CM Crossroads Webcast Series Agile Testing Realities - Live Q&A on real-world Agile QA
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Broadcast Date: Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Speakers: “Agile Testing” is a term loaded with promise and freedom as well as fear and loathing – most of all, there is uncertainty simply because it’s new territory. Is the traditional tester a dinosaur now or can evolution prevail? What is the role of Automation with Agile practices? What tool paradigms will rule in Agile – novice-level record/replay or IDE-integrated developer-level automated powerhouses? What about geographically distributed teams? Management is downsizing and outsourcing while SCRUM masters preach – “collocated teams are the only way!” Perhaps there are more questions than answers, but some folks have been there and learned a bit along the way. Join this experienced panel of experts in a live Q&A session to uncover how textbook Agile QA practices have been successfully applied, and modified, in large, distributed development teams. Expert Practitioners, QA Managers, Consultants, and Industry peers will answer these and other pressing questions posed by the audience. About the Presenters:
Lisa Crispin, Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world. Lisa joined her first agile team in 2000, having enjoyed many years working as a programmer, analyst, tester, and QA director. Since 2003, she’s been a tester on a Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc. She frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences in North America and Europe. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. For more about Lisa’s work, visit her websites, lisa.crispin.home.att.net and lisacrispin.blogspot.com.
Elisabeth Hendrickson, Elisabeth Hendrickson founded her company as Quality Tree Consulting in 1997 to provide training and consulting in software quality and testing. She incorporated the company as Quality Tree Software, Inc. in 1998. Elisabeth began working in the software industry in 1984. She has held positions as a Tester, Programmer, Test Automation Manager, Quality Engineering Director, and Technical Writer working for companies ranging from a 20-person startup to a large multi-national software vendor. Elisabeth is an experienced facilitator and trainer. A student of Jerry Weinberg's, Elisabeth is a graduate of the Weinberg & Weinberg PSL, ChangeShop, and SEM programs. She also studied Experiential Training Design with Jerry and his wife Dani.
Elisabeth is frequently invited to speak at conferences around the world. She has given keynote addresses at conferences in the US, Sweden, Portugal, and Australia.
Tauseef Khan, Tauseef is a senior software quality executive at Borland Software Corporation with specialty expertise in the areas of Software Quality Assurance & Testing and has proven success in setting up, reorganizing, developing and leading software quality organizations from the ground up to higher maturity level. Mr. Khan has more than 18 years of Software Quality and Software Engineering Management experience both in startup and small to medium size corporations. Software testing & applications development experience range from embedded systems, BIOS, PCMCIA technology, wireless technology, cross-platform load balancing software to enterprise wide web based software solutions and real time eCRM (Electronic Customer Relationship Management) applications. Previously, Tauseef served in a senior leadership role at Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM, wireless leader and manufacturer of BlackBerry Smart Phones), where he was instrumental in laying the foundation for a centralized corporate usability organization to improve customer experience with Blackberry Handheld devices worldwide.
Tom Wissink,
In December 2005 Tom was awarded a LM Fellow position. In this role he provides I&T guidance, direction, support, assessments, and training across all of the LM Corporation. Tom is also a LM Engineering Process Improvement Test & Evaluation Subcouncil Co-Chair and is a LM Corporate member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) co-chairing the DT&E Committee within the SE Division. He has been a presenter at the Aerospace Testing Seminar and the NDIA SE Division Conference as well as a Keynote Speaker at STAREAST 2008. He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University.
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