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Quality Management Solution (QMS): Putting It All Together Track 5: 11:30 - 12:30 Testing professionals are faced with managing and controlling various testing assets: requirements, test cases, execution results, test coverage, and more. Reporting the status of these assets and the resulting metrics can be an overwhelming. Compuware's QM Solution provides a foundation for managing all measures and metrics involved in software testing while supplying a link between the testing assets, monitoring and reporting progress, testing coverage, and defects. The Compuware QM Solution provides a workflow mechanism that is web based and can be used by your testing and development staff. The tool offers predefined reports that can be customized and a drag and drop interface that eases adoption of the toolset. Barbara will provide an overview of the QM Solution and will discuss Compuware's Best Practices for Testing that are exemplified within this tool. Barbara will also cover several types of measures, the metrics that are associated with them, and will discuss how they can be best used within your organization. About the speaker... Software Reliability and Testing: Know When to Say When Track 5: 1:30 - 2:30 Software reliability must be considered for all software assets. Some or all parts of a component or application may have greater reliability risk due to factors such as business, safety, mission criticality, high complexity, recent change, or a history of high defect rates. Automated tools can assist in analyzing such factors, including that of high complexity. Once the level of risk associated with various parts of a component or application is identified, determinations must be made as to what degree of testing should be applied. That is, the test manager must Know When to Say When - what testing to perform and when to stop. Test completion criteria for software requiring high reliability should include not only the completion of functional and requirements based tests, but also defect rates and code coverage. Automated tools can assist with this analysis at various levels. Join Dale as he discusses how to define the criteria that will help to determine just how much testing is enough. About the speaker... Quality Assurance for the Enterprise: The Power of Keyword Driven Testing With keyword driven testing, a test can be created that is maintained with only minor updates, even when the application in question requires significant changes. This means that business domain experts can perform testing activities more independently ensuring greater productivity in the quality assurance function to help match the speed of the business. IBM Rational Manual Tester (RMT) improves manual test reuse and modularity by implementing keyword driven testing. It provides an innovative solution to the ad hoc nature of hands-on verification techniques that can be a high investment, low return activity. The tool also leverages the skills of the entire testing team by combining both manual and automated tests through integration with the Rational Functional Tester (RFT). Come to Jessica's session to learn more about keyword driven testing and the IBM Rational toolset that helps a testing team implement this cost and time saving approach. About the Speaker...During his eleven years in the software industry, Joshua Burton has worked on every side of the quality assurance problem, as a test tool developer and as a test designer. Joshua provides practical guidance, mentoring, and field support for customer testing solutions. He has published two technical articles on the diagnosis and correction of runtime memory errors, and has implemented memory management strategies for sustained uptime in critical telecom, aerospace, and financial applications on a variety of platforms. Since joining IBM Rational in 2000, Joshua has focused on testing as a discipline within the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and has contributed to notable functional and load testing successes at a variety of organizations. Prior to 1997, Joshua worked as a theoretical physicist. He holds an adjunct appointment at Northwestern University as a visiting scientist. Application Quality and Performance Testing Track 5: 10:15 - 11:15 Do miscommunications and different priorities between subject-matter experts and quality engineers result in time-consuming test re-work? Does limited subject-matter expert involvement during testing lead to defects and breakdowns in your critical business processes? Are defects found in production instead of by your functional testing team - hurting your group's credibility? Do you need a solution that streamlines the creation and maintenance of both manual and automated test cases? HP Business Process Testing software is comprehensive, role-based test design software that overcomes these challenges and bridges the quality chasm between your subject-matter experts and quality engineers. HP Business Process Testing is web-based, so your subject-matter experts can build, drive, and execute manual and automated tests without any programming knowledge. It reduces the overhead for test maintenance and combines test automation and documentation into a single effort. About the speaker... A Testing Revolution: New Tools from Microsoft Track 5: 11:30-12:30 Microsoft is developing a new set of tools for testing aimed at making general testers more effective by facilitating the management, analysis, development, and execution of the testing process. This toolset will enable testers to better leverage automation in their projects through efficient collaboration between QA and the rest of the extended development team throughout the application lifecycle. Consistent and reliable creation of actionable bugs via automatic data gathering is made possible. The toolset assists in ensuring requirements and code are adequately and transparently tested, ultimately answering the question "Can we release?" Finally, and most importantly, Microsoft's new testing tool offering will foster community through partnership and an extensible platform. Come to Ed's session to learn more about this exciting new product. About the speaker... Test What Matters: The Benefits of Aligning Requirements and Testing Track 5: 1:30 - 2:30 About the speaker... A Helping Hand for Manual Testers Track 5: 3:00 - 4:00 Despite the vast amounts of money that has been spent on the purchase of software test automation tools to improve the software quality process and deliver savings in time and reduce business risk, surveys show that in 2008 80% of all testing is still being performed manually. Across the board it seems that the original automation promise of "quicker and better" have not been realized and, in many cases, the situation has worsened. Although manual testing is often time consuming, laborious, repetitive, and costly, it is a fact of testing life that it is here to stay. Yet there has been nothing to help the vast number of manual testers...until now. TestDrive-Assist from Original Software has been specifically designed to aid manual testers and promises to revolutionize the way manual testing is carried out and to cut the time needed for manual testing in half. About the speaker...
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