- Drive quality and collaboration throughout the development process
- Streamline quality with integrated test case management, manual and exploratory testing tools
- Use Continuous delivery to ship regularly and predictably on any platform
- Use Azure to support your software testing efforts
STAREAST 2016 - Industry Technical Presentations
Get solutions to your top testing & QA challenges by attending the Industry Technical Presentations (ITPs). Offered alongside the concurrent sessions in 1-hour time slots, these presentations give you the opportunity to learn first-hand how solution providers have implemented their products and services in the real world. These solution providers are often on the leading edge of new technologies, tools, and practices and offer conference attendees a window into their future.
Industry Technical Presentations with full descriptions will be added to the conference site about 3-4 weeks before the live event.
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Wednesday, May 4
Esteban Garcia
Microsoft
Effective Testing and Automation with Visual Studio Team Services
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Kalyan Rao Konda
Gallop Solutions
10 Emerging Trends in Software Testing: Predictions for the next decade
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
- Understand how Future-Ready enterprises are leveraging new technologies & processes for Quality Assurance
- Discover how IP led testing & Independent Testing Services will redefine QA we know
- Devise enterprise testing strategies to achieve greater customer loyalty, sustain market acceptance and gain leadership
Michelle Walker
Capgemini
Discover Current Trends in Quality Assurance and Testing for Your Digital Enterprise
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
- QA and Testing budgets outperforming predictions
- Security Testing as the top IT strategy priority
- Agile Testing maturing to the enterprise
Paul Feldman
Sauce Labs
Automated Testing Made Awesome with Sauce Labs
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 12:40pm to 1:40pm
- Brief overview of the Sauce Labs platform and capabilities
- Demonstration of an entire test suite running at once in multiple browser/OS/device combinations
- Demonstration of test suite running through CI server as part of a pull-request build
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Oleg Chernyak
ZAPTEST
ZAPTEST – The Game Changer!
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 12:40pm to 1:40pm
- 10X Testing ROI - Test Automation of Any Software Application for Cross-Platform Execution
- 600% Productivity - 1Script-only per 1 Business Process
- 100% QA Time – Ultimate Quality Assurance technology for Agile/DevOps
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Todd DeCapua
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Silvia Siqueira
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Testing in the Digital Age: Thrive in the New Now!
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 1:45pm to 2:30pm
- Our speakers will each take on the role of an SDLC team member
- They will show how to accelerate DevOps throughout the application lifecycle
- The discussion will begin with user story creation and move to continuous testing and operations
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Joe Underwood
TestingXperts
Latest Trends in Automation Testing of Big Data, Data Warehouse & Analytics
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 1:45pm to 2:45pm
- Impact of data quality issues
- Manual data testing strategies & challenges
- Automated data testing using QuerySurge and demo
Rajiv Jain
ThinkSys Inc.
Why do QA Automation Projects Fail?
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 1:45pm to 2:45pm
- What are the pitfalls?
- What are the implementation mistakes to avoid?
- What role should the test manager and the others in the product development team play? AND more than anything else,
- What it takes to make QA Automation successful.
Rachel Obstler
Keynote by Dynatrace
Effective and Efficient Mobile Testing in an Agile Environment
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 3:00pm to 3:45pm
- Learn how best to perform unit testing, build acceptance testing, regression testing, negative tests, and exploratory testing for mobile apps
- Design your test strategy with optimal device selection
- Use a cloud-based mobile testing tool with both automated and manual tests to speed the agile processes
- Integrate testing activities with development and deployment tools
Dale Ellis
TurnKey Solutions
The Future of Software Delivery: A Focus on Speed, Quality, and Efficiency
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
- Improve test creation and maintenance and save 50%-80% in time and cost
- Easily manage test data for your testing environment, for timely access to data when and where
- Increase collaboration, communication, and visibility with full customized reporting across the SDLC
Nikhil Kaul
SmartBear Software
“Where's Test in DevOps?”
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
- How to build a scalable testing framework model for DevOps
- Reusability practices that can be applied from development, test, to operations
- How to decouple integration dependencies and allow multiple testing teams to work in parallel
Thursday, May 5
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Joel Rieck
Comcast Cable
Chinmayanand Jha
Tata Consultancy Services
Assuring Superior Customer Experience in the Digital Reimagination™ Era
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 9:45am to 10:30am
- The changing face of QA and Testing in the Digital Reimagination™ era (TCS)
- Levers to assure superior customer experience (CX)
- Digital transformation @Comcast
- Challenges and opportunities in this digital journey
- Assuring superior CX @Comcast
Zach Henderson
Catchpoint Systems, Inc.
What Am I Missing? How Bad CX Persistently Eludes Conventional Monitoring
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 9:45am to 10:45am
- Explore the three most common reasons why serious customer experience problems routinely go undetected
- See real examples of how collection, analysis, and alerting on the right metrics can uncover and solve hidden sources of failure
- Learn how leading brands are applying performance analytics to find and fix issues fast – before they impact end users.
Dan McFall
Mobile Labs
Make Continuous Delivery for Mobile Applications a Reality
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 9:45am to 10:45am
- Learn how to avoid significant security risks caused by testing in a public cloud
- Discover different ways to streamline cross-platform testing
- Learn more on how to create and maintain high-performing apps despite the ever-increasing number of operating systems and devices
Praveen Thangavelu
Pole to Win International
Workflow Automation
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 11:15am to 12:00pm
- Test automation workflows that achieve transparency and visibility in the software delivery process
- How we breakdown silos and assess system health in real-time
- How to integrate communication tools to facilitate communication across distributed teams in an asynchronous manner
- I’ll tie this together with a simple demo illustrating an automated workflow and test suite management
Carlo Cadet
Perfecto Mobile
RWD: Get Started Today Testing Desktop & Mobile Side-by-Side
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 11:15am to 12:15pm
- Responsive web – overview
- How to test?
- Smart random tests to improve quality
Gerd Weishaar
Tricentis
The Future of Testing
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 11:15am to 12:15pm
- Continuous Testing is a must
- Do the right things & do things right
- Manual Testers will become automation experts
Matthew Yeh
Delphix
Brett Stevens
Delphix
How to Deliver Secure, High-Quality Test Data Faster Than Ever Before
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 12:20pm to 1:20pm
- Why data is key to accelerating applications projects
- The shortcomings of current solutions and how they impact software development
- Best practices in preparing security and delivering test data
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Gokul Sridharan
CA Technologies
Agile Testing: Don’t Just Talk About it! Start Doing it!
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:15pm
- Testing agilely is the key to advancing your continuous delivery goals
- Learn what aspects of the testing process can be optimized and automated
- Build better applications, automate testing and deliver reliably each time
Andrey Madan
Parasoft
Test Anarchy: Deploy & Destroy Complete Test Environments
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
- Gain complete control over the behavior, data, and performance of all those dependent systems "owned" by some other group or entity
- Avoid having to share a test environment with someone else whose views and needs differ from yours
- Get a fresh test environment every time—without any cleanup hassle—through an automated "deploy and destroy" strategy
Chris Meranda
Borland SE, Micro Focus
Deliver Exceptional User Experience Across All Devices
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
- Maintain user experience quality across devices, browsers, and geographies
- Track mobile and web quality trends across builds
- Improve user experience to boost the bottom line
- Ensure requirements from the business are delivered accordingly