QA

Conference Presentations

STARCANADA 2014: Continuous Testing through Service Virtualization
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The demand to accelerate software delivery and for teams to continuously test and release high quality software sooner has never been greater. However, whether your release strategy is...
Allan Wagner, IBM
Test Automation—It’s a Journey, Not a Project
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Organizations implement automated testing in hopes of reducing time and cost while creating higher quality products. They invest in tools, training, and development; identify candidates...
Paul Maddison, The CUMIS Group
Continuous Performance Testing: The New Standard
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In the past several years the software development lifecycle has changed significantly with high-speed software releases, shared application services, and platform virtualization...
Obbie Pet, Ticketmaster
Rapid and Intelligent Test Engineering
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Today’s IT plans tend to be defined as much by constraints as by requirements. Conventionally, the testing phase starts after the design and build phase. In today’s competitive and...
Mathi Natarajan, Cognizant and Sreeram Gopalakrishnan, Cognizant
How to (Effectively) Measure Quality across Software Deliverables
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How do you properly compare the quality of two or more software deliverables without an accurate normalizing metric? The answer: You can’t. Example: If project A has one-hundred defects and project B has fifty defects, do you automatically assume project B is a higher quality deliverable?
David Herron, DCG
Keynote: Selling (and Buying) “Live Site Quality” at eBay
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In the February Fortune magazine, eBay made the cover with the title “eBay is Back!” The article cited improvements in the look and feel of the site, strategic investments in fulfillment, and technology partnerships with retailers to establish it as more than just an online...
Jon Bach, eBay, Inc.
Automated Testing of a Dynamically Configurable System

You provide your clients a service and product, designed so that each component is customizable and can be dynamically changed right down to screen layout and field location. This greatly increases the amount of testing you have to perform on a release since there could be more than...
Terry Morrish, Synacor
Swimming with the Salmon: Lessons in Moving Quality Upstream
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Having difficulties getting your organization to recognize the value of QA? Is your “salmon team” losing to currents that impede continuous improvement and strategic planning? Colleen Kirtland and Harish Krishnankutty share their two-year uphill struggle to elevate QA to the position of...
Colleen Kirtland, The Capital Group & Harish Krishnankutty, Infosys Limited
Building Quality In
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Have you ever delivered software to testing only to receive unexpected feedback regarding quality issues of interoperability, reliability, usability, or testability? Or worse, delivered to customers a product that fully met its specifications but generated complaints and calls for urgent...
Dawn Haynes, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
An Interview with Sanjiv Augustine: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series
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Committed to covering the latest trends and approaches for anyone investigating or implementing agile development practices, processes, technologies, and leadership principles, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. 
Sanjiv Augustine, LitheSpeed

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