MetaAutomation presented by: Matt Griscom See Matt’s book on Amazon.com Regression testing automation provides an important measure of product quality and can keep the quality moving forward. Unfortunately, automation can take a long time to run, and automation failures generally must be debugged and triaged by the test automation team before any action item can […]
Low-Tech Acceptance Test Driven Development Presented by Kevin Klinemeier “The customer does not like what we made this week” is a bigger problem than “The customer does not like what we made this morning”. But the natural inclination of programmers is to program until they are out of one of the following: time, features, or […]
How Many Hammers Do I Need? Presented by Jeffrey Copeland Nineteenth-century writer Thomas Carlyle noted “Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” Jeffrey Copeland has lately been considering the contrapositive: is someone with too many tools less effective? For our current purpose, the question becomes “how many […]
Scientific Basis for Testing with Immediate Implications, Scott Gibson This presentation addresses the core fundamentals of QA that are often misunderstood and misapplied. What is the purpose of software testing? How should testing professionals operate to achieve this purpose? A scientific approach to testing using the scientific method and empirical falsification will be presented with […]
From Tester to Evangelist: Finding a calling in Live Site Quality, Jon Bach, eBay In December 2010, Jon Bach felt at the top of his game when it came to testing projects at Quardev. As Manager for Corporate Intellect, his job was to inspire confidence that any client would be impressed at the array of […]
Lightning Talks We had some great speakers and topics: Zephan Schroeder, Microsoft :: Batman Returns! – Test tools selection and tooling philosophy revisited In March Zephan outlined a set of “Software Testing Tools” including categories, curation, a mind map draft, and some interactive discussion related to test tool selection and use. Zephan is back to […]
