Better Software - July/August 2008 - (Page SW22) COnCUrrent SeSSiOnS tHUrSDay, OCTOBeR 2, 11:15 a.m. T6 TEST MAnAGEMEnT T9 THE nEW WAVE Calculate the Value of testing: it’s not just about Cost Leo van der Aalst, Sogeti Netherlands BV it seems that senior management is always complaining that testing costs too much. And their opinion is accurate if they consider only the costs—and not the benefits—of testing. what if you could show management how much you have saved the organization by finding defects during testing? The most expensive defects are ones not found during testing—defects that ultimately get delivered to the user. Their consequential damages and repair costs can far exceed the cost of finding them before deploying a system. instead of focusing only on the cost of testing, leo van der Aalst shows you how to determine the real value that testing adds to the project. He shares a model that he has used to calculate the losses testing prevents— losses that did not occur because testing found the error before the application was put into production. leo explains the new testing math: loss Prevented – Cost of Testing = Added value of Testing. T7 Building an SOa Quality Center of excellence Rajeev Gupta, iTKO LISA Before we can realize the promises of technical agility and reuse from a distributed, service-oriented architecture (sOA), we must first establish trust among stakeholders that sOA will meet business requirements. Rajeev Gupta believes that the best way to instill this sense of trust and make sOA adoption possible is through a shared center of excellence focused on sOA quality. Both service providers and businesses consuming services must be confident that services and the underlying implementation and data layers behind them reliably meet business goals, even as they change and evolve over time. An sOA Quality Center of excellence demonstrates that quality is everyone’s duty—not just the testing team’s responsibility. learn the four key activities that the sOA Quality Center of excellence must manage: structural certification, behavioral validation, performance testing, and service virtualization of test environments. if all stakeholders work together to ensure quality with a continuing focus, sOA can and will succeed in your organization. T10 TEST TECHnIquES the Savvy web tester’s tool kit Erik Petersen, emprove Did you know that you can get many free—or nearly free—tools to supercharge your web testing efforts? Amazingly, at the click of a button, you can download some very advanced capabilities to make you seem like a testing genius. with a focus on web application tools, erik Petersen looks at tools that can help all testers. erik examines mind mapping and how you can use mind maps for schedules, strategies, even tests themselves. He demonstrates several tools for managing tests and others to help you look “under the hood” and manipulate web applications. Join erik to learn some innovative ways to test your web applications; build test data to include dummy people with realistic addresses; capture what you’ve done; and view, tweak, and break the software. you’ll also see “portable applications”, versions of tools that run off a memory stick on any PC without being installed. T8 SPECIAL TOPICS Beyond functional testing: On to Conformance and interoperability Derk-Jan De Grood, Collis Although less well known than security and usability testing, conformance and interoperability testing are just as important. even though conformance and interoperability testing—all about standards and thick technical specifications documents—may seem dull, Derk-Jan De Grood believes that these testing objectives can be interesting and rewarding if you approach them the right way. sOA is one example in which numerous services must interact correctly with one another—conform to specs—to implement a system. Conformance and interoperability testing ensures that vendors’ scanners can read your badge in the eXPO and that your bank card works in a foreign ATM. Derk-Jan explains important concepts of interface standards and specifications and discusses the varied test environments you need for this type of testing. Get insight into the problems you must overcome when you perform conformance and interoperability testing. TEST AuTOMATIOn Demystifying Virtual test Lab Management Ian Knox, Skytap, Inc. The benefits of a virtualized test lab environment are compelling and quantifiable—rapid provisioning and tear down of environments, faster test cycles, and powerful new capabilities to resolve defects. Although many test teams have experimented with virtual machines and have experienced some of the benefits, they’ve also discovered issues with virtual machine “sprawl,” difficulties administering the lab, and lack of virtual private networking. ian Knox provides solutions to these problems and offers ways to simplify both using and managing virtualization in your test environment. ian describes the basics of virtualization and how you can use virtual labs to solve some of the most pressing and expensive challenges in testing. He guides you through the important implementation choices for building a virtual lab and explores the common pitfalls with real-life case studies. Take back an understanding of a virtual lab’s capabilities and limitations and learn how to automate your lab with tools and build integration. See what a STAR experience can do for you and your team! 22 Call 888.268.8770 or 904.278.0524 to register • www.sqe.Com/swreg http://www.sqe.com/sWreg
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