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MD Develop Your Mobile App Test and Quality Strategy (Monday Sold Out but Now Available on Tuesday-TI) SOLD OUT

Jason Arbon, appdiff.com

Mon, 04/13/2015 - 8:30am

Let’s build a mobile app quality and testing strategy together. Whether you have a web, hybrid, or native app, building a test and quality strategy means first understanding your customers and your competitors, and then testing your app under real-world conditions. Most importantly, it means having the data and tools to make quick, agile decisions on feature implementations and bug fixes. Jason Arbon guides you through the latest techniques, data, and tools to ensure you have an awesome mobile app test and quality strategy.

TB Testing Mobile Web Apps in the Cloud with Selenium

Max Saperstone, Coveros

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 8:30am

With the burgeoning number of mobile OSs, browsers, and platform combinations, comprehensive mobile app testing can be a nightmare—but it doesn’t have to be! Max Saperstone demonstrates ways to leverage the open source Selenium (IDE) with cloud services to test mobile apps across multiple browsers and platforms. Through hands-on exercises, you will experience how Selenium interacts with web browsers below the GUI to test actions, inputs, and expected outcomes.

TD Security Testing Mobile Applications

Alan Crouch, Coveros

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 8:30am

The sensitive nature of personal information stored on smart devices makes security testing vital when building mobile applications. Alan Crouch explores the unique characteristics of mobile devices—how they store data, the fluid trust boundaries between applications, and the unique aspects of device security models. Learn about the many different threat types and use cases in the mobile arena that make security testing mobile applications so challenging. Alan offers hints and tips for comprehensive security testing of mobile applications during the development process.

TI Develop Your Mobile App Test and Quality Strategy

Jason Arbon, appdiff.com

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 8:30am

TF Super Rad Brainstorming

Jaimee Newberry, Independent Consultant

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 1:00pm

Ever had a brainstorming session that failed to produce the quality results you’d hoped for? Think you already have good brainstorming sessions but know there’s room for improvement? Facilitating Super Rad Brainstorming sessions for eons now, Jaimee Newberry is an industry leader in improving brainstorming skills and surfacing incredible ideas. Work together as Jaimee facilitates a real time, hands-on brainstorming session that highlights tips and tricks for making your own brainstorming sessions more productive.

Concurrent Sessions

W8 Mobile Test Automation with Big Data Analytics

Tarun Bhatia, Microsoft

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 1:00pm

Development and test organizations face major challenges when building robust automated tests around their mobile applications. With limited testing resources and increasingly more complex projects, stakeholders worry about the risk and quality of mobile products. So how do you plan a mobile test automation project to prioritize testing resources and efforts? Tarun Bhatia used big data analytics to understand where customers spend most of their time on their apps out in the wild.

W11 Mobile Testing Trends and Innovations

Melissa Tondi, Denver Automation and Quality Engineering

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 2:00pm

As organizations implement their mobile strategy, testing teams must support new technologies—while still maintaining existing systems. Melissa Tondi describes the major trends and innovations in mobile technology, usage patterns, tools, and test equipment that you should consider when transitioning existing test teams or starting new ones.

T1 Today and Tomorrow: Mobile's Impact on Development and Testing

James Montemagno, Xamarin

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 11:00am

There are more than 1.4 billion smartphones in the world—one for every 4.5 people on earth. Over the next decade wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT) will make those numbers look puny. In fact, mobile is transforming how people and things connect and dramatically changing software development, as we know it. With more than 189 million apps downloaded daily from app stores and new IoT devices being released daily to the public, developers and testers are already behind the curve.

T2 A Look into the Future: App Testing and Quality in 2025

Jason Arbon, appdiff.com

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 11:00am

In ten years, the applications we develop—mobile, embedded, wearable, and more—will be radically different from today’s apps. And so will be the testing and quality tools, methods, and solutions we employ. Extrapolated from his experiences at Google, Microsoft, and Applause (formerly uTest), Jason Arbon leads a thought-provoking look into the future. Our new world will be powered by nearly infinite—and almost free—computing power, storage, and networking. Standardized software stacks and centralized testing as a service will enable machine learning not possible today.

T5 Mobile Application Dev and QA Testing with Simulated Environments

Wayne Ariola, Parasoft

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 1:00pm

Do you know that 63 percent of your users would be less likely to do business with you if they experience problems with your mobile application? To ensure top-notch user experience, you need to conduct thorough testing on unpredictable network conditions—even if testing components are unavailable. Wayne Ariola describes an innovative strategy of using simulated test environments to bring the behavior of system dependencies and network conditions under your direct control.

T7 Windows Azure: Connecting the Dots for a Mobile Workforce

Mike Benkovich, Imagine Technologies, Inc.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 2:00pm

We live in a mobile bring-your-own-device kind of world with a proliferation of devices—smart phones, tablets, and UltraBooks running iOS, Android, and Windows. People are working in online and offline modes, and moving from device to device. How do you build applications that provide a consistent view of identity, data, and services so that your workforce can be productive wherever they are?

T8 Tips and Tricks for Building Secure Mobile Apps

Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 2:00pm

Mobile application development is now a mission-critical component of IT organizations and a big part of software industry’s landscape. Due to the security threats associated with mobile devices, it is critical we build our apps—from the ground up—to be secure and trustworthy. However, many application developers and testers do not understand how to build and test secure mobile applications. Jeffery Payne discusses the risks associated with mobile platforms/applications and describes proven practices for ensuring the safety of your mobile applications.

T11 Mobile Performance Testing Crash Course

Dustin Whittle, AppDynamics

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 3:15pm

With more and more web traffic coming from mobile devices, performance on tablets and smartphones has a profound impact on user experience and, ultimately, your company’s bottom line. Dustin Whittle shares the latest performance testing tools and insights for web developers. Dustin explores performance considerations for backend APIs and helps you better understand mobile performance on devices. Learn how to evaluate performance and scalability on both the server- and the client-side with tools such as Siege, Bees with Machine Guns, Google PageSpeed, WBench, and more.

T12 Software Attacks for Embedded, Mobile, and Internet of Things

Jon Hagar, Independent Consultant

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 3:15pm

In the world of embedded systems, mission-critical mobile apps, and the Internet of Things (IoT), developers and testers must do more than just look for feature bugs. To find potential failures and serious security errors, their arsenal should include attack-based exploratory testing. In the tradition of James Whittaker’s How to Break Software books, Jon Hagar applies the “attack” concept to embedded, mobile, and IoT software. Jon examines common industry patterns of product failures and shares a set of his favorite software test attacks for native, web-based, and hybrid apps.

Keynotes

K3 The Perfect Storm: Mobile Application Quality

Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 8:30am

Mobile applications are fraught with risk. The unique, portable nature and multiple uses of mobile devices bring a wide variety of critical quality properties into play: reliability, usability, security, availability, and maintainability. Allocating the effort to identify and ensure these properties is a difficult challenge—and not for the faint of heart. New testing and validation approaches must be used if we are to meet quality goals for mission-critical and widely distributed mobile applications.

K4 Thought: The Future of Mobile and Embedded Application Input

Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero Technologies

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 9:45am

Control of complex machines by human thought has been a mainstay of science fiction writing and films for years. In the movie Firefox, Clint Eastwood steals a highly advanced Russian fighter jet that is controlled by the pilot’s thoughts. But real devices are now appearing that purport to use our brainwaves as input. Is this technology a reality today? If not, how far away is it? What sort of thought input is possible and where could it be used?