STARWEST 2016 - Software Testing Conference

PRESENTATIONS

The Four V’s of Big Data Testing: Variety, Volume, Velocity, and Veracity The expression “garbage, garbage out” emphasizes the need for thorough testing in any Big Data and analytics implementation. Big Data testing means ensuring the correctness and completeness of voluminous, often heterogeneous, data as it moves across different stages—ingestion, storage...	Jaya Bhagavathi Bhallamudi
The Journey to Continuous Testing Capital One’s highly integrated environment creates many interdependencies for its agile teams. Because these dependencies were not being completed until late in their sprints, Adam Auerbach says that Capital One faced prolonged integration and regression testing phases and did not realize...	Adam Auerbach
The Path to Test Leadership: A Road Less Traveled Are you interested in growing into a test leadership position? Or do you shy away from leadership because you think you’ll lose your technical, hands-on testing skills? Regardless of your experience level, technical programming knowledge, and company organizational structure, following...	Tariq King
The Role of Testers as Requirements Dealers Those of us in the business analyst role are encouraged to communicate with clients, while other roles in an organization may not have the same opportunity. However, talking to clients must not be limited to business analysts. Jyothi Rangaiah believes that testers need to talk to the...	Jyothi Rangaiah
The Tester’s Role: Balancing Technical Acumen and User Advocacy Ten years ago, many of us started our careers in testing, generally moving from a different internal role. It was common for people who were product users to be hired to jump start their technical career. Now, we see the growth of tester positions that require coding experience or a...	Melissa Tondi
Transform Your Cloud Validation Strategy from Cloudy to Clear Security, data privacy, reliability, and regulatory compliance are critical factors when evaluating whether to move business applications from in-house, client-hosted environments to a cloud platform. Quality assurance plays a vital role in ensuring that the appropriate level of risk...	Vandana Viswanathan
Virtually Speaking: Leading Distributed Test Teams As a newly promoted quality assurance manager, Willie Smith assumed responsibility for a large application that allows UPS customers to ship packages worldwide. His team was distributed worldwide and had varying levels of automation experience, application knowledge, and QA processes...	Willie Smith
What Time Is It Over There? Managing Your Global QA Team Cheaper … faster … smarter—words familiar to modern QA test team leaders everywhere. Although many organizations recognize that a globally-distributed QA model will achieve some of these objectives, it comes with obvious challenges. Lack of immediate communication, not knowing what the...	Elizabeth Wisdom

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