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Planning is the First Ingredient in the Test Recipe[presentation]

This presentation focuses on test planning activities at the beginning of a project.

Bruce Swahlan, Harris Information Systems
Event-Based Test Generation for Distributed Systems[presentation]

Examine how a fundamental test design approach can simplify both modeling and scripting. Such an approach allows test cases to be generated for testing of functionality, capacity, concurrency, and performance using various execution tools.

David Carman, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Stepwise Improvement of the Test Process[presentation]

This presentation deals with the Test Process Improvement (TPI) Model, which is based on current state-of-the-art test process improvement practices.

Martin Pol, IQUIP Informatica B.V.
Security Testing for E-Commerce Applications[presentation]

It seems that everyone is creating e-commerce applications these days with security being one of the greatest issues.

Jonathan Beskin, Reliable Software Technologies
A Model for Successful Software Testing Automation[presentation]

SAIC was tasked with automating the regression testing for a very large customer order processing system containing multiple screens with hundreds of interactive entries and options.

Greg Wust, SAIC
Automated Test Generation[presentation]

The challenge: Reduce the testing interval without reducing quality. One answer: Find a new way to approach test design and test generation. Learn about a new approach in automated test generation currently in use at Lucent Technologies.

James Clarke, Lucent Technologies
Teamwork Does Work![presentation]

USA Group's 7.8 MLOC (million lines of code) EAGLE II education loan system development project required a change in culture as well as a combination of unique methods to ensure a quality product.

James Putka, USA Group
Testing at a Web Start-up[presentation]

Learn how this Web application start-up company developed an innovative testing strategy that included automated testing of its rapidly changing Web application.

Brad Thompson, Commerce One
Life as a CMM Level 5 Test Organization[presentation]

Quality, timeliness, cost-effectiveness-for years, software professionals have believed you cannot have all three. Bellcore has proven otherwise as John Romanak demonstrates in this presentation on Bellcore's approach to software quality.

John Romanak, Telcordia Technolgies, Inc.
Generating Test Cases with Specification Description Language (SDL) and Message Sequence Charts (MSC)[presentation]

In this case study, observe how Nortel developed an entire testing environment to test switches that meet both the International Telecommunications Union standards and their customers' requests.

Ellie Cohen
Testing Undocumented Software Under Impossible Deadlines[presentation]

Years after Cem Kaner's book Testing Computer Software, it is still common to work on software projects with light documentation and very tight schedules.

Cem Kaner, Ph.D., J.D.
Testing is Not a Phase[presentation]

Are testing misconceptions causing you to fail?

Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing
Testing and Quality at FedEx: How to Add Value Throughout the Development Life Cycle[presentation]

When Glenn Daily was given the task of ensuring software quality for FedEx's revenue software development, he took a new approach. The time was right for a dramatic change in the way software was developed and tested.

Glenn Daily, Federal Express
Exploiting a Broken Design Process[presentation]

A major flaw in the way most code is designed allows you to break the code by exploiting the flaw. Learn how this "trick" can force software into a state from which it produces incorrect results.

James Whittaker, Florida Tech, Computer Science
Testing Huge Systems-- Issues and Solutions[presentation]

Testing very large scale computer systems involves more than simply finding defects. This presentation gives examples of "huge" systems and discusses the issues that make testing so difficult.

Howie Dow, Compaq Computer Corporation

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