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Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 11:15am to 12:15pm

Agile Testing Process Analytics: From Data to Insightful Information

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In recent years, businesses have raised their expectations for development projects while cutting back on financial resources and demanding shorter production cycles. Jonathan Alexander says that to meet these growing demands and succeed as a testing manager, you need to leverage agile process data and insights to make critical decisions about your team and strategy. However, this is no easy task with everything there is to look at during a development project. How do managers distinguish meaningful data from meaningless data? Jonathan shares the analytics that agile development and testing teams can use to improve quality and efficiency. Data presented comes from the QASymphony labs, where the analytics team works with anonymized data gathered from hundreds of development organizations to find meaningful and useful testing metrics. In this session, learn about testing and quality metrics specifically useful to agile teams, analytics to improve quality and testing efficiency, and processes to make test teams more agile.

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QA Symphony

As CTO at QASymphony, Jonathan Alexander leads the research and development of the qTest platform, including the development of new product offerings. With extensive experience in using analytics to understand and improve software teams and quality, Jonathan has written articles on this subject and authored Codermetrics: Analytics for Improving Software Teams. Previously, Jonathan was CTO at cloud-based business communications company Vonage Business Solutions. He has led development and testing teams at three start-ups—Vocalocity, vmSight, and Radnet—and served in post-acquisition executive roles at Liquidware Labs and Epiphany. Jonathan began his career writing software for author/director Michael Crichton.