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Testing Within the Shades of Agile Track 1: 2:30 - 4:00 There is no cookie cutter solution or step by step guide to follow when determining how to effectively test across varied agile projects. The testing approach needs to be adaptive and scalable to the project methodology, constraints, team dynamics, and corporate culture. Often, the tester will need to change their mindset on testing perceptions, expectations, and deliverables. Although the approach, techniques, and tools leveraged must be flexible, there are key success factors that can be applied almost universally. This workshop will highlight real-world experience of testing successfully within projects of varying degrees of agile adoption. With practical examples, the presentation will provide adaptive test approaches for projects ranging from textbook adoption to experimentation as traditional teams begin their transition to agile. This session will include a hands-on activity. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Building and Sustaining a Successful Testing Center of Excellence Track 2: 2:30 - 4:00 A Testing Center of Excellence (CoE) centralizes core testing capabilities and processes across the enterprise in order to continuously improve organizational focus on delivery of quality code, removing bottlenecks, and improvement of the overall capacity of the testing organization. The CoE also governs all testing activities across the enterprise and provides standardization of test processes and documentation. CoE's are widely used in the marketplace for organizations with the establishment of new, specialized, and infrastructure technologies. Most Fortune 500 organizations have implemented some notion of a Center of Excellence, even those companies that do not use the term “CoE.” In this workshop, Phil and Michael will cover the value proposition of a Testing CoE. They will discuss best-in-class models, tools, and techniques to implement and support the CoE including an approach for developing internal skill-sets and competencies. About the speakers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Testable Requirements and Testing Them Track 3: 2:30 - 4:00 Break the cycle of unsatisfactory projects by getting to the source of problems and building a platform for success. Learn to apply the eight key processes for getting great requirements and testing them correctly. Testing, after all, begins in the requirements gathering process. It is important to understand that your customer does know what he wants, even though he has difficulty expressing it. Simple models can be used to make the ambiguous concrete. This hands-on workshop will help you lock in the learning for a subset of these ‘must-do’ techniques. Apply them to any lifecycle, methodology, or technology and see the result immediately in reduced defects later in the lifecycle and in production. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Scenario Design Techniques Track 4: 2:30 - 4:00 How many test cases do I need? What should they be? How do I know that I have adequate test coverage? Come join Tim’s session and together you’ll work through a set of practical techniques for systematically clarifying requirements and identifying a comprehensive set of test scenarios from those written requirements. You’ll do a few examples together as a group and then you’ll have a chance to try your own hand at it. Tim will go beyond standard binary decision tables and consider higher order tables and orthogonal arrays. You’ll leave with a link to a free tool you can use to improve test case design in your own organization. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Behavior-Driven Testing Track 5: 2:30 - 4:00 Behavior-driven testing is the key thread that keeps your software development lifecycle together. Integrating behavior-driven ideas and tools with the long-term goals of your organization will create greater cohesion between the business, development, and testing teams. Using a natural, business language for all team communications, from idea definition to code to manual and automated tests, is the most efficient way to build and support software over the long-term. This workshop will include lecture and hands-on pairing/demos of behavior-driven frameworks, including Cucumber and jBehave. You will return to your organization with personal experience in building manual and automated tests using behavior-driven development testing tools. Developers and Testers: Working Together in the Application Lifecycle Track 1: 2:30 - 4:00 Developers and Testers seem to live on different planets with no shared philosophy, understanding, or tools that create a common approach to building quality applications. While developers seem to have all the shiny new IDE’s, languages, and tools, testers are stuck in a time warp with ancient tools, languages, and techniques. No wonder there is so much friction and animosity between these two critical application lifecycle participants. In this interactive session, you will learn how to arm yourself and your testers with modern toolsets and techniques that can be shared with your developers, significantly improving the quality of your applications and moving quality up the application lifecycle. Learn how you can file rich and actionable problem reports that significantly reduce or eliminate the infamous bug ping-pong between testers and developers. Learn to quickly create multi-tier test environments and author complex build, deploy, and test work flows. Enable a high level of collaboration between the developers and testers in your organization and see the difference. About the speakers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Performance Validation and Optimization of Large Enterprise Applications Track 2: 2:30 - 4:00 Many organizations consider performance as an afterthought, but building high performance large enterprise applications is complex. Performance planned as an integral part of your software development life cycle is highly effective. The right set of tools, design patterns, and optimization techniques can provide significant improvements. There are a range of tools that help improve your productivity with static code analysis, profiling, load testing, and production monitoring. These tools provide valuable information required for design and configuration options. On very large applications, certain optimization and design techniques work much better for building highly scalable applications. Additionally, the performance optimization approach for batch is quite different than for online or web services. In this interactive learning session, you will discover what works and does not work on very large enterprise systems giving you practical information to help optimize your next large enterprise application. About the speakers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Implementing Measurement across CMMI Maturity and Capability Levels Track 3: 2:30 - 4:00 Organizations are constantly searching for practical approaches to incorporate CMMI® practices. Measurement is critical to the understanding of progress toward improvement, and yet, it is often seen as applicable only to the lower levels of capability and maturity. Using an implementation of goal driven measurement called the Goal-Question-(Indicator)-Measure or GQ(I)M, this workshop will present a structured and highly practical approach that is closely aligned with the specific practices of the Measurement and Analysis (MA) Process Area. There will be discussion of the evolution of measurement requirements as organizations move up the maturity and capability level scales. This will include a review of the issues surrounding failure of measurement programs, an approach to measurement that emphasizes understanding “why” people measure, and discussion of an implementation method that ensures both well-understood data and relevant reporting of that data. Lastly, Charlene will demonstrate the necessity of this well-considered approach as the foundation for the more complex environment of higher capability and maturity levels. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manual Testing to Automation in 15 Minutes or Less Track 4: 2:30 - 4:00 Even in today's world of pervasive automation, manual testing is still a vital part of the software testing process. But is there a way to make manual testing less manual? In this workshop, you will explore the issue of manual testing and determine if there is a way to solve the problem other than the traditional response of throwing more resources at it. And, once you have optimized your manual testing process, how easy is it to jump to automation in a seamless and painless manner? Attend this workshop to learn more. John will cover how to execute a manual test with "assistance," the pragmatic difficulties of automated testing, and how best to execute an automated regression test. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leading from Behind: Team-based Acceptance Test-Driven Development Track 5: 2:30 - 4:00 Agile teams deliver features quick and often. This rapid delivery is made possible by chunking features into small valuable bits. The development team can then swarm on a small bit and rapidly turn its requirements into a working feature for the customer. Testing is essential in this process to ensure a good fit for the customer and to focus the team. In this workshop, you will explore a team based, customer acceptance test driven approach that shifts testing from the end to the beginning of the development cycle. In this approach testing shepherds all development activities throughout the cycle. This workshop will include a case study and exercises to help you understand how to lead from behind. From Audit Requirements to Checklist to Evidence Gathering Plan Track 3: 1:00 - 3:00 Checklists are used to bring order and structure to a quality audit and to ensure complete coverage within the audit scope. They are lists of yes or no questions that correspond to the audit requirements. In this workshop, you will learn how to translate each audit requirement, from a standard, process, specification, etc., into one or more precise, measurable, and factual checklist items. For each of these items, you will learn to determine what objective evidence must be gathered in order to determine if the answer to the checklist item is “yes” or “no.” You will also understand how to create an objective evidence-gathering plan for each of the checklist items. This plan will encompass a variety of evidence gathering techniques. An industry-based case study, using interactive discussions and hand-on exercises, will be employed during this workshop to illustrate and practice learned skills. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Increasing Your Personal Value Within Your Organization Track 2: 1:00 - 3:00 Are you ready to take control of your success? This workshop will help you increase your personal value within any organization. Join me as we walk through a 5 step plan for positive change. Each step will take you through a journey consisting of an understanding of how your situation may have evolved, an assessment of where you want to be and where you think you are, an identification of the gaps, an understanding of the actions needed to help you move toward your goals, and finally, action. Jeanette will demonstrate how your thoughts (good or bad) are easily apparent to others and why that really matters. You will leave packed with information and a personal improvement plan that, when executed, will bring about the change you want to experience - increased value within your organization, increased self-esteem, even improvements in your personal life. As you begin to take action, others will see a change and begin to view you and the value you bring in a new light. About the speaker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Ideas to Action: Your Roadmap to Take Testing to the Next Level Track 3: 1:00 - 3:00 So, where do you go from here? QUEST 2010 is drawing to a close. You've spent the week attending tutorials, workshops, and presentations where you've been inundated with exciting and motivating ideas. You can hardly wait to start applying these ideas back in the real world. Yet, far too often, conference attendees return to work with great intentions that fade away under the pressure of their day-to-day commitments. What you need now is a game plan that will help you put what you've learned to work for you. By combining a thought-provoking presentation with collaborative hands-on activities, this workshop will give you the opportunity to assess the current level of testing maturity within your organization in terms of people, process and technology, determine your target level, and set up a plan that will put you on the road to getting from where you are today to where you need to be. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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