SQE STARWEST Conference Brochure 2008

COnCUrrent SeSSiOnS friDay, OCTOBeR 3, 11:15 a.m. f6 TEST MAnAGEMEnT f9 SECuRITy keys to Successful test Outsourcing: winwin for all Patricia Smith, The Hartford Defining and implementing a test outsourcing strategy can be a daunting task, especially if you have a vested interest in the outcome. Patricia smith shares The Hartford’s strategy for embarking on a vendor partnership for testing. she discusses three phases of successful outsourcing—preparing, determining benefits, and measuring—and shares tips on how to prepare to outsource before committing. Find out how to make the necessary critical decisions, including: selecting the right vendor, deciding what work “goes” and what “stays,” determining the right blend of employees and outsourced staff, and navigating the organizational infrastructure to support the team. Patricia explores the benefits of sourcing they have experienced—access to a huge labor pool and the “best” best practices. Take back ideas for measuring quality and implementing service level agreements (slAs) that are simple and easy to track. f7 integrating Security testing into your Process Danny Allan, IBM Rational software quality is a priority for most organizations, yet many are still struggling to handle the volume of testing. Unfortunately, applications are frequently released with significant security risks. Many organizations rely on an overburdened security team to test applications late in development when fixes are the most costly, while others are throwing complex tools at test teams expecting the testers to master security testing with no formal processes and training. Danny Allan describes five steps to integrate security testing into the software development lifecycle. Danny shows how highly secure and compliant software applications begin with security requirements and include design, development, build, quality assurance, and transitional practices. He describes some of the most common application security vulnerabilities, techniques to address these issues, and methods to safeguard sensitive online information from the bad guys. f10 TEST TECHnIquES a Modeling framework for Scenario-Based testing Fiona Charles, Quality Intelligence, Inc. scenario-based testing is a powerful method for finding problems that really matter to users and other stakeholders. By including scenario tests representing actual sequences of transactions and events, you can uncover the hidden bugs often missed by other functional testing. Designing scenarios requires you to use your imagination to create narratives that play out through systems from various points of view. Basing scenarios on a structured analysis of the data provides a solid foundation for a scenario model. Good scenario design demands that you combine details of business process, data flows—including their frequency and variations—and clear data entry and verification points. Fiona Charles describes a framework for modeling scenario-based tests and designing structured scenarios according to these principles. Fiona works through a real-life project example, showing how she applied this framework to design tests that found hundreds of bugs in a system—and this after the company had completed their testing and delivered the system into acceptance. f8 SPECIAL TOPICS going Mobile: the new Challenges for testers Wayne Hom, Augmentum Mobile device manufacturers face many challenges bringing quality products to market. Most testing methodologies were created for data processing, client/server, and web products. as such, they often fail to address key areas of interest to mobile applications—usability, security, and stability. wayne Hom discusses approaches you can use to transform requirements into usability guides and use cases into test cases to ensure maximum test coverage. He discusses automation frameworks that support multiple platforms to reduce test cycle times and increase test coverage, while measuring and reporting at the different phases of the software lifecycle. wayne presents case studies to illustrate how to reduce test cycles by up to 75 percent. He demonstrates solutions that have helped providers of third party applications and services manage testing cycles for multiple mobile device releases. AGILE TESTInG agile acceptance testing Using .net fitnesse Gojko Adzic, Neuri Ltd. Fitnesse is an open-source test automation tool that enables business users, developers, and testers to cooperate on agile acceptance testing. Fitnesse allows them to build a shared understanding of system requirements that ultimately produces the software that is genuinely fit for its purpose. Gojko Adzic presents an introduction to agile acceptance testing. He discusses when to use Fitnesse, when not to use it, and how to start writing acceptance tests with this free tool. Gojko explains how to make the most of automated acceptance tests by focusing on business rules, how to overcome workflow constraints, and how to avoid common testing pitfalls. He describes features specific to the .neT Fitnesse test runner, including cell handlers and embedded symbols, that allow you to save time and effort in writing and maintaining tests. Join in to see if Fitnesse fits into your .neT testing world. C COnferenCe BOnUS! B OneOne-year Subscription to Better Software Magazine! S StArWEST 2008 conference attendees receive a one-year digital subscription (ten issues) to Better Software magazine—the only magazine delivering relevant, timely information so you can tackle the challenges of building better quality software, regardless of your role in software development. www.BetterSoftware.com If you are a current subscriber, your subscription will be extended for an additional ten digital issues. 26 Call 888.268.8770 or 904.278.0524 to register • www.sqe.Com/swreg http://www.BetterSoftware.com http://www.sqe.com/swreg

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