After a twenty-year career at Microsoft, Bj Rollison took some time to reflect on the software testing profession. Bj has seen many positive changes in our field through the years. Unfortunately, he also has seen too many of us still mired in trends and topics that make good fodder for debate but do very little to enhance our personal careers or the testing profession. Bj reflects on the “traditional” testing role and its evolution in the past twenty years, and shares his perspective on some hot button issues—the value of testing certifications, the impact of ISO standards on the industry...
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Wednesday, September 30
Things That Really Matter in Testing—Today and Tomorrow
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 8:30am to 10:00am
Testing the Internet of Everything
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Beyond the publicity and hype about the Internet of Things (IoT), a new term is emerging—the Internet of Everything (IoE). What are people talking about? Should you be interested? What does it mean to testers and development? Paul Gerrard shares his perspective on the scale, variety, ubiquity, complexity, and challenge of this technological wave that many believe will dominate our industry into the next decade. Right now, the IoT/IoE is very confusing. Although standards are emerging, many commercial applications are bleeding edge, speculative, or exploratory. While security and privacy...
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A QA Journey to DevOps– From the Dark Ages to the Renaissance of Testing
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
DevOps is the word of the day in technology. DevOps conferences pack convention centers, and developers have anointed themselves the new “kingmakers.” But what does this mean to testing? Join the HP Lifecycle and Quality team as we take you on our own journey of DevOps exploration, adoption, and success based on an approach that keeps quality at the center and drives both better developer, tester, and operations alignment and efficiencies through relentless automation. Through a shift left testing approach, empowered with Big Data analytics and an automated pipeline, testers are a core...
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I Don’t Want to Talk about Bugs: Let’s Change the Conversation
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 8:30am to 9:30am
It’s time to change the conversation about testing and quality―from bugs and poor requirements to products and solutions. Instead, Janet Gregory says testers and managers working in agile organizations need to learn more about the business, the market, and the customers. With that knowledge, we have the information necessary to identify key problems and formulate solutions that reduce uncertainty and increase product value. Janet challenges testers and test managers to lead the way to change how organizations talk about quality. She explores ways to measure value and focus on the positive...
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Continuous Performance: Using Open Source Tools to Automate Load Testing in Modern Deployment Pipelines
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Performance testing has changed. Dramatically. Long gone are the days of thinking we could get by without it, and yesterday’s approaches haven’t kept pace with the demands of modern software delivery teams. The key to optimizing the performance of your mobile, web, and API stack is automating the right performance tests at the every stage of the delivery pipeline. Open source tools can generate load and provide the critical visibility you need to find and resolve bottlenecks and constraints so your users have the most satisfying experience possible with every release of your software....
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