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STARWEST 2008: Understanding Test Coverage[presentation]

Test coverage of application functionality is often poorly understood and always hard to measure. If they do it at all, many testers express coverage in terms of numbers, as a percentage or proportion-but a percentage of what?

Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
Great Test Teams Don't Just Happen[presentation]

Test teams are just groups of people who work on projects together. But how do great test teams become great? More importantly, how can you lead your team to greatness?

Jane Fraser, Electronic Arts
Fun with Regulated Testing[presentation]

Does your test process need to pass regulatory audits (FDA, SOX, ISO, etc.)? Do you find that an endless queue of documentation and maintenance is choking your ability to do actual testing? Is your team losing good testers due to boredom?

John McConda, Mobius Test Labs
STARWEST 2008: Five Things Every Tester Must Do[presentation]

Are you a frustrated tester or test manager? Are you questioning whether or not a career in testing is for you? Do you wonder why others in your organization seem unenthusiastic about quality?

Julie Gardiner, Grove Consultants
Adventures with Test Monkey's[presentation]

Most test automation focuses on regression testing-repeating the same sequence of tests to reveal unexpected behavior.

John Fodeh, Hewlett-Packard
Using Failure modes to Power up Your Testing[presentation]

When a tester uncovers a defect, it usually gets fixed. The tester validates the fix and may add the test to a regression test suite. Often, both the test and defect are then forgotten.

Dawn Haynes, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
The Myth of Risk Mangement[presentation]

Although test managers are tasked with helping manage project risks, risk management practices used on most software projects produce only an illusion of safety.

Pete McBreen, Software Craftsmanship Inc
Testing Microsoft Office: Experiences you Can Leverage to Drive Quality Upstream[presentation]

Have you experienced those weeks when the new features being added to builds just flat out don't work? Do you strive to have a testable build throughout the full product development cycle?

Tara Roth, Microsoft Corporation
Has the Time for the Adversarial Organization Passed?[presentation]

The concept of an independent test organization is considered a "best practice" by many experts in the industry. Is this degree of autonomy actually a good thing in the real world today?

Gerard Meszaros, Independent Consultant
STARWEST 2008: Branch Out Using Classification Trees[presentation]

Classification trees are a structured, visual approach to identify and categorize equivalence class partitions for test objects. They enable testers to create better test cases faster.

Julie Gardiner, Grove Consultants
Six Thinking Hats for Software Testers[presentation]

Our testing is only as good as our thinking—and all too often we are hampered by limiting ideas, poor communication, and pre-set roles and responsibilities.

Julian Harty, Google
STARWEST 2008: Telling Your Exploratory Story[presentation]

What do you say when your manager asks, "How did it go today?" As a test manager, you might say, "I'll check to see how many test cases the team executed today." As a tester with a pile of test cases on your desk, you could say, "I ran 40

Jon Bach, LexisNexis
Testing Lessons from Springfield-Home of the Simpsons[presentation]

Over the years, Rob Sabourin has discovered testing lessons in the Looney Tunes gang, the Great Detectives, and Dr. Seuss. Now he turns his attention to the Simpsons, a primetime cartoon television show entertaining audiences since 1989.

Robert Sabourin, AmiBug.com Inc
Agile 2008 - Jochen Krebs - Agile PMO, Agile Portfolio Managment, Scrum and More[article]
Podcast

Bob speaks with Jochen Krebs about his portfolio management book and scaling agile.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
A Word with the Wise: Configuration Management Tips from Steve Berczuk[article]

In this short interview with editor Joey McAllister, Steve Berczuk offers some tips to organizations dealing with configuration management (CM) issues.

Joey McAllister's picture Joey McAllister

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