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Monday, September 28, 2015 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
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Six Essential Skills for Modern Testers NEW Prior Year Content

Testing as a profession is becoming more and more demanding. We must adapt to faster development lifecycles, get to know about exploratory testing, and use different ways to add greater value to our projects. Bart Knaack believes that if we are to rise to this challenge, we need to learn additional skills—requirements engineering, database manipulation and monitoring using SQL, usability heuristics, exploratory testing, visual notation techniques for test preparation, and creation of test data. By mastering these skills, we will not only become better testers but we also can mentor others in their work. These skills enable us to improve software quality by means other than just testing. Come and learn about these skills and what is expected of a tester in today’s environment. Practice these skills and start off in the right direction for further improvement. Want to broaden your horizon? Join Bart and learn in a funtastic way.

Bart Knaack
Bart Knaack, Professional Testing

Test advisor at Professional Testing, Bart Knaack has more than twenty years of experience in testing and test management. Bart has contributed to testing projects and processes in roles of test manager, test data management team lead, and process improvement agent. He has coached testers, built up test teams, and developed processes in test, test support, and overall quality management and improvement. Bart is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities, and colleges. In 2009 Bart and James Lyndsay co-founded the TestLab, an exciting part of today’s STAR conferences.

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