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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 

Automated Testing in the Agile Environment
Christopher Eyhorn, Telerik

• The Agile environment has changed the role and function of the QA professional within the team; we will explore the changes between traditional product testing and the agile testing environment.
• As more product teams move to Agile development methodologies, the need for automated testing almost becomes essential to generate the velocity needed to ship fully tested products in short iterations.
• Already deep into your project?  We will look at how you can get the automation effort started for both new and existing projects.
  
     
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 

Product Testing: Pragmatic & Simplified
Vipul Gupta, Test Engineering Evangelist, Impetus Technologies, Inc.

• Learn about a next generation platform, especially for ISVs, which automate product testing and enable close coordination between development and testing teams by integrating various toolsets, testing practices and patterns.
• Enable product testing teams to take decisions on what to test and when to test, based on the data captured by the development team, and improve product quality using new and innovative paradigms.
• Includes a comprehensive Software Product Health Dashboard that would enable business teams to assess product quality and take Go/No Go decisions
  
     
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 

High-Speed, Low-Drag Testing with Microsoft Test Manager and Lab Management
Brian Keller, Microsoft

• Discover how Microsoft Test Manager helps you to neatly organize, execute, and track your testing efforts. This includes helping you discover which areas you should be focusing your testing efforts on based on the latest changes introduced by the development team.
• Learn how to file “actionable bugs” – bugs that contain everything your development team will need to quickly reproduce and fix the bugs that you find.
• Unlock the power of virtual lab management by taking advantage of the fully-automated build-deploy-test workflow enabled by Visual Studio’s new Lab Management capability.

  
     
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 

Collaborating for Quality in Agile Application Development
Tracy DeDore, Agile Solution Marketing Manager, HP Software & Solutions & Brian Dawson, Sr. Solutions Consultant, CollabNet

• To meet Agile's demands of frequent releases, continuous builds, integration, and quality management, project teams need to maintain and synchronize requirements, development and test artifacts in an integrated approach.
• Find out how you can benefit from an end-to-end Agile delivery process spanning requirements management to development through test execution, defect and change management
• See how an inclusive, flexible and integrated solution on a globally accessible, web-based environment can help your organization improve visibility, communication, and collaboration—and ultimately, the quality of your software projects

  
     
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 

Enhance Test Automation ROI - Tips & Tricks 
Ananth Krish QA Head, Aspire Systems

• Implement Integrated Quality Assurance (IQA) approach to ensure holistic approach
• Evaluate & Select right set of Test Automation tools and build appropriate frameworks
• Reduce defect leakage by < 7%
  
     
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  

Load Testing Techniques for Enterprise Packaged Applications
Matthew Demeusy, Oracle

• Challenges to performance testing enterprise packaged applications
• Techniques for testing these challenging applications
• Oracle's performance testing tools
 
     
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  

Transforming Software Delivery through Collaboration
Brian Bryson & Matt Holitza, IBM

• Leverage an open ALM collaboration infrastructure to streamline communication across the software delivery team
• Automate planning and testing tasks to continuously improve quality, increase team productivity and reduce risk
• Monitor the health of your projects utilizing real-time dashboards and reports.
 
     
Thursday, September 30, 2010 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.  

Emerging Business Drivers and Orthogonal Validations
Gary Prioste, TestingCzars

• Globally as more and more systems are being digitized, the need for testers has increased drastically.
• Simply put, testing is not a gating function anymore. Testing has become an inherent QoS (Quality of Service) throughout the life cycle of production or service delivery.
• Testing has become a change agent addressing risk early on in the lifecycle and continually assuring reliability, relevance, Security and compliance apart from providing functional acceptance and assurance for the product or service.
 
     
Thursday, September 30, 2010 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.  

Agile and Quality - A Contradiction in Terms? - Headstrong says "No"
Paul Trompeter, Managing Consultant, Headstrong

• Learn how not to sacrifice quality for schedule
• See how state-of-the-practice software tools help your Agile QA efforts
• Discover how Headstrong’s Agile QA Project Approach  resolves the quality vs. schedule trade-off
 
     
Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.  

Transforming Your Test Organization from Reactive to a Proactive Function
Shivaprasad Hiremath, Business Group Head - Testing, MindTree Ltd.

• Does your test organization have a seat at the table?
• Is your test organization providing you with a competitive advantage?
• Is your test organization contributing to your product / application quality?

 
     
Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.  

End-to-End Test Data Management: New Age Techniques and Solutions
Vasudeva Naidu, Engagment Manager, Infosys Technologies

• Challenges in managing test data in an enterprise
• Need of an end-to-end test data management solution to improve Quality Assurance (QA) effectiveness
• Understanding core elements of the Test Data Management solution and effective application

 
     
Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.  

Transforming Your Test Organization from Reactive to a Proactive Function
Graham Parsons, StressTester

• Discover how global organisations such as Nissan, JP Morgan and Vodafone are slashing their testing time by as much as 50% without lowering their testing standards.
• Learn how to spend more of your time testing instead of writing complex testing scripts; carry out correct and realistic tests within days not weeks and ensure your applications are fit for purpose.
• Find out how to ensure accurate testing in the Agile development process without disrupting or delaying production schedules?

 
     

 

 

 
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