EuroSTAR Software Testing Presentations Archive
A full library of presentations from all previous EuroSTAR's from 1999 up to the present
day. Search by year or by topic as you read through presentations
from test experts on various test specific topics.
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This presentation looks at how scripted testing can
be combined with exploratory testing, and looks at
whether we should regard exploratory testing as a philosophy
or a test design technique
Archived as
Exploratory Testing, 2008 Conference
In this presentation, you will see how you can organise and
perform an analysis of your companys defect data in an effective
way. The typical information collected for the analysis will be
demonstrated and how the data can be analysed and presented.
It will also be demonstrated how to turn such analysis results
into practical, focused improvement actions and the resulting
benefits from them.
Archived as
Test Maturity, 2008 Conference
Looking into the future of testing, one thing becomes very
clear, test environments will become more and more the Achilles'
heel of test projects. This presentations discusses this in
detail.
Archived as
Test Environments, 2008 Conference
A workshop where attendees built route cards for the future of
the testing profession up until 2013 and how to get there
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
A presentation detailing how to successfully transform testing
from a traditional process to a highly iterative approach.
Archived as
Agile, 2008 Conference
In this presentation, the method will be shown from the testers
perspective, describing both the great wins and the challenges we
still have to address.
Archived as
Test Maturity, 2008 Conference
This presentation provides practical guidance and best practices
for testing in virtual labs at VMware and several customer sites to
help you get started and see immediate results
Archived as
Test Environments, 2008 Conference
In this presentation, James presents his vision for what testing
will look like in five to ten years. The tools required to do it
right and the technological innovation necessary to get there.
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
A presentation focusing on the challenges encountered during
testing and how to overcome them
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
This presentation will go into detail regarding the current
state of Model Based Testing and its future while also sharing
experiences from a pilot project with Model Based Testing.
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2008 Conference
A presentation on Off-shoring as a strategy and how to manage
the process where inevitably there will be setbacks and
dissapointment - 'The Damage Zone'
Archived as
Outsourcing, 2008 Conference
A keynote presentation exploring major trends that are expected
to emerge in Business and IT and look at how they will effect
testing as an industry.
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at how to create the test manager
transition from self-pitying victims to winners securing project
success in the future.
Archived as
Test Management, 2008 Conference
This presentation gives an insight into how
one company tries to reach TMMi Level 2 in a more practical
manner.
Archived as
TMMi, 2008 Conference
A presentation that explores how testing can increase in
importance and take its rightful place and well deserved place in
Management
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at the deployment of a Model Based
Testing solution to a project of migrating a critical financial
application.
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2008 Conference
A presentation looking at how testers need to keep pace with all
other areas of IT in a constantly changing environment - Software
Testing in a complex, networked world.
Archived as
Agile, 2008 Conference
This workshop looks at exercises and reports on Heuristics, how
they work and how they can lead us astray and importantly, how they
can be applied to software testing.
Archived as
Heuristics, 2008 Conference
This presentation examines current and emerging trends in mobile
systems and presents approaches for challenges facing developers
and testers.
Archived as
Future, Mobile Testing, 2008 Conference
In this presentation, model based techniques for quality control
are discussed along with their advantages and disadvantages.
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2008 Conference
A presentation looking at a Cutomer Focused approach to testing
while also looking at the Developer Testing paradox.
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
Software Testing is complex - this presentation looks at the
different aspects of complexity involved.
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at the mantra - 'Test Smarter not
Harder' and how we set about accomplishing this
Archived as
Soft Skills, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at the results of 36 different projects
using metrics are discussed
Archived as
, Metrics, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at the impact of IT on the environment
and how testing can play a role in reducing this effect.
Archived as
2008 Conference
This presentation looks at the roles of testers in the future,
the dwindling traditional roles becoming much more specified.
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at the relationship between testing and
management and focuses on identifying the concerns of all parties
in different business contexts.
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
This presentation will outline the full life cycle of the
testing project for the 2008 Olympics Games - fasinating insight
into a truely unique project!
Archived as
Case Study, 2008 Conference
This presentation discusses how to generate random test data
that is repeatable and that are reasonably probabilistic of the
entire population of possible test data inputs for both positive
and negative testing.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2008 Conference
This presentation is aimed at people working in testing for 20
years or more and asks the question, Can the past tell us the
future?
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
A presentation looking at the opportunities for testers in New
Zealand
Archived as
2008 Conference
This presentation looks at how knowledge and experience is
shared at Siemens through numerous different ways and how the
company has benefited as a result
Archived as
Case Study, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at the problems of test data management
and ways to take them into account already during application and
database development time.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2008 Conference
This presentation will present experiences implementing the TMMi
model and the associated benefits.
Archived as
TMMi, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at lessons learned with using SCRUM as a
test management method and the benefits of using it in your daily
role as a test manager.
Archived as
Test Management, SCRUM, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at what testers can learn from
management guru's like Prahalad, de Vries, Maslov, Covey and
Collins.
Archived as
Soft Skills, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at performance testing, the challenges
you may encounter and highlights a Performance Testing methodology
and how it can contribute to a successful performance
test.
Archived as
Performance testing, 2008 Conference
This workshop looks at putting together a statement for the
future direction of testing.
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
This presentation targets professional testers of all experience
levels but especially those who have reached that moment of
innuendo of progress in their career and are determined to do
something about it.
Archived as
Career, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at SOA and how it can be used to best
effect in organisations
Archived as
SOA (Service Orientated Architecture), 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at the advantages of adopting a broad
framework to incorporate assumptions, values, concepts and
practises that give a realistic picture.
Archived as
Test Methods, 2008 Conference
A discussion on the new ISO Standard applied to software
testing
Archived as
2008 Conference
A presentation where basics skills necessary to become an
excellent tester are discussed and how to focus on what you need to
learn.
Archived as
Career, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at a new concept - Test Patternsand how
they can support the testing process.
Archived as
SOA (Service Orientated Architecture), 2008 Conference
This presentation will use a mixture of entity diagrams and
practical examples to present a model that all testing follows to
some degree - The Test Entities Model
Archived as
Test Methods, 2008 Conference
A discussion looking at alternate paths/futures for Software
Testing as a profession. Where are we now, and where are we
going?
Archived as
Future, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at how you can best prepare your test
team for change and ultimately for the future.
Archived as
Future, Soft Skills, 2008 Conference
This presentation will provide an insight into why railroading
into a Prince2 environment, the 'industry standard' test strategy
to test case terminology does not always work.
Archived as
Test Management, 2008 Conference
A look into how software testing for the home entertainment
industry works.
Archived as
Case Study, 2008 Conference
This presentation looks at real-life examples and will give a
flavour of what it is like to bring a test perspective into an
agile project and what it is like to be on an agile project with a
sudden need for test expertise.
Archived as
Agile, 2008 Conference
The Certified verus Uncertified argument is looked at in
detail
Archived as
Certification, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at the vast role of the test engineer
and discusses the future of such a complex role
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at a solution that generates keywords
sequences to be executed on the System under Test
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2007 Conference
An insight into testing at Google from a senior test engineer
that works there
Archived as
Case Study, 2007 Conference
This sessions leverages recent research discoveries about how
Chess Grand Masters and how this can be applied to testing
Archived as
Soft Skills, 2007 Conference
A presentation looking at different approaches to testing,
testing from different perspectives and the challenges involved as
a result
Archived as
Soft Skills, 2007 Conference
This presentation will introduce processes for undertaking MBT
and highlight where there are different to traditional testing.
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2007 Conference
This presentation investigates the use of TPI within Sony
Ericsson - pitfalls and what made certain projects successful
Archived as
Case Study, 2007 Conference
This presentation will provide working professionals with some
tips to help them use metrics more effectively in the daily
role.
Archived as
Metrics, 2007 Conference
This presentation discusses the specific, trainable skills which
testers can learn to increase their credibility, improve their
effectiveness and enhance their overall value to their
organisation.
Archived as
Career, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at a number of standards in the testing
discipline and explains how they impact every day testing
decisions.
Archived as
Test Management, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at the critical role maintaining testing
environments proved to be in real live situations within
Rabobank
Archived as
Test Environments, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at results and conclusions from research
conducted on the maturity of testing in the Automotive, Aviation,
Medical Systems and Pharmaceutical industries.
Archived as
Future, 2007 Conference
This presentations provides attendees with a platform to discuss
and debate the need for professional Performance Performance
Testers in todays software testing world
Archived as
Performance testing, 2007 Conference
This presentation aims to create awareness of a number of
testing paradoxes that challenge us all. Some are well-known, while
others are more obscure - but all are worth investigating.
Archived as
Career, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at how softer skills and how they can
assist tester in their career.
Archived as
Soft Skills, Career, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at the challenges encountered during
testing a SOA System and the considerations necessary to set up a
strategy for this
Archived as
SOA (Service Orientated Architecture), 2007 Conference
This presentation shows two different scenarios - the
integration of a legacy system and the integration of a messaging
platform for a mobile provider.
Archived as
Case Study, 2007 Conference
This workshop looks at the topic of Agile followed by an
interactive discussion with audience participation on the issues
raised and those affecting participants.
Archived as
Agile, 2007 Conference
This presentation will highlight ways to take testing to a new
level of professionalism and influence in business and IT.
Archived as
Soft Skills, 2007 Conference
This presentation describes the contribution that software
testing has made to the successful delivery of a vital programme
for the NHS (National Health Service of England)
Archived as
Case Study, SOA (Service Orientated Architecture), 2007 Conference
This presentation gives an overview of the complete software
development and test process and focuses on the close co-operation
between developers and testers.
Archived as
Case Study, 2007 Conference
This presentation is based on a no. of interviews where managers
and testers have answered their different sets of questions based
on ceritifcation.
Archived as
Career, Certification, 2007 Conference
This presentation will look at customer stories, anecdotes,
quotes and expert opinions with an aim to provide a clear overview
on what an Agile Tester actually is.
Archived as
Agile, 2007 Conference
This presentation outlines how an internal testing profession
was recognised and improved upon in the retail IT division of
HBOS.
Archived as
Case Study, TPI, 2007 Conference
A thought provoking presentation looking at how testers can be
more prone to depression and burnout
Archived as
Career, People, 2007 Conference
The importance of the test analyst role is severly
underestimated within the software testing industry - this
presentation looks at how a good, well trained and experienced test
analyst can benefit a project.
Archived as
Career, 2007 Conference
This presentation discusses Agile Testing from a customer point
of view and tries to enlighten some of the benefits that may be
gained and importantly of the challenges and problems that may
occur.
Archived as
Agile, 2007 Conference
This presentation compares how different approach work,
introducing metrics for test effectiveness , efficiency and
measuring as well as the "human factor"
Archived as
TPI, 2007 Conference
A look at ways in which testing as a profession can be regulated
as it moves more and more towards a professional status.
Archived as
Career, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at research into ERP (In particular SAP)
project experiences and attempts to summarise the broad categories
of failure so that the reader may adjust any of these
ecperiences to their own situation.
Archived as
ERP testing, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at the use of DevTest score in a
development testing project
Archived as
Security testing, 2007 Conference
This presentation highlights the key approaches for Usability
testing of flash applications.
Archived as
Usability testing, 2007 Conference
This presentation will contend that when defining our
profession, we should consider taking a cultural perspective which,
while including factors such as a testing body of knowledge and
skill set, will also consider wider cultural aspects.
Archived as
2007 Conference
A presentation looking at the enjoyable aspects of testing and
what makes it such a great profession. Examples from within
Ericsson are used to support this.
Archived as
, Test Maturity, 2007 Conference
An in depth look at the massive test project that was the
Heathrow Terminal 5 Baggage Handling System
Archived as
Case Study, 2007 Conference
This presentation puts creativity in the testing context and
talks about environments that can foster creativity and techniques
that may be used in different situations
Archived as
2007 Conference, Test Design
This presentation looks at metrics and how to establish and
utilise a set of simple yet powerful KPI's.
Archived as
Metrics, 2007 Conference
A look at how within the testing community, there is a need for
special people with different professional and personal skills - a
fasinating presentation!
Archived as
Case Study, 2007 Conference
A case study looking at a major project testing a major
companies new travel website
Archived as
Case Study, 2007 Conference
This presentation demonstrates more formal approaches to
documenting exploratory testing and includes a look at an informal
exploratory test session, simple mapping and diagramming
techniques.
Archived as
Exploratory Testing, 2007 Conference
An in-depth analysis of challenges behind servicing complex
software, ideas behind our system of collecting and reporting
change related data, implementaton details and some results we
achieved with this.
Archived as
Metrics, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at real life experiences and shows how a
structured project can turn into a race against time and budget to
reach one specific goal.
Archived as
Case Study, 2007 Conference
A presentation that looks at a slightly 'tongue in
cheek' account of where we are now ad where are we heading.
Archived as
Future, Career, 2007 Conference
This presentation discusses the process whereby a test centre is
set up and looks at the aims and challenges encountered.
Archived as
Maintenance testing, 2007 Conference
This presentation will look at the different automation code
structures and their relative merits. It will also look at test
frameworks and review progress in the field.
Archived as
Test Automation, 2007 Conference
A discussion the overall state of the test profession - the
presenter shares his experiences helping to shape and define the
profession and shares these along with lessons learnt along the
way.
Archived as
Career, 2007 Conference
A presentation about failure patterns and how to take the
uncertainity out of testing.
Archived as
Test Estimation, 2007 Conference
This presentation looks at the real life story of investing in
the dream team at CTG and will not talk about complex theories but
provide you with no-nonsense practical models that you can apply in
your organisation
Archived as
Future, 2006 Conference
A quirky presentation looking at how people are different and
how unique skillsets can be used in putting together a test
team.
Archived as
People, 2006 Conference
This presentation looks at how over-detailed reporting leads to
misunderstanding and porr decision making by obscuring key facts
through looking at messages that test managers wished to convey and
how they were actually interpreted.
Archived as
Metrics, 2006 Conference
This presentation shows ways in which you can implement model
based testing in your organisation
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2006 Conference
A look at how one division within Mentor Graphics has grown
across three continents amd how an iterative development process
and has been implemented to achieve twice yearly releases.
Archived as
Case Study, 2006 Conference
A presentation highlighting the importance of effective
communication to top level management and how to get your point
across
Archived as
People, 2006 Conference
A presentation looking at how we could learn from Toyota (lowest
defect car maker in the world) - how we can learn from their models
and methods that have revolutionised manufacturing and then
inspired agile practises in IT.
Archived as
Test Process, 2006 Conference
An overview of free tools that you can use for security testing
(web) applications.
Archived as
Security testing, Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
This presentation sets out the aspects of a contracts schedule
that ensure supplier obligations are documented and met.
Archived as
Test Management, 2006 Conference
An overview of the creation of Specialsterne and how they
created a special environment for people with Autism to work as
testers and how their unique skills are a match for testing
Archived as
People, 2006 Conference
A in depth look at the similarities between Amrican Football
positions and positions within the Performance Test Team
Archived as
Performance testing, 2006 Conference
This speculative presentation seeks to raise questions and
discussion on the role of leaders in projects; collaboration,
confrontation and cooperation in projects and also the relationship
of the dream team to preferred style of leaders. Is it desirable or
possible?
Archived as
People, 2006 Conference
This presentation takes the reader along on a customer
experience story where the teams morale is lifted again. It looks
at ways to speed up the testing process through working in
iterations.
Archived as
Case Study, Test Process, 2006 Conference
A look at the recognised technique of Data-Driven Test
Automation that has been developed in many different ways.
Archived as
Test Automation, Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
Jujutsu is based on the Budo analogy and this presentation looks
at how testing and Jujutsu are based on a solid set
of basic techniques critical to success.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
A presentation looking at how value based leadership can be
harnessed in testing organisations. Learn how to pick the right
people for specific functions within your test team.
Archived as
Test Management, People, 2006 Conference
This presentation gives a practical introduction to model based
testing, showing how to write models in UML 2.0 for testing
purposes.
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2006 Conference, UML
Without effective test design, all other testing efforts are
more or less a waste - this presentation looks at how to make the
most of test design.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference, Test Design
This presentation addresses some of the typical people issues
that are encountered when utilising metrics and shows how cognitive
science and social psychology can play an important role.
Archived as
Test Management, Metrics, 2006 Conference
This presentation concentrates on how every testing professional
can move their career forward through personal investment.
Different types of personal investment are looked at, including
hints and tips on how to help yourself, your teams adn the
testing community!
Archived as
Career, People, 2006 Conference
This presentation aims to give a complete overview of testing
which is essential for test managers and senior testers. The poster
' Software Testing at a Glance' is used to accomplish this.
Archived as
Test Management, Test Process, 2006 Conference
A look at how testers manage data quality and the risks
associated with this. This presentation will look at data quality
reference models and data verification models.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
This presentation looks at the rise and fall of several
professional independent test organisations as witnessed by the
presenter.
Archived as
People, 2006 Conference
A discussion on how taking a business-like approach might help
test and QA managers to be more influential within their
organisation.
Archived as
Career, Test Process, 2006 Conference
The presenter talks about his experiences of using tools
commonly used in open source projects on the internet in an
enterprise environment.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
A discussion on the different elements of effective test team
building
Archived as
Test Management, People, 2006 Conference
This presentation provides a platform for discussion and debate
about the Software Testing Body of Knowledge (BOK). 'What is it?'
Who should use it?', 'Does it exist?' and importantly 'Do we need
it?'
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2006 Conference
Lets be honest, we all learned how not to fail by failing
ourselves! This presentation looks at combining Risk Based Testing
and TPI.
Archived as
TPI, 2006 Conference, Risk Based Testing
This presentation explains two different approaches to Pairwise
testing techniques using examples from real projects for
illustration.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
One of the key ingredients of a successul and performing testing
organisation is a positive and passionate workforce - this
presentation looks at how to build such a workforce.
Archived as
People, 2006 Conference
This talk will highlight a case study undertaken at
Ericsson for software development and verification projects of the
new telecommunication data services.
Archived as
Mobile Testing, Test Process, 2006 Conference
In this presentation, a number of techniques are described and
outlined as applied to the incremental development model that has
proven to be very effective in tackling certain challenges/
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
A look at the effects on testing of multifunctional teams within
the presenters organisation. The effect in projects and how to make
these teams work!
Archived as
Test Management, 2006 Conference
This presentation shows you that changing your attitude and
thinking differently about yourself and others can and will change
the situation and most importantly your reactions to it.
Archived as
Soft Skills, People, 2006 Conference
The key thing to do when producing a testing strategy is to
align the testing and development activities - this presentation
looks at how this can be done.
Archived as
Test Process, 2006 Conference
This presentation looks at a survey conducted into unit testing
practices in 19 different companies along with an analysis of the
results.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference, Unit Testing
Testers and programmers live in different worlds - different
views of the same product and expectations based on their own,
limited view lead to misunderstanding and dissapointment. This talk
looks at how to control this!
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
This presentation offers a viewpoint that testing can only be
predictable and productive to any meaningful degree when carried
out in a controlled environment where the test process is
Industrialised i.e. In a Test Center
Archived as
People, 2006 Conference
This inspirational presentation draws on ideas from the testing
industry and outside it. Gain fresh perspectives from wearing
somebody else's hat.
Archived as
People, Test Process, 2006 Conference
This presentation focuses on the deriving a model for risk
evaluation and risk based testing, based on a simple value at risk
model, addressing limitations of the traditional models.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference, Risk Based Testing
This presentation will give an insight into the relationship
between accessibility and usability for disabled people.
Archived as
People, 2006 Conference
Derived from personal experiences over 30 years, this will be a
mind map based talk from the heart, not a 'death by powerpoint'
presentation. A look at various aspects of testing from the
presenters experience.
Archived as
Career, People, 2006 Conference
A look at the importance of been able to clearly outline and
manifest the importance of testing to top level management.
Archived as
Career, Test Process, 2006 Conference
This presentation explores the use of two effective testing
techniques - orthogonal arrays and use case scenarios, to design
tests that provide a high level of test coverage while minimizing
the total number of tests.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2006 Conference
A look at some of the misconceptions and what type of reasons
exist to create them that surround testing as a function - 'we need
to ship, regardless of what testing say...'
Archived as
Test Management, 2006 Conference
This talk describes how an athletic training programme is run
and compares that with the way most testers are developed.
Archived as
Case Study, 2006 Conference
A look at IT trends for the future and how testing fits into
this.
Archived as
Future, 2005 Conference
An in depth look at what opportunities there are for testers and
how to make the most of these opportunities.
Archived as
Career, 2005 Conference
This presentation takes a look at situations where the best way
forward is clearly evident but another route is choosen and also
how to avoid this pitfall.
Archived as
People, 2005 Conference
The presenter outlines their ideas for smarter testing through a
specially designed poster detailing the entire process
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2005 Conference
A look at some of the open source test tools in the
marketplace.
Archived as
Test Automation, 2005 Conference, Open Source
A Presentation to show EuroSTAR Conference attendees how to make
the best out of their conference attendance through some hints and
tips from those that attended EuroSTAR over many years.
Archived as
2005 Conference
A Case study looking at how Marks & Spencers implement
process improvement.
Archived as
Case Study, Test Process, 2005 Conference
The presenter looks at the Personal Test Maturity Matrix and
discusses how it can be used to improve individual testers
performance.
Archived as
People, 2005 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the PRICES model and how it
applies to the Risk Based testing of packaged software
Archived as
Test Techniques, Risk Based Testing, 2005 Conference
A presentation that focuses on Command Driven Testing and
its usefulness
Archived as
Test Automation, 2005 Conference
A presentation that highlights the economic aspects of testing
and how they can work in an organisational context.
Archived as
Test Management, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at how you can ensure quality within
outsourced projects and techniques that may be used to reach this
point.
Archived as
Outsourcing, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at the role of the customer in the
testing process and how defining their requirements can lead to
increased quality.
Archived as
Test Management, 2005 Conference
This presentation takes a look at metrics, their role with
testing and how you can make sense of the most complicated set of
metrics.
Archived as
Metrics, 2005 Conference
This presentation discussed system requirements and how testers
can learn to understand these requirements to ensure better
quality.
Archived as
Test Management, 2005 Conference
Get back to basics as this presentation look at techniques in
practice and discussed the pros and cons of each technique.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2005 Conference
A thought provoking presentation looking at the software
delivery process from both the perspective of the developer and the
tester while also highlighting key essentials that both should
insist on.
Archived as
2005 Conference, Integration
A case study looking at the set up of a test department within
the presenters organisation and following on from that, the
management of the department after it has been set up.
Archived as
Test Management, Case Study, 2005 Conference
A talk highlighting how testers can and perhaps should analyse
defect data from an iterative development process.
Archived as
Metrics, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at an approach where testing is
conducted even before code has been written.
Archived as
Agile, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at the V Model and details how it can be
utilised to deliver real added value.
Archived as
2005 Conference, Integration
A presentation that takes a look at TMM and explains how it can
be used to improve your test process
Archived as
Test Management, Test Process, 2005 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the TTCN-3 technique and the
presenter's experiences of using it in Design Based Testing
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2005 Conference, Embedded
This presentation looks at the testware architecture available
in the marketplace and discussed it in detail.
Archived as
2005 Conference, Testware
This is an interactive session looking at how testers can sell
the value of testing to various stakeholders
Archived as
Test Management, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at how to improve software as a direct
result of using advanced data analysis
Archived as
2005 Conference, Integration
This presentation looks at ways to improve embedded test value
and focuses on the importance of ROI (return on investment)
Archived as
2005 Conference, Embedded
This presentation looks at how configuration management adds
value to the overall test process
Archived as
2005 Conference, Testware
A look at testing in an agile maintenance process - this talk
looks at the challenges faced and provides tips for success
Archived as
Agile, 2005 Conference, Integration
This presentation looks at how testing can be adaptive to
different environments and highlights how testing is adaptive.
Archived as
People, 2005 Conference
A case study looking at the challenges encountered during a
project that utilised non-functional testing.
Archived as
Case Study, 2005 Conference
A discussion looking at what has been phrased the Use Case
Problem and explains why testers should speak out against it.
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2005 Conference
An inspirational presentation looking at how the presenter began
to use the competencies of Autistic people for testing.
Archived as
People, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at a project where software inspection
failed to work as it should and details what happened and how to
get back on track.
Archived as
2005 Conference, Integration
This presentation looks at how testers can develop themselves
through constant self appraisal and looks at means for measuring
development.
Archived as
People, 2005 Conference
This presentation discusses performance testing and looks at it
from the most basic level and how by doing so, it benefits the
testing as a whole
Archived as
Performance testing, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at model based testing using UML 2.0
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at testing from the perspective of a
medical illness and looks at the unique similarities of each.
Archived as
Case Study, 2005 Conference
This talk looks at Model Based Testing in its ultimate form.
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at the application of TPI in a
particularly unusual project.
Archived as
TPI, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at systematic test design and discussed
whether or not, it is a smarter strategy to apply.
Archived as
Test Techniques, Test Design, 2005 Conference
This presentation takes a look at Infrastructural Testing and
applying a SOA approach - the advantages and how to implement
it.
Archived as
SOA (Service Orientated Architecture), 2005 Conference
The presenter takes a detailed look at the intricate economics
of Test Automation and welcomes discussion and debate.
Archived as
Test Automation, 2005 Conference
An insightful and detailed look and analysis of
component based testing
Archived as
2005 Conference, Integration
This presentation looks at TPI as applied to the automotive
industry and explains how you can close the 'quality cap'
Archived as
TPI, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at ways to optimise testing by using
bayesian networks.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at whether ITIL and Test Management mix
and if they are in fact friends or foes.
Archived as
Test Management, 2005 Conference
A presentation that focuses on the verification of
telecommunication systems - a case study from Ericsson
Archived as
2005 Conference, Integration
A look at outsourcing/rightsourcing and how it can dliver the
desired business results
Archived as
Outsourcing, 2005 Conference
This presentation focuses on Exploratory testing and discusses
its emergence, is it revolutionary or evolutionary?
Archived as
Exploratory Testing, 2005 Conference
A look at research conducted by the presenter on the influence
of academy learning on software testing and how the two could
compliment one another.
Archived as
Case Study, 2005 Conference
A presentation that focuses on security testing and more
specifically the security testing of web applications.
Archived as
Security testing, 2005 Conference
This presentation takes a look at different ways of measuring
ROI and when it goes right (ecstacy) or wrong (agony)
Archived as
2005 Conference, Integration
This talk discussed the chalenges associated with outsourcing
testing
Archived as
Outsourcing, 2005 Conference
This talk details how industrial testing could benefit from
adopting formal approaches
Archived as
Case Study, 2005 Conference
This presentation looks at different experiences from
outsourcing test projects - both the good and the bad
Archived as
Outsourcing, 2005 Conference
A talk that looks at how organisational excellence can be
achieved through efficient software testing metrics.
Archived as
Metrics, 2005 Conference
This presentation look at an approach to quantify quality - SLA
for Testing
Archived as
Test Management, 2005 Conference
A presentation looking at how individuals can manage their own
career in testing - the presenter shares experiences and some hints
and tips.
Archived as
Career, 2005 Conference
A presentation that discussed different process improvement
techniques that can ultimately deliver added value.
Archived as
TPI, 2005 Conference, Integration
This talk looks at situations where scrap or disgarded items
become the product, how this was accomplished and the added value
of solved defects.
Archived as
Test Process, 2005 Conference
A presntation looking at the importance of test desig, the human
element and how important test design is to overall
success
Archived as
People, 2004 Conference
A presentation focusing on the people element of testing and the
boundary conditions associated.
Archived as
People, 2004 Conference
This presentation takes a look at testing real time properties
in large architectures.
Archived as
Performance testing, 2004 Conference
A presentation looking at performance testing efforts and the
role of the middle-man
Archived as
Performance testing, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at the importance of structure during
testing but also highlights the need to not over-structure and
become too rigid
Archived as
Test Automation, 2005 Conference
A look at alternative test tools available
Archived as
2004 Conference, Test Tools
This presentation looks at the entire process from start to
finish of setting up and managing a test lab.
Archived as
Case Study, 2004 Conference
This presentation explains how test professionals can learn much
from looking at scentific methods
Archived as
Test Methods, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at how best to measure the effectiveness
of a test.
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2004 Conference
This talk looks at methods by which software can be broken
Archived as
Security testing, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at the development of test professionals
careers and the competencies that require development in a personal
capacity
Archived as
Career, 2004 Conference
This talk looks at the importance of communication and
assertiveness for test professionals
Archived as
Career, People, 2004 Conference
This presentation explains how you can become a trusted test
advisor and looks at the best ways to present the testing message
effectively.
Archived as
Career, People, 2004 Conference
This presentation details six steps towards successful load
testing
Archived as
2004 Conference, Load Testing
A talk that looks at whether test automation is a developers or
a testers job.
Archived as
Test Automation, 2004 Conference
A presentation that looks at the importance of effective
feedback from quality tools during development
Archived as
2004 Conference, Test Tools
This talk takes a look at the process of building and
implementing test automation frameworks for finite state
machines
Archived as
Test Automation, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at automated testability as the missing
link in test automation
Archived as
Test Automation, 2004 Conference
A look at the test maturity model as applied in the real
world
Archived as
Test Maturity, 2004 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how the IB groups test policy
was realised with the aid of Capgemini
Archived as
Case Study, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at the best way to define efficient test
goals and strategy
Archived as
Test Management, 2004 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the relative attributes of
different test techniques
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at how software is prepared for hostile
environments
Archived as
2004 Conference, Non Functional
This presentation looks at certain automation tools and how they
work while engaging in exploratory testing
Archived as
Exploratory Testing, Test Automation, 2004 Conference, Test Tools
This presentation looks at test techniques that help to assess
tester ability
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at risk mitigation trees and how test
handovers with stakeholders are reviewed
Archived as
Test Management, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at how to prevent and detect imminent
software disasters using a technique known as future analysis
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2004 Conference
This presentation focuses on software reliability and what can
be done to improve it.
Archived as
2004 Conference, Non Functional
This presentation looks at how to plan for the plan driven vs
agile testing debate
Archived as
Agile, 2004 Conference
This presenation focuses on testing competence and how it can be
achived and/or improved upon
Archived as
Test Management, 2004 Conference
This presentation takes a look at a practical model for
programme test management
Archived as
Test Management, 2004 Conference
This presentation discusses test set reduction by optimising
decision tables
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2004 Conference
This presentation takes a looks at the importance of knowing
your tests.
Archived as
2004 Conference, Testability, Non Functional
This presentation focuses on those tests that aren't done and
the results and consequences of this
Archived as
Test Management, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at requirements specification and its
very essence
Archived as
2004 Conference
A look at how the gap between testers and developers can be
bridged whilst performing technical testing
Archived as
Integration, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at how to ensure effective testing with
limited resources
Archived as
Test Management, 2004 Conference
This presentation details 13 commons attacks on the QA-Test
Manager and how to deal with them
Archived as
Test Management, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at reusable testware in the context of
object orientation
Archived as
2004 Conference, Test Tools
This presentation takes a look at the UML Testing profile and
test development
Archived as
Integration, 2004 Conference, Testing and Development
An insight into the workings of an
integrated development/test team.
Archived as
Integration, 2004 Conference, Testing and Development
This presentation looks at ways to break down the barriers
between testers and developers
Archived as
People, 2004 Conference, Testing and Development
This presentation takes a look at how requirements and testing
do fit together
Archived as
2004 Conference, Requirements
This presentation looks at the process of reviewing UML as part
of the project team.
Archived as
2004 Conference, Requirements, UML
This presentation is an in-depth analysis of the TPI
benchmark
Archived as
TPI, 2004 Conference
This presentation takes a look at non functional testing of
embedded systems
Archived as
Embedded, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at an agile project and how it became
the story of a story
Archived as
Agile, 2004 Conference
A talk on how developers can be helped to 'eventually' accept
testing
Archived as
2004 Conference, Testing and Development
This presentation focuses on Testability reviews
Archived as
2004 Conference, Inspection, Testability
In this presentation, the presenter gives some hints and tips on
how to become a test expert
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2004 Conference
This presentations looks at how to optimise the testing of
embedded software
Archived as
Embedded, 2004 Conference
In this presentation, the presenter shares some secrets of test
driven development
Archived as
Integration, 2004 Conference, Testing and Development
This presentation looks at testing through the eyes of a
development manager.
Archived as
2004 Conference, Testing and Development
This presentation takes a look at the increasing responsibility
of software inspection
Archived as
2004 Conference, Inspection
In the presentation, the presenter looks at things testers knew
10 years ago but still do not do today and explains why this is
so.
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at the journey towards Test Automation
Maturity
Archived as
Test Automation, 2004 Conference
This presentation looks at testing outside the firewall and its
importance
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at usability testing and how you can mix
up a recipe for success
Archived as
Usability testing, 2003 Conference, Non Functional
This presentation takes a looks at how Q Gates can aid in
structuring the QA Process
Archived as
Test Process, 2003 Conference
This presentation focuses on test design and takes a look at a
successful way forward
Archived as
Test Design, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at iterative tests and how you can make
it work for you
Archived as
2003 Conference
This talk looks at risk based tests and how to make it more
customer specific
Archived as
Risk Based Testing, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at the need for performance testing and
the increasing demand for it.
Archived as
Performance testing, 2003 Conference
A look at the function of test managers and a discussion as to
whther they are essentially chameleons of the project world.
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at the question - when has enough
testing been done?
Archived as
2003 Conference, Non Functional
This presentation looks at how the toyota unified process was
design and implemented and how the test function was
approached.
Archived as
Case Study, 2003 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the art of managing test
projects with a fixed price and deadline
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
This talk focuses on the complexities involved whilst engaging
in performance testing
Archived as
Performance testing, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at the double backslash model (\\
model)
Archived as
Test Process, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at a success story entitled 'The
Factory' - an interesting case study
Archived as
Test Management, Case Study, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at safety testing from the perspective
of a 'ghostbuster'
Archived as
2003 Conference
This presentation looks at the long process associated with
setting up and building a test organisation within a company
Archived as
Case Study, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at whether the role of a test manager is
interchangable with that of a service manager
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at security testing and how to achieve
safe security testing and avoid the pitfalls along the way
Archived as
Security testing, 2003 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the testing undertaken on key
public infrastructure
Archived as
Case Study, 2003 Conference
This presentation takes a look at scripted verus exploratory
testing - the advantages and disadvantges of both
Archived as
Exploratory Testing, 2003 Conference
This talks discusses testers rights and what they should be
demanding of others and why!
Archived as
Career, 2003 Conference
This presentation look at the role of the 'accidental' project
manager and how QA can assist
Archived as
People, 2003 Conference
This presentation look a study conducted on TPI
Archived as
TPI, 2003 Conference
This talk discusses how to become a better tester by becoming a
'beta tester'
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2003 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the importance of a solid
presence in a project
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2003 Conference
This talk looks test automation and the necessary conditions
required for successful test automation
Archived as
Test Automation, 2003 Conference
A look at test improvement success at Philips Medical
Systems
Archived as
Case Study, TPI, 2003 Conference
A presentation that discussed how test management was
implemented at ABN AMRO
Archived as
Test Management, Case Study, 2003 Conference
This presentation outlines 10 practical rules for change
management
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
A look at process improvement and how it is not rocket
science
Archived as
TPI, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at how agile testing can lead to
success
Archived as
Agile, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at how to build further on real
success
Archived as
People, 2003 Conference
This presentation explains how you could improve your estimates
by using historical data
Archived as
Test Estimation, Test Process, 2003 Conference
This presentation takes a look at exploratory testing from a
geological perspective
Archived as
Exploratory Testing, 2003 Conference
This talk looks at what constitutes success to a tester
Archived as
Career, People, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at effective people skills for both
testers and developers
Archived as
People, Testing and Development, 2003 Conference
A look at how CMMI Contributes to the testing part of the
project
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at the use of inspection as a risk
mitigation tool during software testing
Archived as
Inspection, 2003 Conference
A talk that looks at the importance of people issues in
successful testing projects
Archived as
People, 2003 Conference
This presentation speaks about how testing can be improved
within a small organisation
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
This talk looks at successful test evaluation in concurrent
systems
Archived as
2003 Conference
This presentation takes a look at building on success and
perhaps looking at some not too obvious means of accomplishing
this.
Archived as
People, 2003 Conference
This presentation focuses on testing solutions for data
warehousing
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at hoe higher efficiency can be achieved
through integrated test design and automation
Archived as
Test Automation, Test Design, 2003 Conference
This presentation aims to introduce testers to agile software
development
Archived as
Agile, 2003 Conference
This presentation look at the situation with KISS and Metrics 12
months on
Archived as
Metrics, 2003 Conference
This presentation discusses test automation and test driven
development and when not to automate
Archived as
Test Automation, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at how management can be
influenced by project intelligence
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at the extraction of test cases from a
semiformal specification
Archived as
Test Automation, 2003 Conference
This presentation focuses on developer testing with XP
Archived as
Testing and Development, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at how the benefits can be measured as a
direct result of testing improvements
Archived as
People, 2003 Conference
This presentation focus on the test tool, MaTeLo
Archived as
Test Tools, 2003 Conference
The presenter looks at the vital foundations for successful
software testing
Archived as
Test Management, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at the interplay between code coverage
and model coverage
Archived as
2003 Conference
This presentation looks at a way of making developers tests more
successful
Archived as
Testing and Development, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at how testers can do it for
themselves
Archived as
Career, People, 2003 Conference
This talk looks at how tests can be conducted on daily builds in
an iterative development process
Archived as
Testing and Development, 2003 Conference
This presentation looks at the embedded internet and the move
towards 100 billion devices
Archived as
Embedded, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at testing requirements in safety
related matters
Archived as
2001 Conference
This presentation discusses whether anybody can become a member
of a test team
Archived as
People, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at the importance of agreed software
testing metrics
Archived as
Metrics, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at the tools used for state of the art
test automation
Archived as
Test Automation, Test Tools, 2001 Conference
This talk looks at examples of successful test strategies
Archived as
Test Process, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at SPICE and how it can be
applied to software standards
Archived as
2001 Conference
This talk looks at the recruitment process for testers and how
to retain the right test personnel
Archived as
Test Management, People, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at whether traditional coverage
metrics are actually meaningful any longer
Archived as
Metrics, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at considerations in automatic
tests development
Archived as
Test Tools, 2001 Conference
This presentations looks at whether a test strategy is always
needed and looks at the occasions where 'I Don't Need A Test
Strategy'
Archived as
Test Process, 2001 Conference
This workshop looks specifically at non functional testing
standards
Archived as
2001 Conference, Non Functional
This talks looks at how the learning curve for software testers
can be managed
Archived as
Career, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at release metrics and enough testing is
enough
Archived as
Metrics, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks specifically at application fields for
Evolutionary testing
Archived as
Test Tools, 2001 Conference
This talk looks at testing beyond your IQ
Archived as
2001 Conference
This talk looks at emotional intelligence as the key to software
quality
Archived as
Tester Skills, People, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at how internal certification schemes
for testers can be implemented
Archived as
Certification, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the development and validation
of a Metric Based test maturity model
Archived as
Metrics, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at research into automated generation
and execution
Archived as
Test Tools, 2001 Conference
This talk looks at the theory behind TPI and also TPI in
practice
Archived as
TPI, 2001 Conference
This presentation focuses on performance testing and how to
accelerate towards it
Archived as
Performance testing, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at how education on software testing can
be delievered and the challeneges & solutions to this
Archived as
Career, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at the role of metrics in TPI
Archived as
Metrics, TPI, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at what tools exist in the marketplace
and which you should select
Archived as
Test Tools, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at the setting up of a test improvement
programme by the presenter and what he wishes he had of known in
advance
Archived as
Test Process, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at some case studys focusing on
testing in quick time
Archived as
Case Study, 2001 Conference
Thi presentation looks at the enemy for testers within
E-Commerce
Archived as
2001 Conference, Internet
This presentation looks at systems testing in an iterative
environment
Archived as
2001 Conference, End to End Testing
The presenter looks at how to clear the testing minefield
Archived as
Test Management, 2001 Conference
The presenter looks at how to actually build it fast but also
build it right
Archived as
2001 Conference
This presentation looks at the impact of web sites on testing as
a profession
Archived as
2001 Conference, Internet
This presentation looks at testing a chain of applications
Archived as
2001 Conference, End to End Testing
This presentation looks at the implementation of the theory of
constraints
Archived as
Test Management, 2001 Conference
This presentation explains that there are no silver bullets but
rather a set of 20 rules
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the risks and benefits in
Monolithic and Iterative lifecycles
Archived as
Test Management, 2001 Conference
This presentation focuses on the internet and looks at how
failure is not an option
Archived as
2001 Conference, Internet
This presentation looks at experiences from end to end business
integration testing
Archived as
Case Study, 2001 Conference, End to End Testing
This presentation looks at how developers tests can be improved
upon
Archived as
Test Techniques, Testing and Development, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at how to share knowledge with Test
Patterns
Archived as
People, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at iterative development and why
it is so important to not forget the testers
Archived as
Testing and Development, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at structered internet
performance testing
Archived as
Performance testing, 2001 Conference, Internet
This presentation looks at software failures that were based on
systematic testing
Archived as
2001 Conference, Internet
This presentation looks at whether alot of internet based
testing is 'dot.com' or 'dot.bomb'
Archived as
2001 Conference, Internet
This presentation talks about the pitfalls involved in Euro
Testing
Archived as
2001 Conference, End to End Testing
This presentation looks at end to end testing and why the
presenter tries to engage in as little as possible
Archived as
2001 Conference, End to End Testing
This talk explains how test cases can be managed using database
concepts
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at usability testing and how it
possible to start off with satisfied customers
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at an actual troubled project and how
best practice can be implemented from theory to actual reality
Archived as
Test Management, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at why time management is so
difficult during validation projects
Archived as
Test Management, 2001 Conference
This presentation focuses on eXtreme Programming and the role of
inspections and reviews
Archived as
Test Management, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at the specilist technique of track
testing
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2001 Conference
This talk looks at a case study where the presenter was invovled
in the testing of broadband internet at a large telecom
operator
Archived as
Case Study, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at whether
testing has become a bottleneck in software
development
Archived as
Testing and Development, 2001 Conference
This presentation focuses on quality initatives and whybthey
sometimes do not work
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at how to achieve Maintenance,
Manageability and Traceability
Archived as
2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at structered testing
methodologies for the Embedded Systems
Archived as
Embedded, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the presenters experiences of
test driven development
Archived as
Case Study, Testing and Development, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at a common sense approach to a
project
Archived as
Case Study, 2001 Conference
This presentation looked at QA of handed on software
Archived as
2001 Conference
This presentation looks at the use of risk analysis to
prioritise your testing
Archived as
Risk Based Testing, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at risk and discusses if it is
the centre of a testers universe
Archived as
Risk Based Testing, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at moving towards a more mature test
process
Archived as
Test Process, 2001 Conference
This presentation looks at the art of software testing and how
it can moves towards effective leadership
Archived as
Career, Tester Skills, 2001 Conference
This presentation takes a look at emerging techniques in testing
embedded systems
Archived as
Embedded, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at the process of setting up and
operating a usability testing lab
Archived as
Case Study, Usability testing, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at the challenges of incremental
component based development
Archived as
2002 Conference
A novel presentation looking at the test management world
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at a quantative test schedule
control
Archived as
2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how using earned value to track
software testing projects can have its advantages
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation outlines the seven deadly sins of test
management and how you can prevent them
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at adventures in session-based
testing
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at information security and its
realationship with testing
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at enterprise wide Testware
Architecture
Archived as
Test Environments, Testware, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the quality effective
management of test environments
Archived as
Test Environments, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at testing iterative incremental
development projects
Archived as
2002 Conference
This presentation looks at testing as a driver for development
changes
Archived as
Testing and Development, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at a day in the life of a test
manager
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how to justify the cost of testing to
key decision makers
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the cluster approach and
managing integration testing
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at the challeneges in testing real-time
systems
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the real life management of
complex testing enxironments
Archived as
Test Environments, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at structured testing in DSDM
Projects
Archived as
Case Study, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the testing function in the
inital project phases
Archived as
Test Methods, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at what we might have done differently
is we had the chance
Archived as
Career, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how you can increase the value
of every person on your test team
Archived as
Test Management, Tester Skills, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the value of testing and looks
at how we can increase it
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at four quantifiable ways testing can
add value
Archived as
2002 Conference
This presentation looks at quantifying test value and looks at a
case study illustrating this
Archived as
Case Study, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the ABC of e-testing
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at e-testing and how a focus on
user perception can be beneficial
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at the e-testing of an airline
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at web testing and the challenges
it has brought to testing in a totally new environment
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation discusses how to get web testing to work first
time
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation focuses on design and replay and how to make
it work properly
Archived as
Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at the automated test environment for
SIM Application Toolkit
Archived as
Test Environments, Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation aims to show a complete guide to evaluating
testing tools.
Archived as
Test Tools, 2000 Conference
This talk looks at going OO and a model that the presenter used
for test process transition
Archived as
Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at the testing from a heretics
perspective
Archived as
Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at OAT and how it is the Cinderella of
the software lifecycle
Archived as
2000 Conference, Testing Lifecycles
This presentation looks at high speed testing cycles
Archived as
2000 Conference, Testing Lifecycles
This presentation looks at the role of the Integration tester
and focuses on their confessions from experience
Archived as
Integration, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at the process of creating requirements
from test specifications.
Archived as
Requirements, 2000 Conference
This presentation focuses on risk based testing strategy
Archived as
Risk Based Testing, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at the age of innovation and the
challenges it poses for testing professionals
Archived as
2000 Conference
This presentation looks at risk and how it has become the new
language of e-business testing
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at how to break software (with
examples)
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2000 Conference
This presentations details the three holy grails of test
development
Archived as
Testing and Development, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at testing in internet time
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation focuses on e-testing and what skills and
expertise are necessary for success
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at test environment management in
detail
Archived as
Test Environments, Test Management, 2000 Conference
This presentation presents a case study of an actual project
where a distributed internet system was tested
Archived as
Case Study, Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at how testing can be taught and how
testing can actually teach
Archived as
People, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at the role of investors in test
people
Archived as
People, 2000 Conference
This presentation focuses on the architectural inspection for
the unified process
Archived as
Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the process behind testing a
UML System.
Archived as
UML, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at the benefits of automated testing at
the business object
Archived as
Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at efficient mobile acceptance
testing and how it can be accomplished
Archived as
Mobile Testing, Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at how test automation can be
managed
Archived as
Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This talk looks at software testing standards and do people
really know what they are talking about in relation to these
standards
Archived as
Test Techniques, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at test case design by means of
the CTE XL
Archived as
Test Techniques, Test Design, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at test and decision theory
Archived as
2000 Conference
This presentation focuses on structured testing for embedded
systems
Archived as
Embedded, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at ways to apply test theory
Archived as
Test Management, 2000 Conference
This presentations aims to make people really think about the
question - how safe is your software?
Archived as
Security testing, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at internet performance solutions
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the more common pitfalls of
test automation and how to avoid them
Archived as
Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation presents a case study on the delivery of a
Data Driven Solution
Archived as
Test Automation, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the conditions necessary for
component based software integration testing
Archived as
Integration, 2000 Conference
This presentation presents grpahs used for measurement and
follow up
Archived as
2000 Conference
This presentation takes an in depth look at the testability
team
Archived as
2000 Conference, Testability
This presentation takes a look at a case study where smarter
testing was implemented earlier than usual and the
benefits of doing so
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at test effort estimation with test
point analysis
Archived as
Test Estimation, 2000 Conference
This presentation looks at development lifecycles for
websites
Archived as
Testing and Development, Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the economics of software
testing from an e-testing perspective
Archived as
Internet, 2000 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how added value can be
achieved through the outsourcing of testing related risk
Archived as
Outsourcing, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at new members of the test team - Test
Monkeys!
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how TPI can be made easy or at least
easier
Archived as
TPI, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at experiences and lessons learnt from
testing the websphere voice server
Archived as
Internet, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how by thinking design you can
improve testability
Archived as
Test Design, 2002 Conference, Testability
This presentations looks at some of the common myths and legends
associated with software testing
Archived as
People, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at an array of test management tools and
shows what they can do for you
Archived as
Test Management, Test Tools, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at test assessments based on TPI
Archived as
TPI, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at the scenario - what if it wasnt for
the users?
Archived as
2002 Conference
This presentations looks at an approach that actually upgrades
their test process
Archived as
Test Process, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at extreme programming and what
testers should be learning from it.
Archived as
Testing and Development, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how success can be achieved and then
measured
Archived as
Test Management, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at performance testing and how to
select the right tool for it
Archived as
Performance testing, Test Tools, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at TPI and how TPI can be initiated with
SPI
Archived as
TPI, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at a case stidy where developer
testing was used to ruduce TTM on a Sony Ericsson device
Archived as
Mobile Testing, Case Study, Testing and Development, 2002 Conference
This presentation compares testing to a samurai way of life
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how added value can be achieved
through static testing
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at experiences of using TPI with
TIM
Archived as
TPI, 2002 Conference
This presentation focuses on web-based bottlenecks and more
specifically how they can be isolated and then identified.
Archived as
Internet, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how added value can be added
through test requirements
Archived as
Requirements, 2002 Conference
This presentation presents a case study from ABN Amro bank where
Risk Based Testing and Metrics were used
Archived as
Metrics, Case Study, Risk Based Testing, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how testers can get their message
across for maximum impact
Archived as
Tester Skills, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how risk based testing can be
a common language for project stakeholders
Archived as
Risk Based Testing, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how an organisation can become test
wise
Archived as
Test Process, 2002 Conference
This presentation explains a practical guide to recruiting
testers
Archived as
People, 2002 Conference
This presentation looks at how the benefits of investing in test
can be quantified
Archived as
Metrics, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at KISS and how it can be used
with test metrics
Archived as
Metrics, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the test career and
specifically when thing looks bad
Archived as
Career, People, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how testing has chaged at
Legal & General
Archived as
Case Study, Test Process, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the advantages of mindmapping
for test professionals
Archived as
People, 2002 Conference
This presentation focuses on the benefits of test automation in
end to end testing of mobile networks
Archived as
Mobile Testing, End to End Testing, 2002 Conference
This presentation takes a look at testing in the blind or
testing in the dark
Archived as
Tester Skills, 1999 Conference
This presentation looks at how to improve the testing process to
secure quality
Archived as
Test Process, 1999 Conference
This presentation looks at quality and test improvements within
a large 00 Orientated company
Archived as
Case Study, Test Process, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at improvements through
configuration management and the use of a testpath generator tool
in doing so
Archived as
Test Process, Test Tools, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at contradictions within an
evolving inspection process
Archived as
Inspection, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at reviewing software artifacts
for testability
Archived as
Testability, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a detailed look at the problems,
pitfalls and prospects associated with 00 code reviews
Archived as
1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how the efficacy of
introducing a systematic tool based testing process can be
measured
Archived as
Test Tools, 1999 Conference
This presentation focuses on the top 10 automation problems and
how they can be solved or avoided
Archived as
Test Automation, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at a framework for measurement
within software testing
Archived as
1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at Load and Performance Testing
of Java
Archived as
Performance testing, Load Testing, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at quantified risk assessment and
test support by automated fault tree generation
Archived as
Test Automation, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at automatic testing with formal
methods
Archived as
Test Automation, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how software testing can get a
kiss of life
Archived as
Soft Skills, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at testing temporal behaviour of
real time tasks using extended evolutionary algorithms
Archived as
Test Management, 1999 Conference
This presentation focuses on the testing of the world wide
web
Archived as
Internet, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at evaluation for Software
Testing
Archived as
Test Methods, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at usage testing and how it can
be used to expand the ability of testing
Archived as
Test Techniques, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at an actual user acceptance test
laboratory in action
Archived as
Case Study, Usability testing, 1999 Conference
This presentation focuses on an approach known as joint
application testing
Archived as
Test Techniques, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the methodology for testing
software implementations in security servers
Archived as
Test Methods, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the complexity of testing,
diagnosis and repetitive failure
Archived as
Test Environments, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at third generation software test
automation, the new frontier...
Archived as
Test Automation, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the testing methodology of
highly complex systems
Archived as
Test Process, 1999 Conference
This presentation focuses on the costs of defects from a buyers
perspective
Archived as
Test Management, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how software test improvements
can be implemented in small oragnisations - the presenter uses
project VISTA as an example
Archived as
Test Management, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the generation of automated
test programmes using system models
Archived as
Test Automation, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at executing dynamic, self
determining test cases
Archived as
Test Design, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at how high quality and
responsive test environments can be managed
Archived as
Test Environments, Test Management, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at improved testing in the
manufacturing and oil industries
Archived as
Case Study, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the use of quality modelling
for identifying test objectives
Archived as
Model Based testing, 1999 Conference
This presentation looks at a case study on how a test design
process was improved
Archived as
Case Study, Test Design, 1999 Conference
This presentation focuses on the quest for quality test
resources
Archived as
Test Management, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at a case study where integration
testing was used in a large system
Archived as
Case Study, Integration, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the migration from C++ to Java
and the problems encountered along with solutions to these
problems
Archived as
Test Methods, 1999 Conference
This presentation looks at how you can select and manage the
ideal test team
Archived as
Test Management, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at case study where digital TV
was tested and how Zero Tolerance was applied
Archived as
Case Study, 1999 Conference
This presentation looks at how to test software to FDA
Requirments
Archived as
Test Methods, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at risk based testing and
metrics.
Archived as
Metrics, Risk Based Testing, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at what is not workling and what
to do in these circumstances
Archived as
Test Process, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the goals, risks and testing
associated with working to a fixed deadline
Archived as
Test Management, 1999 Conference
This presentation focuses on risk management and how Zen is
involved
Archived as
Test Management, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the testing of SAP
Implementations
Archived as
Case Study, 1999 Conference
This presentation takes a look at the process for selecting test
cases for functional testing
Archived as
Test Methods, 1999 Conference
In this presentation, Johan will present his experiences from
introducing an exploratory testing approach into a highly scripted
organisation.
Archived as
Exploratory Testing, 2009 Conference
Testing of internet apllications using ajax in an agile
development environment requires a good regression testing
part.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Testing efforts have always been limited by time and resource
constraints. If the development schedule runs over, scheduled
testing time may be cut. Therefore, itis important to have tests
prioritised so the most important ones are run first.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Sometimes, explaining test concepts and test work to people, who
have none or very little practical experience in software
development in general and software testing in particular, is just
too difficult.
Archived as
2009 Conference
As an industry we need more effective ways to test software, if
only to cope with the "do more with less" mantra.
Archived as
2009 Conference
When using agile methods you not only need to change the
behaviour of each individual, you also need to re-think your way of
doing QA.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Testing and Test Management is a business that is, by its very
nature competitive. We are reluctant to to exchange ideas,
information and strategies all in the name of 'confidentiality'
Archived as
2009 Conference
The objective of risk based testing and misconceptions of them
by project stakeholders and testing teams can sometimes cause
confusion and division. This presentation highlights a possible
solution.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this presentation, we will explain how we started to use
Model-Based Testing in an Agile Development project and share our
experiences.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Professional sofware testers need tools to perform their tasks
efficiently. In many cases management decides not to buy a tool as
the cost seems to high. This presentation will present a set of
some surprisingly productive approaches to get along without
commercial solutions.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In the real world of testing today, software testers are
expected to provide the information needed for project sponsors and
managers to make go live decisions. Given this a key par ofour job,
why therfore do we often get it do wrong, or are not listened
to?
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation will give an inside into IT Service management
and will give a practical approach for translating SLA items into
test specifications.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Agile development and testing has qualified itself as a buzzword
of our times and is the defualt way of working when it comes to
development projects.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation is about achieving success with automated
regression test.
Archived as
2009 Conference,
This presentation focuses on te differences in interests of a
project manager versus the interests of a business executive during
software testing.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this presentation Michael talks about issues that are
relevant to testers at the conference.
Archived as
2009 Conference,
In this session an overview of the choices and resons for doing
automation are discussed.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Jonathon will talk about the popular distractions from creating
value, and how to avoid them.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation provides the delegates with a platform to
discuss and debate about Performance Testing Effort in the software
testing industry.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This talk will help you bring uncontrolled projects under
control using the example of the speakers own team.
Archived as
2009 Conference
IST expands the ideas of Exploratory Testing by automating the
creation of the test room.
Archived as
2009 Conference
How do you know when a project is ready to ship? Learn how to
estimate, predict and mange your software project as it gets closer
to its release date.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This is a presentation based around my experiences of creating
and managing an external testing relationship.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Find out how to select and rank the most effective and
appropriate measures for cos reduction in your situation.
Archived as
2009 Conference
What to do if your testing is fairly good, but there's still
something missing?
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation describes how we have implemented RBT in a
system test organisation in the product industry.
Archived as
2009 Conference
The advanced keyword-driven approach to automated testing does
not require programming skills from testers.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This workshop will provide experienced test managers with
powerful ammunition to dispel prevailing myths about the bottom
line impact of testing.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This is about a real case of too many developers feeding too few
testers, causing a testing backlog of half a year.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation starts where all other presentations on risk
based testing stop.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Have you established test automation or are you planning to do
so?
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this presentation the speaker tells the audience which
challenges he faced as test coordinator.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Discover ways of using metrics in 'right way' and how to deal
with harmful 'side effects' of metrics in this presentaiton.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this talk, Michael shres the experience collected over many
years of involvement in bug management activities.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation is a valuable resource for everyone who wants
to improve test related communication.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation is a case study covering the development of an
automated QA system for an ATM service to underpin an agile life
cycle.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this presentation you will hear abot the risks which need to
be addressed by testing when SOA is used.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation discusses a selection of tools in relation to
MBT.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This session is most important for people who are keen to learn
new techniques to improve their communication skills.
Archived as
2009 Conference
The implementation of STA is notoriously challenging and seldom
lives up to expectations.
Archived as
2009 Conference
The use of ET is explained in this presentation for SOA
projects.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation covers requirements on and possibilties for
test organisation considering introducing MBT.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation reviews a survey of 25+ real world agile
projects and highlights a number or successful agile practiced that
you can use in your own agile testing projects.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this talk the results of an industry-based experiment are
presented, comparing the usability and defect detection
effetiveness of EP, BVA and ST to exploratory testing.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation will show you how to set up Cucumber and
demonstrates how to write and execute requirements with
Cucumber.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation describes progress on the development of ISO
29119 and the challenges with creating a generic testing standard
that is applicable to all organisations and all types of
projects.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this presentation Zeger describes life as a tester in a team
of agile rookies.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Test Data has until recently been the forgotton component in
software development and testing, even though developers and
testers often struggle with their test data.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation presents the results from several years of
studying the test tol market, with the strong emphasis on an
analysis of the usage of free testing tools.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This workship is a hosted 'House of Commons' debate, derived
from a popular Dutch TV show and on the topic of 'Ethics within the
Testing Profession.'
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation will demonstrate how common problems can be
prevented using ten practical, real life tips that the participants
can take back to the workplace and implement.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Scenarios representing realistic business sequences are
important tolls for finding problems that matter to
stakeholders.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this presentation we dicuss how the combination of
open-source and commercial products can increase the
user-acceptance of the overall product, increase its capabilities
and protect the customer's dependancy on a commercial vendor.
Archived as
2009 Conference
In this presentation the speakers will explain to you why a SIT
in a SOA environment is so difficult and why that can result in a
delay in the software delivery.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Fuzzing is a proactive method for discovering zero-day security
flaws in software.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Why don't we get better even though all of us try our best? The
solution is not to work harder; it's to work smarter.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation will illustrate effective techniques for
successful Program Test Management.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This is a theatre performance where 'The Supsertesters' mix
serious test issues and common prejudices with laughs
Archived as
2009 Conference
The centre of the testing universe is for me the test ideas that
can be documented or generated in the mind of a tester as the
testing evolves.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation will provide a whistle-stop tour along a
timeline from 2004 to today, dealing with challenges encountered in
verification of new features in 3rd generation Mobile Telephone
Networks within Ericsson, and how these challenegs were
overcome.
Archived as
2009 Conference
This presentation reports on a large-scale study including 22
distributed projects in various product domains, in which product
quality problems were analysed.
Archived as
2009 Conference
As a consultant, Lee Copeland has spoken with thousands of
software testers in hundreds of different organisations.
Archived as
2009 Conference
People often ask why senior managers are so poor at implementing
change.
Archived as
2009 Conference
Will process maturity or agility be the future of software
development and test?
Archived as
2009 Conference
Ray Arell, Intel, USA is a Senior Engineering Manager and
Agilist at Intel. This presentation focuses on what went wrong and
why and the effect it had on his team when Ray & his team
decided to go Agile!
Archived as
2009 Conference
Pursuing quality is a lofty goal, and a good theme for this
conference. But just because you are bent on pursuing it, doesn't
mean that you will necessarily achieve it, for a number of
reasons:
- Quality of software (at any realistic scale) is not achievable
by any one person, be they a developer, tester or manager
- Testing cannot instil quality into a software product, it can
only indicate or measure what quality is already there
- because testing is infinite, it can never be finished, so how
can you know about the quality of testing?
- But it can still be worthwhile to go after the
unachievable, because you may well achieve more than you would have
done otherwise. But how do you know that you are moving towards
quality? We will explore some things that don't work, and some
things that do.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Dorothy Graham, Quality
In this presentation I will go through my experiences of going
agile, when working with a huge mainframe legacy system where most
of the development is done using PL/1 or Cobol.
I will present our main challenges including poor testability,
poor maintainability and limited test automation tool support and
how we dealt with these challenges. I will show how an agile
mindset, good design custom and innovative test tool usage help us
accomplish our goals. I will demonstrate our automated unit test
setup and present our system test corporation with an offshore test
centre in Bangalore. Finally I will discuss whether we managed to
become agile or we just made a huge improvement in our development
process and in our test process in particular.
Archived as
Agile, 2011 Conference, Christian BK Hansen
From my own experience , I will share with the audience the
tools that helped me balance my work with my personal life and
helped me gain some perspective on what I want to be involved in
after falling ill with Stress. I will touch on some of the warning
signs, that I did not pay much attention to, before I had to stop
working for a while. I will tell, how expectations - also from
myself guided my choices.
If I can influence one person to take his or her life up for
revision - before he or she ends up in the same situation as I did
- I have reached my goal.
I am the mother of two teen-girls - having a career as a Test
Manager consultant - how do I make this work? How did I learn to
say "no" to all the exiting things that are out there?
Archived as
2011 Conference, Mette Tonder, Quality
End users involved in acceptance testing decide whether a new
application or system will go live or not. Therefore it is
important they are in the same pursuit of quality as the rest of
the project.
Erik will explain how to involve end users to optimize their added
value. It's by having them participate in the test process on
regular, well selected moments that we can get the best out of
acceptance testing. To start with, the acceptance testers need to
know the goal of their testing activities. Consequently, the
acceptance testers will get demos on a regular basis of the
software already delivered. And finally, the end users will execute
their tests closely monitored by the test coordinator.
The presentation will give you practical advice, examples and
templates on how to set up their acceptance testing in a flexible
way without drowning in administrative tasks.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Erik Boelen, Acceptance testing
Quality, like weather, is good or bad and that depends on who
you ask. Even worse, Quality is a collective term for many
difficult concepts.
Quality is not an attribute of a system - it is a relationship
between systems and stakeholders who take different views, and the
model of Quality that prevails has more to do with stakeholders
than the system itself. Measurable quality attributes make techies
feel good, but if statistics don't inform the stakeholders' vision
or model of quality, we think we do a good job. They think we waste
their time and money.
If we want to help stakeholders to make better-informed decisions
then we need test models that do more than identify tests. Models
must take account of stakeholder perspectives and have meaning in
the context of their decision-making.
In this talk, Paul argues strongly that the Pursuit of Quality
requires better test models and fast.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Paul Gerrard, Quality
Test Automation needs to be a service to the developers. To
enable delivery of this highly needed service, the test team needs
to focus on automation of the right test in the right order, and
always keep the stability of the automated tests in mind.
This calls for a context driven and pragmatic approach. Using test
methods and techniques within the process, testers will be able to
impact the quality (positively) by contributing to test automation
and test improvement via better design of test cases for test
automation.
Successful Test Automation is all about the daily project
processes, as well as incorporating our tests to the build
processes and hence improving the quality of our products. This can
only be achieved by using our best test tool we available. "Our
Brain"!!
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, Christian Norlyng
Often stakeholders of testing still don't see the results they
expected. Project after project I discovered that this problem in
the pursuit of quality has to do with psychology. Testers and
developers often do things for which there seems to be no rational
explanation, for various reasons they use their fantasy instead of
understanding the actual situation and thus act differently than
would be good for the project. This phenomenon is known as F.E.A.R.
I will show how this knowledge can be used to effectively increase
the mutual understanding between people. You will learn how to pay
attention to people issues and I will guide you how to prevent
encountering the point of disillusionment. Finally I will show and
explain the "graph of testers' happiness"!
Rik Marselis is one of Sogeti's most senior test consultants. Also
Rik is board member of TestNet and the Belgium and Netherlands
Testing Qualifications Board.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, Rik Marselis
You are facing testing a project called "Do or die!". The
biggest testing event - Estonia's biggest bank (Swedbank) is going
over to EURO currency. You have six months to do it. Roll-back or
postponement is not an option. You have 15 testing teams to
coordinate and you have to test ONLY the whole IT system of a bank
and Changeover to EURO process. What will you do?
I was set as an IT Test Manager for the program. I'll tell you
what I did! What happened, how we did it, what went well and not so
well are the topics to be covered during my speech, flavoured with
examples, tips & tricks for the Test Manager of the next "Do or
die!" project.
Archived as
testing, 2011 Conference, Raivo Pats
Antony Marcano, RiverGlide, UK Takes a look at three different
stories from the every-day lives of some very different people, to
see how the influences of a changing world have led to them going
beyond the constraints of traditional roles.
In this talk Antony Marcano draws on aspects of his own life
experience to take you on some unexpected journeys through life,
tradition and change.
Archived as
Testing Traditions, 2010 Conference
Monty Python's Flying Circus revolutionized comedy and brought
zany British humour to a world-wide audience.
However, buried deep in the hilarity and camouflaged in its
twisted wit, lie many important testing lessons-tips and techniques
you can apply to real world problems to deal with turbulent
projects, changing requirements, and stubborn project
stakeholders.
Rob Sabourin examines some of the most famous Python bits-"The
Spanish Inquisition" telling us to expect the unexpected, "The Dead
Parrot" asking if we should really deliver this product to the
customer, "The Argument" teaching us about bug advocacy, "Self
Defense Against Fresh Fruit" demonstrating the need to pick the
right testing tool, and a host of other goofy gags, each one with a
lesson for testers.
Archived as
, 2010 Conference, Robert Sabourin
Should testers be needed? If everything went well, if no-one
made mistakes, if nothing needed improving, then testing and
testers would not be needed.
Finding defects and failures late is more expensive than
preventing defects. Testing is not well performed in many
organisations - late, expensive, ineffective and inefficient. Time
to change our ways.
If "improvement" means late, expensive testing done faster, we
have a job for life. But instead, improving IT means having a more
rewarding job working in a professional, consultative and advisory
role.
In this talk we will discuss the need to:
- Focus on improving the service to the customer, not on improving
testing
- Focus on enabling others to improve, not on increasing the need
for our involvement
- Focus our passion on the big picture while helping others to
focus on the details
Archived as
2010 Conference, Isabel Evans
Come and enjoy my story about how I introduced Exploratory
Testing Champions at a Swedish telecom company. This was to meet
the astonishing request to implement ET in only 8 days to an
organization with 80 testers!
My presentation will give you a road map and a tool kit to
enable you to set up a similar project. What can it take to get
Exploratory testing into your current processes and ways of
working?
I present a background of the company, scope, contents and
results of the workshops, responsibilities and expectations of the
Exploratory testing Champions. I will present real facts from this
live case, schedule, comments from participants and where we are
today.
Archived as
, 2010 Conference, Henrik Andersson
The IT world is headed towards Cloud Computing. Are you ready to
move your data, applications, and services into a brand new
technology platform? Moving to the Cloud can be unnecessarily
dangerous and risky.
In this presentation, Frank Cohen delivers an immediately useful
checklist and actionable knowledge for any medium and large
organization to make the move to the Cloud. Cohen shows how to
adapt Business Service Management, Load Testing, and Application
Service Monitoring to be proven techniques, tools, and
methodologies to achieve secure and profitable IT operations in the
Cloud. Cohen shows how open source Cloud Testing tools and
processes reduce risks, increase security, and deliver service
excellence.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Cloud, Frank Cohen
Many methodologies tell us how to practice testing. Management
does not want methods; they want reliable systems and a short time
to market. When testing is on the critical path, each delay in
testing has a great impact. It is therefore important to reduce the
time killers in the test project.
During this year's presentation, I will share the results of my
quest for the causes of why we keep losing valuable testing time.
This results in a powerful checklist that indicates the areas of
attention for any tester who wants to save testing time. Learn how
to recognize the time killers in your project, create an awareness
that helps you to shorten the time to market.
With this checklist we can really help the IT-managers. It helps
them to address the challenges of the project. And the best thing
is, we testers can provide them with it!
Archived as
testing, 2010 Conference, Derk-Jan de Grood
Let's be expectation engineers!
This talk will present expectation engineering, where testers and
requirements engineers join forces and use their skills to express
the stakeholders' expectations in such a way that the expectations
not only serve as a communication platform with stakeholders, but
also serve directly as a basis for test cases to verify the
fulfillment of the expectation. This will reduce redundant work,
and enhance the chances of the development being faster and easier
(and more fun).
Archived as
2010 Conference, Anne Mette Hass
In this presentation Fredrik describes how Exploratory Testing
emerged in the MedTech company Maquet (developing life supporting
systems) which has strongly contributed to a high product quality
and a market leading product. Maquet has also cooperated with James
Bach, which has resulted in tool support of Session Based Test
Management.
Archived as
Exploratory Testing, 2010 Conference, Fredrik Rydberg
Are you spending too much time setting up test environments? Do
you have too many "can't repro" defects? Test lab virtualization
may be the answer you're looking for. It's no longer just a
promise-it can be a reality in modern test labs today.
Darshan Desai explains how to leverage virtualization to solve
some of your complex testing problems. Virtualization provides the
ability to create and share test environments quickly and do more
testing in the same amount of time. Darshan explains how
virtualization reduces the total cost of ownership of test labs and
helps you test earlier on production-like environments. More
importantly, you'll be able to file high-quality, actionable defect
reports that are reproducible for the developer.
Learn how successful teams at Microsoft use virtual test labs
and understand the best practices and the pitfalls to watch out for
when you go virtual.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Test Lab, Darshan Desai
A basic design input in the development of medical devices is a
risk analysis whose purpose is to identify possible unintended
misuse and harm to the patient when using a medical device.
Mitigations suggest means in the product design, which will
minimize the risk when using the device.
Testing medical devices is based on risk analysis in order to
convince medical authorities of the safe use of the device. If the
launched product fails anyway, it will surely lead to a mandatory
recall from the market. In order to prove process maturity to the
medical authorities, it is mandatory to apply systems for
requirement management and for configuration management. The
testing activities are part of these management systems.
Some examples of FDA (Food and Drug Administration) recalls from
the American market will illustrate the seriousness of testing
medical devices.
Archived as
Risk Based Testing, 2010 Conference, Bjarne Mansson
Stuart Reid talks about 'When Passions Obscures the Facts: The
Case for Evidence-Based Testing'
Archived as
2010 Conference, Stuart Reid
Classification trees are a structured, visual approach to
identify and categorize class partitions for test objects. They
visually document test requirements to make them easy to create and
comprehend. Julie will explain this powerful technique and how it
helps all stakeholders understand exactly what is involved in
testing and offers an easier way to validate test designs. Using
examples, Julie will show you how to create classification trees,
how to construct test cases from them, and how they complement
other testing techniques in every stage of testing. Julie will
demonstrate a free classification tree editing tool that helps you
build, maintain, display, and use classification trees.
Key points:
• The essentials to the Classification tree technique
• Why it should be considered as an essential technique in the
tester's tool box
• When and when not to use Classification Trees
Archived as
Testing Techniques, 2010 Conference, Julie Gardiner
The word Lean was originally popularized in 1990 to characterize
the Japanese approach to the automobile industry.
Although the approach in the beginning was to improve the
manufacturing industry, the ideas have been spread to authorities,
healthcare, software development and testing.
Some of the cornerstones for lean development can be summarized
as: create value for customers, eliminating waste, just in time,
demand driven output, respect for people and continuous
improvements.
Although lean has been adopted in software development methods
such as agile development and Scrum, testing has however been
regarded as support procedures to the development methods and not
using ideas directly related to the lean principles.
This presentation will show how lean, from testing point of view,
is interpreted and used by example from some organizations. This
will show that testing cannot improve by its own, but need close
cooperation with other disciplines within software and system
development.
Archived as
testing, Lean Testing, 2010 Conference, Beata Karpinska, Ingvar Nordstrom
Successful software development and testing is never accidental.
It always arises from organizations where transferring useful
information is valued and accounted for. Most organizations value
accounting as a means to report business results. Yet few
organizations use accounting for monitoring the delivery of their
IT services on a day-to-day basis.
'Test accounting' can be defined as the bookkeeping involved in
making quality records of transferring information and IT services,
and in preparing statements concerning the assets, liabilities, and
operating results of those IT services.
In this talk I will set-up a bookkeeping for testing purposes,
using accounts for disciplines and stakeholders, e.g. for Design,
Build, Testing, Business owners. I will explain how accounting
standards and measures can be applied, to end up with usable
'balance sheets' and 'result statements'.
Accounting standards teach us how to capture estimates including
their underlying planning assumptions. With that, both control and
agility are provided.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Dirk van Dael, Test Accounting
If you have ever shipped a piece of software, you probably have
your own "big bug that got away" story. Some missed bugs are
bizarre edge cases and others you have to ask how that one got
missed. In either case, it isn't so much that the bug got through
testing and out into the wild, this workshop will focus on learning
from these bugs.
In this fun and exciting workshop, Ken Johnston presents his own
Microsoft bug stories, such as the illusive "Sasquatch" and
"Billing 101" bugs that got away. Ken leads attendees to explore
root cause concepts, such as seasonality, serialization,
certification blind spots, and QoS for services.
Take away models for doing your own root cause analysis and
implementing process improvements within your team. Bring your
current bug challenges and explore others' bugs in this highly
interactive session-where you learn while commiserating your
peers.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Ken Johnston, Bugs
In Session-Based Test Management, you divide testing into chunks
you can deal with. Each chunk focuses on particular areas of
functionality, problems, usages or alike. You document the testing
done, not just what you thought you could do. You are free to get
ideas, and follow them. The tester makes the operational
decisions.
And should the tester choose to follow the 'wrong' path, the
testing is saved by the time box and the debrief. But of course at
the cost that the test manager must be engaged in the work, not
simply looking at how many test cases was run on that day.
And it's dynamic. Almost instantly a number of testers can be
directed towards new functionality, new areas of problems, new
risks. And yes - it is in fact very structured. And it's also
difficult and demanding - and rewarding.
It's a must-have in the tester's toolbox.
Archived as
Test Management, 2010 Conference, Carsten Feilberg, Session Based Test Management
The Test Kaizen - Blitz presentation will explain how ATP has
applied the principles to software testing, as a new way of looking
at "continuously" improving all ATP's test activities. I will walk
through the main processes "step by step", to show in detail how we
have used it in our test setup.
I will show how this fits into our way of getting inspiration
for process improvement, and the impact on our overall test
improvement view.
It was very important that we rewrote all of our findings, so
Management could understand the meaning of the findings and value
of the improvement areas. This was necessary in order to get
Management acceptance of the investment.
I will present our findings and how we have categorised,
prioritized and implemented them in our test organization.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Thomas Axen, Testing Principles
Daily requirements changes, continual integration of new
features, user interfaces changes and technology challenges have
become more common in today's testing projects. With the changing
dynamics, traditional testing methodologies need to change.
In this presentation Palak Kedia shares her experience and some
practical techniques to keep the testing efforts on track while
reacting to fast-paced projects with changing priorities,
technologies, and user needs. Besides this, the need of
collaboration along with the other projects teams and the need of
'independent thinker' v/s 'independent tester' are also
discussed.
Let's look at the testing challenges with a new perspective and
discover ways to take control of the situation-rather than get
controlled by it.
Archived as
Testing Techniques, 2010 Conference, Palak Kedia
Test management and testing in a program with several
distributed projects is extremely challenging and vulnerable. This
presentation will focus on how to manage different test phases
through a program owned by the department of Health in Norway, who
has the superior responsibility for the program. The presentation
will address some main issues within collaboration between
distributed projects when it comes to development, testing and
deliveries.
Projects owned by the government and projects owned by private
companies. I will talk about politics and competitions and finally
how a bicycle made people ride together.
Collaboration and trust have been important words in the contracts
between the parties in this program. Important issues to focus on
are the challenge of the collaboration when the deliveries were
late, and did we manage to focus it or was the focus directed on
competition?
Archived as
Test Management, 2010 Conference, Fiona Ring Ostenvig
We present a practical, hands-on example of how we, a combined
team of 6 test specialists, consisting of both manual- and
automated testers cooperated to create an agile yet structured,
traceable and time efficient test process involving both manual
testing and test automation.
The development team practiced SCRUM, so requirements evolved
during development. The rest of the project-organization followed a
V model approach, due to the regulatory requirements inherent in
creating a life-critical product. Thus as testers we faced the
demand for an agile yet structured and traceable test. Due to the
size and complexity of the product, it was necessary to automate
the manual tests.
The presentation will mainly focus on how we organised and
managed the process of devising expandable, flexible and
maintainable automation friendly tests rather than on the
technicalities of the automation. It will be an honest, real-life
recount of our achievements and errors we committed.
Archived as
Test Automation, Test Design, 2010 Conference, Thomas Kauders
Many testers think it is difficult to adapt and make high
quality tests in a Scrum project. The different parts of the test
process are often questioned and it is hard to maintain the
orderliness good test is founded on. During the presentation you
will get some practical tips on how you may continue your efficient
tests when you start working according to Scrum.
This presentation isn't mainly about the Scrum process, but about
how you can map traditional testing into a Scrum project. Is it
really possible to not write a test plan? How can system tests and
bug reports be handled?..
Key points:
• Practical tips on how to test in a Scrum project
• How it is possible to not write a test plan and how to handle
your bug reports in a Scrum project
• How testers can be confident about working in a Scrum team
Archived as
SCRUM, 2010 Conference, Linda Hoff
How do you deal with team members and customers who -maybe
subconsciously- jeopardise quality? What can you do to get them
'test-infected'?
In this session I will explain what and how you get a quality
driven team, by taking position from an agile perspective. In agile
teams, every step you take as a team should be the right step. As a
tester you can provide value by getting your team to do Acceptance
TDD, Unit testing, Exploratory Testing and Early Acceptance
Testing.
To get non-testers to do testing requires influencing skills.
Based on my experience, I will discuss techniques on how to
influence people. As a tester, you should be a leader!
Archived as
Agile, 2010 Conference, Anko Tijman
We live in a world where instant fulfillment has become a
buzzword in business. Everything needs to go faster and faster in
our 'online' world, including our information services. Too often,
we forget about 'slower' processes that need to be tested. These
processes, which often interface independent systems and are
sensitive to different timers, are considered impossible or very
difficult to test. They are often only tested in a system testing
phase, where real end-2-end tests would mitigate risks much
further.
This track session will show you how you can adapt your own test
automation framework to become 'Interrupt driven', using some
simple adjustments. An interrupt driven test automation framework
allows you to test your 'slow' processes end-2-end, reducing risks
in cross-system communications and ensuring correct time-related
processing. The session contains a step-by-step demonstration.
Archived as
testing, 2010 Conference, Dominic Maes
How to bridge the gap between sound independent testing and
agile methodologies like Scrum?
We DO have an issue, because a main Scrum principle is: "Trust the
Team". A Scrum sprint delivers "working software, ready for
deployment". So "no need for independent testing" may be a strongly
advocated viewpoint of Scrum people you are collaborating with. And
it makes sense! To a certain extent at least.
What's a tester's position here? Do we agree, or do we oppose? Or
something in between? Witness the discussion between a passionate
Scrum master and a passionate test manager! Be there when two
clashing viewpoints evolve into a really smart agreement on
effectively combining independent testing in a Scrum setting.
Egbert Bouman, a strong advocate of sound testing practices, and
Geert Bossuyt, a leading Scrum authority will bring you an
entertaining and valuable experience.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Geert Bossuyt, Egbert Bouman
A detailed experience report of Weekend Testing (WT) - An
innovative idea which is bringing passionate testers under one roof
would be presented. Main areas of focus would include introduction
to Weekend Testing (WT), its mission & vision, journey,
roadblocks, testimonials, achievements and future plans among other
interesting experiences to share.
What is special about Weekend Testing?
• WT is about sharing passion to improve testing skills and
contribute to software community.
• Testers are free to TEST their ideas in WT sessions; the TESTER
is the TEST MANAGER.
• Development of testing skills [Questioning, Bug hunting,
Observation, Recognizing and Clearing traps, bug Investigation,
Note taking, Collaboration, Rapid learning, Time management etc] is
given prime importance.
• WT is FREE of cost and is conducted on every weekend across
multiple chapters across the globe.
• An opportunity to share passion for SKILLED TESTING
Archived as
2010 Conference, Ajay Balamurugadas, Weekend Testing
Test-Driven Development is one of the most successful agile
development practices, which enables a higher quality code and
software based on it. Model-Driven Development aims at raising the
abstraction level of software development by shifting from
programming to modelling. While there are a number of initiatives
on Model-Driven Testing, there is a lack of initiative on promoting
Test-Driven Modelling (TDM).
In this session, we will introduce TDM by demonstrating how to
apply it to modelling the data, service, and user interface layers
of a small but illustrative case study.
TDM promotes defining examples for designed abstractions already
in the model. It enables involving quality engineers into a close
collaboration with developers by preparing sample models, which
contributes to producing better quality models and better quality
software based on these models.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Darius Silingas, Model Driven Testing, Test Driven Modelling
This presentation could have been titled - 'A passion for
testing - how a tester held a project to ransom'. With the right
focus test teams can be seen to add real value to a project instead
of being the eternal problem. Part of the problem is that with the
wrong focus test teams can actually get in the way of the
generation of good quality software.
Using case studies we will look at how we might avoid a situation
where testers could be accused of being a problem, in other words
being accused of having a negative passion for testing, and the
benefits this will bring to the whole project not just testing.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Geoff Thompson
Some of the most successful and highly regarded test teams are
comprised of individuals passionate about their role and committed
to performing at their best. Unfortunately however, testing is
sometimes viewed as a less than fulfilling role, requiring little
or no skill, and individuals enter the role underwhelmed and
unaware of the positive and rewarding challenge it can bring.
So how can individuals be inspired to be passionate about their
role as testers? Where does inspiration and passion come from? This
presentation will evaluate sources of inspiration and the power of
learning to inspire and motivate. Suggestions are provided to
assist test leads and managers in establishing continuous learning
environments.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Lynn McKee, Test Teams
The last few years have showed a large increase in the number of
organizations implementing software packages like SAP, Peoplesoft,
Siebel, Oracle and so on. Obviously organizations run huge risks
with these implementations. However, these risks are usually very
much underestimated (by the organisation, not by the testers!). The
risks are not so much in the functionality of the package as in the
implementation in the organization and in the custom-made
modifications. This presentation deals with testing in implementing
packages and with the aspects that differ from the ones appearing
in 'traditional' custom-made software.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Tim Koomen, Testing Package Solutions
This workshop will take you on a magical 90 minute journey
through seven very useful but mostly unknown tools for perception
and comprehension which will help you every day.
The tools and their techniques are easy to learn and very powerful
to use. And they will help you to master testing in the industry's
currently very demanding transition from that of a structured
V-model history to a leaner, more agile and exploratory
approach.
The techniques are;
• Gall-Peters Projection,
• Popper's Theory of Testability
• Mind Control
• The Stroop Effect
• The Necker Cube
• The Spinning Dancer
• e-prime
Archived as
Testing Techniques, 2010 Conference, Graham Thomas, Testing Tools
This presentation will show how to use open source tools for
model based testing, without having to learn complex new techniques
and/or having to invest in expensive programs.
Based on state transition diagrams and "key word" driven Excel
sheets, it is demonstrated that you can start experimenting with
model based testing. I present a method for online, offline tests
and also how to automate these tests.
This is an experimental demonstration of the tools for test- or
project managers, testers and programmers. The first half will be
general, the second half more technical.
Key points:
• Model based testing and test automation
• Using open source tools
• Demonstrating state transition diagrams for testing
Archived as
Model Based testing, 2010 Conference, Bert Zuurke
People are one of the most important ingredients in any
successful software testing venture. Building a skilful, passionate
and dedicated team can be the difference between efficient and
effective testing, compared to failing to meet test budgets,
schedules or quality goals. A key aspect of successful test team
leadership is understanding how to motivate your team, so they are
inspired to achieve successful outcomes every time.
In this presentation, practical approaches for motivating testing
teams are presented. Each approach has been implemented by test
managers and test leads around the world. These practical,
proven-in-use strategies are supported by examination of the
benefits of each approach from the test manager's and test team's
perspectives. A selection of commonly ineffective, de-motivating
techniques that should be avoided are also presented, providing
insight into strategies that typically reduce tester motivation and
result in lower quality testing.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Tafline Murnane
Whilst working as the Test Manager for one of Australia/New
Zealand's 'big 4' banks, an interesting proposal was made. The bank
wanted to introduce a voice activated staff directory system. The
bank telephone operators were directing 30,000 calls per month and
it was felt that some sort of automation could save huge amounts of
time and effort. I was asked to Test Manage this project and I
jumped at the chance.
This presentation is a journey through that project from test case
design to acceptance. I'll look at the use of traditional and new
test case design techniques in a real live situation and show how
testing at all levels can be a whole lot of fun whilst taxing the
brain to the point that 'testers block' was becoming an
issue.
It taught me a lot about myself, others and what a bit of passion,
trust and ingenuity can do.
Archived as
2010 Conference, David Hayman
This is a tour of how an award-winning computer game came to
life. It is a look behind the scenes of an uncompromising software
business where failure is not an option and testing is more than
checking for correctness.
In this talk, Dino Patti describes what it takes to bring together
creativity, innovation and a passion for excellence. Game
development naturally has a lot of unknowns, and reducing the
challenge to the core has been absolutely necessary for them to
keep the development and testing under control and the budget
within a reasonable frame. He'll talk about the principles they
used as their mantra, and explain their direct hands-on approach
and the learnings which came out of that. What are the quality
challenges? And what kind of testing is needed when simply meeting
specifications is not enough?
• The challenges in the computer game industry
• Why testing computer games is different
• How to incite creativity and passion into your teams
Archived as
2010 Conference, Dino Patti, Game Development
The work should speak for itself. We're working incredibly
hard-so hard and it's never appreciated. We just shipped a poor
quality product and no one listened. This agile testing nonsense
doesn't work; nor does it truly apply to us anyway. "They" always
seem to want "more".
Do some of these comments sound familiar to you? They do to me.
They represent a phenomena I call Status Quo or Commodity Test
Thinking. We want to believe that simply doing our jobs is
enough-but it's not. You're attending a wonderful event-focused
towards sharpening old and introducing many new skills. But what's
next?
In this keynote, Bob Galen will share methods for sharpening your
communication and marketing (yes marketing!) skills as test leaders
and testers so that your key partners better understand your role,
value and contributions. Come prepared to engage &
communicate.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Bob Galen
In the highly competitive world of mobile applications, getting
high-quality apps to market quickly can make or break the success
of a product or company. With new applications for BlackBerry,
iPhone and Android battling for media attention and consumer
dollars, the pressure to get apps built, tested and launched has
never been greater.
But the testing methods that have worked for web and desktop app
companies (e.g. in-house QA, outsourcing, emulators/simulators,
beta testers) do not meet the testing needs of mobile apps. The
testing matrices in the mobile app world are far too complex.
Companies must test their apps across handset makers and models,
wireless carriers, OS, browsers and location.
This calls for a new approach - crowdsourcing. Doron Reuveni
provides insight into the growing trend of crowdsourced testing for
mobile applications, as well as addresses the benefits &
challenges of this new model.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Doron Reuveni, Mobile App Testing
Traditional Testing R.I.P. Alternative Testing. Do we have to
test like we always have?
Archived as
, 2010 Conference, Julian Harty
This track session was the winner of the Inagural VideoSTAR
competition where prospective speakers submitted short videos on
what they wished to speak on and the testing community voted for
their favourite.
Testing teams face multiple challenges when it comes to test
planning, execution and tracking. Join C.V. Narayanan as he
explains the principles of test management such as test planning,
tool selection and the process of setting up an effective
integrated open source based test management tool set supported by
branded tools. During the session he will address the planning
& execution of tests, defect management and different types of
testing covering functional and non-functional testing using
integrated open source platforms.
Archived as
Test Management, 2010 Conference, Narayanan C.V.
How do you interpret the information you receive? Is it
complete; correct; valid; appropriate?
Critical Thinking is a skill every tester needs to do their job,
and yet it's rarely taught. This is your chance to understand the
basic concepts and practice your skills in a "safe" environment.
The topics covered in this tutorial include:
• Why we need critical thinking skills
• Ways in which language is used to get a particular message
over
• Dishonest "tricks" that can be used against us and how to spot
them
There are practical exercises and we'll conclude with a debate on
how this new skill can be applied to our everyday work related
tasks.
Archived as
, 2010 Conference, Susan Windsor, Critical Thinking
Test Axioms have been formulated as a context-neutral set of
rules for testing systems and they represent the critical thinking
processes required to test any system.
• The Axioms enumerate the key areas of test strategy and provide
a checklist of concerns to be addressed in any test approach.
• Any company can use the Axioms as the basis of context-neutral
testing assessment and to identify areas requiring improvement
without using artificial maturity levels.
• Axioms define sixteen skills areas required by testers, and
could form the basis of a tester development framework and a
certification regime that has meaning to practitioners.
• The Quantum Theory of Testing: "if evidence arrives in discrete
quanta, can we assign a value to it?
This talk will introduce the First Equation of Testing, the
Testing Uncertainty Principle, the Quantum Theory of testing,
testing Relativity and the Exclusion Principle.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Paul Gerrard
IT organizations today handle incredible amounts of complex test
data which consumes significant time and effort. Increased
outsourcing and distributed environments further add to the
complexity in streamlining and managing data for testing.
This paper presents you a practical approach to test data
management in complex test environments, offering a framework and
best practices that facilitate test data localization, test data
generation, scrubbing, masking, de-personalization, data cleansing
and data optimization.
We will also encompass the industry best practices, tools &
Frameworks that aid test data management.
Key points:
• Learn effective ways of managing the complex test data in the
distributed environments.
• Gain knowledge about various methodologies and approaches used
to efficiently handle test data.
• Cognizant's test data management framework that adopts proven
techniques to manage test data
Archived as
2010 Conference, Test Data Management, Saksham S. Sarode
During this minitrack you will be able to see a real example of
how "continuous everything" - integration, building, installation
and test automation- has been implemented in an agile and fast
changing development environment. Believe it, it's posible!
Laura is test lead of the core development line at Infojobs.net.
During the past few years she has been in charge of validating and
managing the quality of all those projects that change the
infrastructure of Infojobs' products. Maintaining the configuration
and integrity of the test environments has been one of her goals
and she is especially proud of successfully implanting test
automation within the QA team.
After only 6 years of experience in the world of testing, she is
taking advantage of a fully automated development and QA process
and she was chosen to show DEV and QA achievements at the present
conference.
Archived as
Case Study, 2010 Conference, Laura Perales
The challenges of data warehouse testing can sometimes be
underestimated, but like any other development, testing needs to
play a key part if the project is to be successful. When faced with
testing a data warehouse for the first time, how do you make sense
of the complexities of ETL applications, understand the intricacies
of the rules that need to be applied, and get to the heart of the
end-users' reporting requirements, in order to decide the best test
approach?
Based on my encounter with a major Data Warehouse project, this
presentation provides details of how a real test team went about
testing it, what they learned along the way - and how they'd do it
differently next time.
What started off as quite an intimidating testing assignment, has
transformed into an opportunity to spread the Testing word, and
utilise our tools of the trade to demonstrate effective Data
Warehouse testing.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Jackie McDougall, Data Warehouse Testing
This talk is aimed at novices and experienced practitioners
alike, and is intended to inform people about what TMMi is; where,
when and how to use TMMi (backed up by practical examples); and
most importantly why it makes sense for individuals and
organisations to apply TMMi for themselves.
The talk will cover "what is not in the textbook" by providing
insightful and diverse applications of the TMMi model. TMMi is
meant to be used by everyone in the test community, regardless of
industry and the type of software delivery approach, eg agile or
waterfall.
TMMi is NOT a stuffy formal tool aimed at experienced test
practitioners! In fact, TMMi is designed to be understood by
management, too! In closing, the talk will cover why TMMi makes
good business sense.
Archived as
TMMi, 2010 Conference, Andrew Goslin
Software Testing is the most controversial profession in
computer science. Given the lack of credible classroom training in
software testing, successful software testers have to educate
themselves, often in their spare time. Because it's crucial for
software testers to know what they are doing, testers have recently
evolved several paths to self-education.
In this session, Markus Gärtner explains alternative paths to the
knowledge a software tester needs. While traditional classroom
training provides one way to teach a professional on software
testing, several emerging techniques value collaborative learning
approaches over certification, thereby forming
communities of software testing professionals.
The session introduces the following approaches:
- Rapid Software Testing
- Testing Katas and Testing Dojos
- Weekend Testers
- Miagi-Do school of Software Testing
Archived as
2010 Conference, Markus Gärtner, Software Testing
The motivation to make this paper is the surprising result we
achieved in our organization while introducing metrics and
measurements.
The purpose of this presentation is not to give the impression
that this success story can be generalized. Success depended highly
on the culture of the company, its learning ability and its
willingness to change.
On the other hand, once past the initial resistance, the
introduction of metrics and measurements has more positive effects
than negative effects.
This made us conclude that numbers can lead to more "test" passion
and also that even sceptics can get a passion for numbers.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Stefaan Luckermans, Numbers
How do you create an effective test strategy in an environment
of constant change?
How do I know what should be tested?
What problems exist and how do I handle them?
How do I know when I have tested enough?
This presentation guides you through the common obstacles,
starting from the requirements in the elaboration of User Stories
to the creation and execution of test ideas. The test strategies
set the context in how to plan your work, select tools, create a
measurable Definition of Done, suggest efficient test methods and
techniques and how to build a good reasoning structure while
exploring the system to find the most important bugs.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Anders Claesson, Test Strategies, Agile Projects
Many test managers know they need to improve the test process in
their organisation, but are not clear how they should go about it.
How do you understand the effectiveness of your current test
processes? How do you then move forward with quick wins and prepare
for the introduction of longer term gains? This presentation will
provide you with ideas to gather the information, identify the
areas for improvement, and then show effective ways to present the
information to management with the aim to get their long term
commitment. Once change starts you will need to monitor the roll
out and impact, to gauge whether test effectiveness has improved
and the original objectives are being met.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Clive Bates, Testing Process
If you want to become a great tester with passion, you will have
to learn, train, and practice a lot of things. Sometimes people get
lost in all the learning and education stuff, and especially
putting "theoretical" concepts and topics into practice fails quite
often.
To make a difference in this session I would like to share with
you three practical, metaphoric analogy examples from different
areas that will help you to better understand, implement, and
remember the corresponding testing concepts and practices until the
end of your life.
The first example is a real-world story from engineering related
to risk-based testing. The second example is a practical experiment
that addresses the testing of non-functional requirements. The
third example is on integration testing.
Be free to share these examples afterwards with your colleagues
and stakeholders to show them excellent testing practices as one
result of your passion for testing.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Peter Zimmerer, Testing By Examples
Everybody remembers hard discussions regarding the added value
of testing. The use of a risk based approach can help you by
addressing the risks, covered via testing, but it cannot help you
in the discussion on the most optimum depth of testing.
The depth of testing in most risk based testing approaches is
based on the available budget. This budget is divided over the
prioritised risks, but will it lead to the most optimal test
approach?
In order to 'win' this discussion on the efficiency of testing,
the following question has to be answered: How can you reach the
optimum balance in testing, in that which you are testing, not too
less but also not too much?
An approach for measuring the added value of testing based on
the Juran curve will be presented.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Edwin van Loon
When the Harvard Business School launched an article 'The
Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing' not many would have
imagined that the surprise was setting up work environment where
people with autism spectrum disorder can unfold their passion for
details doing software test for the company Specialisterne (The
Specialists).
In this presentation the founder of Specialisterne will share
his experiences from channeling the untapped resources of people
with autism spectrum disorder into software testing.
You will learn about the power of passion for details, new ways of
accessing resources and about adding a new 'people' dimension to
software testing.
Archived as
2010 Conference, Thorkil Sonne
While doing research for his latest book, Gojko interviewed a
team with a 99% defect detection efficiency rate, a team that
changed from six month delivery cycles filled with problems to
daily releases without any big bugs, a team that had zero bugs in
productions over a five year period and many more examples of
fantastic quality. One of the major recurring themes in all these
stories was cancelling testing as a phase.
In this presentation, Gojko explains why cancelling testing as a
phase forces teams to be much more effective with quality assurance
and presents war stories and examples that will inspire you to
improve your testing process.
Archived as
testing, 2011 Conference, Gojko Adzic
Manual testing, exploratory testing, user acceptance testing,
integration testing, reliability testing, and so on, are techniques
that require (at least partially) a working system and because of
this they are very late arrivals in the quality game. All any of
these techniques can hope to do is point out the lack of quality.
Obviously bug removal is useful, but to be a full partner in
actually helping achieve quality in the first place, testing and
development have to be closer partners.
James Whittaker shows how to weave testing and development together
by both blurring the lines between the two roles and involving
users in the development/testing process as well in a
developer-tester-user quality partnership. In order to achieve
this, we have to throw away traditional testing artefacts like test
plans and test cases and focus only on quality activities that add
measurable value at every stage of development. James explains
these activities and shows examples of how they are performed at
Google.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, James Whittikar
Why do quality improvement initiatives so often fail? Even when
you have management buy-in, committed resources and clear
objectives, why don't your people want to change?
In 2010, the Application Services (IT) division of Deutsche Bank
decided to become a world-class IT organisation. We identified the
major areas of weakness in our delivery capability and created an
improvement programme to address them. So far so like every other
change initiative. But unlike previous, failed, transformation
programmes, this one leveraged hundreds of people throughout DB in
the definition, piloting and eventual implementation of the
programme. We did this by creating specific communities for each of
our core change areas - testing, project management, agile, and
more.
This presentation will explore our continuing journey to
world-class IT delivery - why we needed to change and how we gave
the power of change to our people; how we created communities and
how we won over the naysayers; and how we know whether we made, and
continue to make, a difference to the way Deutsche Bank works.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, Daryl Elfield
David Kolb describes four learning styles: experiment,
discovery, observation and planning. Hersey and Blanchard have
provided us with a model to describe how we can guide others. In
this presentation, we'll dive into both theories to find out why a
certain (test) approach might or might not work for you, and if
there exists a best management approach for each test style. Can we
draw any lines between David Kolb's learning cycle and the
different test approaches? What is the role of the test manager in
all of this? Can we influence the testing style of our testers by
changing the way we guide them, using Hersey and Blanchard's model
of leadership and guiding? And what guidance fits which testing
approach best?
Archived as
2011 Conference, Wim Decoutere, Michael Pilaeten
Until now, MBT has neither within Ericsson nor outside, only
been used very rarely for verification of non-functional
requirements, such as performance testing, load testing, stability
and robustness tests and characteristics measurements.
This presentation covers the work of two Master Students, who in
2010 performed a study of the possibilities to use MBT for
verifying non-functional requirements. One of the results of this
study was a new method, inspired by MPDE (Model Driven Performance
Engineering), where non-functional requirements can be covered by
test models describing the functional behaviour. Test Cases can
then be generated from these models with an MBT tool.
The new method has been tried out and evaluated. It has been
proved useful and fully applicable, and there are clear indications
that it is beneficial, and that project lead time can be reduced by
using it.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Mattias Armholt, Model-Based Testing
Traditionally, the testing community has perceived test data the
same way most organisations perceive test. Boring, time consuming
and none value-adding. But new winds are blowing. Initiated by the
complex project and test environments of today, testing departments
are now taking the first small steps to recognise the importance of
a focused test data management function. Realising that we have
long passed the good old days where a mainframe test data copy
would do the trick, challenges in implementing a TDM function in
today's complex set-ups are many and insidious.
This presentation takes its outset in experiences gained from a
TDM optimising project and provides a live demo of a self-developed
TDM tool, inspiration and guidelines in moving forward with
implementing and optimising a TDM function. The presentation - as
the project - focuses on three areas: People, Process &
Technology. Come join if you also think test data matters.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Test Data Management, Kristian Fischer, Project Quality
When being a part of a highly dynamic agile team where
requirements are changed almost weekly, it puts a high amount of
stress on the test department to keep up with test cases and
keeping those existing updated correctly.
I found my solution in mind maps, these provide a very visible and
flexible solution to the testcase challenge. I will speak about a
real life example of how mind maps helped me on my current project
to create a better test process in an agile team.
• Initial test process on the project
• Challenges in a highly dynamic agile team
• Different attempts to overcome the challenges
• New test process
• My experiences with mind maps
Archived as
Agile Testing, 2011 Conference, Martin Mussmann, Mind Maps
Quality in the software development lifecycle can be seen as
being underpinned by good Process, Tools, and People but how do you
ensure that you have a fully joined up approach to selecting staff,
establishing a knowledge management framework, and sharing
experiences?
My colleagues in France last year proposed to bring a client's
applications into our service centre and test them. My input was
required around defining test processes and tools, but something
caught my eye in their solution: a tailored customer 'academy' to
introduce new team members, and get them project ready. I had seen
academies in action before - but mainly around test analysis. This
academy encompassed customer context and culture, ongoing technical
skills, and very specific functional knowledge that staff would
have to gain.
I realised this was a compelling model for creating a test team,
that could pro-actively improve the quality of the testing (and the
software)
Archived as
2011 Conference, Jackie McDougall, Quality, Boot Camp
This presentation introduces a new practical approach to
estimating the impact of software quality and security testing to
project budget.
It is notoriously difficult to calculate the financial effects
of testing. Sometimes it is seen as an extra cost, just one more
cost item in the development budget. The problem is due to the
unsuitability to this context of the most common quantitative cost
models developed for traditional industries such as the financial
sector. It is this lack of tools that we aimed to solve with our
estimation framework. Carefully designing testing functions as a
loss prevention mechanism.
The avoided losses include unexpected downtime, the cost of
fixing critical bugs often only some time after product launch or
other phenomena caused by late discovery of errors. With good
testing, the cost can be mitigated
and our cost estimation method helps quantify the savings.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Juha-Matti Tirila, Software Quality
"Your software isn't good enough" was the assertion from the
customer. "You're being unreasonable" was the retort from the
vendor. This is not an unfamiliar scenario for those of us who have
seen the software landscape change from bespoke to prêt-à-porter
solutions during the past 15 to 20 years.
The solution was 99% ready - just 360 requirements of the original
16,000 required sign-off. This had been the situation for over 12
months. How could they be so close and yet so far away? How we
achieved (what appeared impossible just seven months earlier) is
the story I will tell at EuroSTAR 2011. How we turned "your
software isn't good enough" into "we're going live next Saturday"
will never be a Nordic legend, but it will be remembered as the
project that saved a software vendor from bankruptcy and another
major city from a multi-million dollar failure.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, Colin Cherry
The IT and testing world is accelerating to a complete new era
and migrating towards servicing and sourcing, provided in the
cloud. There is no time to lose. In the tradition of the testing
world we are already late. Architects, designers, developers and
suppliers are working day and night to provide the technology and
infrastructure for the cloudy future of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, in fact
the real Internet age.
Since all testing in the cloud is end-to-end, the testing
challenges are huge! Cloud brings you flexible performance and
storage. But what about the continuity, availability, elasticity
and controllability of these cloud services that are delivered
through the insecure minefield called internet? Cloud Computing
introduces a new set of quality requirements, at different levels
e.g. at the level of the software supplier, at the level of the
internet and at the end-to-end level. So in short: how to test the
cloud?
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, Kees Blokland, Cloud Computing
This mini-presentation is the story of my own personal journey
from Waterfall to Agile - increasingly frustrated at organisational
silos and ill-suited development processes in the large
corporations I worked in, I'd spotted a job that promised to be
different in almost every way. I'd heard plenty about Agile: the
greatest thing ever, ever, ever in the whoooole history of the
planet, over-hyped, hostile to testers, tester heaven, just another
way of selling expensive consultants and training, 100% automation
no manual testing at all ever, yes there is manual testing but they
don't value exploratory, not only is there exploratory testing but
it's crucial to Agile.
What would I find? Would I like it? Could a manual tester really
be useful? I'll talk about how I found myself fitting into the
team, what skills I found myself using, and skills traditional
testers might be surprised to know they already have.
Archived as
Agile, 2011 Conference, Anna Baik
Professors from around the world discovered happiness as new
topic for their studies. In the IT world we also often hear that we
have to bring happiness to all stakeholders. In short: quality of
life (another description for happiness) has a lot of studies to
offer. They are based on psychology, sociology and the world of
medicine. During our trip through the world of happiness we
discover how to bring the quality to the software testing life. We
start with the reptilian brain, pass by The Popsicle Index and
learn how the 'zero tolerance for digital failure' and 'good enough
technology' go together in the New Normal. Mindfulness can help us
to fight depression during the development lifecycle of a software
project. Come with a beginner's mind to this refreshing session
about everything you didn't know about quality in real life. So you
can implement it in software testing life!
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, Jeroen De Cock
"Houston we have a problem"
Prevent the surprise, become a pro-active test manager. Too often
projects suddenly seem to spin out of control. Challenges and risks
keep stacking up and the defect count grows exponentially. At the
same time management pressures you.
A surprise? Not really, defects only paint half the picture. The
test effort, after all, is primarily determined by the number of
tests that need to be completed. For an instant and accurate view
on the testing and quality, we need to organize the test process to
provide flexible, up-to-date metrics and trends at a daily
basis.
In addition, early involvement and preparation in the development
life cycle, performing test intakes rather than reviews, will help
you bridge the gap between different development teams and allows
you to verify consistency between business requirements up to
technical specifications.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Rvan Vugt
This tells the story about the insurance company decision to
outsource most of its IT development and technical maintenance to
suppliers. This demanded new requirements to testing and quality
ensuring in the company and raised a lot of questions:
- How do we ensure that suppliers perform a test for a quality
solution?
- Responsibilities between supplier and customer?
- How do we ensure effective testing -Supplier and tester?
- What are the test criteria and reporting model?
- How do we ensure that test material used by one supplier for
development can be re-used by another supplier for maintenance
testing in future?
- How is defect handling, test reporting etc. best done between
supplier and customer?
From these questions, the company formulated a new test model
and test policy which includes setting test and quality
requirements for the supplier. The presentations display the model
and how it was implemented.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Gitte Oberbossel, Testing Quality
Social Networking is the most significant development in
computing in recent years. Can this paradigm be applied to software
development? What better way to communicate to a group of people
than the current "Wall" metaphor used in social networking
sites.
• When the business analyst finalizes requirements, she posts it
on the wall. Everyone on the team can review it, comment and 'like'
it.
• When a shelveset is sent for code review, all team members are
informed and can review and read the comments.
• The tester is plugged into the social pulse of the development
team. She knows why design choices were made. When she files a bug,
she is aware of related issues. She can now review how her bug was
fixed.
• The team knows what the top issues being reported by the
customer are. Information flow is seamless. The team is connected
as never before. Net result: Quality software.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Mathew Aniyan, Social Software Development
Stop talking about how great changes can be made by focusing
either on Methods, People or Processes. The only way to make
persistent change includes working with Methods AND People AND
Processes e.g. having the best tools and top motivated people, will
not ensure a persistent change, if it does not fit into the
organization's processes.
This presentation provides a new view on Change Management and
explains the importance of working with all three aspects:
- Methods/tools
- People
- Processes
on all organizational levels:
- Strategic
- Tactic
- Operational
The maturity level of the organization is another aspect that has
a great influence on how and what changes can be made successfully.
The presentation will include important lessons learned from
maturity models and how Metrics can be used on different maturity
levels.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Torben Hoelgaard
The levels 2 and 3 of TMMi, the successor of TMM, was launched
in 2008. By now, the company of the presenter has performed almost
20 assessments, most informal assessments. Assessments were
performed in telecom, utilities, financial services and (semi)
government. The first conclusions about the maturity of testing (in
the Netherlands) can now be drawn.
In the presentation, the structure of TMMi will be introduced
briefly, as well as the way the assessments where done. Then the
results will be presented, as well as the conclusion. The overall
picture is that test process improvement is something testers do in
there cave. To improve rigorous testing we have to get out of our
cave. At the end of the presentation instructions are given on how
to do this.
Archived as
TMMi, 2011 Conference, Jan Jaap Cannegieter
My first EuroSTAR conference really opened up my eyes. I learned
that the real challenge of testing is not finding the defects and
fixing them, but catching the bugs as soon as possible, preferably
before they sneak into the product being built.
However, this is easier said than done. I saw projects fail
because during acceptance test all kinds of problems suddenly came
out of the blue. I heard project managers complain about testers
delaying the project because they found too many defects.
Still I never forgot the lesson from that first EuroSTAR.
Convinced that prevention is better than cure, I apply some simple
principles that really work. It comes down to building a good
relationship and working together with business users, developers,
architects & designers, operations and 3rd party suppliers.
Hey, that's why I like testing so much!
During this presentation I will show you lots of tips and
examples.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Gerlof Hoekstra, Defect Prevention
Why is the latest thinking in motivation so different from the
'carrot and stick' approaches that have been used as long as we can
remember? What makes reward-driven approaches with incentivised
bonuses reduce productivity? At this workshop you will gain a
practical introduction to the latest motivation theories and see
how they can be applied to testers.
But do you trust new theories with one of the most important
aspects of the job? Not only will this workshop contrast the new
theories with the tried and tested approaches that have been around
since the first bug was found, it will also present the results of
a multi-national tester motivation survey designed to answer just
these questions. We will see how actual test practitioners respond
to various situations, consider the practices testers say work best
for them, and see whether the testing discipline is ready to adopt
21st century motivation practices.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Stuart Reid, Tafline Murnane
Do you struggle with choices on what to test, what not to test,
and how thoroughly to test? Difficulty in finding the right balance
between test thoroughness and time/money? Tired of being blamed by
the customer for insufficient quality? Then this presentation is
for you!
Designing and executing a risk-based test strategy is one of the
most challenging tasks for the tester/test manager. In this
tutorial you will learn how to do this and how to involve the
customer (i.e. business user or project manager) in this.
An important instrument is a product risk analysis. Based on this
break-down of the system under test into smaller parts and quality
characteristics, with risk-tags attached, you will learn how to
define a test strategy. The next step is to estimate the effort
required for the testing and to make a planning for the test
activities.
Risk-based test strategies will be discussed for several practical
situations like waterfall and agile development, maintenance
situations and package implementations.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Tim Koomen, Risk-Based Test Strategy
In 2010 the Danish PBS and the Norwegian BBS companies merged
into NETS converging into the leading provider of solution for
payments, cards and information within Northern Europe.
Each company had its test process defined, established, proved and
operational. Denmark worked on a waterfall based model; whilst
Norway used a process built on scrum principles. As part of the
merge, management decide that Nets will have one single
IT-landscape, ergo one test process.
The test team's first priority is striving for quality, so this
story does not deal with test teams' conflicts or management
decisions to make two different processes fit together. At this
point testers, business, process people, IT architect and
developers had worked in partnership to achieve the "One
IT-landscape" process and ensure quality.
Squeezing two antagonistic approaches into one single process and
collaboration to achieve a common project lifecycle will set the
basis for this presentation.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, Fabian Scarano
This case study has taken place at a medical equipment
manufacturer. The product developed was a medical x-ray device used
during surgery operations.
The presentation describes the approach to developing an automatic
testing framework in order to execute reliability test cases. To
achieve the control of the system-under-test, the existing hardware
interfaces (physical buttons, handswitches and footswitches) were
used to inject the system with actions (using LabVIEW).
The log files from the system were used to extract information
about the performed actions and failures in order to measure the
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of different critical system
functions (like start-up of the system, and image acquisition). The
Crow-AMSAA model for reliability measurements has been chosen to
report reliability metrics to the organization. A
Return-On-Investment calculation has been performed to get buy-in
from senior management.
The presentation explains the points which were crucial for the
success of this approach.
Archived as
Case Study, 2011 Conference, Bryan Bakker, Reliability Testing
Agile teams invest heavily in automated functional tests. When
done well, this investment is paid back with fast feedback enabling
teams to release software quickly and often. By structuring tests
in the right way, teams can further leverage this investment by
using these tests as a platform for exploratory testing that could
find issues a regression test suite won't.
This talk will cover the process and benefits of creating
automated regression tests (or checks) that can be reused to
support exploratory testing. Concepts and practices will be
described within the context of agile teams. The main focus of the
talk will be to provide an overview and demonstration of techniques
that will allow testers to utilise automated functional tests to
support exploratory testing. The benefits of this approach will
also be discussed.
Archived as
Agile, 2011 Conference
The intent is to share the experiences with the industry on how
to build an effective testing team and also provide them with
sufficient levels of challenges to keep them motivated to work
together. This paper does not narrate the standard testing process
followed in the project, but will focus on all the innovative
practices followed by the testing team in order to improve testing
efficiency and make the testing team work closely with each other
to achieve the goal.
A really crucial aspect of effective teamwork is being able to
communicate well with one another. This requires the following
skills: active listening, negotiation skills, non-verbal
communication awareness and patience. (E2)Q + p + P = TW - Applying
this formula will primarily allow the testing team to focus and
ensure that the components are delivered with the best of quality.
The main objectives of this formula are to Meeting the deadline,
Quality of deliverables and Continuous improvement.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Test Teams, Quality, Malini Mohan Kumar
Mixing open source and commercial software is a challenge we
face today. The right combined solution offers advantages in
flexibility, functionality, performance, and management that aren't
available when either open source or commercial technologies are
used alone. In this presentation we will provide a case study of
successful blending open and commercial software for testing Java
applications. The testing environment consisted of using
Subversion, JIRA and in mixing IBM Rational Functional Tester with
an open framework for functional, regression and GUI testing. These
tools provide a rich set of Java API useful for integrating with
each other, by minimizing the integration costs. During the
presentation, we will explore the costs, the advantage, the risks
and the product's quality achieved by our solution. By our
experience, we will provide some hints and tips to choose a good
mix between open and commercial tools based on: budget, technology,
know-how and requested quality.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Mauro Garofalo
I don't believe there is an industry wide definition of "good
tester" that fits every situation; but I do believe good testers
exist, and that they are very special and valuable individuals!
I'll share what I believe constitutes a good tester in different
situations and you can identify how this relates to your
world.
As for wanting to be a good tester, I will ask why wouldn't you!
It's our work that provides the most valuable management
information on the planet; gives confidence to stakeholders that
their system is going to bring the benefits they want; and the
skills we need to cover the entire project life-cycle. If only we
could unlock our minds from the others try to constrain us
with.
We'll consider how your organisation can identify people to target
for a career move into testing. Maybe you'll identify how to
improve your own career prospects too!
Archived as
2011 Conference, Susan Windsor
Ben Walters Keynote, Director of Program Management Visual
Studio Test and Lab Management, Microsoft Corporation
Archived as
2011 Conference, Ben Walters
As testers, does our zeal sometimes cause us to miss the big
picture of what the customer and the business really need? Do we
focus on software quality at the expense of human and commercial
factors? "Quality in use" measures human, business and societal
impacts. This includes usability, accessibility, and flexibility
for the customer and business, as well as commercial, human and
environmental safety. For the people selling, supporting or using
the products, this is the beating heart of the customer experience.
How well are people supported to efficiently and efficiently carry
out their tasks? Is the product accessible to all the people who
want to use it? Without the big picture, software will not be
acceptable, will not keep our organisations in profit, and may not
be legal. The benefits of designing in and testing these attributes
will increase the marketplace for our products and services.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Isabel Evans, Quality
State-of-the-art testing approaches include different testing
levels, for example unit testing done by developers and system
testing by professional independent testers. But, who is
responsible to adequately test the architecture which is one of the
key artifacts in developing and maintaining flexible, powerful, and
sustainable products and systems? History has shown that too many
project failures and troubles are caused by deficiencies in the
architecture. Furthermore, what does the term architecture testing
mean and why is this term seldom used?
To answer these questions, Peter describes what architecture
testing is all about and explains a list of pragmatic practices and
experiences to implement it successfully. He offers practical
advice on the required tasks as well as the needed involvement of
software architects in the area of testing.
If we claim to be in pursuit of quality then adequate architecture
testing is not only a lever for success but a necessity.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Peter Zimmerer
Kristina L. Tangen's presentation on Experiences from project
PERFORM.
Kristina L. Tangen, Test Manager - Steria's Deliveries to
PERFORM
Archived as
2011 Conference, Kristina L Tangen
I looked at my cards. 2 Aces. The best hand possible to have in
poker on an empty board. At this point there is no risk that I can
be beaten. I decide to exploit the situation. Get as much value as
possible, but not letting my opponents know I have a good hand. So
I wait until all cards are dealt before making my move. As it turns
out, I got beaten by someone who has made a straight. What
happened? I had the best hand, I evaluated the risk and still lost.
The reason is obvious, the board changed 3 times, and with each
extra card, my risk of losing also changed. And I did not adapt.
There are quite a few game tactics that deal with risks and risk
responses. What if we can map those tactics to Risk Based Testing?
Can we improve our process based on those successful game
tactics?
Archived as
2011 Conference, Jurgen Cleuren
Many management theories speak about "Lean" as being one of the
solutions to obtain more efficient processes. One of the key steps
in using "Lean" is the identification of which steps add value for
the client and which do not. This track will explore the use of
"Lean" within testing and more specifically within test management.
The presenter will follow the "Lean manufacturing process", the
generic process management philosophy derived from the Toyota
Production System, in combination with Six Sigma as being one of
the more popular theories that introduces the concept of "Lean" in
combination with obtaining higher quality products. Using various
examples, the presenter will explore if and how elements from Lean
and Six Sigma may be applied to test management processes using
real life experience. The audience can take home a practical "Lean
Test Management" overview which they can apply in their own
companies.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Bob van de Burgt
As a tester, how do you effectively report your work in a way
that is most meaningful to management? One way is to provide
stories that prompt conversation and questions. Managers claim that
they want to know about the progress of testing--but is that what
they really want? Probably not. More than anything else, managers
want to know about threats to the project schedule.
The good news is that one of the most basic forms of data
display--a table--can easily show this information in a way that is
clear, concise, and compelling.
In this presentation, Michael Bolton takes you on a detailed
tour of a straightforward, easily-maintained testing dashboard that
is designed to keep the entire project team informed of product
status and testing activity, to foster productive conversation, and
to help prompt focused questions from management.
Archived as
Michael Bolton, 2011 Conference
Making mistakes is part of being human, so the probability of
writing software without any defects is low. Instead of aiming for
no defects, perhaps we should place more importance on finding
defects and getting rid of them before we leave the development
phase.
In this talk, Alex looks at including automated functional tests
from the customer perspective as a way of shortening the defect
feedback cycle. The resulting best practices can be used in agile
and traditional projects to discover and remove errors early on.
Using examples, Alex looks at strategies to stop defects "escaping"
by focusing on four areas:
• defining acceptance criteria and test specifications
• automating black box tests
• using continuous integration to gain information
• reacting to test results
In conclusion, she examines the advantages and disadvantages as
well as the "holes" that defects could nevertheless use to escape,
and suggestions to plug them.
Archived as
Test Automation, 2011 Conference, Alexandra Schladebeck
New and emerging technologies such as mobile apps, tablets, 4G,
cloud computing, and HTML5 are making big headlines and impacting
software engineering and testing organizations. These technological
innovations are allowing sensitive data to be accessed through the
web and on mobile devices more than ever before.
With so much critical data flowing to smart phones and tablets,
there is immense pressure to ensure that apps are reliable,
scalable, private and secure. This evolution of technologies and
user behaviour dramatically impacts those who are responsible for
developing and testing applications.
The ways web and mobile apps are designed, developed and delivered
are changing dramatically, and therefore the ways these apps are
being tested are being stretched to the breaking point. Using
real-world examples, Doron Reuveni identifies the top ten
technology trends that have transformed the software industry and
outlines what they mean for the QA and testing community today.
Archived as
2011 Conference, John Montgomery
"Your project is put on hold" A message a lot of us have
received in the past, but why?
This workshop hast the aim to show that too much waste can bring a
project in trouble and to make people aware that waste must be
treated as a problem. The first part will categorize waste with the
help of audio visual effects. The second part is a problem solving
session.
Throughout the workshop, the audience is asked to share their
experience and their opinion on what causes waste, resulting in a
list of possible solutions to stay aware of waste and to keep the
level of waste acceptable.
As a conclusion of the workshop, the relationship is highlighted
between a traditional test approach and an agile test approach by
emphasizing the role waste plays in differentiating the two test
approaches.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Dominic Maes, Stefaan Luckermans
Some people thrive on challenges, while others struggle with how
to deal with them. Handled well, challenges can make us stronger in
our passion, drive, and determination. Lloyd Roden describes the
challenges we face today in software testing and how we can respond
in a positive, constructive manner.
One of the challenges Lloyd often sees is identifying and
eliminating metrics that lie. While we (hopefully) do not set out
to deceive, we must endeavour to employ metrics that have
significance, integrity, and operational value. Another challenge
test leaders face is providing estimates that have clarity,
accuracy, and meaning. Often we omit a vital ingredient when
developing test estimates.
A third challenge is convincing test managers to actually test
regularly to attain credibility and respect with the team they are
leading. A further challenge is to see why the use of the term
"best practice" can be so damaging.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Quality, Llyod Roden
Acceptance test driven development (ATDD) is an important agile
practice merging requirement gathering with acceptance testing. In
its core are concrete examples, created together with the team,
that provide collaborative understanding and, as automated
acceptance tests, make sure that the features are implemented
correctly.
Robot Framework is an open source test automation framework
suitable for ATDD and acceptance testing in general. It has
flexible test data syntax that also non-programmers can use and
the simple test library API makes extending the framework easy. The
rich ecosystem around the framework contains, for example, a
separate test data editor, several generic test libraries (web
testing, Swing, databases, Windows GUIs, SSH, ...) and plugins to
common build and continuous integration tools.
This presentation gives an introduction both to ATDD and Robot
Framework. It contains different demonstrations and all the
material will be freely available after the presentation.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Pekka Klarch, Janne Harkonen
How to test mobile Apps
"There's an app for everything". Development is moving quickly and
testing needs to keep up: in pursuit of quality. But how to test an
App? Not only do we need to comply to customer requirements, we
also have to deal with new aspects like "store acceptance". Stores
apply an extensive, growing list of acceptance criteria, which need
to be incorporated in the testing process.
Test complexity increases with the growing number of mobile
devices that need to be supported. How to cope with that? To enable
early technical testing, simulated test environments are made
available by the mobile manufacturers, e.g. for portability
testing.
Apps are "cloudy" solutions for modern functional problems. This
requires dedicated end-to-end testing! Functional and technical,
but also non-functional.
Testing has to redefine its position in the App development
process.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Jeroen Mengerink, Mobile Apps
In 2007 I took my first steps in a program for the High Speed
Train called 'Fyra' in the Netherlands. I was hired for the
End-to-End testing of the vending, control and financial
systems.
I used a generic test plan and generic approach, but the execution
was done on a pragmatic basis. I used knowledge of both 'schools'
in testing. I adapted 'standard stuff' to cope with the complexity
and agility within the project and changed components when I
learned something new. I had new, existing and changing components
in my 'chain'. It took a lot of adaptability, on-the-spot risk
analysis, re-planning, expectance management, communication and
politics.
As an attendee of this track you get to hear about hands-on
experiences in an end-to-end test and how I applied theory I
learned in practice, including the anecdotes that no experience
talk can do without. Tale from the trenches AND the books.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Nathalie Rooseboom de Vries van Delft
In this talk I will discuss the evolution of my company from a
rudimentary Agile implementation on an unreleased data archiving
product, to our current process which uses the fundamental elements
of Specification By Example to successfully deliver software to a
series of high profile customers. By examining the team's progress
in the context of an evolution, the talk will discuss the lessons
learned during the early implementation and the challenges faced in
moving away from a compressed waterfall approach.
I'll explain how raising the status of testing has allowed us to
adopt a process of "collaborative specification" of user stories
between developers and testers and to ensure that testability
issues are addressed as a team. I'll also discuss how having a set
of automation principles has helped us to develop our own test
harnesses towards a self documenting system using realistic
customer examples as "Automated Specifications" of the system.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Adam Knight
When testing based on the requirements and focusing solely on
the features being implemented, we tend to forget an important
perspective - whether the system fits for its purpose. We need to
take testing one step further - to walk a mile in the user's boots
- to understand and to test based on intensive domain knowledge. In
Systematic we discovered this need when developing a command and
control system for the army, and we decided to take testing to the
trenches - to implement operational testing of the system. We
already used domain advisors extensively when designing the system
in order to ensure the users voice being heard, but now we took it
one step towards REAL use and REAL users, designing and executing
large operational scenarios with the use of REAL operational users.
In this presentation you will be introduced to the process we went
through and the results this leads to.
Archived as
2011 Conference, Gitte Ottosen, Operational Testing
The move from a waterfall to agile is not straightforward for
experienced testers. You need to throw away your old process
(=Revolution) and then improve the new process constantly
(=Evolution). Usually, it is not possible to have a full scale
revolution at once. That makes the evolution even more important.
An effective approach to speed up the evolution is to take the
seven wastes of lean management as a guideline.
This presentation is my diary for test process improvement,
spanning from EuroSTAR 2010 in Copenhagen to the 2011 conference in
Manchester. It highlights the evolution of three agile teams in a
Finnish major company.
Waste is often produced by applying good practices in the wrong
place. It can also be caused by very practical things like bad
seating arrangements. However, the biggest waste is to optimize the
wrong things - e.g. the detection of defects instead of their
prevention.
Archived as
Test Process, 2011 Conference, Tapani Aaltio