Allan Wagner

IBM Software—Rational

Allan Wagner is a technical marketing manager and evangelist with IBM Rational, driving thought leadership, strategic initiatives, and tangible solutions around the adoption of Rational ALM for IT and manufactured products. Focusing specifically on quality, requirements, and test management during his ten years of practical field experience, Al has assisted, mentored, and enabled both internal IBM and external customer teams to address their IT application infrastructure, development, implementation, and operations challenges. Al is a frequent conference speaker on topics of software quality products, principles, and techniques and has authored numerous papers.

Speaker Presentations

Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 9:45am

Test Automation

Unleash Service Virtualization: Reduce Testing Delays

The ability to rapidly release new product features is vital to the success of today’s businesses. To accelerate development, teams are adopting agile practices and leveraging service-oriented architectures to integrate legacy applications with other systems. At the same time, testing these composite applications can take longer and cost more. Al Wagner explains the whys and hows of service virtualization and explores ways testers can employ this technology to simulate parts of complex systems and begin testing earlier.