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Wednesday, October 7
The 8th Habit of Highly Effective Agile Testers
Are you a good tester who readily adapts to change, focuses on the customer, works well with others, and keeps your testing skills up to date? Perhaps you have developed what Philip Lew refers to as the “7 Habits of Highly Effective Agile Testers”—a combination of practices and guiding principles that enable you to be a successful tester and teammate in an agile environment. But how do you transition from good to great? The answer is to invent, innovate, and inspire others to do the same. As we grow in our discipline, we must challenge the status quo and prepare ourselves to take software...
Setting Up Tomorrow's Testers for Success
PreviewWe have coding bootcamps, free online coding academies, and many other platforms to teach people programming skills. However, there are not similar programs for testers and other QA professionals. How do we nurture the next generation of talent, help people transition into the software testing discipline, and give future testers the best chance to be successful? Adam Sandman will detail how you can set up programs to make the transition into the testing/QA workforce easier, using actual examples and case studies as demonstrations. We will discuss how you can implement certifications...
Thursday, October 8
Quality 1Up : How to Use Game Theory to Drive a Cultural Change and Improve Quality
How do you inspire developers, testers, and teams to improve their testing practices and code quality? Have you ever wanted to provide greater visibility into your quality practices? Join Janna as she talks about one way you can help inspire teams to not only improve testing and quality practices, but drive and own that change. She’ll talk about how gamifying your quality practices and modding your role as a tester can build a community and a culture of quality. In today’s age of agile development and DevOps, software development has truly become a social activity. So we need to stop...