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People / Skills

Open Access Testbed Facilities Available to Software Companies in Europe

Donal Morris

Software Managers requiring access to infrastructure to test out and validate their new products in the cloud, mobile, wireless, and wired network space will be interested to hear about the…
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Agile Testing

Travel Guide to EuroSTAR

Nathalie Rooseboom de Vries van Delft

This webinar is especially designed first time attendees to the EuroSTAR Conference 2014 in Dublin. The travel guide will prep you for your visit to the conference by providing you…
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Test Management

Breaking the Poverty Cycle with Software Testing

Keith Klain

At the heart of consulting firm Doran Jones is their commitment to community. In a public-private partnership with Per Scholas, Doran Jones have setup an Urban Development Centre (UDC) in…
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Test Management

Testing as a Service Model

Jonathon Wright

The Testing landscape is changing forever, the traditional approach to providing business value through testing is constantly being challenged. So businesses need to constantly re-examine the real value of testing…
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Agile Testing

The Role of a Tester in Agile Enterprise

Malcolm Isaacs

In a classical Agile team, testers and developers work together in Feature teams to produce functioning software at each sprint. Sounds simple, right? But as enterprises scale up their Agile…
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People / Skills

Defence Against the Dark Arts

Laurent Bossavit

In this Google Hangout Laurent Bossavit will share ideas from "Defence Against the Dark Arts", the workshop he did with Michael Bolton at CAST 2014. This workshop focused on…
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Agile Testing

Scaling Agile to the Enterprise to achieve Quality and Velocity

Kelly Emo

In this presentation, we will share why scaling Agile development to the enterprise is vital to meet growing business expectations for fast, high quality application delivery. We will dig into…
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Agile Testing

The Real Agile Testing Quadrants

Michael Bolton

Over the last several years, a set of ideas and activities have been dumped into a steamer trunk called Agile software development. Agile development has hit mainstream recognition, even though…
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Test Management

The Test Lead of my Dreams

Anna Hoff

What characterises the perfect test lead? Structured? Caring? Excellent endurance? There are a lot of things written about how a good test lead should do and be. But what is…
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Test Management

Using Influence Diagrams

Isabel Evans

Using Influence diagrams to analyse cause and effect during a change programme At EuroSTAR 2014, Isabel spoke about what happens when change programmes go wrong. The keynote was based on an analysis…
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Agile Testing

Slow Down to Speed Up – Leveraging Quality to Enable Productivity and Speed

Fran O'Hara

Despite extensive uptake in Agile and more recently Lean approaches, many teams and organisations still struggle to achieve a required level of software quality. To maintain sustained productivity and speed…
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People / Skills

Surviving as a Tester, Even in Difficult Circumstances

Randall Rice

Most test professionals have worked at some time or other in difficult organisations, dysfunctional cultures, and for unreasonable managers and stakeholders. This causes much internal stress and creates fear instead…
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Agile Testing

The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy

Bob Galen & Mary Thorn

Far too often agile adoptions focus just on the development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as a part of their adoption strategies. And then there’s the near perpetual focus…
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Mobile Testing

Top Mobile Security Testing Techniques

Paco Hope

Whether we are testing a mobile-only application or the mobile interface to existing software, there are a number of testing challenges that are unique to the mobile platform. In this…
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Mobile Testing

The Current State of Mobile Testing

Stephen Janaway

Get a copy of the slides here. We are increasingly moving towards mobile devices to fulfil our day-to-day computing needs. More smartphones are sold than PCs but many people are…
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Agile Testing

Testing in the Age of Distraction

Zeger Van Hese

We live in curious times. Knowledge is available at our fingertips, everywhere. Social networks increase communication with peers from around the world but along with these marvels of the information…
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Test Management

A New Model For Testing

Paul Gerrard

Paul believes that our existing models of testing are not fit for purpose – they are inconsistent, controversial, partial, proprietary and stuck in the past. They are not going to…
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People / Skills

Influence: Why tea can be a great test tool

Dan Ashby

I’m often asked the question “what is your favourite test tool?” to which I respond “tea”. I’m often met with a blank face after my response… You see, the power…
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Agile Testing

Integrate Test Activities in Agile

Rik Marselis

In traditional testing a tester spreads the testing activities over various phases. To be able to effectively test in Agile projects the test activities should be properly integrated in the…
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Test Management

Disruptive Testing

Anne-Marie Charrett

New technologies and a need for innovation mean we test within a rapidly changing and evolving environment. But no matter how much we estimate and plan, something seems to throw…
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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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