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Featured
Sessions - Automation Experiences
Based on
real-world experiences of successful industry implementations,
these featured sessions present the keys to
successfully incorporate automated testing into the development
process. Learn from experienced test automation
users as they share a wide range of automation experiences—both
good and bad—to provide you with your own
"how to" road map for successful software test automation.
Gain valuable insight from lessons learned—illustrated by a wide
range of presentation topics including high-end load testing tool
selection and evaluation, coverage analysis
tool usage, automated regression testing, and Web application
performance testing.
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E1 
Wednesday, March 7, 10:30 a.m. -
11:30 a.m.
Failure
of a Dot Com—A Case Study
Theresa
Lanowitz, Gartner Group
In the new
economy, clichés such as "Internet time" can be
disastrous. As the market emphasis shifts from first-to-market to
first-to-profit, Internet start-ups are forced to scrutinize
decisions which directly impact their business model. Learn the
steps to failure taken by one "dot com" company and the
lessons learned from this failed endeavor. Explore the executive
decisions made to speed time-to-market and customer acquisition, and
discover how product schedules are adversely affected by attempts to
retrofit an architecture and introduce tools.
E2
Wednesday, March 7, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Adventures in Web
Application Performance Testing
Nancy Landau,
ALLTEL
Examine the
challenges and successes experienced by a test team analyzing
application and systems performance for applications moving from
distributed Client/Server solutions to centralized, Web-based
designs. In this presentation, Nancy Landau presents case studies to
address the changes made in automated testing methods to handle
compressed delivery schedules, new architectures, new test tools
requirements, and changing customer expectations. These case studies
encompass principles such as managing iterative test development,
creating reusable tests, standardizing application metrics,
migrating from simple to complex networking environments, and
predicting performance bottlenecks.
E3
Wednesday, March 7, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Implementing an
Automated Regression Test Suite
Lloyd Roden,
Grove Consultants
Many efforts to
automate regression testing have failed or not met expectations—resulting
in "shelfware." Lloyd Roden presents a real-world case
study based on the success of implementing a regression test tool
within a software company. Learn the steps taken in evaluating and
deploying the tool. Discover the key benefits and successes achieved
over a three-year period as well as the challenges faced while using
the tool.
E4
Wednesday, March 7, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Automating Test
Design
Steve Morton,
Applied Dynamics International
The next
generation of test automation software and limited examples in
current products offer tools to automate test designs. Among the
elements needed for automating test designs are ways to create and
select the best data values for tests. Steve Morton describes four
value selection algorithms that support intelligent automated test
design: (1) measure and record; (2) value pre-selection; (3) value
post-selection; and (4) threaded value post-selection. He discusses
the strengths and weaknesses of each method and how the requirements
identification techniques chosen relates to each value selection
method.
E5
Thursday, March 8, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
An Execution
Framework for Java Test Automation
Erick
Griffin,Tivoli Systems Inc.
After
considerable research and analysis of existing tools to test Java
classes and methods, Tivoli’s Test Automation Group reached the
conclusion that no commercially available product would provide
adequate infrastructure to test non-GUI components of Java
applications that were being developed by Tivoli. Learn about the
new tool developed by Tivoli—the Java Execution Framework (JEF)—and
explore its automation aspects. Discover when and why this tool
should be used, and by whom. Gain insight into the JEF test
Application Programming Interfaces (API) set and test harness
functionality and ways you can benefit from a similar approach.
E6
Thursday, March 8, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
How to Evaluate
and Select a High-End Load Testing Tool
Marquis Harding,
TestMark.net
High-end load and
performance tool selection is a difficult—and often costly—choice.
There are many alternatives for these tools that often lead to long
evaluation periods. Marquis Harding presents an evaluation method
and set of criteria that you can use to specifically develop a tool
evaluation methodology for your organization. Learn which components
are needed for a comprehensive business evaluation. Discover why
high-end automation tool evaluation does matter and learn how to
develop a comprehensive business evaluation to accompany the
technical evaluation.
E7
Thursday, March 8, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Developing an
Automated Regression Test Set
Patricia George,
Sunquest Info Systems, Inc.
Automating a
regression test is a tremendous effort, but the payoff is big in
situations where continuous, repeatable, repetitive testing is
required. This presentation describes a real-world example of a
successful team effort toward a specific goal to develop a reusable
automated regression test set for legacy products. Learn the
principles of team building and test planning, and the tools and
utilities you need to get the job done. Patricia George also
discusses how test environment setup and project milestones increase
efficiency to keep the team on track.
E8
Thursday, March 8, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A Data-Driven
Testing Approach
Shakil Ahmad,
Convergys
In this
presentation, Shakil Ahmad describes a data-driven testing approach
using a proven test automation process. This technique is used to
test the client, the background server, and middle-ware processes.
Learn how this approach has been successfully implemented in
different test organizations within Convergys. Discover how
automated testing has improved the reliability and quality of its
software products by detecting faults at earlier stages of the
release cycles—dramatically reducing bug fixing costs and number
of man-hours.
E9 Thursday, March 8,
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Selecting
Re-Tests for Corrected Defects Using Coverage Analysis Data
Jim Boone, SAS
Institute, Inc.
Source code
coverage data is often useful in determining that enough tests have
been written and in identifying lines of code that have no test
coverage. In this presentation, Jim Boone explores ways to use his
organization’s "homegrown" Coverage Analysis System (CAS)
data to determine the best set of automated tests to execute to
re-test a corrected defect. Discover the point in the development
lifecycle where optimizing test sets with coverage analysis is most
advantageous. Learn the three methods that are useful to select test
sets, and the pros and cons of each.
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