Conference Presentations

Video: Principles Before Practices: Transform Your Testing by Understanding Key Concepts
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It’s one thing to be exposed to new techniques from conferences and training courses, but it’s quite another thing to apply them in real life. A major reason is that people tend to...

Randy Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
Patterns of Automation: Simplify Your Test Code
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Many organizations are introducing test automation only to discover it is more difficult than they anticipated. The fact is that good test automation requires good coding practices...

Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, LeanDog
The Three Pillars Approach to Your Agile Test Strategy
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Far too often, agile transformations focus just on development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as adoption strategies unfold. Often the testing activity and the testing...

Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
Bugfest!
Slideshow

Know any testers who have bugs opened more than a year ago and still sitting in their defect queue? More than two years ago? Three? The fact is that many software development efforts...

Shaun Bradshaw, Zenergy Technologies, Inc.
Twelve Tips for Becoming a More Professional Tester
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Many testers feel that their organizations do not treat them with the same level of  professionalism and respect that their development peers receive. Testers attribute this to the...

Joel Montvelisky, PractiTest
Designing for Testability: Differentiator in a Competitive Market
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In today’s cost conscious marketplace, solution providers gain advantage over competitors when they deliver measurable benefits to customers and partners. Systems of even...

David Campbell, MITRE Corporation
STAREAST 2014: Leveraging Open Source Automation: A Selenium WebDriver Example
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As online activities create more revenue than ever, organizations are turning to Selenium both to test their web applications and to reduce costs. Since Selenium is open source, there...

David Dang, Zenergy Technologies
Automated Analytics Testing with Open Source Tools
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Analytics are an increasingly important capability of any large web site or application. When a user selects an option or clicks a button, dozens—if not hundreds—of behavior-defining...

Marcus Merrell, RetailMeNot, Inc.
The Impact of Cognitive Biases on Test and Project Teams
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Teams are a fundamental part of the way we all work. Understanding the ins and outs of team decision making makes us better employees, better co-workers, and even better people. As...

Thomas Cagley, The David Consulting Group
Are Your Test Reports a Death Sentence?
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Good software testers often interact more with people than with software, especially when reporting on the results of testing. Yet our industry provides little training or guidance on...

Nancy Kelln, FGL Sports, Ltd.

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