DevOps combines development, testing, and operations and includes continuous integration, automated testing, continuous delivery, and rapid deployment practices. Because DevOps practices require confidence in nearly all changes, automated testing is an essential ingredient that is integrated into the process and relied upon for enforcement of quality gates and to ensure overall delivery quality. This two-day course will teach you how to avoid the common mistakes of DevOps implementations and to leverage DevOps best practices. Test professionals, operations engineers, developers, project managers, and business owners will all benefit from this curriculum.
Conference Schedule
Sunday, May 1
Claire Lohr
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Delivered by leading experts in the testing industry, Software Tester Certification—Foundation Level is an accredited training course to prepare you for the ISTQB® Certified Tester—Foundation Level CTFL) exam. ISTQB® is the only internationally accepted certification for software testing and has granted more than 380,000 certifications in more than 100 countries around the world. In this three-day course, you’ll learn the basic skills required of a software test professional and how testing fits into software development. This course is appropriate for those new to the testing profession and those seeking ISTQB® certification in software testing.
Anna Russo
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Enable High-Quality Software through Visual Studio® Testing Tools
This course provides students with real world software testing techniques and technical skills using the latest Microsoft Test Manager 2015®, Visual Studio 2015®, and Team Foundation Server 2015® tools. We will cover manual testing features such as test case management, execution and reporting, and how Visual Studio® makes these processes powerful and organized. You will learn about the newly released Visual Studio® Web Test Manager and be introduced to automated testing with Visual Studio®.
Wilson Mar
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
This hands-on tutorial provides students with the knowledge and skills to use the latest testing tools provided by HP to validate decisions and improve software performance. Creating and managing lab environments will be discussed within the context of test planning and execution. By the end of the course, students are equipped to begin planning the implementation of LoadRunner® and Performance Center for improving testing practices within their organizations.
Rob Sabourin
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Agile software practices are being employed within many development organizations worldwide, and as a result, many testers struggle to understand the agile development process and their place in it. In Agile Tester Certification, both novice and experienced testers learn the fundamentals of agile development, the role of the tester in the agile team, and the agile testing processes. Learn technical and team skills testers need for success in the world of agile development, as well as the techniques of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) during this two-day course. All participants are expected to have experience in or knowledge of agile development fundamentals.
Kristoffer Nordström
8:30 am to 4:30 am
This is a course for testers who are frustrated by the laborious and manual work that makes up day-to-day test work, anyone who has tried or wants to try scripting and programming in order to help them focus more on the sapient test activities and let the computer do the repetitive work. During the course we will work with a strong focus on practical knowledge and learning by doing with much hands-on coding. This so that attendees can work independently with Python after the course. A large amount of exercises are built to give the opportunity to build simple but powerful tools using Python, which gives a deeper understanding of the opportunities that the language offers.
Richard Bender
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
If your testing efforts are not achieving the payback you and your organization expect, this course is for you. Requirements-Based Testing (RBT) delivers a proven, rigorous approach for designing a consistent and repeatable set of highly optimized test cases. Companies employing RBT practices have achieved twice the requirements coverage with only half the tests they previously maintained.
Jeffery Payne
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Fundamentals of Agile Certification—ICAgile presents a roadmap for getting started with agile and practical advice for the journey. You will learn what agile is all about, why agile works, and how to effectively plan and develop software using agile principles, as well as ways to avoid the common mistakes of agile adopters. Upon completion of this two-day course, successful attendees will be certified by the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), awarded the ICAgile Professional designation (ICP) and be listed on the ICAgile website.
Brian Hicks
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Many testers attempt to apply what they know to mobile testing, and while that may work for some functional testing, it often leaves many critical features untested. Critical errors that go untested can mean a swift end to a mobile application. Learning how to identify common issues in mobile applications and how to test the unique aspects of a mobile application is the only way to be truly successful. This two-day course will cover usability across multiple platforms and resolutions, network and security testing, creating application unit tests, mobile UI automation, and performance testing for various devices over various networks and carriers.
Training Classes Continue—1:00pm–5:00pm
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Monday, May 2
Multi-day Training Classes Continue—8:30am–5:00pm
8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Tutorial
MA
Dale Perry
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Whether you are new to testing or looking for a better way to organize your test practices, understanding risk is essential to successful testing. Dale Perry describes a general risk-based framework—applicable to any development lifecycle model—to help you make critical testing decisions earlier and with more confidence. Learn how to focus your testing effort, what elements to test, and how to organize test designs and documentation. Review the fundamentals of risk identification, analysis, and the role testing plays in risk mitigation. Develop an inventory of test objectives to help...Read more
Tutorial
MB
James Bach
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
You're under tight time pressure with barely enough information to proceed with testing. How do you test quickly and inexpensively, yet still produce informative, credible, and accountable results? Rapid Software Testing, adopted by context-driven testers worldwide, offers a field-proven answer to this all-too-common dilemma. In this one-day sampler of the approach, James Bach introduces you to the skills and practice of Rapid Software Testing through stories, discussions, and “minds-on” exercises that simulate important aspects of real testing problems. The rapid approach isn't just...Read more
Tutorial
MC
Julie Gardiner
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Communication is at the heart of our profession. If we can’t convey our concerns in ways that connect with key members of the project team, our contribution is likely to be ignored—no matter how advanced our testing capabilities are. Because we act in an advisory capacity rather than being in command, our power to exert influence is almost entirely based on our communication skills. Join Julie Gardiner as she draws on techniques from psychology and marketing to help you get your message across. With people suffering information overload and deluged with emails, it is more important than...Read more
Tutorial
MD
Jon Hagar
8:30 am to 12:20 pm
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big technology challenge for software testing. IoT testing uses not only concepts from traditional and mobile environments but also has new testing problems and new patterns. Jon Hagar begins by examining how to use data analytics from error profiles and social media to discover the new error patterns in IoT systems. Usage data on IoT devices is growing rapidly and becoming a big data issue. Through hands-on exercises, Jon explains how teams can use data analytics to improve development and testing. Next, he uses the analytics to define real-world...Read more
Tutorial
ME
Mike Sowers
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
In test automation, we must often use several tools that have been developed or acquired over time with little consideration of an overall plan or architecture and no consideration for how to integrate those tools. As a result, productivity suffers and frustrations increase. Join Mike Sowers as he shares experiences from multiple organizations in creating an integrated test automation plan and developing a test automation architecture. Mike discusses both the good (engaging the technical architecture team) and the bad (too much isolation between test automators and test designers) on his...Read more
Tutorial
MF
Bob Galen, Mary Thorn
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
You’ve “gone agile” and have been relatively successful. So, how do you know how well your test team is really doing? And how do you continuously improve your test practices? When things get rocky, how do you handle the challenges without reverting to old habits? The path to high-performance agile testing isn’t easy or quick, and it helps to have a guide. So consider this tutorial your guide to ongoing, improved, and sustained high-performance agile testing. Join Bob Galen and Mary Thorn as they share lessons from their most successful agile testing transitions. Explore actual team case...Read more
Tutorial
MG
Isabel Evans
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
What do you do when you are not testing? Whatever it is, you probably have a place where you work on your interests, some tools and equipment, and especially some things you always have with you. Perhaps you have a room or shed or tool rack with your favorite and your most used equipment easily at hand in a workbox. Wouldn’t it be great to have your own workbox for testing? Well, you already do! Everyone’s “mental tool set” is different, but we all need versatile,...Read more
Tutorial
MH
Paul Holland
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
You have just been assigned to a new testing project. So, where do you start? How do you develop a plan and begin testing? How will you report on your progress? In this hands-on session, Paul Holland shares test project approaches based on the Heuristic Software Test Model from Rapid Software Testing. Learn and practice new ways to plan, execute, and report on testing activities. You’ll be given a product to test and start by creating three raw lists—Product Coverage Outline, Potential Risks, and Test Ideas—that help ensure comprehensive testing. Use these lists to create an initial set of...Read more
Tutorial
MI
Julie Gardiner
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
As test managers and test professionals, we're constantly dealing with fragile egos, highly-charged situations, and pressured people playing a high-stakes game under conditions of massive uncertainty. We're often the bearers of bad news and are sometimes perceived as critics, activating people's primal fear of being judged. The concept of emotional intelligence (EI), popularized by Harvard psychologist and science writer Daniel Goleman, has much to offer test managers and testers. Key EI skills include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Julie...Read more
Tutorial
MJ
Bob Galen
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
With the adoption of agile practices in many organizations, the test automation landscape has changed. Bob Galen explores current disruptors to traditional automation strategies, and discusses relevant and current adjustments you need to make when developing your automation business case. Open source tools are becoming incredibly viable and beat their commercial equivalents in many ways―not only in cost but also in functionality, creativity, evolutionary speed, and developer acceptance. Agile methods have fundamentally challenged our traditional automation strategies. Now we must keep up...Read more
Tutorial
MK
Dorothy Graham
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Many organizations never achieve the significant benefits that are promised from system level automated test execution. Surprisingly often, this is due not to technical factors but to management issues. In this overview, Dot Graham describes the most important management issues you must address for test automation success, particularly when you are in the early stages of automation, and helps you understand and choose the best approaches for your organization—no matter which automation tools you use. Focusing on...Read more
Tutorial
ML
Lee Copeland
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Many software systems are required to process huge combinations of input data, all of which deserve to be tested. Since we rarely have time to create and execute test cases for all combinations, our fundamental problem in testing is how to choose a reasonably-sized subset that will find a large percentage of defects and can be performed within the limited time and budget available. Lee Copeland says that pairwise testing is the most effective—but not well-understood—test design technique to deal with this problem. The answer is not to attempt to test all combinations of all values for all...Read more
Tutorial
MM
Hans Buwalda
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
When we discover—often late in an automation effort—that the automated tests are cumbersome and costly to maintain, we often view this as a technical problem for the automator to solve. However, an often-overlooked cause is the role that testers who designed these tests play in making automation scalable and maintainable. In this interactive tutorial for both testers and automation engineers, Hans Buwalda explores how better test designs will result in much better test automation and can make the difference between automation success and failure. See why successful automated testing is not...Read more
Tutorial
MN
Carlos Pineda
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Service virtualization—and how it can help testers begin testing earlier—is a hot topic in books and discussions. Now it’s time to demonstrate how service virtualization is more than just a buzzword. Join Carlos Pineda for this interactive session as he shares his experiences and proven practices for using service virtualization technology. Learn how to get started with service virtualization, how service virtualization fits into the overall delivery lifecycle, how to prioritize which services to stub out, and when to begin transitioning from testing with stubs to executing the real...Read more
Tuesday, May 3
Multi-day Training Classes Continue—8:30am–5:00pm
8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Tutorial
TA
Michael Bolton
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Critical thinking is the kind of thinking that specifically looks for problems and mistakes. Regular people don't do a lot of it. However, if you want to be a great tester, you need to be a great critical thinker. Critically thinking testers save projects from dangerous assumptions and ultimately from disasters. The good news is that critical thinking is not just innate intelligence or a talent—it's a learnable and improvable skill you can master. Michael Bolton shares the specific techniques and heuristics of critical thinking and presents realistic testing puzzles that help you practice...Read more
Tutorial
TB
Hans Buwalda
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Large-scale and complex testing projects can stress the testing and automation practices we have learned through the years, resulting in less than optimal outcomes. However, a number of innovative ideas and concepts are emerging to better support industrial-strength testing for big projects. Hans Buwalda shares his experiences and presents strategies for organizing and managing testing on large projects. Learn how to design tests specifically for automation, including how to incorporate techniques like keyword testing and behavior-driven development. Discover what roles virtualization and...Read more
Tutorial
TC
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Knowledge of Selenium, the industry-standard tool for testing web applications, is a much sought after skill in today’s world of test automation. Many believe it is a “must have” skill for test engineers. If you want to learn Selenium, then this tutorial is a great start. Cheezy Morgan shows you how to build test automation using Selenium. But he doesn’t stop there. He uses his years of experience to show you how to build automation that is clean and easy to maintain. Cheezy introduces other tools that work with Selenium to help manage the data used to drive your tests, work with...Read more
Tutorial
TD
SOLD OUT
Dorothy Graham
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Many organizations find that test automation does not work as well as they thought it would. In many cases, these failures are due to technical reasons, which can be fixed relatively easily. These test automation patterns are common to automation efforts at any level with whatever tools you are using. Dorothy Graham focuses on often-neglected technical issues—things that are not management issues—and the patterns that help solve them. Using a set of patterns developed...Read more
Tutorial
TE
SOLD OUT
Dale Perry
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
In today’s fast paced, ever changing world of software and technology, software performance testing is becoming essential to successful product implementation. To be successful we must understand several fundamental factors about performance testing. Dale Perry examines the activities required to be successful in software performance testing. Dale identifies key issues, how they determine our level of success at implementing the necessary testing, and potential pitfalls...Read more
Tutorial
TF
Lee Copeland
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
As testers, we know that we can define many more test cases than we will ever have time to design, execute, and report. The key problem in testing is choosing a small, “smart” subset—from the almost infinite number of tests available—that will find a large percentage of the defects. Join Lee Copeland to discover how to design test cases using formal black-box techniques, including equivalence class testing, boundary value testing, decision tables, and state-transition diagrams. Explore examples of each of these techniques in action. Don’t just pick test cases randomly. Learn to selectively...Read more
Tutorial
TG
SOLD OUT
Jennifer Bonine
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Have you ever needed a way to measure your leadership IQ? Or been in a performance review where the majority of time was spent discussing your need to improve as a leader? If you have ever wondered what your core leadership competencies are and how to build on and improve them, Jennifer Bonine shares a toolkit to help you do just that. This toolkit includes a personal assessment of your leadership competencies, explores a set of eight dimensions of successful leaders, provides suggestions on how you can improve competencies that are not in your core set of strengths, and describes...Read more
Tutorial
TH
Jeffery Payne
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Today’s software applications are often security critical, making security testing essential in a software quality program. Unfortunately, most testers have not been taught how to effectively test the security of the software applications they validate. Join Jeffery Payne as he shares what you need to know to integrate effective security testing into your everyday software testing activities. Learn how software vulnerabilities are introduced into code and exploited by hackers. Discover how to define and validate security requirements. Explore effective test techniques for assuring that...Read more
Tutorial
TI
Jon Bach
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
The nature of exploration, coupled with the ability of testers to rapidly apply their skills and experience, make exploratory testing a widely-used test approach—especially when time is short. Unfortunately, exploratory testing is often dismissed by project managers who assume that it is not reproducible, measurable, or accountable. If you have these concerns, you may find a solution in a technique called Session-Based Test Management (SBTM), developed by Jon Bach and his brother James. In SBTM, testers explore an area of a product, framing their testing in time-boxed “sessions” meant to...Read more
Tutorial
TJ
Jon Hagar
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
In the tradition of James Whittaker’s book series “How to Break Software,” Jon Hagar applies the testing “attack” concept to the domain of mobile and embedded software systems. First, Jon defines the environments of mobile and embedded software. He then examines the issues of software product failures caused by defects found in these types of software. Next, Jon shares a set of attacks against mobile and embedded software based on common modes of failure that teams can direct against their software. Like different kinds of software design patterns, attacks are test design patterns that...Read more
Tutorial
TK
Wilson Mar
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
GitHub—a powerful online collaboration, code review, code management, and version control service based on the open source Git tool—is the new business card for professional developers working on software projects. That's why job interviewers often look to GitHub to gauge a potential development hire's creativity, popularity, capability, and tenacity. Today’s testers need to learn about and use GitHub, too. Join Wilson Mar as he examines the major GitHub repositories testers should know about. In this hands-on tutorial, you’ll learn why and how GitHub is being used for most open source...Read more
Tutorial
TL
Martin Pol, Jeroen Mengerink
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Cloud computing is rapidly changing the way systems are developed, tested, and deployed. New system hosting capabilities—software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS)—are forcing us to review and revise our testing processes. At the same time, cloud computing is affording us opportunities to employ new test tooling solutions, which we call testing as a service (TaaS). In this technical session, Martin Pol and Jeroen...Read more
Tutorial
TM
Isabel Evans
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Influence diagrams provide a simple-to-create and easy-to-understand approach to address the complexities of real-life problems. For instance, as testers we may want to find more bugs, but does this have an unintended consequence for the developers? Developers now have more defects to debug, which affects their capacity to deliver new functionality. Influence diagrams provide a means of understanding and managing the complexities of key interactions among testers, developers, and business stakeholders. In the past few years, Isabel Evans has used influence diagrams as a practical tool to...Read more
Tutorial
TN
Dawn Haynes
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Have you ever worked on a project where you felt testing was thorough and complete—all of the features were covered and all of the tests passed—yet in the first week in production the software had serious issues and problems? Join Dawn Haynes to learn how to inject robustness testing into your projects to uncover those issues before release. Robustness—an important and often overlooked area of testing—is the degree to which a system operates correctly in the presence of exceptional inputs or stressful environmental conditions. By expanding basic tests and incorporating specific robustness...Read more
Tutorial
TO
Jeffery Payne
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
DevOps is more than a buzzword or passing fad. It's a radically new approach to rapidly delivering high-quality software applications. However, many organizations don’t fully grasp the magnitude of this change or what it means for everyone involved in the software development lifecycle. Jeffery Payne says that DevOps—when done right—drives higher quality and efficiency into software development, software testing, and application management activities. It empowers teams to remove impediments to quality and productivity throughout the entire software lifecycle. However, when DevOps is done...Read more
Tutorial
TP
Mike Sowers
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
To be most effective, test managers must develop and use metrics to help direct the testing effort and make informed recommendations about the software’s release readiness and associated risks. Because one important testing activity is to “measure” the quality of the software, test managers must measure the results of both the development and testing processes. Collecting, analyzing, and using metrics are complicated because many developers and testers are concerned that the metrics will be used against them. Join Mike Sowers as he addresses common metrics—measures of product quality,...Read more
Tutorial
TQ
Rob Sabourin
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
It’s not enough to verify that software conforms to requirements by passing established acceptance tests. Successful software products engage, entertain, and support the user experience. Goals vary from project to project, but if your users do not embrace your software—no matter how robust and reliable it is—business can slip through your hands. Rob Sabourin shares how to elicit effective usability requirements with techniques such as storyboarding and task analysis. Testers, programmers, and users collaborate to blend the requirements, design, and test cycles into a tight feedback loop....Read more
Wednesday, May 4
Bonus Session
B1
Rajesh Bala, Tata Consultancy Services
7:15 am to 8:15 am
Connected devices are changing the way we live. Imagine a scenario where your car directly connects with the service center to fix a maintenance issue, or your air conditioner automatically regulates the room temperature as you enter or your phone directly connects with your refrigerator and tells you, you are running low on groceries and then orders them for you online. Such is the power of the connected devices, millions of devices directly connected and communicating with one another, with the absence of human intervention.
With the global marketplace steadily moving towards this...Read more
8:30 am to 6:00 pm
Update: Register below before August 3, 2016 to gain access to the event on-demand
Wednesday, May 4 | 8:30am–5:30pm ET
and Thursday, May 5 | 8:30am–5:30pm ET
The STAREAST Virtual Conference will be streaming live on May 4-5 from Orlando, Florida. The Virtual Conference features...Read more
Keynote
K1
Keith Klain, Tekmark Global Solutions
8:30 am to 10:00 am
In 2013, Keith Klain quit his job as Head of the Global Test Center at Barclays Investment Bank to start a test consulting business based on context-driven testing principles. Keith has spent the past two years wading through industry dogma, pitching new ideas about testing to clients, hiring—and firing—testers, and trying to turn context-driven testing into a viable commercial approach. Succeeding in such a setting requires a balance of practical approaches that can driving improvements against “sunk cost”...Read more
Keynote
K2
David Dang, Zenergy Technologies
10:00 am to 11:00 am
After the first wave of open source test automation tools like Fitnesse and Watir, we are now in a stronger, second wave led by Selenium-based frameworks. This powerful swell, fueled by a major shift toward web-based applications on desktops and mobile devices, is changing how corporations tackle software test automation. Add in a desire to replace old-guard, commercial tools in favor of newer technology with lower costs, we may have a perfect storm. However, with different technologies come new challenges....Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP1
Esteban Garcia, Microsoft
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP2
Kalyan Rao Konda, Gallop Solutions
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP3
Michelle Walker, Capgemini
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
- QA and Testing budgets outperforming predictions
- Security Testing as the top IT strategy priority
- Agile Testing maturing to the enterprise Read more
Concurrent Session
W1
Shaun Bradshaw, Zenergy Technologies, Inc.
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
When organizations expand internal test teams, hiring managers sort through piles of résumés hoping for a few gems. But scanning for coveted technical skills and relevant experience often leads to disappointment. With the proliferation of new software and the explosion of mobile devices, the QA industry is surging, and experienced testers are becoming harder to find. What inherent qualities do great testers really possess? Do those attributes show up on résumés? Should technical expertise or tool/application...Read more
Concurrent Session
W2
Mary Thorn, Ipreo
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), and Cucumber promise many benefits related to your user story acceptance tests. They promise tighter collaboration between the product owner and the team. They promise the ability for the product owner and other stakeholders to write their own executable acceptance tests. They even promise an increase in the value produced by the efforts of your team as they focus on building the “right”...Read more
Concurrent Session
W3
Hans Buwalda, LogiGear
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Patterns—proven, repeatable solutions to common situations that occur again and again—are commonly used in development and to a lesser extent in testing. In addition to patterns, various anti-patterns have been discovered. These are common responses to recurring problems that, while promising, are actually counterproductive. Hans Buwalda describes a set of such anti-patterns that he commonly sees in automated test design and that he feels inhibit scalability and...Read more
Concurrent Session
W4
Jeroen Mengerink, Polteq Testing Services B.V.
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
“Testing” in an agile environment is much different from classic testing on waterfall projects. Testers must be involved in all aspects of software development. Jeroen Mengerink shows you how professional testers can become key contributors in agile projects. First, he explains how to pair with and help the members of your agile team by identifying the test skills each of them needs to learn for the team to create a better quality product. Because agile development starts with user stories, there is an increased importance of end-to-end testing. Jeroen shows how to use mind mapping to...Read more
Concurrent Session
W5
Clint Sprauve, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Eran Bachar, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Within large enterprise organizations, DevOps transformations can be daunting and complex if not implemented with innovation, creativity, and the support of leadership. Implementing DevOps best practices can be a challenge, even for those companies that sell software that addresses this particular discipline. Imagine approaching a team that develops quality assurance tools and challenging them to build a developer-centric team for continuous testing and delivery—but you can't use any of your own tools. Join Clint Sprauve and Eran Bachar to learn how Eran created a dev/test team to...Read more
Concurrent Session
W6
Jane Fraser, Anki, Inc.
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
As products like Anki’s OVERDRIVE race car game and others such as Fitbit and Skylanders pop up all over, we testers need to be prepared for the wave of Internet of Things (IoT) products. Although the IoT doesn’t necessarily require new testing methodologies, it does require creativity when it comes to the tools we need to get our testing and QA work done. Jane Fraser describes and demonstrates the tools Anki’s teams use to develop and test their games, especially OVERDRIVE. From test consoles that can change game parameters on the fly, to test fixtures that can change vehicles from race...Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP4
Paul Feldman, Sauce Labs
12:40 pm to 1:40 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP5
Oleg Chernyak, ZAPTEST
12:40 pm to 1:40 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP6
Todd DeCapua, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Silvia Siqueira, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP7
Joe Underwood, TestingXperts
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
- Impact of data quality issues
- Manual data testing strategies & challenges
- Automated data testing using QuerySurge and demo Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP8
Rajiv Jain, ThinkSys Inc.
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
- 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. Read more
Concurrent Session
W7
Michael Wasielczyk , T. Rowe Price
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
As test managers, we face challenging situations that require us to draw on our past experiences, principles, and good practices in order to have any chance at all for success. Michael Wasielczyk faced this challenge immediately after joining T. Rowe Price. He started his new job, responsible for managing the testing effort on a mission-critical data warehouse, and he had no experience managing a data warehouse testing effort. In addition, Michael found there were no...Read more
Concurrent Session
W8
Gerie Owen, Eversource Energy, Peter Varhol, Technology Strategy Research
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
Testing an off-the-shelf, sometimes called COTS, system? Often, project managers and stakeholders mistakenly believe that one benefit of purchasing software is that there is little, if any, testing required. This could not be further from the truth. Testing COTS software requires a different focus from traditional testing approaches. Although no software package will be delivered free of bugs, the testing focus from the purchasing organization’s perspective is not on...Read more
Concurrent Session
W9
Matt Barbour, Comcast
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
With the proliferation of mobile devices, browsers, and IoT devices, each with its own eccentricities, performing end-to-end automated testing is starting to feel like navigating a zombie apocalypse. You need to fight off the zombies but lack the right tools. You need a set of rules to live by. You wish you had a buddy who would teach you all those rules because alone, you feel like you’re being eaten alive. On the surface, the rules are simple—Limber Up, Don’t Be a...Read more
Concurrent Session
W10
Michael Harris, David Consulting Group
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
Many levels of estimation are practiced in agile, including budgeting, high-level estimation, and task planning (detailed estimation). That might seem like an anathema to agile, but it is not. Mike Harris shares a case study that provides an approach that “checks the box” for standard corporate...Read more
Concurrent Session
W11
Glenn Buckholz, Coveros, Inc.
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
Chef, Puppet, and other tools that implement “infrastructure as code” are great for configuration management and automated deployments, but it is difficult to test these infrastructure scripts before putting them into production. Since infrastructure as code is a relatively new technology, methodologies for its testing are not yet standardized. Glen Buckholz shares a way to solve the two major problems with testing Chef scripts—[1] capturing a start state similar to your...Read more
Concurrent Session
W12
Gauri Arondekar, InfoStretch
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
Until recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) was just an idea that techies talked about. Unlike innovations in the past, development and testing of the IoT is significantly more elaborate. After introducing the technology of wearables and IoT, Gauri Arondekar delves into the components and architectures that make it work. Focusing on tools and solutions that accelerate the testing processes, Gauri shares the success story of an end-to-end testing strategy for a leading...Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP9
Rachel Obstler, Keynote by Dynatrace
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP10
Dale Ellis, TurnKey Solutions
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP11
Nikhil Kaul, SmartBear Software
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- 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 Read more
Concurrent Session
W13
Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Substantial confusion exists about the roles and responsibilities of test management when using an agile software development process. Agile seeks to streamline project management and leadership under the role of a ScrumMaster. But what does this mean for test managers? How do they stay involved in the process? What role do they fill? Is it possible that test managers are no longer needed? Join Jeffery Payne for a collaborative dialog to discuss the pros and cons of a variety of test management models he has seen used by companies who have adopted agile. Learn how to best position yourself...Read more
Concurrent Session
W14
Stephen Burlingame, Navicure
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Many organizations are using virtualization technology to increase the number of available test machines. However, this increase creates a new dilemma for testers. How can you confirm that all test systems are running properly and not showing signs of serious defects? Since many companies are reluctant to add additional staff members to simply “babysit” test environments, teams are forced to do...Read more
Concurrent Session
W15
Carl Nagle, SAS Institute, Inc.
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
In today’s environment of plummeting software delivery cycle times, test automation becomes a more critical and strategic necessity. How can we possibly keep up with software delivery's explosive pace while retaining satisfactory test coverage? How do we keep the reins on costs and reduce risk? Carl Nagle maintains that the long-term solution is a greater level of “sustainable” test automation. The Software Automation Framework Support (SAFS) method separates test...Read more
Concurrent Session
W16
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, LeanDog, Ardita Karaj, EPAM Systems
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
You've heard that quality belongs to everybody on an agile team. You've heard that testers and developers should collaborate in order to drive quality higher. You've heard that automated tests help a team continuously validate the quality. Well, it's time to stop just thinking and talking about these things! It's time to make them happen! Watch Ardita Karaj and “Cheezy” Morgan do this in front of your eyes. Watch them build a web application, driven by acceptance and unit...Read more
Concurrent Session
W17
Tanya Kravtsov, Audible
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
DevOps promotes continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment. And anything that breaks this continuity is a potential bottleneck. In many organizations, testing becomes that bottleneck for one or all of the following reasons: unstable test environment, lack of good test data, and manual test processes. Tanya Kravtsov explores why treating test automation as a separate entity from development often results in a DevOps failure. She explores how integrating test automation with product...Read more
Concurrent Session
W18
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Thirty years ago when Cem Kaner coined the term “exploratory testing,” it was largely ignored for almost a decade. Since then, the idea of exploratory testing has moved through recognition, controversy, hostility, tolerance, and acceptance. Yet questions remain: Is exploratory testing an activity? or is it a technique? or is it an approach? If the purpose of testing is to notice and reveal new information when the landscape of the product is poorly known, described, or understood, then isn't all testing...Read more
Keynote
K3
Lee Copeland, TechWell Corp.
4:15 pm to 5:15 pm
Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period. Lightning Talks are the opportunity for speakers to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation. And now, lightning has struck the STAR keynotes. Some of the best-known experts in testing will step up to the podium and give you their best shot of lightning. Get multiple keynote presentations for the price of one—and...Read more
Thursday, May 5
Bonus Session
B2
Gokul Sridharan, CA Technologies
7:15 am to 8:15 am
Test Data Management (TDM) is much bigger than meets the eye. It’s the practice of applying a structured and centralized approach to the management of test data at an enterprise level with the goal of improving quality and coverage. TDM increases efficiency through self-provisioning and test matching. It improves the quality of test data through comprehensive data coverage and synthetic data generation. Masking is part of the story, but not all. Start your day off right and join us for a presentation on how your next test data management solution can provide your teams the right data at...Read more
Keynote
K4
Isabel Evans, Independent Consultant
8:30 am to 9:30 am
As software practitioners focus on technology issues, we often find that our messages to management and the business are either not heard or are misinterpreted. And sometimes we do not hear the messages that they need us to hear. Isabel Evans examines our natural ability to tell stories and how everyone’s built-in receptiveness to narratives will help you communicate productively about testing and quality. Isabel looks at how we can tell our testing stories in a way that is appealing to our audience. That means thinking about the role of oral, written, and visual representations of testing...Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP12
Joel Rieck, Comcast Cable, Chinmayanand Jha, Tata Consultancy Services
9:45 am to 10:30 am
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP13
Zach Henderson, Catchpoint Systems, Inc.
9:45 am to 10:45 am
- 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. Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP14
Dan McFall, Mobile Labs
9:45 am to 10:45 am
- 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 Read more
Concurrent Session
T1
Lee Copeland, TechWell Corp.
9:45 am to 10:45 am
A startup is an organization created to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Approximately 40 percent of all startups will cease operations with investors losing everything; 95 percent will fall short of their financial projections. And the number one cause of failure? No one wants to buy their product. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup...Read more
Concurrent Session
T2
Dionny Santiago, Ultimate Software
9:45 am to 10:45 am
Test code development is generally approached with more lenient standards and less scrutiny than production code. As a result, rather than providing valuable feedback on software quality, this can lead to tests that produce inconsistent results and false outcomes. Team productivity is affected since executing, debugging, and fixing unreliable tests results in a substantial waste of time. Join Dionny Santiago as he describes how to transition from flaky, unreliable tests...Read more
Concurrent Session
T3
Asad Faruqui , Symantec, Moni Mau, Symantec
9:45 am to 10:45 am
Asad Faruqui and Moni Mau say that their old regression automation used to take three-to-four days of execution time as they ran against different browser versions, locales, and currencies. They wanted to make the automation framework more efficient so features could go to market faster. Symantec explored Selenium Grid which could reduce the run time by offering some parallelism, but Asad and Moni wanted even more efficiency. They explain how they created both a...Read more
Concurrent Session
T4
Jon Hagar, Grand Software Testing
9:45 am to 10:45 am
A common problem in mobile systems testing is the number of hardware, operational, and software configurations that need to be tested. For example, the so-called Android fragmentation problem might lead a test team to test hundreds of device and software configurations, yielding thousands or even tens-of-thousands...Read more
Concurrent Session
T5
Annette Ash , SolutionsIQ Consulting
9:45 am to 10:45 am
Is tracking metrics beneficial? What does it accomplish? How and what should be tracked with regards to software quality? Management wants software metrics to understand what the individual and/or teams are accomplishing and how they are doing with regards to management's expectations. Unfortunately, sometimes those metrics are used against the team and/or individuals. Join Annette Ash as she explores beneficial options to significantly increase software quality, excite...Read more
Concurrent Session
T6
Stephen Frein, Comcast
9:45 am to 10:45 am
Your software works well, but that isn’t enough these days. Your customers aren’t coming just for solid software; they are coming for an end-to-end experience with your people, products, and services. An organization that delivers that experience will create an army of enthusiastic fans who promote it regularly; on the flip side, an organization that creates solid software without...Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP15
Praveen Thangavelu, Pole to Win International
11:15 am to 12:00 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP16
Carlo Cadet, Perfecto Mobile
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP17
Gerd Weishaar, Tricentis
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
- Continuous Testing is a must
- Do the right things & do things right
- Manual Testers will become automation experts Read more
Concurrent Session
T7
Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Who owns DevOps? That's a question that many are asking as more and more organizations implement continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring capabilities—the essence of DevOps engineering. Join Jeffery Payne as he describes how leading-edge organizations are structuring cross-department DevOps teams and where those teams live within existing organizational structures. Learn who needs to be involved in a DevOps team, how the team works with...Read more
Concurrent Session
T8
Marjana Shammi, IceMobile
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Let's take an off-the-beaten-path approach to quality—testing based on actual user experiences. Being aware of surroundings and emotions while using intuition and instincts are attributes of great testing. With the right tools and approaches, we can learn to tap into users’ experiences to understand and exploit their underlying emotions. Marjana Shammi explains the basics of experience mapping and describes how testers can use that information to generate great test...Read more
Concurrent Session
T9
Chris Loder, Halogen Software
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
At STAREAST 2015, Chris Loder spoke about the automation framework that he and his team built at Halogen Software. At the time, they had just moved the test automation code into the development code base so that everyone in R&D was able to use it. One year later, Chris returns to...Read more
Concurrent Session
T10
Jonah Stiennon, Sauce Labs
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Mobile devices are taking over the world and quickly outpacing the use of traditional desktop machines. But how should we test them? Jonah Stiennon has spent the past two years working with a team of open source contributors at Sauce Labs to establish Appium as the industry standard for cross-platform mobile test automation. A Node.js application, Appium uses a superset of the JSON wire protocol, the same protocol on which Selenium is built, to automate both iOS and...Read more
Concurrent Session
T11
David Bialek, American Greetings
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Are you looking for a simple, meaningful approach to gather and report defect metrics? Want to make your project defects more visible? Wondering how to report defects to management and show value? With an ever increasing demand to show the business value of your testing, David Bialek explores a simple step-by-step method for metric management of issues. This approach was developed and refined continuously to make software defects more visible as well as to analyze the...Read more
Concurrent Session
T12
Joe Colantonio , TestTalks
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Joe Colantonio shares how combining your existing automated tests with scalable automated visual testing can help you dramatically increase coverage, reduce maintenance, and substantially boost test robustness, efficiency, and ROI. Joe includes real-life use cases—automating cross-browser UI validation, adding full UI regression coverage to existing automated tests, handling dynamic content in visual tests, and more—to help you release faster and better, automatically...Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP18
Matthew Yeh, Delphix, Brett Stevens, Delphix
12:20 pm to 1:20 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP19
Gokul Sridharan, CA Technologies
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP20
Andrey Madan, Parasoft
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
- 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 Read more
Industry Technical Presentation
ITP21
Chris Meranda, Borland SE, Micro Focus
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
- 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 Read more
Concurrent Session
T13
Alice Till-Carty, Lyst
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Startups are becoming increasingly prolific—technology startups even more so. CEOs are recognizing the need for quality. Their users are their growth, and if they can't retain users, their growth slows or stops. So quality matters. How do you convince the rest of the company that test brings value? How do you convince developers and product owners that spending time on quality is important, particularly if they have never worked with testers before? Should startups even...Read more
Concurrent Session
T14
Melissa Benua, PlayFab, Inc.
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Continuous integration is the new buzzword in software development because it opens up opportunities well beyond making sure all your team's code compiles cleanly. What if this pipeline could improve everything from the quality of code reviews, to how you monitor your product “in the wild,” and when your automated tests are executed? What if it could provide insight into how well those tests are performing? Melissa Benua explores how to setup a basic integration...Read more
Concurrent Session
T15
Brian Long, Virginia Tech
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
The Selenium Grid unleashes the full power of Selenium to run multiple automated tests in parallel across multiple platforms. Brian Long demonstrates the use of an open-source framework developed at Virginia Tech to get up and running with a Selenium Grid in about an hour. He begins by discussing the Selenium Grid configuration and then progresses to the installation of the framework. Starting with a clean Selenium installation, Brian uses Git to retrieve and install...Read more
Concurrent Session
T16
Danny McKeown, Paychex
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Join Danny McKeown, Paychex’s lead test enterprise automation architect, to learn how to climb the testing maturity curve and increase predictability and reuse, all while accelerating repeatable and reliable testing. Learn how Paychex iteratively built a well-defined web and mobile app test automation architecture. By evolving the areas of strategy, environment pre-conditions, continuous integration, and understanding their IT users, Paychex executes a mature program...Read more
Concurrent Session
T17
Matthew Eakin , Centric Consulting
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
When I was in high school, I always enjoyed weekly poker games with my friends. As I began my testing career, I realized many poker skills that I honed years ago are similar to those I need to be a good software tester. In poker, resource allocation (betting with chips) is easier knowing if your opponent has won a World Series of Poker bracelet or if he is a novice. In testing, it helps to know how much business, testing, and technical knowledge each team member has so...Read more
Concurrent Session
T18
Wilson Mar, JetBloom
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
GitHub is the repository for the vast majority of today’s open-source software. And that is why many interviewers look at applicants’ public GitHub.com accounts to assess their interests, popularity, helpfulness, and consistency. To collaborate with developers, today’s testers need git and a GitHub account. Unfortunately, esoteric command lines often confuse those new to the tool. Join Wilson Mar as he provides advice on how to be immediately productive. He begins with...Read more
Concurrent Session
T19
Gitte Ottosen, Capgemini-Sogeti Denmark
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
When you go on a road trip and want to plan your journey, you need to know where you are, where you want to go, and why you want to go there. You need the same things when you want to improve your test process. It doesn’t matter whether you are agile, waterfall, or part of a Test Center of Excellence, you need to assess the current state of the process, your goal, and how to implement the improvements. Gitte Ottosen takes you through some of test process improvement...Read more
Concurrent Session
T20
Rob Sabourin, amibug.com
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Rob Sabourin has discovered testing lessons in Sesame Street, the Simpsons, the Looney Tunes gang, the Great Detectives, Dr. Seuss, and many other unlikely places, but this year he journeys to the Land of Make Believe. Rob's grandchildren Jane and Suzy draw him into the Land of Make Believe. Every visit is a new adventure. By leaving reality for the realm of play, Rob has discovered many simple truths and clever strategies for solving stubborn technical, management,...Read more
Concurrent Session
T21
Lee Barnes, Utopia
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Choosing the appropriate tool and building the right framework are typically thought of as the main challenges to successful test automation. However, even after careful tool selection and advanced automation framework construction, many find long-term success elusive. Lee Barnes discusses the key strategy components that must be in place to avoid becoming another test automation statistic. Learn the importance of—and techniques for—assessing your organization’s...Read more
Concurrent Session
T22
Rahul Shah, WorldVentures
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
How would you like to be in this position? Development sends the final release candidate for multiple systems with a user base of one million just a day before the production release, and you are expected to sign off on the overall software quality. Rahul Shah is responsible for providing QA sign-off for a dozen applications every week and is accountable for reporting the overall quality of functional, regression, automation, cross-browser, mobile, and performance testing...Read more
Concurrent Session
T23
Michael Cooper, W3, LLC
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
With the advent of new technologies, agile methodologies, innovative tools, and a global workforce, the tester’s role is rapidly changing. Those who can adapt to the changing environment get the best jobs and assignments, and others get left behind. As the discipline of testing evolves, test professionals have to make decisions that will determine their success and job satisfaction. Is it better to specialize or be a generalist? Are you a better fit for a small start-up or...Read more
Concurrent Session
T24
Catherine Cruz Agosto, Availity, LLC, Shauna Ayers, Availity, LLC
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
How well do you know your data? Organizations are discovering the value in their data—as evidence of what they have done and a clue to how they can improve the bottom line. With the increase in analytics, it is no secret that there are more eyes on the data. And analyzing data can give valuable insight into patterns that drive efficiencies or errors. It is important to use this information and make sure it is being used correctly. However, excavating the data is not always...Read more
Keynote
K5
Dawn Haynes, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
4:15 pm to 5:15 pm
Once upon a time, Dawn Haynes was a software tester. Now she’s most often found in the classroom, helping others tackle the same day-to-day challenges that she has encountered on projects for the past thirty years. Dawn now recognizes that, although she had great instincts about testing that initially made her incredibly clever and effective at breaking software, it’s been the subtle questions, mantras, and foibles she’s encountered throughout her career that demonstrate how wrong some of her testing ideas have been. Now, Dawn reflects on how committed she was to those fledgling assertions...Read more
Testing & Quality Leadership Summit Reception (Summit Registration Required)
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Leadership Summit Session
SMT1
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Kickoff the Testing & Quality Leadership Summit with a reception and some networking.Read more
Friday, May 6
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
At the 2016 Testing & Quality Leadership Summit, program chair Jeffery Payne brings together senior industry leaders—Martin Ringlein and Cynthia Gilmer—for an interactive exchange of ideas and experiences. Each of these leaders brings a unique perspective on leadership to the table and will provide Summit participants with practical tips and techniques for leading teams, addressing management challenges, and participating in senior level management discussions.Read more
8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Women Who Test is a full-day event on Friday, May 6 for women to network with other women who work in software testing. It is also a day to learn from and be inspired by each other. The program will cover testing topics and will support women’s personal and career journeys and include content like: reengineering your life, growing your personal brand, setting goals, discovering your career superpowers, and how to problem-solve when you are a female in the tech industry where your gender is out numbered 7:3. Join women test engineers, managers, CEOs, and consultants for some truly inspiring talks and fascinating group work. Registration is free for conference attendees, but you must reserve your seat in advance.Read more
Bonus Session
B3
John McConda, Moser Consulting, Griffin Jones, Congruent Compliance
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Join us at The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)—a free, full-day bonus session held on Friday after the conference concludes. A unique peer workshop, WREST is dedicated to improving the practice of testing regulated systems. We define regulated software as any system that is subject to an internal or external review. WREST relies on its attendees to make the workshop a success. There are no formal presentations, only experience reports with plenty of time designated for facilitated discussion. We hope to learn from each other by hearing the success and (especially!) failure stories of real practitioners who test regulated software. Have a problem you want input on solving? You can bring that to the workshop as well—just be prepared to participate! WREST is hosted by John McConda and Griffin Jones.
NOTE: Limited seats are available. Reserve your seat when you register online for the conference or by contacting the Client Support Group at 888.268.8770 or [email protected]Read more
Testing & Quality Leadership Summit, Women Who Test, & WREST Bonus Session (cont.)
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm