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Last updated: 05/05/2009 |
Requirements Based Functional Testing - A Process to Govern Your Testing Project Track 1: 1:00 - 2:00 Most people become QA analysts almost by accident, transitioning from development, project management, business analysis, or the business itself. At one time in our IT careers, we’ve all tested software. Few of us, however, have had any formal training on the subject. This presentation is for you if you are new to QA, a newly appointed QA test lead or manager, or simply someone that has been tasked with testing a software application. If you have no time, no budget, no tools, no staff, and no QA knowledge; no problem, this seminar is for you. By attending this presentation you will receive an introduction to a practical, proven, repeatable, QA process that will allow you to analyze, plan, design, construct, and control your software testing project. The only tool you will need is Microsoft Office. About the speaker... Defining Goal-Based Project Metrics Track 2: 1:00 - 2:00 Many software development organizations understand the importance of taking measurements, but they do not always understand how best to use them. Often, measurements are taken for the sake of measurement, but do not necessarily lead to changes or improvements. The measurement program kicks-off with enthusiasm, but that enthusiasm wanes over time as the effort of measuring outweighs the value. Measurements should be taken with a well-defined purpose. This presentation will explore how to design a measurement program that focuses on goal-based measurements. It will cover the various uses of metrics, how to identify and create well-defined goals following the S.M.A.R.T. goal definition technique, the goal-question-indicator-metrics approach to defining and reporting on goal-driven metrics, and considerations in implementing an organizational measurement program. These considerations include collecting and storing measurement data, reporting, analysis, improving and automating. Understand the nature of goals such that you can define them with enough specificity to truly measure your success in reaching them. About the Speakers... Leveraging Traditional Software Validating Methods with Agile Track 3: 1:00 - 2:00 After years of working in a traditional testing world, your organization decides to embrace the benefits of agile software development. Does this mean that all your existing QA methods, processes, and tools are obsolete? Or, can these techniques be leveraged in an agile world? This session will discuss which methods, processes, and tools can be employed successfully in an agile testing environment. You will learn the key elements required to be successful in working within an agile testing framework. Real life examples of how these elements are implemented for a globally diverse team will be presented. Mike will also discuss how to leverage your traditional software validation methods to be effective within agile based testing. About the Speaker… Test Case Standards that Exemplify Test Objectives Track 4: 1:00 - 2:00 Testing is a given in many organizations and for many quality assurance practitioners, however, we need to examine our test cases and their standards to ensure they are meeting our objectives. This interactive presentation will help you to define and implement standards that are appropriate for your organization based on the benefits you must realize. Examples of existing standards and guidance on creating new standards will be given. Techniques for incremental implementation, training, and continuous improvement of these standards will be also be discussed. The information presented will be applicable to all tools however; the examples presented will be from HP's Quality Center. About the speakers... Testing in a Model-Based Development World Track 5: 1:00 - 2:00 Boston Scientific adopted Model-Based Development (MBD) for its most recent family of medical device firmware. This presented a new challenge to firmware design verification testing (FW DVT) for medical devices, where regulatory needs directly influence the testing process. Over the past five years, the FW DVT group has developed tools, methodologies, and reusable test assets to support MBD. Based on this experience, there are several recommended practices that must be put in place to make FW DVT testing within the MBD environment work efficiently and still meet regulatory scrutiny for testing of high quality, mission-critical firmware. In this case study, Dave will outline some of these recommended best practices, look at what metrics have proven useful in test scheduling and execution, shine a light on the pitfalls, and review the productivity gains that have been made as a direct result of these efforts. About the speakers... For over 20 years Dr. Feng Zhu has devoted most of his time to building testing frameworks that are theoretically sound and practically efficient. His early prototype of a client-server automatic regression system for embedded software evolved into a fully functional testing architecture at Boston Scientific that supports multiple testing objectives. In the past few years, Feng lead a team to establish the model-based verification framework, related tools, and processes for the firmware design verification testing of the latest implantable medical devices. Feng holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and is a Certified Software Test Engineer. Requirements Verification and Validation on a Global Project Track 1: 11:00 - 12:00 The requirements were complete and the contract was signed. The testing team was then responsible for certifying a software product for use as part of the largest healthcare IT undertaking in the world. In order to achieve this certification, full requirements coverage had to be demonstrated. In this presentation, Gary will describe the processes developed to ensure complete coverage of functional and contractual requirements by utilizing verification and validation techniques. This program is targeted at quality and testing professionals looking for real-world methods to ensure requirements coverage. In this discussion, Gary will include organization and differentiation of functional requirements and contractual requirements, verification and validation definitions, and verification and validation techniques to ensure full requirements coverage. About the speaker... When Teams Transform Chaos to Control Track 2: 11:00 - 12:00 This session will help you get smart about how change impacts your team. Discover how to take productivity to the max during the chaos caused by constant change. Major change is inevitable within our work environments. It is usually initiated by an unfamiliar event that forces you and your team members to respond quickly and effectively. Find out how to be open to transforming ideas when a foreign element disrupts the status quo. Learn how to understand the predictable stages of change, how to minimize individual resistance, and that improvement is always possible. This insight will take you and your team away from possible pandemonium and toward higher productivity. This interactive session will engage participants in activities that will help them identify the impacts individuals and teams may be experiencing during different phases of the change process. This understanding can lead to quicker navigation through any given change when it is thrust upon us. About the speaker... Object-Oriented Test Automation Track 3: 11:00 - 12:00 In his presentation, George will discuss a method for testing that is focused on developing automated test cases for 100% of the quality assurance testing. First, home grown processes are followed for requirements based testing and software test management. Test cases are then developed using object-oriented automated testing (OOAT). The results of OOAT executions are automatically fed back into the test management process giving the entire organization a dashboard view of the requirements based testing status and test management project tracking. In this session, you will learn how these techniques were put into practice at an actual organization including the technical, data, process, and project tracking considerations necessary to the successful implementation of the methodology. About the speaker... Advanced Test Driven Development Track 4: 11:00 - 12:00 Today, there is plenty of discussion about test-driven development (TDD) and plenty of pressure to perform test-driven development in many software projects. In this "bandwagon" atmosphere, it cannot be bad to ask the question: What is really behind TDD? Test-driven development is an approach to software construction in which developers write automated unit tests before writing code. These automated tests are then run as the code changes. Proponents of this approach assert that it delivers software that is easier to maintain and of higher quality than traditional development methods. Join Peter as he shares his view of TDD's advantages and limitations and discusses how the TDD concept can be extended to all levels of testing. Based on real-world experience, Peter will explain how to use TDD practices to support preventive testing throughout the development process resulting in closer cooperation between developers and testers. About the speaker... Utilizing Defect Management for Process Improvement Track 5: 11:00 - 12:00 Ever wonder why you track defects throughout projects and production? What happens to that information once the defect is resolved? Is the data forgotten and just left sitting on the shelf? This presentation will provide you with practical advice on how to use that information to help your projects run smoother, improve development practices, and prevent defects from being injected to start with. You will learn how to enter, track, and measure defects so that you can utilize reporting to find weak processes and practices. About the speaker... The Quality Assurance Program: Supporting Process Compliance and Improvement Track 1: 11:00 - 12:00 When you think about QA, your mind naturally turns to testing. However, testing is a customer of quality assurance just like development, vendor management, or estimation practices. In a successful organization, quality assurance is an umbrella function that helps to provide consistency in process application across the enterprise. This consistency is achieved through an ongoing internal audit program, continuous process review and improvement, clearly defined process owners, and a communication method that gets the word out to the right audience at the right time. Jane's presentation is a journey through the work-life of a QA Specialist in a CMMi Level 4 organization. Join Jane in exploring the techniques used to successfully deliver a QA program that supports practical process application and process improvement to the software development lifecycle. About the speaker... Process Improvement: Real Life Cases Track 2: 11:00 - 12:00 No matter the end product, the foundation for and focus on implementing process improvement remains consistent. Using models as the basis for improving processes makes success more likely. However, no single model has all the right answers. During this presentation, you will see real life cases from several companies where the goals were to “increase efficiency and quality.” These real life cases demonstrate various approaches to implementations of process improvement. One organization agreed to use CMMI, PMI, and other models as the foundation for process improvement; another organization required a ‘stealth’ approach; yet another began with one model and determined a different method was more appropriate. Examples and lessons learned in these instances will be shared to provide greater insight into these varied approaches and which might work the best in your own organization. About the speaker... Data and the Environment: Impacts on Cost and Success Track 3: 11:00 - 12:00 When analyzing the cost of quality, the impact of underlying test data and environments often remain hidden. The importance of these two elements, however, is self evident. Without data, one cannot test. Without an environment, one cannot test. Of course, the code base to be tested is job number one. However, the creation and maintenance of test data and test environments follow very closely! This presentation will show how data and environment considerations can help facilitate greater success and enhance improvement initiatives from an overall software quality perspective. Philip will begin with the fundamentals, what is required for testing, what data will trigger areas to be tested, what environments should be used, and when is testing complete. He will then proceed to more advanced notions of accurate data and environment usage within an even more controlled framework including data selection, environment criteria, and test improvement possibilities. About the speaker... Case Study: Open-Source Unit Test Tools in Functional Testing Case Study Track 4: 11:00 - 12:00 In this case study presentation, Chris will explain how open source unit test tools were used to build an automated functional/regression test suite for an equities clearing system. The resulting tests were low cost, could be run on any developer or tester machine, could be executed as part of the build, and could be delivered to the customer to verify installation of the system. Key differences between unit and functional testing will be discussed, as well as how to accommodate those differences when using unit test tools to perform functional tests. This case study will also illustrate how to leverage unit test tools to perform automated functional testing. About the speakers... Conference Sessions: Keynote Presentations | Industry Practices Sessions | Solutions Benchmarking Sessions | Best Practices Workshops |
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