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Agile Testing: What Would Deming Do?[presentation]

Through his quality practices, Edwards Deming transformed Japanese industry in the 1950s and later American industry, proving that building quality intrinsically into a product dramatically lowers costs.

Mark Strange, Wood Cliff Consulting
End-to-End Test Automation of ERP Software: A Case Study[presentation]

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages, which have become a mainstay in many businesses, increase in complexity with each release. Most testers are turning to automation to ease the burdens of testing these packages.

David Dang, Zenergy Technologies
The Dirty Secret of Formal Software Testing[presentation]

Arguably, James Bach has done some of the most rigorous testing that anyone has done in software testing-testing for court cases that are closely scrutinized by teams of lawyers.

James Bach, Satisfice, Inc.
Moving to the Next Level: From Tester to Visionary Manager[presentation]

Would you like to chart a better course for your test team but don’t know where to begin? Before you can plan for a better future and take your team to the next level, you first must know where you are.

George Viegas, Thomson Reuters
Surviving or Thriving: Top Ten Lessons for a Professional Tester[presentation]

As testers and test managers we often find ourselves struggling to survive within our organization-sometimes with the possibility of outsourcing or offshoring just around the corner.

Lloyd Roden, Lloyd Roden Consultancy
Simple and Informative Performance Tests You Can Do Now[presentation]

When most people think of performance testing, they think about the hard-or the very, very hard-parts, those expensive and complicated tools that simulate the activity of thousands of end-users while collecting tens or hundreds of thousands o

Scott Barber, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
STAREAST 2012: Session-based Exploratory Testing on Agile Projects[presentation]

One of the challenges associated with testing in agile projects is selecting test techniques that “fit” the dynamic nature of agile practices. How much functional and non-functional testing should you do?

Bob Galen, iContact Corp
Test Automation in a Mixed Software/Firmware Environment[presentation]

Test automation is an attractive choice for dealing with regression testing, high-volume repetitive testing, data-driven testing, and high risk software that needs its tests to be strictly repeatable.

Christopher Crapo, Boston Scientific
Security Testing: The Foundations and More[presentation]

Your organization is doing well with functional, usability, and performance testing. However, you know that software security is a key part of your assurance and compliance strategy for protecting applications and critical data.

Alan Crouch, Coveros, Inc.
Test Management for Cloud Applications[presentation]

The "cloud" can deliver services over the Internet in three flavors-software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Ruud Teunissen, Polteq Test Services B.V.
Software Testing in the Cloud: Issues and Opportunities[presentation]

Cloud computing offers virtualized hardware, unlimited storage, and built-in software services that can aid in reducing the execution time of large test suites.

Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology
STAREAST 2012: The Tester's Role in Agile Planning[presentation]

If testers sit passively through agile planning, important testing activities will be missed or glossed over. Testing late in the sprint becomes a bottleneck, quickly diminishing the advantages of agile development.

Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
Experience-driven Test Automation[presentation]

Is this presentation yet another "approach: to test automation? No, it isn't. Instead, Mark Fewster shares his and others’ experiences with test automation so you can capitalize on good ideas and avoid useless ones.

Mark Fewster, Grove Consultants
Test Scenarios for Data-centric Systems[presentation]

Analysis and testing for data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) projects typically confirm that data was correctly mapped and can be accessed as intended. Such work is absolutely necessary, though not sufficient.

Sue Burk, EBG Consulting
STAREAST 2012: Testing in the DevOps World of Continuous Delivery[presentation]

DevOps is an increasingly popular approach to ensure that the delivered code is stable, capable of working as advertised, and available in production immediately.

Manoj Narayanan, Cognizant Technology Solutions

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