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STAREAST 2006 Concurrent Sessions
Go To: Agile Methods | Exploratory Testing | Outsourced Testing | Performance Testing | Security Testing |
Special Topics | Test Automation | Test Management | Test Metrics | Test Techniques
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| Special Topics | | | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:30 AM |
Sarbanes and Oxley: Your New Stakeholders
Elle Ringham, Fidelity National Financial
Determining whether legal and contractual issues apply to your development efforts isn't always simple. There may be some obvious factors: a well-regulated industry, service level agreements, and state or federal agency oversight. However, other factors may not be so obvious. The new Sarbanes-Oxley Act is largely legally untested, subjecting your company to unknown legal issues. You have an eCommerce site that stores credit card information. Your portal collects personal information. You produce proprietary software . . . and more. Covering legal, compliance, and audit throughout the QA process lifecycle, Elle Ringham discusses the right questions to ask and what to do with those answers. She provides guidelines for working with stakeholders, attorneys, and auditors. Take away audit templates, metrics to help you, and sample reports you may need to produce.
• Legal and compliance issues within QA scope
• Questions to ask and what to do with the answers you get
• Reporting the results of compliance tests |
| | | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 1:45 PM |
ISQTB™ Certification: Setting the Standard for Tester Professionalism
Rex Black, Rex Black Consulting
A good test certification program confirms, through objective exams, the knowledge and professional capabilities of software testers. The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB™) was formed as a non-profit organization to develop and promote just such a certification throughout the world. The ISTQB™ is comprised of volunteer representatives from eighteen national boards, including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Israel, India, Japan, Korea, Poland, and other European countries. Rex Black, current President of both the ISTQB™ and the US national board (ASTQB), presents an overview of the first truly international tester certification program. He describes the development of the standard syllabus outlining required knowledge and skills and presents an overview of the three levels of certification available to professional testers.
• Introduction to the ISTQB™—an open, international tester certification program
• Represents the distilled wisdom of many experts including practitioners, consultants, trainers, and academicians
• A program with over 25,000 certified testers around the world |
| | | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:00 PM |
Build Rules: A Management System for Complex Test Environments
Steve Hagerott, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Logic Corporation
Due to the interaction of many software components, there is increased complexity in testing today's software solutions. The problem becomes especially difficult when the solution includes combinations of hardware, software, and multiple operating systems. To automate this process, Steven Hagerott’s company developed "Build Rules," a Web-based application with inputs from their build management and test execution systems. Using logical rules about the builds, test engineers define the characteristics of the build solution points. To deliver the latest and greatest builds that meet the characteristics defined for each solution point, the system dynamically translates these rules into server side nested SQL queries. Learn how their efficiency and accuracy has improved significantly, allowing test engineers to stay on track with many different build combinations and to communicate results to outside departments and customers.
• The test challenge of complex solution points
• Process and politics behind a dual layer build rule system
• A case study in solution point management success |
| | | Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:45 AM |
Lightning Talks: A Potpourri of 5-Minute Presentations
Robert Sabourin, AmiBug.com Inc
Lightning Talks are nine five-minute talks in a fifty-minute time period. Lightning Talks represent a much smaller investment of time than track speaking and offer the chance to try conference speaking without the heavy commitment. Lightning Talks are an opportunity to present your single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea quickly. Use this as an opportunity to give a first time talk or to present a new topic for the first time. Maybe you just want to ask a question, invite people to help you with your project, boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up a full track presentation. For more information on how to submit your Lightning Talk, visit www.sqe.com/lightningtalks.asp. Hurry! The deadline for submissions is April 3, 2006. |
| | | Thursday, May 18, 2006 11:15 AM |
CMMI® Level 5: How Our Test Organization Got There
Kristen Bevans, IBM - Global Testing Organization
Achieving CMMI® Level 5 Capability as an independent test organization takes a tremendous effort. However, achieving CMMI® Level 5 or a lower level compliance is not out of your reach. Join Kristen Bevans as she describes how the IBM Global Test Organization team successfully completed a formal SEI CMMI® Level 5 SCAMPI Class A appraisal as an independent test organization. The appraisal used the Continuous Representation of the SEI CMMI-SE/SW/IPPD/SS V1.1 Model achieving CMMI® Level 5 in the project planning, project monitoring and control, risk management, and verification process areas. Discover how to develop your CMMI® core team, establish the scope, plan the effort, prepare for an appraisal, and conduct the appraisal with SCAMPI methods. Kristen shares her thoughts on what they would do differently—and what they would do the same—if they had it to do over again.
CMMI® is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University.
• An overview and benefits of the CMMI® model
• The core team’s external associations, training, and experience
• Appraisal planning and preparation with SCAMPI methods |
| | | Friday, May 19, 2006 10:00 AM |
SOA and Web Services Testing Involve the Whole Team
John Michelsen, iTKO, Inc.
Serious enterprise application development is moving to Service Oriented Architectures as companies try to leverage existing applications while meeting new customer demands. Even as the ability to connect Web sites dynamically adds significant new levels of business functionality, it opens up a new point of failure with each connection. Code coverage is becoming far less important than the ability to test every component of your J2EE stack in the same environment as it will be deployed in production. John Michelsen shares the current trends in SOA testing, including unit testing with JUnit, test-driven Development (XP, TDD methods), test script automation, load testing, continuous testing, and much more. Learn about the pitfalls in testing SOA systems and why some companies wrongly give up on even trying.
• Trends in testing SOA and Web service enabled applications
• Methods for test-enabling the composite layers that make up SOA application
• Customer examples (eCommerce, Aerospace/Defense, Software ISV) of SOA applications |
| | | Friday, May 19, 2006 11:15 AM |
Translating Business Risks into a Risk-Based Test Plan
Ruud Teunissen, POLTEQ IT Services BV
We all know that testing should be based on business risks. In practice, test managers often go from those risks to test coverage in an ad-hoc, intuitive way. Instead, by taking a step-by-step approach, you can improve coverage and better prioritize your tests. After translating business risks into product risks and establishing the required test coverage, you select the appropriate techniques and estimate test effort. Ruud Teunissen explains that the right test design technique is based on the required coverage, type of functionality, test level, quality characteristics to be tested, available documentation, available resources, and resource skill sets. This risk-based test planning approach enables the test manager to report progress and defects found in terms of the business risks so that stakeholders can make informed decisions about releasing the software into production.
• The well-defined steps from business risks to test design and execution
• Monitor, control, and report test progress in line with business risks
• Achieve the right test coverage by selecting appropriate test design techniques |
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