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Get Your Poker Face On: How to Effectively Use Planning Poker to Slay Project Estimations[presentation]
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How long will that take? It’s a question we’ve all either asked or been asked, and it can be a challenge to answer accurately. How long will it take to get that feature out the door? How much time would you need to build this kind of software? |
Laura Janusek
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Simplify Continuous Operation Tests with a Periodic Reboot[article] Continuous operation tests find important bugs, partly as a result of their long operation and partly by increasing the probability of finding statistical bugs. However, CO tests have their own downsides. Mandating a periodic reset or reboot can work around these issues, as well as save time and cost for testing, reproduction, debugging, and fix verification. |
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Getting Restarted in Test Automation: A Conversation with Chris Loder[interview]
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Chris Loder, automation architect at InGenius, talks about being a self-taught automation developer, why learning new skills is so important, and the synergy between manual testers, automation testers, and developers. |
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Testing Challenges in Creating Wearable Technology: An Interview with Janna Loeffler[interview]
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In this interview, Janna Loeffler, senior manager of experience quality standards at Carnival Corporation, discusses new technology being implemented on Carnival Cruise Lines to facilitate payments and security. She details the testing challenges of implementing wearable devices. |
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You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello: Bridging the Gap Between Dev and Ops[presentation]
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Getting quality software into production quickly and efficiently is a major priority for organizations of all types. Yet many find that development teams’ focus on “innovation and experimentation” conflicts with Ops’ mandate to mitigate risk and increase predictability. |
Anders Wallgren
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Do We Still Need Testers? An Interview with Hans Buwalda[interview]
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In this interview, Hans Buwalda, the CTO at LogiGear, talks about whether you need developers in test, pure testers, or domain experts, based on what you are testing. He also talks about where you should spend your time and how many tests should be at what levels. |
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The Value of Attending a Live Virtual Conference: An Interview with Dawn Haynes[interview]
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In this interview, Dawn Haynes, CEO, testing coach, and consultant for PerfTestPlus, discusses the value of attending the live virtual conferences. She also talks about her upcoming book with the topic yoga for testers, about how you can apply yoga poses to your testing practices. |
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Performance Testing and Value Stream Analysis: An Interview with Adam Auerbach[interview]
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In this interview, Adam Auerbach, vice president and cohead of the DevTestSecOps practice at EPAM Systems, discusses the book The Kitty Hawk Venture, his experiences at STARWEST, and the topics of performance testing and value stream analysis. |
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Shifting Your Testing: When to Switch Gears[article] Shifting your testing either left or right can meet different needs and improve different aspects. How do you know whether to make a change? Let your test cycles be your guide. Just like when driving a car with a manual transmission, if the engine starts to whine or you’re afraid you’re about to stall out, switching gears may be just what you need. |
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When Testers Are Asked to Sign Off on a Product: An Interview with Michael Bolton[interview]
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In this interview, Michael Bolton, principal at DevelopSense, discusses the absurdity of project managers requiring testers to sign off on a product. Testers cannot assure the quality of the product, so Bolton makes suggestions for how to handle this request. |
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Building Quality into Your Release Pipeline[presentation]
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Decreasing the time to market has become critical for many organizations. |
Troy Walsh
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See the Forest, Not Just the Trees: Improving Quality and Flow in a Continuous Delivery World[presentation]
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There are many companies today implementing agile and DevOps practices, usually enabled by a microservices architecture. Most of them are focused on continuously delivering value to their customers within the boundary of a time-bound sprint. |
Ashwin Desai
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A Successful DevOps Initiative Starts with Knowing Your Numbers[presentation]
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IT organizations that don’t know their risk factors and exposure are likely to make investments in DevOps that don’t matter. After working with several teams that lost their DevOps funding after making automation investments in areas that were not business constraints, |
Anne Hungate
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Follow the Money: How to Talk to Executives about Agile[presentation]
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When agile transformations fail, many agilists blame their executives for not caring about or understanding agile. However, few people focus on the different languages that IT and business people speak, and the different outcomes that both sides desire. |
Steven Granese
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Getting to Continuous Testing[presentation]
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Max Saperstone tells the story of how a healthcare company striving to get to continuous releases built up their automation to secure confidence in regular releases. |
Max Saperstone
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