SQE STARWEST Conference Brochure 2008

Pre-COnferenCe tUtOriaLS tUeSDay, sePTeMBeR 30, 1:00-4:30 (HAlF DAy - PM) TN introducing keyword-Driven test automation Hans Buwalda, LogiGear Corporation new Hans Buwalda is an internationally recognized expert in test development and testing technology management and a pioneer of keyword-driven test automation. He was the first to present this approach, which is now widely used throughout the testing industry. Originally from the Netherlands, Hans now lives and works in California as CTO of LogiGear Corporation, directing the development of what has become the successful Action Based Testing™ methodology for test automation and its supporting TestArchitect™ toolset. Prior to joining LogiGear, Hans served as project director at CMG (now Logica) in the Netherlands. He is co-author of integrated Test Design and Automation and a frequent speaker at international conferences. Mukesh Mulchandani, CTO of ZenTEST Labs, is responsible for establishing ZenTEST Labs as a key player in the software testing domain. Mukesh has eight years of experience in the information technology industry, most of which has been in the banking and financial services sector. Before joining ZenTEST Labs, Mukesh worked with Kanbay, Capgemini Consulting, and Fortune 500 clients, including Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. He has played a major role in designing functional automation processes at the organizational level. Mukesh is a regular presenter at STARwesT and STAReAsT. Keyword-driven test automation has entered the mainstream of testing. Keywords is a powerful approach for you to reach a high level of automation with the lowest possible effort. This approach can bring you the flexibility, manageability, and maintainability that test automation demands. Hans Buwalda introduces keyword-driven test automation, based on his successful Action Based Testing methodology. Then, he discusses how you can implement keywords by having good test design techniques, a workable automation architecture, and the management skills for success. when properly implemented, keyword-driven test automation projects can result in high automation percentages with significant reusability and low maintenance. learn how you can start on the path to meeting Hans’ “5% challenges” for test automation: no more than 5% of your test cases should be executed manually, and no more than 5% of your total testing effort should be used to achieve this automation. TO essential thinking Skills for testers and test Managers Krishna Iyer and Mukesh Mulchandani, ZenTEST Labs The most important skills that testers need in their work are thinking skills. while often ignored in favor of testing techniques and automation tools, improving testers’ thinking skills has the greatest benefit. Having trained more than 5,000 testers in testing skills and more than 500 testers in essential thinking skills, Krishna iyer and Mukesh Mulchandani have proven this fact. They present three vital thinking skills—critical thinking, creative thinking, and coverage thinking. Designed for both testers and test managers, this class helps you develop an eye to see what no one else sees, a nose to sniff out more defects, and an ear to critically evaluate every claim you hear. Join Krishna and Mukesh for the latest research in cognitive thinking; learn practical techniques such as ideational fluency, test mapping, and filtering bias; and understand the mindset of effective testers. Krishna Iyer, CEO of ZenTEST Labs, is a young entrepreneur, a prolific speaker, and author. Before ZenTEST Labs, Krishna was a quality manager at Kanbay where he worked with clients such as CitiFinancial, HSBC, IBM, and GE. Krishna shapes ZenTEST Labs strategy using his financial background, improves ZenTEST Labs operations using his rich IT and process consulting experience, and transforms its culture using his expertise as a behavioral trainer. Krishna is a regular presenter at testing and quality conferences including STARwesT and STAReAsT. TP Cover your testing Bases with the agile testing Quadrants Lisa Crispin, ePlan Services, Inc. new software quality has many dimensions, so we must be ready with different testing approaches. we test to find defects, ensure system reliability, check that the system is easy to use, verify that it’s secure, and much more. How do you know the different types of tests you need? How do you know when you’re “done” testing? lisa Crispin shows you how to use the four categories of the Agile Testing Quadrants method to make sure your team has covered all the bases—programmer tests (test-driven development); customer tests that help the team meet the users’ requirements; business-facing tests that critique the product’s behavior and find the important bugs; and technology-facing tests that examine non-functional qualities such as performance, load, scalability, reliability, and security. with Agile Testing Quadrants, you and your team will be ready to cover all the bases— no matter what testing challenges the project throws at you. A tester on agile teams since 2000, Lisa Crispin currently works as a tester at ePlan Services, Inc. developing Web-based financial applications using XP and Scrum. She also helps teams and testers transition to agile, leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences in the US and Europe, and regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better software magazine, ieee software, and Methods & Tools. Lisa co-authored Testing extreme Programming with Tip House and is co-authoring Agile Testing: The Tester Role on an Agile Project (2009) with Janet Gregory. For more about Lisa’s work, visit her Web sites: http://lisa.crispin.home.att.net and http://www.agiletester.ca. Randall Rice is a leading author, speaker, and consultant in the field of software testing and software quality. He has worked with major organizations worldwide to improve the quality of their information systems and to optimize their testing processes. Randall has more than thirty years of experience building and testing missioncritical projects in a variety of environments and has authored many training courses in software testing and software engineering. He is publisher of The software Quality Advisor newsletter and co-author (with William E. Perry) of surviving the Top Ten Challenges of software Testing. Randall serves on the board of directors of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB). TQ the fundamentals of Pairwise testing—with a twist Randall Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc. Pairwise testing is a technique for designing test cases to include all possible discrete combinations of each pair of input parameters. Use case scenarios define a dialogue between a user and the system with a tangible result. Join Randall Rice to explore ways to employ these two techniques in combination to design tests that provide a high level of test coverage while minimizing the total number of tests needed. learn practical ways to prioritize pairwise test scenarios by risk level and execution effort as you gain a new tool to increase both coverage and efficiency in your testing. This optimized scenario-based approach is useful for establishing a strong baseline of regression tests that are both compact and achievable in most project schedules. in addition, pairwise scenariobased test designs used together are a powerful technique for system testing, user acceptance testing, and testing new service-oriented architectures (sOAs). Call 888.268.8770 or 904.278.0524 to register • www.sqe.Com/swreg 15 http://lisa.crispin.home.att.net http://www.agiletester.ca http://www.sqe.com/sWreg

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