FROSST 1

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10 & 11 October 2008 @ Colorado Technical University, Westminster, Colorado


Contents

Registrants

See who participated in FROSST 1. If you are a participant, click your name to add information about yourself to your Wiki page.

Venue

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Colorado Technical University - North Denver

Schedule

Sessions

Intellectual Property Agreement

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Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
9:00am - 10:00am

Metrics

  • I hate metrics: Count test cases (Heidi Harmes-Campbell)
  • QA and metrics: How to start an implementation and what type of reporting
  • What's wrong with performance test tool metrics? And what is good? (Ben Simo)

Testing at all levels

  • The Test Pyramid: GUI, Integration, Unit
  • Why we need testing at all levels: unit, component, GUI (Pierre Veragen)

Session-Based Testing

  • Session Based Test Management: I'm brand new. Interesting in discussing w/ folks who use it! (Jeff Fry)
  • How to efficiently approach system & integration testing on a software product that is not fully developed ...

Estimation

SDET

  • About Following Good Test Practice: Do you need to be a dev to test? or does it just seem that way? (Vincent Niave)
10:10am - 11:10am

Ethics

Documentation

Hiring

  • How do you hire good testers? Interview techniques, questions, etc.

GUI Testing

  • Why is testing thru the UI a BAD idea? (Rob Park)
  • Why is testing thru the UI necessary? (Ben Simo)

Open Source

  • Open Source Test Tools: What you use. Develop a list.
  • Why Free Tools Are Not Free!!! (Stephen Romero)
  • Open Source Java Testing Tools (Howard Fear)
  • Automation & Performance Test Tools: Options - pros & cons (Anand Panimaya)
12:40pm - 1:40pm

Certification

  • Certification? Good/Bad
  • Ideas about S/W Tester training & certification (Dave Hinrich)
  • Why software testing certifications (mostly) such (Scott Barber)

Agile

  • Agile in QA
  • Is smoke test necessary in Agile development methodology
  • In Lean/Agile development, where one precept is to eliminate waste, what parts of testing are not waste? What do testers do in a Lean/Agile environment? (David Askey)
  • If Agile is so great, how come almost nobody does it right? (David Askey)

Process & Policy

  • Efficiencies and creating process and policies for managers. What are other managers doing? (Melissa Tondi)

Risk-Based Testing

  • Risk-based testing techniques. What have other companies done? (Melissa Tondi)

WATiR/Ruby

1:50 pm - 2:50pm

Exploratory Testing

  • Exploratory Testing vs. Ad Hoc. Are there standards? (Melissa Tondi)
  • How to test when there are no req's/spec's & not likely (Vincent Niave)

Training

  • How to train a tester offshore or remotely?

WATIR

  • Trials and Troubleshooting with WATIR

Performance Testing

  • Automation Performance testing: challenges and solutions (Anand Panimaya)
  • Learning to be a performance tester (Howard Fear)
  • Treating performance testing as a project task or activity, Not a skill (Scott Barber)

Test Early

  • Involving Testers Early: Requirement written for testing (Ryan Maki)
  • Use cases vs. specific test cases based on specs (Leslie Dunn)
  • Designing software so it is easy to test

FITNESSE

  • FITNESSE: exchange techniques (Pierre Veragen)
  • GUI testing vs. FitNesse
3:10pm - 4:10pm

Careers

  • Modernizing Test Careers (Ruth Yoon)
  • Change College/University education so software testing & QA is an emphasis for IT degree?
  • Good testing books & why they are good (Heidi Harmes-Campbell)

Test Automation

  • Maintainable test automation (Ben Simo)
  • Keyword-driven test automation with HP/Mercury BPT (Igor Gershovich)
  • How to automate testing of high permutations
  • Baby Steps: Manual Test to Automated (Sue Uyetake)

Humor

  • HUMOR
  • Comedy Troupe discussion while manually testing Wii on BEER
  • SARCASM: Is it required to be an effective tester?

Database Testing

  • DB Testing: Testing with DB. Testing against DB. Tools, timps, experience.

CI

  • Continuous Integration: getting started, building it, leading horses to water (Ryan Maki)
  • Extending Continuous Integration into Testing & Deploys (Eric Minick)


Parking Lot

  • Windows GUI Testing Framework based on Dot Net 3.0 (Pierre Veragen)
  • 508 Compliance. Big Picture. Why, for what apps... (Sue Uyetake)
  • "Selling" Software Testing. How to explain & convince other people to do testing.
  • Now just "when is testing finished" but "How do you tell the users that you are finished?" (Leslie Dunn)
  • Parallel Operations Testing (Ruth Yoon)
  • Managing offshore testers (Howard Fear)
  • Two different animals: Testing vs. Validation (Ben Simo)
  • Does a definition matter? (Pierre Veragen)
  • Who comes first? Customer, test engineer, req's, developer


As there is no official FROSST reporter, we rely on participants to take and share notes with others. Please post notes you'd like to share on the session pages (or pages linked from the session pages) shown here.



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Books

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Sponsors

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Champions

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Friends

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FROSST is free to participants thanks to the generous support of our sponsors.


Champions

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Friends

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Boosters

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Intellectual Property Agreement

FROSST Conference participants agree to the following:

  • Reporting. Each participant will have their own interpretation of what happens at this conference. Any participant can publish session results as they see them. There is no official conference reporter. Participants are encouraged to report on what they learn in the FROSST wiki, their blogs, and elsewhere.
  • Attribution. Participants shall give attribution for ideas and methods shared or developed at the conference to whom it is due. However, ideas will develop in discussion that may be difficult to attribute to any single person. Ideas developed by a group shall be attributed to the group. Any publication of material developed in the conference shall reference the FROSST conference.
  • Secrets. Please honor your non-disclosure agreements. Please do not reveal any proprietary information; or information that otherwise should not be made public.
  • Permission. Any restrictions of rights for previously-prepared materials shared at the conference must be identified in the materials themselves. Unless specified in the materials, anything presented at the conference may be republished or quoted by any participant without further permission.

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