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Concurrent Sessions

W11 Cutting-edge Performance Testing on eCommerce Websites
Ron Woody, GSI Commerce
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 1:45pm

Having problems with your website’s performance? Does it take too much time and effort to determine the cause of a particular page’s poor performance? Would you like to find the root cause of client-side issues in an automated way? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this session is for you. At GSI Commerce, an eBay company, Ron Woody manages a large team of performance engineers working on nearly nearly 100 eCommerce websites. Ron and his team have developed cutting-edge approaches for automating client- and server-side performance testing.

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W17 Performance Testing Web 2.0 Applications—in an Agile World
Mohit Verma, Tufts Health Plan
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 3:00pm

Agile methodologies bring new complexities and challenges to traditional performance engineering practices, especially with Web 2.0 technologies that implement more and more functionality on the client side. Mohit Verma presents a Scrum-based performance testing lifecycle for Web 2.0 applications. Mohit explains when performance engineers need to participate in the project, discusses how important it is for the performance engineer to understand the technical architecture, and explores the importance of testing early to identify design issues.

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T13 Strength in Numbers: Using Web Analytics to Drive Test Requirements
Lindiwe Vinson, Organic, Inc.
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 1:30pm

Once a client’s website is built, you’d think it would be time for a well-deserved break. However, almost immediately, questions come up—can we capture a larger audience? close more orders? increase our sales? And so, it’s time to redesign the site—and the test strategy and plans—based on real-world data. Lindiwe Vinson sees web analytics as a tool for guiding your test planning and test case design efforts.

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W9 Four Crucial Tips for Automated Web 2.0 Testing
Jim Holmes, Telerik
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 1:45pm

The vast majority of problems found in web-based functional tests can be traced to a few common issues—dealing with dynamic page content, understanding the differences between explicit and implicit waits, choosing a proper element locator strategy, and understanding how to deal with setup or prerequisite data. Jim Holmes describes the basics of dynamic web page content (AJAX calls and the infamous spinning wheels and buttons) and how to create automated tests that properly deal with the main variants of dynamic content.

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T16 Introducing Mobile Testing to Your Organization
Eric Montgomery, Progressive Insurance
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 1:30pm

Mobile is an integral part of our daily lives, and if it’s not already part of your business model, it soon will be. When that happens, will you be ready to tackle the demands of testing web and native mobile apps? From the perspective of a test lead, Eric Montgomery describes the challenges Progressive Insurance, a company with a strong web presence, recently faced—learning new technologies, transforming the approach of testers from PC-based to mobile-based, and working with testing tools in a market that has yet to see a definitive leader emerge.

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