STARWEST 2023 - User Experience (UX) Testing
Thursday, October 5
How My Testing Skills Served My Personal Life
Kristoffer Nordström faced one of the most challenging and emotional times of his life when his daughter was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening disease. As a caregiver, father, and primary project manager, he had to learn everything he could about her illness, treatment options, and potential outcomes. The skills he acquired as a tester helped him manage this overwhelming amount of information, make sense of it, and develop a plan of action while still being a loving and ever-present parent. He asked questions, researched, and analyzed data to make informed decisions about his...
Metrics That Matter!
PreviewIn this exhaustive testing world, it can be daunting to measure multiple metrics to achieve the end goal of higher product quality. Measuring metrics can quickly become a daunting task that can pose several challenges on the time and efficiency front. What are these two simple metrics that can get you to your finish line? How can teams use these metrics to bring about a process change to set high quality standards? In this session, attendees will take away simple, but effective, ideas that can help their teams to clearly define their product quality goals, and attach a quantifiable...
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Integrating Accessibility into Agile
PreviewMany times accessibility activities occur late in a project’s release when it takes longer to figure out problems and costs more to fix them. Typically all you can do at this point is patch the problems rather than fix them properly. CGI Federal approaches accessibility with an agile mindset, integrating it throughout the iterative design, user story creation, development, and testing efforts. During this session, Pavani Gonuguntla and Stephen Omojuyigbe will focus on case studies and recommended best practices from where they worked with management and cross-functional teams to get...