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Keynote: Testing the Xbox: Lessons for All[presentation]
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Testing a game console isn’t all fun and games. However, with more than 50 million Xbox 360 consoles sold, and the amazing success of the Kinect sensor, it’s certainly a hotbed of excitement for software developers and testers alike. Veteran tester Alan Page is having a blast on the Xbox...

Alan Page, Microsoft
STARWEST 2013: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes[presentation]
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Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period. Lightning Talks are the opportunity for speakers...

Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
Keynote: Selling (and Buying) “Live Site Quality” at eBay[presentation]
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In the February Fortune magazine, eBay made the cover with the title “eBay is Back!” The article cited improvements in the look and feel of the site, strategic investments in fulfillment, and technology partnerships with retailers to establish it as more than just an online...

Jon Bach, eBay, Inc.
Agile to Distributed Development Applying Agile to Distributed Development: A Format for Success[article]

Alexey Krasnoriadtsev has been managing globally distributed projects for more than ten years, applying agile methods to improve process efficiency, increase team productivity, and deliver quality products to market faster. With teams split across the globe, he shares with us his approach he's adopted to overcome the communication, process, and quality assurance obstacles facing team members who are a date line and time zone away.

Alexey Krasnoriadtsev's picture Alexey Krasnoriadtsev
Do Your Demos Smell? Do Your Demos Smell?[article]

In the agile world, there is a concept of “smells,” or symptoms that things aren’t going well. Introduced by Kent Beck and expanded on by practitioners, smells now describe problems involving adoption, coaching, design, code, and teams. When we see these symptoms, we can identify opportunities to improve.

Terry Wiegmann's picture Terry Wiegmann
STARWEST 2013: Mobile Testing Trends and Innovations[presentation]
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As organizations implement their mobile strategy, testing teams must support new technologies while still maintaining existing systems. Melissa Tondi describes the major trends and innovations in mobile technology, usage, and equipment that you should consider when transitioning existing...

Melissa Tondi, ProtoTest
Test Automation Challenges in the Gaming Industry[presentation]
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Gaming is a multibillion-dollar industry, and good testing is critical to any game’s success. Game testing has traditionally been black-box through the client—a method clearly insufficient with increasingly more complex software incorporating 3D physics, thousands of linked and interacting...

Brett Roark, Blizzard Entertainment
Test Status Reporting: Focus Your Message for Executives[presentation]
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Test status reporting is a key factor in the success of test projects. Stephan Obbeck shares some ideas on how to communicate more than just a red-yellow-green status report to executive management and discusses how the right information can influence their decisions. 

Stephan Obbeck, KROLL Consulting AG
STARWEST 2013: Become a Big Data Quality Hero[presentation]
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Many believe that regression testing an application with minimal data is sufficient. With big data applications, the data testing methodology becomes far more complex. Testing can now be done within the data fabrication process as well as in the data delivery process. 

Jason Rauen, LexisNexis
It’s All Fun and Games: Using Play to Improve Tester Creativity[presentation]
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The number of software test tools keeps expanding, and individual tools are continuously becoming more advanced. However, there is no doubt that a tester’s most important—yet often neglected and underused—tool is the mind. As testers, we need to employ our intelligence, imagination, and...

Christin Wiedemann, Professional Quality Assurance Ltd.
Mobile Testing Success: Real World Strategies and Techniques[presentation]
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Today, consumers spend more time on mobile apps than on the web. With this increased demand and paradigm shift toward mobile devices, the role of the software tester is evolving and becoming more complex. Since mobile testing is a relatively new domain, software testers face the challenge...

Clint Sprauve, Hewlett-Packard
Automated Testing of a Dynamically Configurable System[presentation]

You provide your clients a service and product, designed so that each component is customizable and can be dynamically changed right down to screen layout and field location. This greatly increases the amount of testing you have to perform on a release since there could be more than...

Terry Morrish, Synacor
Build Your Personal Portfolio of Thinking Skills[presentation]

How do we improve ourselves as software testers? What are the thinking skills we should develop? How do we refine these skills? Observing is one of the essential skills for software testers. We need to detect changes and differences even when they are subtle. Visual imaging...

Karen N. Johnson, Software Test Management Inc.
Eliminating Software Defects with Jidoka—The Overlooked Pillar of Lean[presentation]

Many development organizations are experimenting—but getting mixed results—with lean development techniques. As a test or development manager, you have the power to help eliminate defects—the largest source of waste in development—and the enormous rework costs they incur.

Bill Curtis, CAST
Evaluating and Testing Web APIs[presentation]

Thanks to the massive adoption of cloud and mobile applications, web APIs are moving to center stage for many business and technology teams. As a direct result, the need to deliver a high-quality API experience is essential. When it comes to quality aspects of web APIs, there is more...

Ole Lensmar, SmartBear Software

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