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STARWEST 2001: Exploratory Testing in Pairs[presentation] Exploratory testing involves simultaneous activities-learning about the program and the risks associated with it, planning and conducting tests, troubleshooting, and reporting results. |
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Establishing Best Testing Practices in Your Organization[presentation] The path to best testing practices begins with communication. By building relationships with a product's key players-developers, analysts, and end users-your test team can achieve a higher level of both quality and customer satisfaction. |
Michelle Lynn Baldwin, Booz, Allen & Hamilton
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Testing for Software Security[presentation] Software can be correct without being secure. Therefore we must be vigilant in assessing the security implications of software behavior instead of being focused on the search for specification violations. |
Herbert Thompson and James Whittaker, Florida Institute of Technology
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Accessibility Testing for Users with Disabilities[presentation] Testers have taken a lead role in providing disabled persons access to computer resources. |
James Speer, VeriTest
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Ready to Automate?[presentation] Is your organization ready to benefit from automation? The decision to automate your test process can sometimes raise more questions than you expect. What tools do I need? Who should I hire? Do I need to outsource? |
Bret Pettichord, Pettichord Consulting LLC
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Test Progress Reporting Using Functional Readiness[presentation] Are you looking for a way to effectively set the expectations of senior management? |
Robyn Brilliant, Fannie Mae
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Space Shuttle GPCF: A Retrospective Look[presentation] This paper is based on a recent experience implementing and testing a large new software capability in a maintenance organization which had not dealt with a large change in some time. |
Alan Ogletree, United Space Alliance
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Delusions of Grandeur: Is Your Web Site Really Scalable?[presentation] This presentation relates a software test lab's real-world experiences performing load testing for scalability on three Web sites. |
Jim Hazen, SysTest Labs, LLC
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Enterprise Test Engine Suite Technology[presentation] Many companies invest heavily in test automation in order to verify the functionality of their complex |
James Schaefer, Capital One
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The Change Agent: Leveraging the Testing Role[presentation] How can you help change your corporate culture to appropriately regard the role of testing? In this presentation, David Capocci shows you how to position testing as a valued part of the project team. |
David Capocci, SAFECO Insurance
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Testing Middleware Communication Platforms: XML to the Rescue?[presentation] Middleware has held a significant place in software history since its advent in the 1990s. Today, middleware is being used more and more in the B2B arena. |
Nitish Rathi, Independent Consultant and Manish Rathi, Telcordia Technologies
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Challenging Conventional Wisdom[presentation] The earth is flat. Mankind will never fly. Reasonable people believed these “facts” for |
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The Best of the New Testing Techniques[presentation] In the testing profession, we live in a blizzard of new ideas, reminders about how to obtain value from old ideas, and other helpful advice. That's part of being involved in a vigorous, fast-evolving field. |
Ross Collard, Collard & Company
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Testing in the Extreme Programming World[presentation] Much attention has been given to the topic of lightweight development processes-especially eXtreme Programming (XP). |
Robert Martin, Object Mentor, Inc.
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A White Box Approach to Testing an eCommerce System[presentation] This presentation gives one team's experience installing and testing a multiserver eCommerce system that had storefronts that were to be created by the customer. |
Andrew O. Mellinger, Critical Path Software
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