STARCANADA 2017 - Quality Assurance
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Sunday, October 15
Software Tester Certification—Foundation Level (3-Day)
Sunday, October 15, 2017 - 8:30am to Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 5:00pm
Wednesday, October 18
Applying Earned Value Management to Testing
Preview NewWednesday, October 18, 2017 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Project managers have two main goals when it comes to their projects: deliver on time, and deliver within the budget. To track progress against these two objectives, the project management profession has developed a technique called earned value management (EVM). This method allows you to objectively measure project performance, predict cost and time, and evaluate the general health of a project. Join Bernd Bornhausen as he shares his experience with applying EVM to testing and how it changed his approach to reporting the test status of his projects. Bernd provides real-life examples...
Thursday, October 19
Scale Your QA & Test: Testing with Multiple Teams in Large Agile Organizations
PreviewThursday, October 19, 2017 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Agile practices are maturing, and more agile teams are making development and testing work in an effective way thanks to TDD, BDD, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. However, there are many challenges still to conquer in agile practices, such as the lack of accountability for systems developed outside the team, environments with multiple teams where some teams practice agile and others do not, and organizations where testers are not well integrated into the team. Join Pablo Garcia Munos as he shares his experience testing in large agile organizations with ten teams or more...
Architecting an Agile Test Transformation Program
Preview NewThursday, October 19, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Transitioning test automation efforts from traditional to agile approaches is challenging because it requires cultural, process, technology, and people changes to create a sustained mindset shift and drive desired outcomes. Join Klaudia Breslavets to learn how a complex organization scaled its test automation transformation and “shifted left” enterprise-wide to support agile practices and continuous delivery. Learn the specific ways Vanguard fueled the transformation and structured its program to help IT delivery teams achieve faster speed to market, greater confidence in their tests,...