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Modeling the Real World for Load Testing Requesting your Web site's home page one hundred times per minute is not going to give you a very accurate idea of how your Web site is actually going to perform in the real world. Explore the variables that you need to consider when designing a Web load or stress test, including user activities, graphics, security, user access speeds, and geographic locations.
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Steve Splaine, Splaine & Associates
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Managing User Acceptance Testing in Large Projects Managing user acceptance testing poses many challenges, especially in large-scale projects. Julie Tarwater explores the issues of planning, coordinating, and executing effective user testing with a large number of end users. Learn strategies for ensuring user acceptance while exploring the pros and cons of each. Discover ways to prioritize issues that arise from user testing.
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Julie Tarwater, T. Rowe Price Associates
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The Evolution of Testing Internet Products at Charles Schwab As one of the nation's largest financial services firms, Charles Schwab is under intense pressure to meet customer needs, handle high and extremely volatile volumes, and respond to competitive pressures. Hugh Westermeyer describes the processes and tools currently being used in the Electronic Brokerage organization and the history behind them. Learn why testing is not enough to meet this company's customer demands--and why testing, tools, and processes are all required for an Internet-driven business to succeed. Trace the evolution of a start-up organization as it goes from an unstructured one to a well-organized and predictable operation.
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Hugh Westermeyer, Charles Schwab
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From Traditional Software Testing to E-Testing This presentation takes a look at the real-world experiences of an "old salt" who spent eight months working as an e-commerce tester. Discover how this seasoned tester successfully infiltrated the domain of a new generation of developers and test engineers--and lived to tell about it! Gregory Pope explores the major differences between eBusiness testing and traditional testing of software applications, and identifies the processes that hold up well in the "do it right now" world. Discover what works--and what doesn't--as he contrasts traditional mission-critical methods and metrics with e-testing.
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Gregory Pope, TesCom USA
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Applying Structured Testing to a Start-Up How do you implement effective testing in the rapidly changing world of a start-up company developing a Web application? This presentation explores the issues and dynamics of testing a moving target within impossible deadlines, including methods and practices for building quality and structure despite the constraints. Learn how to evolve the development process and establish effective communication between the development and testing groups.
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Efi Goldfarb, TopTier
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Testing Rapidly Created Web Sites Learn of one company's key activities and experiences through an IPO effort to successfully launch a Web site targeted to be among the top ten Web sites in America. This presentation will discuss the methods, tools, and resource issues encountered in delivering this site--and make some recommendations for each. Discover how consistency was maintained through templates and fast-reviews, and explore the different methods used to measure the test progress.
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Ronald Beilinson, Concero
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STARWEST 2000: Data-Driven Automated Testing Using XML Test automation is an unavoidable entity for testing Web-based applications where reduced time-to-market is the name of the game. Data-driven test cases allow the test automation engineer to automate/develop once and run many times with different conditions to test the system. Learn why XML--the markup language for documents containing structured information--is the best way to present the test data for automated testing. Explore the advantages and disadvantages of XML-based test data.
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Rutesh Shah, Arsin Corporation
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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.
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Michael Rubin, Fidelity Investments
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Performance Testing E-Commerce Web Systems Performance testing of e-commerce Web systems is critical to the effectiveness of Web sites. Michael Hagen describes how Vanguard went through extensive load testing in preparation for the Y2K weekend. Discover how to develop performance requirements, set up a performance testing environment, and execute the actual testing. Gain invaluable insight into what makes a Web system--from browser to mainframe-perform or not perform.
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Michael Hagen, The Vanguard Group
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Automated Testing for Web-Based Applications As Web applications have proliferated, they also have grown in complexity. Automated testing for Web-based applications is in high demand due to limited resources and shorter time-to-market. Learn how automated testing tools have expanded their functionality and capability to support Web-based applications. Discover new ideas and techniques to apply to your Web-based applications testing.
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Yang Lu, Kent Ridge Digital Labs
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