Featured Speaker Content
Software Test Professionals Conference Spring 2012 speakers are published professionals with a high degree of subject matter expertise. Below are some of the articles which have been written by this year’s conference speakers. When you find an article that is of interest, feel free to share with your colleagues.
STPCon Radio Live - January 31, 2012
With:Eric Jacobson - QA Manager, Turner Broadcasting Systems
Listen to Eric Jacobson of Turner Broadcasting discuss his latest article "Don't Test It". He shares some great examples of what he means when he recommends not testing everything. Testers want to test everything, you know you do but why? Listen and find out... Listen to this live internet radio show recording here!
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By: Philip Lew - CEO, XBOSoft
With the increasing success of cloud deployment and SaaS business models, software has replaced many companies. Today’s largest bookseller is not Borders, its Amazon, a software company. Netflix, a software company, left BlockBuster in the dust. As software usage becomes more mission critical in almost every aspect of life, understanding and more importantly, improving software quality also becomes critical.
By: Eric Jacobson - QA Manager, Turner Broadcasting Systems
As testers, we ask ourselves lots of questions: What is the best test I can execute right now? What is my test approach going to be? Is that a bug? Am I done yet? - But how many of us ask questions like the following? Does this Feature need to ever be tested? Does it need to be tested by me?< Who cares if it doesn't work?
STPCon Radio Live - January 24, 2012
With:Scott Barber - President and CTO of PerfTestPlus
Join Rich and Scott as they discuss the business of testing. Scott discusses the importance of aligning testing goals to the goals of the organization. Testers shouldn’t assume that business executives understand testing and need to communicate the value of testing software. Quality is relative to the value of the software or application and should be considered when determining your test strategy. Listen to this live internet radio show recording here!
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By: Scott Moore - President, Northway Solutions Group
Maturing the Performance Testing Process -
Most companies are immature with regards to performance testing applications. Why? Because it normally requires someone with a niche skill set to create tests which produce accurate results. Such a person would have some level of expertise in virtually all areas of IT, including development, QA testing, infrastructure, database administration, and networking.
STPCon Radio Live - January 17, 2012
By: Mark Tomlinson - Sr. Director Professional Services, Shunra Software
This interview with professional software test engineer Mark Tomlinson will give listeners a chance to understand the origins of his presentation on the topic of "The Conscientious Tester" exploring the ethical contexts for our work in software development and testing. Listeners will learn about the need to evaluate their work objectives and outcomes in an ethical manner, we will discuss a few stories of ethics in testing and answer questions that callers may have about the ethical analysis of their own work situations. Listen to this live internet radio show recording here!
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By: Mark Tomlinson - Sr. Director Professional Services, Shunra Software
As more and more software test engineers and developers focus on application performance, they need to figure out career paths around performance testing and engineering that will help them grow their skills in performance optimization, coding for performance, scalability solutions, and load testing. If you have been a performance tester for some time now, you too might be wondering about next steps. Every week I talk with performance testers who tell me stories about how they found new ways to influence their peers and leadership with their talents. Like me, they have found an answer to the question: What's next after performance testing?
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