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STAREAST 2012
Industry Technical Presentations


Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 


Testing Center of Excellence - Maturity Levels 
Tim Kelso and Arindam Chatterjee, Wipro

• Components of the TCoE and Value Delivered to the organization
• TCoE Maturity Levels and Benefits Provided at each level
• Lessons Learned / Roadmap in Developing a Successful Testing Center of Excellence

  


 


SoLoMo Is Shaking Up the Testing Landscape: How QA Organziations Can Adapt, Keep Up & Thrive
uTest

• The collision of social, local and mobile media (a.k.a. SoLoMo) is disrupting the testing industry and impacting software engineering and testing organizations across the globe.
• With so much sensitive and critical data flowing to and from SoLoMo technologies, there’s immense pressure to ensure that apps are reliable, scalable, private and secure across a multitude of criteria including handsets, tablets, OS, browsers, carriers, languages and locations.
• Using real-world success stories from Google, Microsoft and others, uTest identifies how SoLoMo is transforming the software industry and discusses how “in-the-wild” testing helps overcome the challenges that SoLoMo apps present today.

 

 
 


Impetus 
Shirish Bhale, Director of Engineering
• On-premise vis-a-vis Cloud based testing
• Look at various cloud based performance testing models, advantages, and pitfalls in performance testing from Cloud
• SandStorm - cloud based performance testing solution

  
   
     
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. 


Software Testing Using Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 
Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager in Visual Studio Test & Lab Management, Microsoft

• Help simplify the entire development process, from design to deployment
• Bring a vision to life using powerful prototyping, modeling, and design tools
• Work more efficiently with integrated testing and debugging tools that enable delivery of high-quality solutions

  


 


Automation Frameworks: Lowering Activation Energy
Chris Meranda, Senior Field Engineer, Borland, a Micro Focus Company

• Define various approaches used within the software testing market to implement test autoamtion
• Identify key factors which impact successful test automation practices
• Present a leading-edge approach to collaborative test automation using a state-based automation framework

  


 


360° Web Load Testing
Duane Dorch

• Load Testing: Finding the needle in the haystack
• How to include Web Load Testing as part of your application delivery life cycle
• No more finger pointing: How to increase collaboration between teams and manage third parties

  


Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 


TOSCA OneView
Anastasios Kyriakopoulos, Tricentis

• End to end testing for 21st century business applications (multiple technologies)
• Rapid test automation for agile software development teams
• Test case design as the way to cost effective regression test sets
 

 

     


 


Learn About Mobile Testing on Real Devices, With All the Ease of a Browser-based Testing!
JC Ramsey, General Manager, KeynoteDeviceAnywhere

• Easily create scripts that operate across device models and OS versions
• Learn how to efficiently automate your tests
• Improve your ROI for your testing needs
 

 

     
 
 
Considerations in Selecting an Enterprise-Ready Mobile Testing Solution
Gideon Pridor, Perfecto Mobile

• ALM to mALM - changes in the mobile application lifecycle management and required adjustments
• Three key considerations for selecting an enterprise-ready solution for mobile application testing
• Live example - automating functional testing for a leading financial app across multiple mobile platforms
 

 

     

Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. 


Real World Needs, Real World Load Testing
Jim Holmes, Telerik

• Learn the difference between performance, load, tip-over, soak, and other types of commonly confused performance-related tests
• Discover the important confersations that have to happen at the outset of any performance-related effort
• Walk through fundamentals of a complete load testing cycle: setting up the environment, creating initial scripts, running your test, and understanding results
 

 

     


 


Overcome Mobile Testing Challenges
John Jeremiah, Senior Product Marketing Manager - Mobile Solutions & Performance Center, HP

• The importance of automated testing
• Mobile fuctional testing with Emulators or Real Devices
• Mobile performance testing and factoring in network conditions
 

 

     
 


Best Practices in Mobile Testing
Pradeep Govindasamy, Cognizant

• Learn about the successful techniques that can make testing applications on mobile devices in cloud and how to make it more effective and efficient
• Gain insights into methods that ensure functional and non-functional compliance of mobile applications on devices, mobile automation, and ways to establish labs for testing mobile applications in cloud based model
• Get to know the various techniques and rules for mobile application testing including how to deal with emulators, multiple browser, different operating systems, and the unique testing required for GUI, Field, and interruption testing
 

 

     
Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.  


How and Where to Invest Your Testing Automation Budget: Five Proven Strategies For a Successful Testing Automation Strategy
Sreekanth Singaraju, VP of QA and Testing Services, Alliance Global Services

• A practical guide to developing a successful automation strategy including where to spend your budget dollars and allocate resources
• Case studies outlining strategies to choosing the following: End-to-End scenarios, Automation Frameworks, Implementation Approaches, and Test
• Definitions of metrics and how to capture them to validate that your strategies are working
 

  
     

 


Oracle's Approach to Application and Infrastructure Testing: Strategies and Best Practices
Mughees Minhas

• Oracle spends more than $4B in R&D. Learn from our application testing experiences
• We've integrated these lessons into our own Application Quality Management solutions
• These solutions support a new, time-saving and risk-averse approach to testing Oracle application and infrastructure

 

  

 


Selenium Simplified
SivaKumar Anna

• Shorten the automation implementation cycle using the InfoStretch Selenium Framework
• Learn the tricks of the trade to migrate from Selenium 1.0 to 2.0
• Know about some key best practices to implement Selenium on mobile
  

 


Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.  


Collaborative Web-based Testing for Product and Software Development
David Merrill

• How to establish instantaneous traceability with Requirements and Development Artifacts
• How to automatically process and identify unit test methods and promote as "First Class Citizens"
• How to perform any test. Test any product. Test on any device. Anywhere.
 


  
     

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