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Testing Wanted: Dead or Alive
Tuesday,
8:00am -
9:15am
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A few speakers in the software test industry did a strange thing at testing conferences last year. They told their audiences "testing is dying." One even pronounced it dead as he cloaked himself in a Grim Reaper costume in front of his audience. People like that seem to believe that when programmers write unit tests and conduct mandatory code reviews, it means no one needs to worry about bugs. They'll cite that because of "self-healing software" and the ability to hotfix a bug on the web, it means the role of the tester doesn't matter anymore. Jon Bach disagrees. In his job in Live Site Quality for eBay, he’s finding that despite the trends and advances in rapid deployment and automation, exploration and sapience is more crucial than ever. Given that there are so many variables and contexts in how the world operates, testing becomes more alive. There's value in having testers separate from programmers -- staff who can get away from their keyboard now and then to see the big picture. Join us in this informative keynote as Jon Bach tells you why this industry needs people to see gaps between what customers experience and what automation is being run.
Jon Bach
Director of Live Site Quality, eBay
Jon Bach is Director of Live Site Quality for eBay. His role is to coordinate efforts to find bugs in production on eBay's related sites and take measures to improve customer experiences through bug advocacy. He has been testing for 17 years for companies including LexisNexis, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft, but his claim to fame is with his brother James, with whom he created Session-Based Test Management -- a way to manage and measure efforts from exploratory testing.