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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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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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Agile Testing

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

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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Test Management

An Introduction to Lean Test Management

Iris Pinkster – O’Riordain

Cost reductions and the quest for more efficiency are more evident in today's business world. It also follows that our testing processes will ultimately be affected. When test techniques and…
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Functional Testing

SOA: Whats in it for testers?

Graham Bath

Using a Service Oriented Architecture can bring businesses considerable benefits, but there is unfortunately one major factor which seems to get lost in the euphoria surrounding SOA: Test. What are…
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Agile Testing

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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Test Management

Test Management: A Survival Guide

Graham Thomas

In this webinar, Graham Thomas will use his own practical experience from several large testing programs. This webinar will illustrate effective techniques for successful Program Test Management, presented in the form of…
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Agile Testing

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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Test Management

Taking the Risk of Failure out of Process Improvement

Geoff Thompson

Many organisation decide to review their test processes and then look to improve them, but how many are ever seen as successful and the improvements get fully implemented. In a…
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Test Automation

Get Ready, Set,….Automate!

John Fodeh

Test automation is becoming a must for meeting the challenges of modern software development. We use automation to replace repetitive and tedious manual testing; ensure the consistency and repeatability of…
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Agile Testing

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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Other

Exploring the Relationships between Testing ROI, Testing Risk and Testing Maturity

Ian Howles

In this 45 minute webinar, Ian Howles will discuss how to explore the practical relationships between Testing ROI, Testing Risk and Testing Maturity. He will be detailing the links between…
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Test Management

Make Risk Based Testing a Reality

Fiona Charles

Many organizations have embraced the concept of risk-based testing as a way to contain the costs of testing and focus test efforts on the system areas where undetected bugs could…
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