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Conference Presentations

If You Could Turn Back Time: Coaching New Testers
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If you could turn back time, what do you wish you had known when you started working as a tester? When you are new to testing, you are faced with daunting challenges. Recent college graduates may find it difficult to apply academic knowledge in practice. It is easy to get discouraged...
Christin Wiedemann, Professional Quality Assurance, Ltd. and Richard Lu, Professional Quality Assurance, Ltd.
The Adventures of a First-Time Test Lead: An Unexpected Journey
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When moving to a new position in your organization, you might not always feel confident—and that’s fine. If you have ever wondered how to change your mindset from “I need to learn from someone more experienced than I” to “I need to train and lead a team,” Ioan Todoran shares what he...
Ioan Todoran, Expedia Affiliate Network
Test Automation Strategies and Frameworks: What Should Your Team Do?
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Agile practices have done a magnificent job of speeding up the software development process. Unfortunately, simply applying agile practices to testing isn't enough to keep testers at the same pace. Test automation is necessary to support agile delivery. Max Saperstone explores popular test...
Gene Gotimer, Coveros, Inc.
Write Your Test Cases in a Domain-Specific Language
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Manual test cases are difficult to write and costly to maintain. Beaumont Brush suggests that one of the more important but infrequently-discussed reasons is that manual tests are usually written in natural language, which is ineffective for describing test cases clearly. Employing a...
Beaumont Brush, Dematic, Inc.
The Tester’s Role in Agile Planning
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All too often testers passively participate in agile planning. And the results? Important testing activities are missed, late testing becomes a bottleneck, and the benefits of agile development quickly diminish. However, testers can actively advocate customer concerns while helping to...
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
Transform a Manual Testing Process to Incorporate Automation
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Although most testing organizations have automation, it’s usually a subset of their overall efforts. Typically the processes for the department have been previously defined, and the automation team must adapt accordingly. The major issue is that test automation work and deliverables do not...
Jim Trentadue, Ranorex
Testing Hyper-Complex Systems: What Can We Know? What Can We Claim?
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Throughout history, people have built systems of dramatically increasing complexity. In simpler systems, defects at the micro level are mitigated by the macro level structure. In complex systems, failures at the micro level cannot be compensated for at a higher level, often with...
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
How We NOW Test Software at Microsoft
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In December 2008 when How We Test Software at Microsoft was first published, the software community appreciated the insight into many testing activities and processes popular at Microsoft. Six and a half years later, many companies—including Microsoft—have evolved and changed in a variety...
Alan Page, Microsoft
Become an Influential Tester: Learn How to Be Heard
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As a tester, are you frustrated that no one listens to you? Are you finding bugs and having them ignored? Are you worried that the development process and product quality aren’t as good as they should be? Jane Fraser shares ways to help you be heard―ways to position yourself as a leader...
Jane Fraser, Anki, Inc.
Automate REST API Testing
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As an organization grows, the body of code that needs to be regression tested constantly increases. However, to maintain high velocity and deliver new features, teams need to minimize the amount of manual regression testing. Eric Smith shares his lessons learned in automating RESTful API...
Eric Smith, HomeAdvisor

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