STARCANADA 2014 - Software Testing Conference

PRESENTATIONS

A Guide to Cross-Browser Functional Testing

The term “cross-browser functional testing” usually means some variation of automated or manual testing of a web-based application on different mobile or desktop browsers...

Malcolm Isaacs, HP

A Tester’s Guide to Collaborating with Product Owners

The role of the Product Owner in Scrum is only vaguely defined—owning the Product Backlog and representing the “customer.” In many organizations, Product Owners go it alone, trying...

Bob Galen, Velocity Partners

Agile Test Management and Reporting—Even in a Non-Agile Project

Whether you have dedicated test teams or testers distributed over Scrum teams, you have the challenge of planning, tracking, and reporting their testing not only in a meaningful way...

Paul Holland, Testing Thoughts

Are Your Test Reports a Death Sentence?

Good software testers often interact more with people than with software, especially when reporting on the results of testing. Yet our industry provides little training or guidance on...

Nancy Kelln, FGL Sports, Ltd.

Balancing Exploratory and Automated Testing in Agile

Transitioning to agile development isn't any easier for the test team than it is for the development team. New features and fixes appear daily, priorities change fluidly as customer...

Matthew Attaway, Perforce Software

Billion Dollar Bugs: When and How to Test a Spreadsheet

The world has become increasingly dependent on computer-based models to make informed decisions. These models may be financial or engineering based and often are built with spreadsheets...

Gregory Pope, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Building a Testing Center of Excellence: Experiences, Insights, and Failures

As organizations mature in their testing processes, the perennial quest to achieve ultimate excellence has led many to establish a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE). Many of these...

Krishna Iyer, Zen Test Labs and Mukesh Mulchandani, Zen Test Labs

CAN I USE THIS?—A Mnemonic for Usability Testing

Often, usability testing does not receive the attention it deserves. A common argument is that usability issues are merely “training issues” and can be dealt with through the product's...

David Greenlees, Innodev Pty Ltd

Continuous Performance Testing: The New Standard

In the past several years the software development lifecycle has changed significantly with high-speed software releases, shared application services, and platform virtualization...

Obbie Pet, Ticketmaster

Do You See What I See?

Managing a software project is challenging. Managers often need to deal with overwhelming amounts of data and detail but they must also be able to see the big picture at a glance...

Michael Bolton, DevelopSense

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