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The Pathologies of Failed Test Automation Projects[presentation]
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Most test automation projects never die—they just become a mess and are redone. Initial solutions that start well and are full of promise often end up as brittle and unmaintainable monsters consuming more effort than they save. Political feuds can flourish as different automation solutions...

Michael Stahl, Intel
White-box Testing: When Quality Really Matters[presentation]
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Jamie Mitchell explores perhaps the most underused test technique in our arsenal—white-box testing. Also known as structural testing, white-box requires some programming expertise, access to the code, and an analysis tool. If you only employ black-box testing, you could easily ship...

Jamie Mitchell, Jamie Mitchell Consulting, Inc.
Keynote: Asking the Right Questions? What Journalism Can Teach Testers[presentation]
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As the testing discipline continues to evolve—and the demands on testers increase—we need to look for new paradigms to guide our work. Thomas McCoy believes the profession of journalism has much to offer in helping us ask the right kinds of questions, be heard, and deliver bad news...

Thomas McCoy, Australian Department of Families
Deadlines Approaching? Budgets Cut? How to Keep Your Sanity[presentation]
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Testing projects have a habit of dissolving into chaos—and even strife—as deadlines approach and budgets are cut. When asked to do the impossible, risk management and mitigation tools can be the only way for testers to survive. Geoff Horne presents a proven method he uses for...

Geoff Horne, NZTester Magazine
Better Unit Tests with ApprovalTests: An Open Source Library[presentation]
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When a unit test fails, we want clear, expressive, rich feedback so we can quickly understand the nature of the failure and get a good idea of how to fix it. Unit testing frameworks are fantastic at running tests and alerting us to any failure. Unfortunately, sometimes...

Woody Zuill, Hunter Industries
Mobile Testing Tools 101[presentation]
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The burgeoning use of mobile devices has created enormous opportunities for organizations to leverage mobile to increase sales, advertise products, and collaborate with internal and external resources. However, with increasing usage, the need to perform testing on these devices is...

David Dang, Zenergy Technologies, Inc.
Think Different: Visualization Tools for Testers[presentation]
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Traditional processes have required testers to create a large amount of documentation in the form of test plans, test cases, and test reports. It’s time to think differently. Creating test artifacts in the “old school” textual style takes too much time away from actual testing. 

Pascal Dufour, codecentric
There’s No Room for Emotions in Testing—Not![presentation]
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Software testing is a highly technical, logical, rational task. There's no place for squishy emotional stuff here—not among professional testers. Or is there? Because of commitment, risk, schedule, and money, emotions often do run high in software development and testing. Our ideas about...

Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
Innovations in Test Automation: It’s Not All about Regression[presentation]
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Although classic test automation, which usually focuses on regression testing, has its its place in testing, there is much more you can do to improve testing productivity and its value to the project and your organization. Through experience-based examples, video clips, and demonstrations...

John Fodeh, Cognizant
Keynote: The Mismeasure of Software: The Last Talk on Measurement You’ll Ever Need to Hear[presentation]
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Lee Copeland maintains that most organizations have some kind of metrics program—and almost all are ineffective. After explaining the concept of measurement, Lee describes two key reasons for these almost universal metrics program failures. The first major mistake people make is...

Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
Test Automation for Packaged Systems: Yes, You Can![presentation]
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Today, most businesses are heavily dependent on packaged systems, sometimes called commercial off-the-shelf software, for large parts of their operation. Highly-customizable packages such as BMC’s Remedy, Oracle's Maxim, and many others run the show at many of the world’s largest companies.

Chris Bushell, ThoughtWorks
Flintstones or Jetsons? Jump Start Your Virtual Test Lab[presentation]
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The power of virtualization has made it easy and inexpensive to create multiple environments for testing. How you implement your virtualization strategy can boost not only the savings on physical gear and availability of test environments but also your testing productivity. 

David Silk, Verisign, Inc.
T23 HTML5 Security Testing at Spotify[presentation]
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HTML5 is one of the hottest technologies around right now because HTML5 apps are beautiful, engaging, and can perform important and entertaining functions. With the wide range of devices and platforms to support, the promise of multi-platform support is appealing. 

Alexander Andelkovic, Spotify
Four Crucial Tips for Automated Web 2.0 Testing[presentation]
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The vast majority of problems found in web-based functional tests can be traced to a few common issues—dealing with dynamic page content, understanding the differences between explicit and implicit waits, choosing a proper element locator strategy, and understanding how to deal with...

Jim Holmes, Telerik
Unleash Service Virtualization: Reduce Testing Delays[presentation]
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The ability to rapidly release new product features is vital to the success of today’s businesses. To accelerate development, teams are adopting agile practices and leveraging service-oriented architectures to integrate legacy applications with other systems. At the same time, testing...

Allan Wagner, IBM Software—Rational

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