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The Cost of Quality: A Reason for Built-In Quality Track 1: 11:00 - 12:00 Software companies are constantly enhancing their development processes in order to maximize resources, produce more products, and maintain a high level of quality. Too often, however, companies do not think about quality holistically. Instead, they try to “test-in” quality at the end of the development lifecycle. How much does it cost to “test-in” quality instead of driving quality with test first design? Join Elaine as she discusses the differences in cost between “testing-in” quality vs. relating testing to the complete software delivery life cycle. You will gain an understanding of the true costs of quality including the fallacy that quality costs are greater in a quality focused project. Most importantly, you will learn how to convince an organization that quality should be 'built-in'” into the software development life cycle and not “tested-in” at the end. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scrum: A Disciplined Approach to Product Quality and Project Success Track 2: 11:00 - 12:00 Product development is a complex process that requires more than clever, driven people. Many software development efforts are riddled with risks that cause massive schedule slippage, poor quality, and sometimes complete project derailment. If done properly, Scrum can provide a framework for managing this complex and challenging work, while releasing the constraints of more traditional approaches. However, many things must change. In this session we'll discuss how Scrum can be used to address the complexities and risks inherent in any software project. We will look at some real-world examples of Scrum projects that have been delivered on-time, on-budget, with exceptional quality, all while achieving a CMMI level 3 process standard. Join Patricia and learn about the discipline involved in a successful Scrum project and how the QA role changes to become even more dynamic and value-add. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Static Testing: Getting Started, Getting Results, Getting Support Track 3: 11:00 - 12:00 Cost soars when defects are not discovered until system testing, or worse, production. Inspections can drive down delivery timelines, drive out defects, and align business and IT expectations. The benefits of static testing are known and documented, so why is this the first activity dropped when project teams feel pressed to meet schedule and cost constraints? In this presentation, Anne will share the story of one project team that embraced static testing, stayed with it, and realized the results. She will share their dramatic outcome, evidence of static testing value. Their success marked the beginning of a quality journey to institutionalize inspections through project and production support work. Anne will offer practical steps to overcoming organizational and cultural barriers that keep teams from realizing the benefits of inspections. She will identify common pitfalls and give suggestions on how to go from isolated implementation to expected practice. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quality Metrics for Automation Efforts Track 4: 11:00 - 12:00 Many see automated test efforts as an extension of their existing metrics program with the added opportunity of return on investment. However, automated test frameworks can provide far greater insight into overall quality than is imagined. Expanding automated suites across the test cycles and their corresponding environments will drive early defect detection and help identify production like scenarios. Christopher will discuss some measurement techniques to accomplish this. The operational model for environment management can leverage automated testing suites to reduce environment downtime, further increasing return on investment. A real world scenario illustrating this concept will be covered. Finally, well designed automated frameworks can replay production data to help predict the unpredictable customer. This capability is instrumental in understanding improvement opportunities for QA organizations. Christopher will look at change management metrics and defect containment rates tying them to automation results. Attend this session and review the best practices of automation design and alignment, and the operational components of quality. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Establishing and Integrating Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Testing Track 5: 11:00 - 12:00 More and more enterprises are embarking on the SOA journey. This journey involves huge investments but the results are promising. The testing phase, however, becomes very challenging unless planned for early in the project. Traditional testing tools, strategies, or skill sets may not suffice for the testing of an SOA implementation which includes functional, performance, interoperability, governance, and vulnerability testing. In her presentation, Beverly will detail how Allstate Financial Technology and Infosys jointly set up an SOA testing practice that aligned with the existing testing COE. She will explain how technology, tools, and skill set demands were found to be different than the traditional team and how the SOA testing team evolved. The challenges, learnings, and some best practices will also be discussed including the different test strategies used and how the reusability factor was leveraged. Building an Effective Test Team Track 1: 11:00 - 12:00 Bringing together a testing organization in an existing IT department has many challenges. How will you handle delivery expectations, how will you leverage resources and build the necessary skill set, and how will you integrate the team with external projects? In this session, Jim will explain how to organize the total effort into logical containers such as assessment, standardization, investment, and execution. He will discuss how to establish a common testing methodology for project teams that is repeatable and prepare documented business cases and ROI for initiatives requiring time or cost. Finally, he will cover how to build a roadmap enabling IT to see immediate gains from an overall process standpoint and to envision the future model of the testing department. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case Study: Using Application Security Ratings to Manage Application Risk Track 2: 11:00 - 12:00 The application security policy is a critical component of an organization's overall information management architecture. Whether you are developing software internally or leveraging outsourced code, open source, or third-party libraries, it is critical to understand the security posture of your code across the entire software supply chain. This case study features Computershare's model of leveraging an application security rating system not only to verify, but also to demonstrate software assurance across the software supply chain. In this presentation, Matt and Donna will explain how to move from ad hoc testing to a true application risk management policy initiative. About the speakers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Lifecycle Testing of Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) Software Track 3: 11:00 - 12:00 In today's competitive market, commercial off the shelf (COTS) systems are becoming a popular alternative to in-house development for businesses. The use of COTS has been mandated across many government and business programs as such products can offer significant savings in procurement, development, testing, and maintenance. This presentation is based on a real world example of testing a large enterprise COTS application system within the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Saeid will provide general QA and testing best practices for COTS applications as well as the approach that a QA team should take across the entire project lifecycle. He will explain practical “How To's” of testing including, test planning, design, test types, automated, and performance testing all backed up by real examples. Saeid will also describe the similarities and differences between testing COTS and in-house developed application systems, and will show you the challenges that you are facing when testing COTS. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Testing at Google: A Marriage of Idealism and Pragmatism Track 4: 11:00 - 12:00 The prevalence of mobile devices has forced application developers, particularly those in Web development, to expand their efforts into mobile development. Google is very much in the same situation. In addition to developing a Web-accessible application, they have to consider mobile browsers, as well as native applications on different flavors of operating systems. Since Goggle is developing one of the most popular mobile operating systems, Android, they have a unique perspective on mobile testing. This presentation will give an introduction to testing at Google and mobile testing in particular. Matt will frame his talk by discussing Goggle's general testing philosophy and then discuss how these principles are applied to mobile testing initiatives. Matt will discuss various initiatives that have been attempted, both past and present, and share lessons learned and best practices. About the speakers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Architecture Testing: Wrongly Ignored Track 5: 11:00 - 12:00 State-of-the-art testing approaches typically include different testing levels such as reviews, unit testing, component testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. There is also the common sense that typically unit testing is done by developers and system testing is done by professional independent testers. But, who is responsible to adequately test the architecture which is one of the key artifacts in developing and maintaining flexible, powerful, and sustainable products and systems? History has shown that too many project problems and failures are caused by deficiencies in the architecture. Furthermore, what does the term architecture testing mean and why is this term seldom used? To answer these questions, Peter describes what architecture testing is all about and explains a list of practices to implement it successfully. He offers practical advice on the required tasks and activities as well as the needed involvement, contributions, and responsibilities of software architects in the area of testing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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