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STARCANADA 2019 The Hidden Testers in Your Organization[presentation]
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The market demands that high-quality software is released at an increasing pace, yet resources remain fixed. How can organizations expand and improve testing under these conditions and help prevent costly and embarrassing bugs in production software?

Carrie Hughston
STARCANADA 2019 Providing Value as a Leader: More Than Just Being the Boss[presentation]
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Being a test manager is more than just being the boss. Sure, there is direction to set, issues to address, hiring, performance reviews, and status updates.

Jeff Abshoff
STARCANADA 2019 How to Ensure That Requirements Are Testable[presentation]
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Discover practical ways to plan and prepare for the work, to communicate with testers and analysts about what needs to be done, and to create requirements that are understandable to everyone.

Arnika Hryszko
STARCANADA 2019 Reality Driven Testing in Agile Projects[presentation]
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Many agile teams rework previously deployed stories, even after plenty of in-sprint testing. Well groomed, refined, stories framed with typical, alternate and error scenarios, gracefully described in well formed gherkin, continue to encounter all sorts of bugs.

Robert Sabourin
STARCANADA 2019 Testing in Production[presentation]
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 If something breaks in production, how will you know? Will you wait for a user to report it to you? What do you do when your staging test results do not reflect current production behavior? In order to test proactively as opposed to reactively, why not test in production?

Talia Nassi
STARCANADA 2019 Authoring an Accessibility Story[presentation]
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You'll learn character development techniques to build customer personas, strategies for plotting a "story" end to end, and tips for projecting potential obstacles.

Elizabeth Langston
STARCANADA 2019 3 Steps to QA Success from a VP of Quality Assurance[presentation]
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Are you a leader with a quality problem? Every organization struggles with quality at some point in their product lifecycle. Knowing what to measure and how to build a culture of quality with specific and actionable methods is key.

Karen Holliday
STARCANADA 2019 Testing as a Top-Notch Service[presentation]
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Noha Gomaa champions "testing as a service" to project teams, helping them implement testing in different lifecycle models for major infrastructure transformations and highly custom, product-specific projects. Noha will share how this service model can work in any organization.

Noha Gomaa
STARCANADA 2019 Testers: The Unsung Data Heroes[presentation]
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Data is the most valuable commodity in the world, and testers generate the most valuable data in the product development organization. When effectively tracked and presented, that data can inform release schedules, aid in decision-making, and shape the direction of the product.

Connor Dodge
STARCANADA 2019 Advanced Principles of API Testing | Part 2[presentation]
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Part 2: Come learn how to put together the advanced concepts of an API test in a framework that is scalable, robust, and easy to read and eliminates the brittleness in your checks.

Varuna Srivastava
STARCANADA 2019 Continuous Application Security Testing[presentation]
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Because of its specialized nature, many aspects of application security testing are often assigned to testers from another team or another company who may be brought in to perform a point-in-time assessment prior to a release.

Josh Gibbs
STARCANADA 2019 Document Generation for Regulated Industries[presentation]
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One of the lines in the Agile Manifesto is "Working software over comprehensive documentation." This doesn't mean that no documentation is produced, but instead that only documentation that brings value to the team and the customer should be created.

Jonathan Miller Kauffman
STARCANADA 2019 API Testing Is Critical—Here's How to Do It Right[presentation]
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You will learn how to use a variety of different tools and frameworks to simplify API testing, with practical samples testing real applications, plus hear some horror stories about when good APIs turn bad.

Adam Sandman
STARCANADA 2019 Enabling Enterprise Quality[presentation]
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Too often quality is identified as solely owned by the quality assurance team. By taking a broader approach to roles, tools, and ideology, you can restructure your vision of how to provide rapid, frequent releases that empower all delivery team members.

Mike Cullen
STARCANADA 2019 Performance Testing in a Containerized World[presentation]
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Containerizing applications introduces major changes to the way we run those applications. We can now share infrastructure and resources, but this introduces the need to control the way resources are used—from a sanity perspective first and a financial objective second.

Valentin Guerlesquin

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