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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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Test Automation

Experiences of Test Automation at Spotify

Kristian Karl

Spotify wanted the manual testing effort to be focused as much as possible at feature testing, less on regression tests. But they still have to do regression, so they tried…
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Test Automation

Improve The Process By Taking Control

Amy Phillips

Testing is one of the few overarching aspects of software delivery. Done well it is almost invisible. Yet in reality almost all aspects of a successful release require test input.…
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Test Management

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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Agile Testing

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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Test Management

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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Agile Testing

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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Test Management

The Joy of Weekend Testing Facilitation

Ajay Balamurugadas

This webinar focuses on the experiences of weekend testing facilitation. It highlights the tasks carried out behind the scenes - the preparation, coaching, troubleshooting, resolving conflicts, and more. Filled with…
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Test Management

Leading Business Testers

Nancy Kelln

Companies often forego hiring large professional test teams and opt instead to use individuals from the business to perform testing. As a test lead, leading a team of business testers…
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Test Management

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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People / Skills

Critical Thinking Skills for Testers

Susan Windsor

Susan Windsor believes Critical Thinking is one of the most valuable skills that every tester needs to do their job, and yet it's rarely taught in the workplace. This webinar…
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Agile Testing

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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Test Management

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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Agile Testing

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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Test Automation

What Managers Think They Know About Automation – But Don’t

Dorothy Graham

In this Webinar, Dorothy Graham outlines common management misconceptions about automation and how to ensure that you have realistic expectations. Also how to understand management's role in successful automation and…
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Agile Testing

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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Test Management

Selecting the Right Test Design Technique

Derk-Jan de Grood

Derk-Jan shares his insights on test technique selection and poses three questions you should ask yourself when selecting a technique: What types of errors do I want to find? What…
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Other

Six Hats on Software Testing

Julian Harty

This webinar presents the concepts of six thinking hats, and demonstrates how they have been applied to software testing. Listen in to learn how you can apply them to your work, and…
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People / Skills

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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