Automation

Conference Presentations

STAREAST Testing Service Virtualization: What Testers Need to Know
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Unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment—including the application under test and all of its dependent components—is essential for achieving “quality @ speed” with agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery. Service virtualization is an emerging technology that...
Arthur “Code Curmudgeon” Hicken
Communication and Testing: Why You Have Been Wrong All Along!
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You ran all the tests you planned for your team, you reported all the bugs with clear and to the point descriptions, and you sent a weekly email with a professional PowerPoint presentation including graphs and statistics pointing out the risk areas and project issues. However, you still...
Joel Montvelisky
STAREAST Testing World-Class Test Automation: You Can Build It Too
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Join Chris Loder as he describes the test automation framework they have created from the ground up at Halogen Software. Chris shares the environment they have put together to run in virtual machines, physical hardware, and mobile devices—with Jenkins keeping track of it all. He explains...
Chris Loder
STAREAST Testing Infrastructure Testing: The Ultimate “Shift Left”
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Organizations worldwide are continually required to make significant investments in upgrading, re-engineering, and protecting their IT infrastructure. However, unlike application software development, many companies lack a structured quality assurance approach for infrastructure testing.
Carl Delmolino and Hitesh Patel
STAREAST Testing Oil & Water, Peanut Butter & Jelly, DevOps & Regulatory Compliance
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DevOps and regulatory compliance are two critically important ingredients in today’s connected organization. The first—DevOps—enables you to move quickly and respond to change in an era where change is increasing at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. The second—regulatory...
Brandon Carlson
STAREAST Testing Agile Testing at Scale
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Over the past twenty years, Mary Thorn has had the opportunity to work at many startups, creating several QA/test departments from scratch. For the past ten years, she has done this in agile software companies. Recently Mary moved from leading small agile test organizations to leading a...
Mary Thorn
STAREAST Testing Use Layered Model-Based Requirements to Achieve Continuous Testing
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Requirements, test cases, and test data are still generally designed and created the same way they have been for the past thirty years—despite the evolution of testing techniques and tools. Requirements are still specified through written natural language, which leads to ambiguity and...
Alex Martins
STAREAST Testing Seven Fundamentals of a Successful Testing Team
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So you want to build an effective testing team and you’re asking yourself, “Where do I begin?” Greg Paskal, a quality assurance engineer with thirty years of testing experience, shares seven keys to building a successful testing team. Learn the fundamentals every tester should know and how...
Greg Paskal
STAREAST Testing Continuous Testing of Cloud Applications
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With most organizations now using agile software development methodologies, the software development focus has changed to deliver faster releases—and this affects the way we test within the sprint. We largely develop applications using cloud and mobile technologies with short release cycles.
Ganesh Iyer
STAREAST Testing Appium, Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration
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James Koch demonstrates how to apply test-driven development and continuous integration using Appium, an industry leading open-source automation tool. Appium was inspired by Selenium for web browser testing. Their philosophy—Why do anything different for mobile? Appium allows you to run...
James Koch

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