Conference Presentations

STARWEST Testing The Pothole of Automating Too Much
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Is your company spending a lot of time and effort on an automation strategy while your customers believe that product quality has not improved? Does management see automation as a silver bullet that will save money, increase coverage, and reduce headcount? Do you work for a company...

Paul Holland
STARWEST Testing Blunders in Test Automation
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In chess, the word blunder means a very bad move by someone who should know better. Even though functional test automation has been around for a long time, people still make some very bad moves and serious blunders. The most common misconception in automation is thinking that manual...

Dorothy Graham
Agile DevOps Why You Shouldn’t Automate – And Why You Will Anyway
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Automation has been touted as a way to speed up release delivery, improve quality, and reduce testing costs. However, what if there is a different side to this story? Come hear an opposing view to automation—and why it may actually cost your organization time, resources, and even quality.

Kevin Pyles
Agile DevOps Scaling Automated Tests: Choosing an Appropriate Subset
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Automated testing of an application with many dependent services can be challenging. Achieving continuous deployment across these services can be even more so. Managing, coordinating, and scaling deployments of services can become overwhelming and error prone over time. 

Manoj Pahuja
Agile DevOps Include Automated Testing in Your Definition of Done
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Even though most teams appreciate the benefits of test automation, it is commonly viewed as too time-consuming to be included as part of an agile sprint. This results in automation being done in isolation, typically months after the user story has been completed. This can lead to several...

Angie Jones
STAREAST Testing Test Automation at the Speed of Agile: Making It Work Every Build
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Join Danny McKeown, Paychex’s lead test enterprise automation architect, to see how a small tools group supports nearly one-hundred agile teams as they move toward achieving continuous delivery. Take part in the conversation to understand how Paychex is progressing in the third year of its...

Danny McKeown
STAREAST Testing The Tester's Three C’s: Communication, Criticism, Confidence
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Whether you are in an independent testing team and need to communicate formally or in an agile context communicating face-to-face, it can be difficult to do your job well when you are telling people what they don’t want to hear. Dot Graham presents examples of different types and styles of...

Dorothy Graham
STAREAST Testing Infrastructure Testing: The Ultimate “Shift Left”
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Organizations worldwide are continually required to make significant investments in upgrading, re-engineering, and protecting their IT infrastructure. However, unlike application software development, many companies lack a structured quality assurance approach for infrastructure testing.

Carl Delmolino and Hitesh Patel
STAREAST Testing World-Class Test Automation: You Can Build It Too
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Join Chris Loder as he describes the test automation framework they have created from the ground up at Halogen Software. Chris shares the environment they have put together to run in virtual machines, physical hardware, and mobile devices—with Jenkins keeping track of it all. He explains...

Chris Loder
STAREAST Testing Continuous Testing of Cloud Applications
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With most organizations now using agile software development methodologies, the software development focus has changed to deliver faster releases—and this affects the way we test within the sprint. We largely develop applications using cloud and mobile technologies with short release cycles.

Ganesh Iyer

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