Conference Presentations

STAREAST Testing Anyone Can Cook—Is the Same True for Test Automation?
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Manual testing is becoming less needed as more companies realize the time and money to be saved by automating testing. But let’s face it. Test automation is scary and still new to many QA organizations, many of whom are unclear about where to begin. Do you need a degree or significant...

Leo Laskin
STAREAST Testing Continuous Context Driven Test Improvement
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Classical test process improvement is often not today’s best solution. With virtualization, SOA, web, cloud, mobile, and integration with social media, the way we develop, test, and manage has drastically changed. Jeroen explores why Agile, context-driven testing, SCRUM, continuous...

Jeroen Mengerink
STAREAST Testing Adapting Test Teams to Organizational Power Structures
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Scapegoats, spin-doctors, white knights, and sycophants—have you found your test team playing these roles? Organizations, both large and small, often have distinct cultures and power structures with significant but insidious impact on how individual testers and teams are expected to operate.

John Hazel
STAREAST Testing Use Docker to Enhance Your Testing
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Wonder how you can make your testing more efficient? Join Glenn Buckholz as he explores Docker, a technology that allows rapid development and deployment via containers. First, he explains exactly what composes a container, and discusses the differences between a container and an image. 

Glenn Buckholz
STAREAST Testing The Future of Mobile Testing: Hybrid Code, Business Intelligence, and Device Farms
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All organizations doing mobile development have critical decisions in common—selecting which devices to support and how to test their products across the growing range of devices. With the segregation of device brands, organizations are forced to support at least three code bases...

Ardy Signey
STAREAST Testing Software Quality: A Cross-Organizational Competency
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Historically, testers have served as the last line of defense and have been tasked with identifying and driving software defect resolution before promoting code into a production environment. Kevin Dunne explains that in this model, testers have been responsible for testing the code...

Kevin Dunne
STAREAST Testing Improving Accuracy and Confidence in Workload Models
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The most critical component in capacity planning and performance engineering is the Workload Model, which defines the workflows, throughputs, and target performance your system must support at peak loads. As critical as it is, it can be difficult and particularly challenging to predict...

Gopal Brugalette and Safi Mohamed
STAREAST Testing AI and Machine Learning for Testers
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technology for software testers to understand today. All software will soon have AI-powered components, and they are unlike anything you’ve ever tested before. As risky as AI can be, it is a powerful weapon for testers to solve some of...

Jason Arbon
STAREAST Testing Oil & Water, Peanut Butter & Jelly, DevOps & Regulatory Compliance
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DevOps and regulatory compliance are two critically important ingredients in today’s connected organization. The first—DevOps—enables you to move quickly and respond to change in an era where change is increasing at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. The second—regulatory...

Brandon Carlson
STAREAST Testing Microservices Testing Strategies: The Good, the Bad, and the Reality
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Software development is trending toward building systems using small, autonomous, independently deployable services called microservices. Leveraging microservices makes it easier to add and modify system behavior with minimal or no service interruption. Because they facilitate releasing...

Tariq King

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