Paul Carvalho

STAQS

A software test consultant and trainer, quality architect, and agile coach, Paul Carvalho helps his clients build test-infected development teams with a holistic and congruent approach to quality. With twenty-five years of building software in many different industries, Paul is considered an expert in software testing and is part of the context-driven software testing community. A regular speaker at conferences, networking groups, and practitioner workshops, Paul tests, tweets, blogs, loves scripting with Ruby, and has published articles in Better Software magazine and Agile Journal. Paul helps software companies overcome development inertia to become world-class leaders in delivering quality and value. Learn more about Paul at STAQS.com.

Speaker Presentations

Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 11:15am

Special Topics

Testing with an Accent: Internationalization Testing

Finding time to test the basic functionality, performance, and security of a system is difficult enough, so how do you find time to add internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) testing? Today’s world is very small, and you may already have international users in your target market. Can you really afford to ignore those who can’t enter their name correctly with the default US-ASCII character set? Will it still be a quality product to them?