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eBook

Test Automation Anecdotes

Dorothy Graham & Mark Fewster

Software test automation has moved beyond a luxury to become a necessity. Applications and systems have grown ever larger and more complex, and manual testing simply cannot keep up. This…
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The Benefits and Practice of Early Lifecycle Performance Testing

Paul Herzlich

Creative Intellect Consulting UK is constantly monitoring adoption of software and best practices. In this paper the benefits and challenges of early life-cycle testing for a cluster of technical test…
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Smarter Quality Management: The Fast Track to Competitive Advantage

Moshe Cohen

Organizations that create and deliver software-whether for their own IT operations, for the packaged applications market, or as the core of their final product, as in the systems space-must grapple not…
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Taking Your Team in the Iterative Direction

Erik Boelen

This eBook tells the story of an 'action/reaction' situation Erik's test team encountered in a non-iterative environment, being 'forced' to work in small cycles. The eBook addresses three critical issues in software…
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Specification by Example

Gojko Adzic

We automate specifications to get fast feedback, but our primary goal should be to create executable specifications that are easily accessible and human readable, not just to automate a validation…
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Performance Testing, a Practical Guide and Approach

Albert Witteveen

No matter what performance test tool you use, the basics are the same. We describe how to define if the test focuses on the ability to handle the expected load,…
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Key Zones of Growth Applied to Testing

Erik talks about the three key zones (Comfort, Stress and Panic) connected to growth. If you look at yourself as a person, it is only by applying the theory behind…
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Keys for Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Testing

Bob Galen

It can be difficult to know know what solid testing is all about within agile teams. What traditional practices are fine to continue, which ones need modification, and what totally…
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The Mindset Change for an Agile Tester

Janet Gregory

On traditional projects, testers tend to join the project after coding has started, or sometimes almost finished. Testers and programmers may not communicate except through the defect tracking system. On…
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Lessons Learned from Many years of Managing Testing

Johanna Rothman

Rothman shares her lessons learned in 20 years of software testing, and suggest how you can adapt those lessons, whether you are working on a traditional or agile project. Key…
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9 Characteristics of Agile Methodologies to Turbo-charge Your Testing

Rex Black

Discover characteristics of Agile Methodologies to turbo charge your testing in this webinar. Every life cycle affects testing, and Agile is no exception. A number of elements of the Agile…
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NIMBLE: The Best Agile Method Since Sliced Bread

John Watkins

There seems to be a serious temptation for testing practitioners to spend far too much of their (already precious) time re-inventing and re-labeling testing methods and processes. Often this can…
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Live Specifications: From Requirements to Automated Tests and Back

Paul Gerrard

In the Agile community, Acceptance-Test Driven Development (ATDD), Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Specification by Example are gaining greater acceptance as an effective approach to developing systems of…
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Lessons Learned in Test Management

Bob van de Burgt

After an introduction of the full breadth of the Test Management Model, the webinar will focus on the combination of Risk & Requirement Based Testing, defining successful test strategies based…
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Co-Leadership – How Being a Leader is Within Your Reach

Bram Bronneberg

How many of us see ourselves as Leaders? Can you state outright that you are a Leader? Leadership isn't for the happy few; it's for all of us. Everyone in…
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Acceptance Testing in Agile – What Does it Mean to You?

Fran O’Hara

With sequential lifecycles like the V-model, the main interpretation of 'Acceptance' is usually User Acceptance Testing. In the more iterative/incremental approach of Agile, the word 'acceptance' has a different meaning.…
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What Agile Teams Can Learn From World of Warcraft

Alexandra Schladebeck

World of Warcraft and agile teams have many parallels in terms of role distribution, team-building, task management and communication. This talk starts by looking at concepts from WoW with direct…
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Seven Questions to Help You on the Path of Testing

Jean-Paul Varwijk

In this presentation I aim to provide a number of handholds for testers to use in this changing environment. I will do this by showing how to get and how…
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Test script-free validation in a regulated environment: Kanban Style

Andy Glover

Software development and testing practices have gone through a revolution since Agile came into the scene. Buzz words such as scrum, user stories, Kanban, lean and test driven development are…
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Thinking Strategically About Testing

Fiona Charles

To test software effectively, you need to have a strategy. That's true whether you are testing a minor feature, an entire application or an integrated suite of applications.
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The Search for Surprises

James Lyndsay

In this talk, James Lyndsay identifies and illustrate approaches that help you to root out the ways that working software misbehaves. We'll put these approaches in context by describing emergent…
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The Confidence Game – What is the Mission of Testing

Keith Klain

It is extremely important that testers understand and adhere to their mission, so why wouldn't the mission of testing be confidence? Shouldn't we want to have confidence in our products?…
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Development and Testing for the New Style of IT

Michael Cooper & Toby Marsden

Today's consumers have grown up with the expectation that their digital experience is mobile, always-on, and easily enhanced. Consequently, we face a new style of IT that forces everyone involved…
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Emerging Trends in Testing: Conclusions from the 2013-2014 World Quality Report

Makarand Teje & Michael Cooper

How does your company stack up to the industry in software quality and testing? For instance, did you know that, despite the rapid rise in mobile testing (from 31% in…
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How To Solve Testing Problems Without Solving Them

Bart Vrenegoor

We get challenged daily by all sorts of problems, like unstable test environments, unclear documentation or missing test strategies. These are problems we encounter very often! Luckily for us, it…
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Test Improvement for Agile

Jeroen Mengerink

When we want to improve our testing, we need to question testing. But what are the right questions to ask in an Agile context? Current TPI models have proven to…
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eBook

In Pursuit of Quality

Geoff T. Dorothy G. Bob B Stuart R.

Each year, the EuroSTAR Conference Programme Chair selects a theme for the conference and this year our Programme Chair Geoff Thompson chose 'In Pursuit of Quality. EuroSTAR Conference has seen some…
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eBook

Test Strategies in Agile Projects

Anders Claesson

Agile development methods are becoming more and more common in our projects. The objective is to achieve higher quality and shorter lead times with minimal overhead. A well defined agile…
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Working Ourselves Out of a Job – A Passion for Improvement

Isabel Evans

This paper asks what is the purpose of a tester? Are we really needed? Should we be needed? If everything went well, if no-one made mistakes, if nothing needed improving,…
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eBook

Integrate Test Activities in Agile Projects

Leo van der Aalst & Rik Marselis

In traditional testing a tester distinguishes various phases. To be able to effectively test in Agile projects the test activities should be properly integrated in an Agile approach. This eBook…
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In Pursuit of Quality in Testing

In this eBook, Geoff Thompson and previous EuroSTAR Programme Chairs including Bob van de Burgt, Dorothy Graham, Jens Pas and Stuart Reid have each contributed an article in relation to…
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Get Rid of the Fixing Phase

Rik Marselis & Ewald Roodenrijs

Do you often hear complaints about testing taking too long and costing too much? We investigated and found that the testing itself was not the problem. Recently, we were asked…
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EuroSTAR Community and Conference 2012 – A Year in Review

Take a look back at 2012 with our EuroSTAR Community & Conference: Year in Review eBook. Access ebooks and recorded webinars from some of the top professionals, photos, videos and…
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Playing Around With Risks / Situational Leadership Styles on Test Approaches

Jurgen C. Wim D. & Michael P.

In this special edition EuroSTAR Conference eBook, you will find two papers received to accompany speaker presentations, one given by Jurgen Cleuren, and the second co-presented by Wim Decoutere &…
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eBook

Agile Testing – How to Succeed in an Extreme Test Environment

John Watkins

This eBook, edited specifically for the EuroSTAR Software Testing Community, provides a series of extracts from my successful book on "Agile Testing" published by Cambridge University Press. Based on more…
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eBook

A Lucky Shot at Agile

Zeger Van Hese

This paper describes life as a tester in a team of agile rookies: the context - a major healthcare IT company - and what agile did and didn't do for…
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eBook

HP Better Outcomes Faster Results

HP

Every organization wants faster delivery. The starting point for this journey will vary, but for nearly every organization the destination will be continuous delivery of business value. Evaluating your current…
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Other

Sources of Practical Learning for Software Testers

Although there are many theoretical schools of learning in software testing, there are no central places to develop the relevant practical and technical skills to help us fulfill our testing…
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Blog Post

Upgrading Your Testing Skills: Tester 2.0

Tester 2.0 is presented by Tapani Aaltio. As the waterfall era is fading out, new skills are demanded of testers. Since these new skills are quite different from what the…
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Common Misunderstandings in Agile Projects

For any software development project, developers and testers are the critical contributors. Historically, developers and testers have worked in silos, using their own incompatible tools and sometimes in conflict with…
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Podcast

Testing Dojos

Markus spoke about alternatives paths for self education for testers at EuroSTAR 2010 in Copenhagen. One of these alternative paths is to participate in a 'Testing Dojo.' Listen and learn…
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Webinar

Unburdening Testing – Finding the Balance Point for Test Documentation

Fiona Charles

Do you believe you have to produce too much documentation for your testing? Too little? Or just about the right amount? Do you find yourself mired in wasteful effort filling…
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Webinar

Agile Test Management

Bob Galen

Much of the focus with testing in an agile environment has been on practices/techniques and tools but what about Test Management? Test Managers want to know what happens to their…
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Lessons Learned From Being A Casualty Simulation Victim

Nathalie van Delft

Nathalie is always pursuing quality, not only in her job, but also in her hobbies. Her biggest hobby is being a Casualty Simulation Victim, which is basically testing first-aiders and…
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Session-Based Testing in Practice

Carsten Feildberg

In this talk session-based testing will be introduced and discussed. One of the context-driven testing principles is that there is no best practice, only good practices in context. However, session-based…
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Working Ourselves Out of a Job: A Passion for Improvement

Isabel Evans

What is the purpose of a tester? Are we really needed? Should we be needed? If everything went well, if no-one made mistakes, if nothing needed improving, then testing and…
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Webinar

Early Test Involvement to The Extreme – Merging Requirements Engineering and Testing

Anne Mette Hass

This webinar will present the expectation engineering model, where testers and requirements engineers join forces and use their skills to express the stakeholders' expectations in such a way that the expectations…
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Agile Testing + Product Owners – Leading Agile Teams Towards Results

Bob Galen

There is a powerful partnership that is created within mature agile teams that helps lead them towards success. No, the developers are not part of it. Not that they aren't…
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Webinar

Are we all not Testers?

Henrik Andersson

In this presentation, Henrik addresses the question of why testers need to label themselves as Agile Testers and looks at ways that testers can improve the profession and be proud to…
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Alternative Self Education Paths in Software Testing

Markus Gärtner

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…
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Agile Testing Facing the Challenges in Test Management… Common Anti-patterns

Bob Galen

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, agile testing is hard! First you have to get over the misconception that you don't need testers within agile teams. Then you have to…
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A Lucky Shot at Agile?

Zeger Van Hese

This is not another agile fairytale. I happened to be a tester in a scrum team that started its first sprint almost two years ago. We were all agile novices,…
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More and Better Test Ideas

Rikard Edgren

In this 45 minute webinar, Rikard Edgren will discuss and look at the good ways to enable communication and what improvements are needed to use test specifications, that consists mainly of a lot of one-liner test…
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Team Agility Assessment

Ray Arell

Adopting the Agile/Scrum framework gives software teams a competitive advantage in delivering high value products to their customers, but that can only be achieved if that framework is provisioned with…
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Testing – The Next Level

Erik Boelen

The theme for the EuroSTAR Conference 2007 was 'Defining the Profession' and the discussion was 'Are we a profession at all?' Isabel Evans mentioned during her keynote session that testing is not…
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The Surprising Right Fit For Software Testing

Thorkil Sonne

'The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing' is all about people. Setting the right team is important - but did you know that you may be able to find untapped…
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Webinar

Becoming Agile – Reshaping Testing for an Agile Team

James Lyndsay

The key points covered in this webinar are: Agile projects are characterised by massive confirmatory unit and acceptance tests - testing strategies need to adapt. Agile teams are characterised by…
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