Brenda Kise

Proto Labs, Inc.

Brenda Kise has fifteen years of experience in software, including development, test, test automation, management, and operations. Brenda has led teams that have automated testing from the ground up with a new code base and for Symantec’s NetBackup division, leading a team automating a legacy code base. In the first team, close to 100 percent automation was achieved using the JUnit framework in a tightly integrated Scrum/agile environment and went from a formal test cycle of six weeks to just eleven hours! At Symantec, with an 8 million line code base, the automation team focused on automating regression tests against the completed code base - going from 0% coverage to 14% coverage in one year. Brenda is currently managing a team of .NET developers working on internal applications and the Enterprise Data team doing business intelligence work for Proto Labs Inc.

Speaker Presentations

Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 10:15am

Testing

Continuous Automated Regression Testing to the Rescue

A major concern when developing new software features is that another part of the code will be affected in unexpected ways. With a typical development processes, testers often do not run a full set of product regression tests until late in the release when it is much more costly to fix and retest the product. Continuous automated regression testing to the rescue! Brenda Kise describes the team, project, and organization value and benefits of continuously performing automated regression tests throughout the development process.