed. |
Ronald Yun, ADP
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Congratulations! You're the New Test Manager[presentation] When creating an entirely new QA organization, where do you start? |
Karl Shearer, Erie Insurance Group
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The QA/Testing Perspective on Software Security[presentation] Most everyone now realizes that we cannot solve security vulnerabilities with firewalls, virus scanners, and other tactics that build an electronic “moat” around systems. |
Julian Harty, Commercetest Limited
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Moving from Test-Last to Test-Driven Development[presentation] Has it ever happened to you? Due to an immovable delivery schedule, time for testing is squeezed and long hours are the norm at the end of a project. Well, let’s move the testing forward in the development process. |
Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software
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A Simple (and Revolutionary) Test Automation Dashboard[presentation] Even though most everyone recognizes that automation is a key element in improving test efficiency, many automation efforts unfortunately fall far short of achieving the desired results. |
Kelly Whitmill, IBM Corporation
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It's Too Darn Big: Test Techniques for Gigantic Systems[presentation] Structuring test designs and prioritizing your test effort for large and complex software systems are daunting tasks, ones that have beaten many, very good test engineers. |
Keith Stobie, Microsoft Corporation
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Blind Men Meet the Quality Elephant[presentation] For many organizations, software quality is an elephant found by blind men who think they can see. People hold different opinions about quality based on their work roles and interests. |
Isabel Evans, Testing Solutions Group Ltd
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The Imperative of Non-Functional System Testing[presentation] Ignore or downplay non-functional system testing at your peril. A thorough, well-executed nonfunctional test plan discovers software defects usually overlooked with functional testing. |
Julian Harty, Commercetest Limited
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Quality Interactions: Bulding Effective Working Relationships[presentation] As software professionals, we all care about quality. We focus our efforts on building quality into the code and testing to assess quality and find errors before our customers do. |
Esther Derby, Esther Derby Associates Inc
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Get a New Agile Attitude - Quality First[presentation] For decades quality assurance (QA) has been a back-end loaded process. Developers put the bugs in, and QA tests the bugs out. |
Robert Martin, Object Mentor
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Plans, Processes, and Practices for Successful Test Outsourcing[presentation] There are many reasons why outsourcing IT activities requires extra attention, especially when it concerns software testing. Examples of complete failures are common, and "backsourcing" is not uncommon today. |
Martin Pol, POLTEQ IT Services BV
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