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Randall Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
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Have you been thrust into the role of test team leader or are
you in this role now and want to hone your leadership skills? Test team leadership
has many unique challenges, and many test team leaders—especially new ones—find
themselves ill-equipped to deal with the problems they face. The test team leader
must motivate and influence people while keeping the testing on track within time
and budget constraints. Randall Rice focuses on how you can grow as a leader, how
to influence your team and those around you, and how to influence those outside
your team. Learn how to become a person of influence, deal with interpersonal issues,
and influence your team in building their skills and value. Discover how to communicate
your value to management, how to stand firm when asked to compromise principles,
and how to learn from your successes and failures. Develop your own action plan
to become an influential test team leader.
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Randall Rice is a leading author,
speaker and consultant in the field of software testing and software quality. He
has worked with major organizations worldwide to improve the quality of their information
systems and optimize their testing processes. Randy has over 30 years experience
building and testing mission-critical projects in a variety of environments and
has authored over 25 training courses in software testing and software engineering.
He is publisher of The Software Quality Advisor newsletter and is co-author with
William E. Perry of the book, Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing.
Randy also serves on the board of directors of the American Software Testing Qualifications
Board (ASTQB). In 1990, Randy founded Rice Consulting Services, of which he is Principal
Consultant and Trainer. |
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Dale Perry, Software Quality Engineering |
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All too often testers are thrown into the quality assurance/testing
process without the knowledge and skills essential to perform the required tasks.
To be truly effective, you first must understand what testing is supposed to accomplish
and then understand how it relates to the bigger project management and application
development picture. After that, you can ask the right questions: What should be
tested? How can I design effective and efficient test cases? How much testing is
enough? How do I know when I’m finished? How much documentation do I need?
Dale Perry explores a testing lifecycle that parallels software development and
focuses on defect prevention and early error detection. As Dale shares the basics
for implementing a systematic, integrated approach to testing software, learn when,
what, and how to test—plus ways to improve the testability of your system.
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Dale Perry has more than 30 years
experience in information technology. He has been a programmer/analyst, database
administrator, project manager, development manager, tester, and test manager. Dale’s
project experience includes large systems development and conversions, distributed
systems, on-line applications, both client/server and web based. He has been a professional
instructor for over 15 years and has presented at numerous industry conferences
on development and testing. With Software Quality Engineering for eleven years,
Dale has specialized in training and consulting on testing, inspections and reviews,
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Paul Gerrard, Gerrard Consulting |
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Most Web site functionality is server-based and can be accessed
under the hood by sending HTTP packets directly to the server’s application
APIs. With this approach to test automation, changes in the GUI do not break tests,
allowing you to automate more, tests and increase your productivity, and improve
ROI. In this hands-on tutorial, Paul Gerrard discusses the four key elements that
are necessary to perform under the hood testing—a technical understanding
of how most Web applications work, ways to identify the tests that can be executed
without accessing the GUI, an easy-to-use automation tool, and a safe test environment
in which to experiment. Paul demonstrates under the hood testing with a fully functional
Web server and the free Web testing tool (Webdriver™) to provide an environment
within which you create and run tests. If you bring your Windows laptop computer
to class, you will be writing and running your own automated tests in less than
an hour. This tutorial is designed for testers needing insights into common Web
architectures; an understanding of HTML, CGI, HTTP, HTML forms and cookies; and
how to test ASP, .NET, Perl, PHP, and other Web sites without accessing the GUI.
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Paul Gerrard is the founder and
Principal of Gerrard Consulting, a services company focused on increasing the success
rate of IT projects. He has conducted assignments in all aspects of Software Testing
and Quality Assurance. Paul has degrees from the Universities of Oxford and London.
He founded the ISEB Tester Certificate Board, and is the host/organizer of the UK
Test Management Forum and Summit conferences. He is a regular speaker at conferences
in the UK, Europe and the USA and has won “Best Presentation” prizes
at the EuroSTAR and BCS SIGIST conferences. With Neil Thompson, Paul wrote Risk-Based
E-Business Testing—the standard text for risk-based testing. |
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Jonathan Kohl, Kohl Concepts Inc. |
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Exploratory testing is an approach to testing that emphasizes
the freedom and responsibility of the tester to continually optimize the value of
his work. It is the process of three mutually supportive activities performed in
parallel: learning, test design, and test execution. With skill and practice, exploratory
testers typically uncover an order of magnitude more problems than the same amount
of effort spent on procedurally scripted testing. All testers conduct exploratory
testing in one way or another, but few know how to do it systematically to obtain
the greatest benefits. Even fewer testers can articulate the process. Jonathan Kohl
describes specific heuristics and techniques of exploratory testing to help you
get the most from this highly productive approach. Jonathan focuses on the skills
and dynamics of exploratory testing itself, and how it can be combined with scripted
approaches. (For insight into how to manage and measure ET, attend Jonathan Bach's
tutorial on Session-Based Exploratory Testing.)
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for some of the exercises. A laptop is required for this
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Jonathan Kohl is
the founder and principal software testing consultant with Kohl Concepts Inc., based
in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A noted testing thinker, Jonathan is recognized as
a leader in the exploratory testing community. He is a popular author and speaker
who believes that testing is a challenging intellectual craft. Jonathan’s
blog on software development and testing issues is one of the most well-read testing
blogs in the industry. Jonathan is a regular contributor to Better Software magazine,
as an author and technical editor. |
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Martin Pol & Ruud Teunissen, POLTEQ IT Services BV
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What is the maturity of your testing process? How do you compare
to other organizations and to industry standards? Join Martin Pol and Ruud Teunissen
for an introduction to the Test Process Improvement (TPI®) model, an industry
standard for test process maturity assessment. Many organizations want to focus
on achieving the highest level of maturity without first creating the foundation
required for success. Improving your testing requires understanding twenty key test
process areas, recognizing your current position in each of these areas, and knowing
the next steps to take for improvement. Rather than guessing what to do next, use
the TPI® model as a guide. Employing real world TPI® assessments they have
performed in a variety of organizations, Martin and Ruud describe an assessment
approach that is suitable for both smaller, informal organizations and larger, formal
companies.
Each tutorial attendee will receive a copy of the reference
book, Test Process Improvement, by Tim Koomen and
Martin Pol.
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Martin Pol has played a significant
role in helping to raise the awareness and improve the performance of testing worldwide.
Martin provides international testing consulting services through POLTEQ IT Services
BV. He’s gained experience by managing testing processes and implementing
structured testing in many organizations in different branches. He was responsible
for the creation the testing standards TMap® and TPI®. These models have
become world standards. Martin received the first “European Testing Excellence
Award” for his contribution to the field of testing across Europe.
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Ruud Teunissen has performed several
test functions in a number of IT projects: tester, test specialist, test consultant,
and test manager. Ruud participated in the development of the structured testing
methodology TMap®—Test Management Approach. Together with Martin Pol and
Erik van Veenendaal, Ruud is co-author of several books on structured testing including
Software Testing: A Guide to the TMap® Approach.
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Dave McKinstry, Notion Solutions, Inc.
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Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System 2008 provides
a set of productive, integrated lifecycle tools that help test and development teams
communicate and collaborate more effectively. Gain a comprehensive knowledge of
the testing capabilities available to you with Visual Studio® Team System. Chris
Menegay helps you understand the challenges test teams face and how Visual Studio®
Team System 2008 can help. Learn how to create and execute functions including defect
reporting, defect tracking, and manual test execution, as well as Web, load, and
unit tests. Chris demonstrates how to use reporting features and create quality
reports to analyze the status of projects. Become familiar with Team Foundation
version control, where all tests are stored and historical changes are tracked.
The new testing tools coming in the Rosario release of Visual Studio® Team System
will also be covered in great detail so you can properly prepare for integrating
these tools into your software process.
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Dave McKinstry, is a Principal
Consultant and trainer with Notion Solutions, Inc. He has been leading clients in
.NET architecture and development projects since the initial beta release of Visual
Studio.NET. Since joining Notion Solutions in 2005, Dave has focused on assisting
clients with their adoption of Visual Studio Team System. With over 15 years in
the industry, Dave’s experience includes leading clients through .NET Architecture,
.NET application development, BizTalk Server solutions, SharePoint, SQL Reporting
Services and almost anything .NET related. He was one of the first individuals recognized
by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Team System and holds his
MCSD.NET and VB6 certifications. |
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Bob Hartman, NetObjectives |
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Adopting an agile development methodology changes many familiar
practices for both developers and testers. Join Bob Hartman to examine the challenges
many testers face as agile development practices move into the mainstream and into
their organizations. Teams new to agile or exploring agile practices have discovered
that the transition from traditional testing practices to the lean-agile “test
first” approach is a significant challenge for the development team and, in
particular, for test engineers. Learn how requirements practices and documents differ
from convention when the team is using agile development practices. Find out about
new workflows needed for test development and execution, and process changes for
tracking and repairing defects. Discover how faster release schedules can affect
testing and the entire team. Bob discusses transition strategies and solutions for
test and development teams by describing case studies—both successes and failures.
Learn from these experiences and apply their lessons to the challenges you may face
as you enter the land of agile development.
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Bob Hartman is Net Objectives'
Vice President of Business Development and Marketing who also does training and
coaching for the company. In addition to having Bachelor and Masters degrees in
Computer Science, Bob has over 30 years of experience developing software, including
7 years running his own consulting company and 14+ years of experience at the VP
of Development level or higher. Bob also has a unique talent in breaking software
within the first 10 minutes of using it. Bob has served in every role in the software
industry including developer, tester, documentation writer, trainer, manager and
executive. He is also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and does additional training
and coaching in the area of agile development. Bob teaches courses on Lean Agile
Testing, Implementing Scrum, and Lean Software Development among others. |
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Based on today’s Web services standards, SOA (Service
Oriented Architecture) has ushered in a new era of how applications are designed,
developed, tested, and deployed. The promise of SOA to increase development productivity
and application flexibility poses new challenges for testers—multiple Web
services standards and implementations, legacy applications (of questionable quality)
now exposed as Web services, weak or non-existent security controls, and services
of possibly diverse origins chained together to create applications. Join Mamoon
Yunus and Rizwan Mallal as they lead you through an intensive tutorial that includes
hands-on lab work. Roll up your sleeves and dive into the process of testing SOA
Web services. Beginning with the Four Pillars of SOA testing, you will learn new
concepts to master SOA testing challenges through techniques such as WSDL chaining,
schema mutation, and automated filtration. Learn how traditional techniques such
as black, gray, and white-box testing are applied to SOA testing to maximize test
coverage, minimize effort, and release better products.
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Mamoon Yunus is an advisor to Crosscheck Networks
and an industry honored CTO and visionary in Web Services-based technologies. As
the founder of Forum Systems, Mamoon pioneered Web Services Security Gateways &
Firewalls. He has spearheaded Forum's direction and strategy for six generations
of award winning Web Services Security products. Prior to Forum Systems, Mamoon
was a Global Systems Engineer for webMethods where he developed XML-based business
integration and architecture plans for Global 2000 companies.
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Rizwan Mallal is the Director of Technology at
Crosscheck Networks. A founding member and Chief Security Architect of Forum Systems,
Rizwan is responsible for all security related aspects of Forum’s technology.
Previously, Rizwan was the Chief Architect at Phobos where he was responsible for
developing the industry's first embedded SSL offloader. Before joining Phobos, he
was a member of the core engineering group at Raptor Systems which pioneered the
Firewall/VPN space in the mid 1990s.
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Rick Craig, Software Quality Engineering |
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To be most effective, test managers must develop and use metrics
to help direct the testing effort and make informed recommendations about the software’s
release readiness and associated risks. Because one important testing activity is
to “measure” the quality of the software, test managers must measure
the results of both the development and testing processes. Collecting, analyzing,
and using metrics is complicated because many developers and testers feel that the
metrics will be used “against them.” Rick Craig addresses common metrics:
measures of product quality, defect removal efficiency, defect density, defect arrival
rate, and testing status. Rick offers guidelines for developing a test measurement
program, rules of thumb for collecting data, and ways to avoid “metrics dysfunction.”
Various metrics paradigms, including Goal-Question-Metric, are addressed with a
discussion of the pros and cons of each. Attendees are urged to bring their metrics
problems and issues for use as discussion points.
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Rick Craig is recognized worldwide
as an expert test and evaluation instructor with Software Quality Engineering. He
has implemented and managed testing efforts on large-scale, traditional, and embedded
systems, and co-authored a study that benchmarked industry-wide processes. Rick
is co-author of the reference book Systematic Software Testing.
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Gerard Meszaros, ClearStream Consulting |
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The extensive use of automated testing has been a breakthrough
in improving the quality of software. By now, many companies have experimented with
automating functional tests and, perhaps, unit tests. Those that have had good experiences
rave about automation and cannot imagine having been successful without it. However,
for every success story, there are many untold stories of disappointment. What separates
the successes from the disappointments? In this class, Gerard Meszaros describes
common problems encountered when writing and running automated tests. He characterizes
the problems in the form of their visible symptoms, discusses their root causes,
and suggests possible solutions expressed in the form of patterns that have worked
for others. Many of these causes and patterns are equally applicable to unit tests
using xUnit, automated functional and acceptance tests using tools such as Watir,
and some even apply to record and playback test tools such as Mercury’s QuickTest.
Gerard illustrates these concepts with demonstrations and short, hands-on exercises..
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Gerard Meszaros is a Calgary,
Canada based consultant and trainer specializing is agile development processes.
He has more than 25 years experience building and testing software intensive systems
in both product development and IT environments with technologies ranging from Java
and .Net to Ruby and SAP’s ABAP. Gerard coaches cross-functional teams as
they learn how to better envision, specify, develop, and test software systems using
agile methods. He is frequent speaker at major international software conferences
and is the author of xUnit Test Patterns – Refactoring Test Code published
by Addison-Wesley Professional. |
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Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com |
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Designing test cases is a fundamental skill that all
testers should master. Rob Sabourin shares a graphical technique he has employed
to design powerful test cases that will surface important bugs quickly. These skills
can be used in exploratory, agile, or engineered contexts—anytime you are
having problems designing a test. Rob illustrates you can use how Mindmaps to visualize
test designs and better understand variables being tested, one-at-a-time and in
complex combinations with other variables. He presents Application-Input-Memory
(AIM) heuristic through a series of interactive exercises. We’ll use a widely
available free, open-source tool called FreeMind to help implement great test cases
and focus our testing on what matters to quickly isolate critical bugs. If you are
new to testing, these techniques will remove some of the mystery of good test case
design. If you’re a veteran tester, these techniques will sharpen your skills
and give you some new test design approaches.
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Robert Sabourin has
more than twenty-five years of management experience, leading teams of software
development professionals. A well respected member of the software engineering community,
Robert has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals
in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering,
SQA, testing, management, and internationalization. The author of I am a Bug!, the
popular software testing children’s book, Robert is an adjunct professor of
Software Engineering at McGill University. |
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Ed Weller, Integrated Productivity Solutions, LLC |
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Software inspections were first formally developed at
IBM in 1972. More than three decades later, inspections remain relevant, and more
importantly, they are feasible and will work in most environments. Ed Weller has
successfully initiated numerous inspection programs that have stood the test of
time. His experience provides the practical basis for this tutorial covering the
economics of inspections and how they can improve the bottom line; the roles within
the inspection process and why they are important to success; the steps in the process
and how to measure their effectiveness; measurements needed to evaluate success
and point out areas for improvement; the relationship of inspections to unit testing;
and the impact of the global workforce on inspections and tools necessary to adapt
inspections to multiple locations and time zones. Join Ed for this inspection process
overview and identify the six critical factors you need to consider when your organization
is thinking about or planning to implement inspections.
® CMMI is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon
University
SM SCAMPI is a service mark of Carnegie Mellon University
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Edward F. Weller has more than
forty years of experience in hardware, test, software, systems, and software process
engineering. His primary focus for the past fifteen years has been on software process
and metrics. He is the principal of Integrated Productivity Solutions, LLC, a consulting
company focused on improving quality and productivity. Ed is an SEI-Certified High
Maturity Lead Appraiser for SCAMPI SM V1.2 and instructor for the Introduction to
the CMMI®. Ed has given nearly forty presentations and tutorials at conferences.
Ed can be reached at ed.weller@integratedproductivitysolutions.com.
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Nathan Petschenik, STS Consulting |
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To achieve success in system testing—preventing significant
defects from reaching users—technical testing excellence is necessary but
it is not sufficient. Equally important are the skills to influence the entire project
team’s behavior to help prevent defects from reaching system test in the first
place. Nathan Petschenik focuses on providing participants with techniques that
system testers can use to drive process improvement activities that positively affect
the quality of the software that reaches system test. This highly interactive session
offers the opportunity to participate in a Role Awareness seminar that can help
you identify and break down barriers and impediments to software quality on your
project. Learn how system test teams can use measurements to help project team members—both
testers and developers—get better at their jobs. By nurturing front-loaded
quality—quality designed-in and built-in, not tested in later—system
testers can leverage their efforts and ensure a successful system test.
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Nathan Petschenik is Chief
Consultant for STS. His career in system testing leadership includes significant
experience as a software developer, software development manager, systems engineering
director, product manager, and project manager. He is an expert in Independent Verification
and Validation (IV&V) methodologies. Nathan authored a paper “Practical
Priorities in System Testing”, first published in IEEE Software, which is
considered a landmark in the transition of software testing from art to science.
His book System Testing with an Attitude has received excellent reviews. |
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Dion Johnson, DiJohn Innovative Consulting, Inc. |
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The martial arts are composed of various methods of combat that serve the purpose
of defeating an opponent or defending oneself from a threat. Automated test scripts
have an opponent, and that opponent is the application under test with all of its
complex dynamic behavior. To defend against this, it's time that we train our automated
scripts to be more dynamic via the techniques provided in the automation martial
arts known simply as "Taekwondo-mation". Taekwondo-mation comprises relatively
simple techniques that can be employed without the implementation of an overly complex
framework. These techniques address dynamic data entry, exception handling, and
dynamic application navigation—all of which can increase the coverage, maintainability,
scalability, and robustness of your automated tests. Using the Ruby scripting language
and Internet Explorer, this hands-on workshop helps you learn how to employ Taekwondo-mation
techniques on an HTML application. Scripting experience and/or knowledge of basic
programming control-flow statements and logic (if-then-else, for-next, etc.) is
required.
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Dion Johnson has over thirteen
years of experience in providing IT services to both government and private industry.
With a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, Dion has spent much
of his professional career as a consultant, tasked with handling all aspects of
the delivery of onsite customer services, particularly in the areas of quality assurance,
quality control, software process improvement, and requirements analysis. As a conference
speaker, Dion has delivered award winning and highly acclaimed presentations at
many of the most prestigious industry conferences, including STAREAST, STARWEST,
and the Better Software Conference & EXPO. He also writes for Better Software
magazine and StickyMinds.com. |
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Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com, Inc. |
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If you think you have already explored all of the important
boundaries as part of your testing, this dynamic, interactive presentation will
open your eyes to some often-missed edges and offer your great techniques to expose
and explore them. You’ll dive into the rich universe of boundaries related
to systems behavior, environments, system limits, design limitations, and even eccentric
user behaviors. Rob Sabourin helps you learn to reveal the final frontiers of your
software and look beyond the confines of common knowledge to see the aliens and
strange monsters lurking. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll participate in
a series of fun, interactive exercises and experience rich boundary examples from
Rob’s recent projects. Practice identifying and exercising the data conditions
that influences a systems behavior and understand how critical values lead to emergent
behaviors which can make or break software projects. In addition to practicing traditional
boundaries value analysis and equivalence partitioning techniques, you will learn
about exploratory testing, failure mode analysis, and several stress testing experiments
you can perform.
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Robert Sabourin has more
than twenty-five years of management experience, leading teams of software development
professionals. A well respected member of the software engineering community, Robert
has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the
field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA,
testing, management, and internationalization. The author of I am a Bug!, the popular
software testing children’s book, Robert is an adjunct professor of Software
Engineering at McGill University. |
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Isabel Evans, Testing Solutions Group |
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Are you dealing with test team members who don’t know
who their stakeholders are? Is communication with stakeholders difficult because
they don’t understand the test team’s role? Are you experiencing mistrust,
blame, and finger pointing? Effective communication can enable conflict resolution
and reduce delays and costs. Under Isabel Evans’ guidance you will work in
teams to resolve real problems. Learn techniques that provide practical solutions
to your conflict problems. Practice using open discussion to identify problems,
analyze them, and select suitable solutions. Apply new techniques to guide meetings,
aid listening and understanding, and resolve problems. Find ways to deal with blockers
to group discussion and consensus. Identify ways to present potential solutions
to provide a “Win-Win” for all parties. As a result, you’ll be
able to work with your teams to deliver solutions to their conflicts. Don’t
come expecting just to listen—come expecting to work in a team and learn by
doing!
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Isabel Evans is a Principal
Consultant at Testing Solutions Group. She has more than 20 years experience in
the IT industry, working in quality management, testing, training, and documentation
for organizations and projects of all sizes in the financial, communications, and
software sectors. She divides her time between software quality (consultancy, project
work, training, writing), and gardening. Isabel has spoken on software quality,
testing and test management at conferences in the UK, Europe and the USA. Her book,
Achieving Software Quality Through Teamwork was published by Artech in June 2004.
She is a Certified IT Professional and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. |
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Nathan Petschenik, STS Consulting |
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In this intense and interactive tutorial, Nathan Petschenik
focuses on the technical skills you need to be successful in system testing. Nathan
shares a practical methodology for determining the set of system tests you need
to cover your application effectively. Then, he describes the test design skills
you need to meet these coverage objectives—ensuring that expected result comparisons
are conclusive, making system tests repeatable, solving cycle acceleration problems,
testing transactions-in-progress, and leveraging existing tests to cover additional
data variations. As a framework for applying the technical system testing skills,
Nathan introduces you to proven techniques for driving quality up-front where it
belongs. See real-world examples of the techniques discussed and practice them in
hands-on exercises. Take back an approach for defining an architecture for your
system tests, new skills for designing the system tests in this architecture, and
an awareness of specific opportunities for system test teams to drive software process
improvements.
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Nathan Petschenik is Chief
Consultant for STS. His career in system testing leadership includes significant
experience as a software developer, software development manager, systems engineering
director, product manager, and project manager. He is an expert in Independent Verification
and Validation (IV&V) methodologies. Nathan authored a paper “Practical
Priorities in System Testing”, first published in IEEE Software, which is
considered a landmark in the transition of software testing from art to science.
His book System Testing with an Attitude has received excellent reviews. |
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Hans Buwalda, LogiGear |
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Keyword-driven test automation has now entered the mainstream
of test automation approaches. Although some hail it as “the final answer,”
many companies have been disappointed with their results. Keyword-driven testing
appears to be easy, and that perception may be a potential problem. Experience has
shown that numerous pitfalls do exist, and that an active and well-organized management
of this testing approach is essential for its success. When properly controlled,
keyword-driven automation projects can easily result in automation percentages of
95% or more with minimal effort, and with significant reusability and low maintenance.
Hans Buwalda introduces you to keyword-driven testing, defining the essential factors
that are needed to achieve success. His focus is managerial—how to organize
the process and the team to minimize risks. Hans shares insights he has gathered
in countless keyword projects in many industries all over the world.
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Hans Buwalda is an internationally
recognized expert in test development and testing technology management. He was
the first to create an integrated keyword-driven approach, which he named “testing
with action words”, now widely used throughout the testing industry. Originally
from The Netherlands, Hans now lives and works in California as CTO of LogiGear
Corporation, directing the development of what has been become the successful Action
Based Testing™ methodology for test automation, and its supporting TestArchitect™
toolset. Prior to joining LogiGear, Mr. Buwalda served as project director at CMG
(now Logica) in the Netherlands. He is coauthor of Integrated Test Design and Automation
and speaks frequently at international conferences. Hans holds a Master of Science
in Computer Science from the Free University in Amsterdam. |
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Dan Downing, Mentora Group |
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OpenSTA is growing in popularity as an open source alternative
for load testing. However, in the open-source world, the would-be performance tester
is confronted by the dual challenges of learning both tool and process without the
formal training support of commercial products. Dan Downing demystifies the fundamentals
of conducting effective load tests. He introduces you to the five steps of load
testing—discover, develop, run, fix, report—and provides templates for
you to apply to the key tasks in each step. Dan demonstrates OpenSTA on a real project—modeling
load; developing scripts; configuring, launching and monitoring tests; and analyzing
, interpreting, and reporting results. Learn about the workarounds he’s discovered
to overcome OpenSTA tool limitations, especially in results analysis, and how to
access community resources to support your learning. You’ll be energized by
Dan’s dynamic style and glean gems of insight from his years of successfully
applying OpenSTA in his performance consulting practice.
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Dan Downing is a co-founder
and VP of Testing Services at Mentora, an application testing and managed hosting
company. Dan is the author of the 5-Steps of Load Testing, which he taught at Mercury
Ed Centers, and of numerous presentations, white papers and articles on performance
testing. He teaches load testing and over the past ten years has led more than 100
performance projects on applications ranging from eCommerce to ERP and companies
ranging from startups to global enterprises. He is a regular presenter at STAR,
HP/Mercury, Software Test and Performance, and Workshop on Performance Testing (WOPR)
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Jon Bach, Quardev, Inc. |
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At testing conferences, many presentations mention techniques
and processes meant to help you find bugs, but few talk about what to do when you
find one. If it’s as simple as writing what you saw, how do you know that’s
the real problem? What do you do when you find a bug but the developer wants you
to give them more information? How do you reproduce those pesky, intermittent bugs
that come in from customers? Join Jon Bach in this hands-on tutorial to help you
practice investigation and analysis skills like questioning, conjecturing, branching,
and backtracking. If you’re telling stories about the bug that got away, this
tutorial gives you the opportunity to try some techniques that may trap it so you
can earn more credibility, respect, and autonomy from your stakeholders. Collaboration
is encouraged during the session, so bring your tool suggestions, tester’s
notebook, and scientific mindset.
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Jon Bach
is senior consultant and Manager for Corporate Intellect at Quardev, Inc., a Seattle
outsource test lab where he manages testing projects ranging from a few days to
several months using Rapid Testing techniques. In 2000, Jon and his brother James
invented Session-Based Test Management for managing and measuring exploratory testing.
In his thirteen years of testing, Jon has been a test contractor, full-time test
manager, and consultant for companies such as Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. He
has written articles for both Better Software
and Computer magazines. |
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