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Overcoming Communication Hurdles for Large Testing[presentation]

Learn of the challenges one company faced in testing a new distribution center involving six new systems with multiple integration points.

Marcia Miller, Levi Strauss & Co.
Modeling the Real World for Load Testing[presentation]

Requesting your Web site's home page one hundred times per minute is not going to give you a very accurate idea of how your Web site is actually going to perform in the real world.

Steve Splaine, Splaine & Associates
Test Automation of Large System Testing[presentation]

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) traded over $10 trillion last year. Three years ago, NYSE established an initiative to improve the productivity and quality of software validation efforts.

Al Lowenstein, SIAC
Does Test Length Matter?[presentation]

According to popular testing folklore, long tests are more likely to find bugs than short ones.

Shmuel Ur, IBM Research
Managing User Acceptance Testing in Large Projects[presentation]

Managing user acceptance testing poses many challenges, especially in large-scale projects. Julie Tarwater explores the issues of planning, coordinating, and executing effective user testing with a large number of end users.

Julie Tarwater, T. Rowe Price Associates
Testing Database Integrity[presentation]

The saying "Data is a corporate asset" has become a cliche, but most organizations are still vitally dependent on data quality. This presentation addresses how to validate data integrity and check the robustness and controls of databases.

Ross Collard, Collard & Company
The Evolution of Testing Internet Products at Charles Schwab[presentation]

As one of the nation's largest financial services firms, Charles Schwab is under intense pressure to meet customer needs, handle high and extremely volatile volumes, and respond to competitive pressures.

Hugh Westermeyer, Charles Schwab
From Traditional Software Testing to E-Testing[presentation]

This presentation takes a look at the real-world experiences of an "old salt" who spent eight months working as an e-commerce tester.

Gregory Pope, TesCom USA
Applying Structured Testing to a Start-Up[presentation]

How do you implement effective testing in the rapidly changing world of a start-up company developing a Web application?

Efi Goldfarb, TopTier
Stress Testing Load on a Server[presentation]

Everyone is talking about the need to "load test" their servers--whether Web servers or proprietary server software--but how do the people who must load test these servers actually perform the testing?

Elisabeth Hendrickson, Aveo Inc.
What Can I Do When the Project is in Trouble: A Test Manager's Perspective[presentation]

Most projects don't get into trouble; they start in trouble.

Esther Derby, Esther Derby Associates, Inc.
Better Test Cases Through Improved Testability[presentation]

Software today is getting more and more complex. This complexity brings fresh challenges in testing the software user interface and its underlying functionality.

Kanwarpreet Singh Grewal, Cadence Design Systems
Implementing a Test Process[presentation]

If you want to implement a structured test process in your organization, TPI (Test Process Improvement) and TMM (Test Maturity Matrix) are useful tools in helping you set the right priorities.

Heiko Muller-Cajar, Tait Electronics Ltd.
Testing Rapidly Created Web Sites[presentation]

Learn of one company's key activities and experiences through an IPO effort to successfully launch a Web site targeted to be among the top ten Web sites in America.

Ronald Beilinson, Concero
Architectures of Test Automation[presentation]

Regression test automation is just one example of automated testing, and it is probably not the best one.

Cem Kaner, Florida Institute of Technology

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