Leadership Perspectives for Testers

Understanding the business side of testing is as important as amplifying our approaches and techniques. In this track you will learn how to effectively lead diverse test teams, communicate with stakeholders, and advocate for testing.  This track includes topics related to building test teams, leading business testers, handling the challenges of remote teams, communicating the value of testing, and using metrics in the decision making process.

101: Conscientious Testing: Understanding the Ethics of Being a Tester
201: Coaching Testers
301: The Right Stuff: Origins of Test Manager
401: Developing a Professional Testing Culture
501: Tomorrow's Test Management
601: The Future of Testing: Managing the Inverting Testing Pyramid
701: Talking to Triangles
801: A Tester's Guide to Indentifying, Managing, & Eliminating Technical Debt
901: Rightsizing Testing
1001: Software Testing at Startups

Test Strategy and Design

Before you begin testing on a project, your team should have a formal or informal test strategy.  There are key elements you need to consider when formulating your test strategy.  If not, you may be wasting valuable time, money and resources.   In this track you will learn the strategic and practical approaches to software testing and test case design, based on the underlying software development methodology.  This track includes topics related to developing a test strategy, test estimation, risk management and data management.

102: Test Strategies from Around the World
202: Strategies for a Successful Systems Integration Test
302: Creating a Security Test Plan
402: Why Tests Don't Pass or Fail
502: A Method of Assessing Testing Risk Mitigations
602: Surviving an FDA Audit: Heuristics for Exploratory Testing
702: Managing COTS Test Efforts: It's Like Conducting an Orchestra!
802: Adopting the Franchise Model in Testing Software
902: Evaluating and Improving Software Usability
1002: Testing Small Projects: Strategies for Successful Delivery in 2 to 12 Weeks

Performance Testing

Performance Testing is about collecting data on how applications perform to assist the development team and the stakeholders make technical and business decisions related to performance risks.  In this track you will learn practical skills, tools, and techniques for planning and executing effective performance tests.  This track will include topics such as: performance testing virtualized systems, performance anti-patterns, how to quantify performance testing risk, all illustrated with practitioners’ actual experiences doing performance testing.

103: Threads: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
203: Planning For The Perfect Storm: The Value Of Peak Testing
303: Lessons Learned in Performance Testing -- Cloud Edition
403: Performance Testing Metrics and Measures
503: A to Z Testing in Production: TiP Methodologies, Techniques, and Examples
603: Web Load Testing for Dummies
703: Troubleshooting Application Performance Issues - People, Process and Tools
903: Performance Testing within a Performance Engineering Center of Excellence
1003: The Test Car Driver

Test Automation

Which tests can be automated? What tools and methodology can be used for automating functionality verification? Chances are these are some of the questions you are currently facing from your project manager.  In this track you will learn how to implement an automation framework and how to organize test scripts for maintenance and reusability, as well as take away tips on how to make your automation framework more efficient.  This track includes topics related to test automation architecture, continuous integration, agile automation, and what other tasks you need to perform after you have designed your framework and scripted your test cases.

104: Lightsabers, Time Machines, and Other Automation Heuristics
204: Forming Your Own Selenium/Watir Clouds for Fun or Money
304: Data Warehouse Test Automation For Sapient Testers
404: Automated Testing Strategies for Databases
504: Where’d My GUI Go? Testing APIs
704: Automation Isn't All Shiny Toys
804: Web Consistency Testing
904: Test Management in your Continuous Integration Process with Jenkins and TestLink
1004: Extreme Mobile Testing with Selenium (and Robots)

Agile Testing

More and more software development organizations are "going Agile."  This track will help participants understand how they can fit traditional test practices into an Agile environment as well as explore real-world examples of testing projects and teams in varying degrees of Agile adoption.  This track will include topics related to challenges in Agile testing, utilizing Agile testing techniques, coaching an Agile test team, and using games to internalize Agile principles and practices.

205: Agile Testing: Facing the Challenges Beyond the Easy Contexts
405: Fitting In: A Case Study in Agile Team Structures
604: Cutting the Mustard: Lessons Learned in Becoming a Superstar Agile Tester
705: The Hard Stuff: Questions About Agile
803: What Happens When Agile Testing Falls Behind?
1005: Looking at Code from a DevTester's Perspective

Mobile Testing

The rapid expansion of mobile device software is altering the way we exchange information and do business.  These days smartphones have been integrated into a growing number of business processes.  Developing and testing software for mobile devices presents its own set of challenges.  In this track participants will learn mobile testing techniques from real-world experiences as presented by a selection of industry experts.  Topics in this track include techniques for mobile testing, the latest trends affecting mobile testing and a framework to manage mobile testing.

105: An Outlook to Mobile Testing
305: Mobile Ecosystems and Their Impact on Testing
505: Test Virtualization: Revolutionizing Quality in Organizations
605: What Mobile Developers Wish Mobile Testers Knew
805: Don't Go Mobile Testing Mobile: Real Life Experience Testing with Mobile Devices
905: Crowdsourcing Testing – Fostering Innovation through Collective Intelligence