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| Room 1
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| Room 5
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| 9:00am - 10:00am
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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)
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Testing at all levels
- The Test Pyramid: GUI, Integration, Unit
- Why we need testing at all levels: unit, component, GUI (Pierre Veragen)
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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 ...
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Estimation
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SDET
- About Following Good Test Practice: Do you need to be a dev to test? or does it just seem that way? (Vincent Niave)
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| 10:10am - 11:10am
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Ethics
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Documentation
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Hiring
- How do you hire good testers? Interview techniques, questions, etc.
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GUI Testing
- Why is testing thru the UI a BAD idea? (Rob Park)
- Why is testing thru the UI necessary? (Ben Simo)
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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)
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| 12:40pm - 1:40pm
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Certification
- Certification? Good/Bad
- Ideas about S/W Tester training & certification (Dave Hinrich)
- Why software testing certifications (mostly) such (Scott Barber)
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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)
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Process & Policy
- Efficiencies and creating process and policies for managers. What are other managers doing? (Melissa Tondi)
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Risk-Based Testing
- Risk-based testing techniques. What have other companies done? (Melissa Tondi)
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WATiR/Ruby
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| 1:50 pm - 2:50pm
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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)
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Training
- How to train a tester offshore or remotely?
WATIR
- Trials and Troubleshooting with WATIR
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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)
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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
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FITNESSE
- FITNESSE: exchange techniques (Pierre Veragen)
- GUI testing vs. FitNesse
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| 3:10pm - 4:10pm
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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)
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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)
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Humor
- HUMOR
- Comedy Troupe discussion while manually testing Wii on BEER
- SARCASM: Is it required to be an effective tester?
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Database Testing
- DB Testing: Testing with DB. Testing against DB. Tools, timps, experience.
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CI
- Continuous Integration: getting started, building it, leading horses to water (Ryan Maki)
- Extending Continuous Integration into Testing & Deploys (Eric Minick)
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