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Conference Presentations

STARCANADA 2014: Test Automation Patterns
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When implementing test automation, many people encounter problems: where to start with automation, high maintenance costs for the automated tests, or unrealistic management expectations...
Dorothy Graham, Independent Test Consultant
ADC-BSC EAST 2013 Keynote: Worse Is Better—For Better or for Worse
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More than two decades ago, Richard P. Gabriel proposed the idea that “Worse Is Better” to explain why some things that are designed to be pure and perfect are eclipsed by solutions that are compromised and imperfect. This is not simply an observation that things should be better but are...
Kevlin Henney, Independent Consultant
Make the Cloud Less Cloudy: A Perspective for Software Development Teams
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With so many technologies branded as “cloud” products, it can be difficult to distinguish good technology from good marketing. The resulting confusion complicates the work of software development teams who are trying not only to architect software effectively but also trying to accelerate...
Bill Wilder, Development Partners Software Corporation
A Mind-Blowing Exploration on How to Make Better Decisions
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Have you ever watched a medical drama with scenes featuring doctors making split second, life-or-death decisions? As software professional, there may be less at stake when it comes to your decisions, yet you often need to act under time pressure, limited information, and conditions of...
Iain McCowatt, Barclays
Test-Driven Development for Developers: Plain and Simple
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Test-driven development (TDD) is not an easy discipline to establish. However, it provides considerable return on investment for the effort. Rob Myers describes the costs of TDD (the introduction of test-maintenance overhead) and its benefits (greatly improved quality, productivity, and...
Rob Myers, Agile Institute
Transforming the Large Organization
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Transforming software development across geographic locations in a large company is difficult. But Nationwide Insurance found a way to successfully implement more than forty agile teams in multiple locations around the United States using their internal Application Development Center. 
Sara McClintock, Nationwide
Continuous Automated Regression Testing to the Rescue
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A major concern when developing new software features is that another part of the code will be affected in unexpected ways. With a typical development processes, testers often do not run a full set of product regression tests until late in the release when it is much more costly to fix...
Brenda Kise, Proto Labs Inc.
A Year of “Testing” the Cloud for Development and Test
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Jim Trentadue describes the first year his organization used the cloud for its non-production needs: development, testing, training, and production support. Jim begins by describing the components of a cloud environment and how it differs from a traditional physical server structure.
Jim Trentadue, New York Life
iOS Test Automation: The Trifecta

In this agile world, as the expectations for rapid mobile application development and delivery get shorter every day, the users’ patience with a buggy app has become almost nonexistent. Elizabeth Taylor shares how to reduce iOS application testing time and gain confidence in your...
Elizabeth Taylor, Digimarc
Eliminating Software Defects with Jidoka—The Overlooked Pillar of Lean

Many development organizations are experimenting—but getting mixed results—with lean development techniques. As a test or development manager, you have the power to help eliminate defects—the largest source of waste in development—and the enormous rework costs they incur.
Bill Curtis, CAST

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