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Test Management

Why Every Systems Test Department Should Have a Test Developer (…or Two)

Kristoffer Nordström

The webinar describes why there is a need for a system test department to add the skill set of a test developer to the system test department. What unique skills…
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Security Testing

Application Security Testing – Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Declan O'Riordan

This webinar looks at the evolution of application security testing and is presented by security testing expert Declan O'Riordan. O' Riordan speaks about the historical path to the present situation,…
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People / Skills

The Art of Asking Questions

Karen N. Johnson

In this webinar Karen Johnson talks about the art of asking questions. As software testers, we need to learn a product thoroughly, we need to understand the user interface, the…
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Test Management

Hiring Professional Testers

Huib Schoots

Software development is about people. But how do you recognize an excellent testing professional? And how do you get the right people in your projects? It is hard to recognize…
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Test Management

I Think We Have an Issue – Delivering Unwelcome Messages

Fiona Charles

As testers, project managers, or consultants, we are paid to tell the truth as we see it. But what to us is evident fact about our projects can be unwelcome…
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Test Management

Tester Motivation: The Results of a 600 Tester Survey

Stuart Reid

The results of a motivation survey of over 600 testers are presented in this webinar. The study separated out the survey respondents into six distinct testing roles: Developer/Tester, Test Analyst, Test…
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Test Automation

Four Crucial Tips for Automating Your Web Tests

Jim Holmes

Functional testing your web applications can be extraordinarily frustrating. Intermittent failures, lots of rework and tinkering, and too little time spent on creating new value for your customers. In this…
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Test Management

Moving to Weekly Releases – a Journey

Rob Lambert

Releasing your product more frequently requires you to change the way you view testing and the role of a tester. In his workplace, Lambert moved from yearly releases to weekly…
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Test Automation

Better Practices for Crafting Automated Tests

Bj Rollison

Bj Rollison reveals best practices for crafting automated tests: "Over the past year or so, I have been tasked to clean up the automation stack in our feature area. During…
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Agile Testing

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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Agile Testing

Coaching for Software Testers

Anne-Marie Charrett

Charrett uses examples from coaching sessions that demonstrate the coaching we do, as well as give insights as to how this coaching helps to motivate and eventually liberate the tester.…
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Agile Testing

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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Test Automation

Stop the Rot: Banishing Flakiness from Selenium Tests

Simon Stewart

It's a fact of life that end to end tests using Selenium are often flaky. Does it need to be this way? This presentation will cover some of the tactics…
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Functional Testing

Things Could Get Worse: Ideas About Regression Testing

Michael Bolton

One of the important tasks in testing is to make sure that things that have been working continue to work as they always have. To do that, we must repeat…
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Test Management

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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Agile Testing

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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Test Automation

Intelligent Mistakes in Test Automation

Dorothy Graham

Many people make mistakes in test automation based on good intentions but flawed knowledge. We will look at some common pitfalls encountered when chartering your testing for session-based exploratory testing.…
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Agile Testing

Tips for Writing Better Charters for Exploratory Testing Sessions

Michael D. Kelly

This webinar looks at some common pitfalls encountered when chartering your testing for session-based exploratory testing. After a brief overview of the session-based test management process we will jump into…
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Agile Testing

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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Test Management

Introduction to Test Strategy

Rikard Edgren

A good test strategy drives your testing effort towards the testing mission, and is specific, anchored, pragmatic, effective and possible to change. It might be your most important artifact, and…
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Test Automation

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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Test Automation

The Evil Testers’ Guide to Technical Testing

Alan Richardson

Key Takeaways: Richardson describes some of the tools that he uses when testing, not because technical web testing revolves around tools, but because the technical testing thinking process leads to…
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Test Automation

Automated Web Testing Traps for the Unwary

Simon Stewart

If you want stable automated web tests that don't consume all your time to maintain there are three areas that you need to master: using locators properly, synchronisation and waiting,…
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Test Management

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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People / Skills

Creativity to Show the Way in Testing

Nathalie van Delft

Where more common techniques like mind-mapping and plain modelling techniques are translated to a more artsy form to help testers, but especially non-testers, to get more engaged and grow interest…
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Test Management

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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Agile Testing

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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Test Automation

10 Great but now Overlooked Tools

Graham Thomas

The idea for this presentation came directly from EuroSTAR 2011. Sitting on the bus back to the conference centre after attending the Gala Dinner, a discussion started, about industry luminaries…
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Test Management

The Third Project Paradigm

Geoff Thompson

Many times we find our capability as testers being measured on our ability to help a project or program deliver to budget and on time. A lot of the time…
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Agile Testing

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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Non-Functional Testing

Public Beta Testing HIT – Human Interaction Testing

Seth Okai

Behaviour, emotion, environment, ability and time are factors (to name but a few) that influence the way we approach software as users. These are all elements we control in a…
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Test Automation

Let Test Automation Play the Role it Deserves

Ruud Teunissen

Test automation used to be a luxury. Since nowadays improving product quality, reducing costs, shortening time-to-market combined with more frequent releases are an irreversible trend, test automation has become a…
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Test Management

Quality Engineering-Build it Right the First Time

Shobana Rajamani

It's no secret, that Quality Assurance (QA) plays a very vital role in assuring customer experience. Then, why wait till the end of the development phase to validate the business…
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Test Management

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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People / Skills

Recording your Story: Note Taking in Software Tests

Shmuel Gershon

In this webinar, we'll try to explore what types of notes can be important for testers, and learn practical hints on how to take these notes. These hints are based…
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Test Automation

BIG Testing – How to Design Tests

Hans Buwalda

Large-scale testing projects can stress many of the testing practices we have gotten used to over the years. This can result in less than optimal outcomes. A number of ideas…
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Agile Testing

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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Other

ISO 29119 – the new set of international standards on software testing

Stuart Reid

In May 2007 ISO formed a working group to develop new standards on software testing - a new area for ISO - the first three of these standards were published…
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Test Management

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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Test Management

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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People / Skills

Experiences from 10 years of testing – A couple of interesting cases

Anna Hoff

Over the years of working as a consultant I have had the pleasure of working in many organizations, projects and teams, each with their own challenges and rewards. During my…
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Test Management

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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Functional Testing

API Testing The heart of functional testing

Bj Rollison

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a collection of functions that provide much of the functional capabilities in complex software systems. Most customers are accustomed to interacting with a…
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Test Automation

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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Test Automation

Test Smart. Test Intelligent. GenNext Automation

Vishal Mehrotra & Ruediger Spies

• How much of your application test effort is really automated? Is your cost of quality reduction for real? • Is test automation truly helping you outpace competition? • How…
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Other

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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Test Management

The Commoditization of Testing

Iain McCowatt

The software testing business is in the grip of a commoditization trend in which enterprises routinely flip flop between vendors-vendors who are engaged in a race to the bottom on…
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