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Software Dimensions and The International Institute for Software Testing Present PSQT/PSTT 2001 East |
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Tuesday Afternoon Conference Sessions (2:15 - 3:15 PM)
PSQT Featured Presentation (2:15 - 3:15 PM) The Business Case For Software Quality Concepts: We all come to conferences where we learn about tools and techniques that can improve the quality of our software. However, an all too common comment is that management does not seem willing to fund the investment in tools, training, and mentoring required to deploy the quality solutions. Ironically, quality is first and foremost an issue impacting business / mission success. The investments required are trivial compared to what is at stake. This talk will address, quantitatively and qualitatively, over a dozen areas of opportunity for making the case for quality to senior management. ·
Early requirements-based testing reduces project risk Biography: Larry Boldt PSTT Track Presentations (2:15 - 3:15 PM) Integrated Development and Test
Project Teams Concepts: The presentation describes a real-life integration of Test personnel
onto the Development team and inclusion in all phases of the development lifecycle for a
highly successful software project. The
presentation will discuss the strategy, issues, difficulties, and successes of working as
an integrated team to develop software Presentation
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Why integrating Test into the development team is important Biography: David Petrella is the Manager of Software Quality Assurance for ICG Communications, Inc. He has developed the organization, planned strategy, created and implemented Test processes and methodology. Previously, Mr. Petrella was a consultant for Keane, Inc. in the capacity of a System Test Team Lead at Gateway. In addition to leading many testing projects, he was responsible for creating the test methodology for Gateway. He has also participated as a key member in efforts for Gateway to achieve CMM level 3 compliance. In addition to ICG and Gateway, Mr. Petrella has led various testing and quality efforts at Lockheed Martin and US West. In his assignments, David emphasizes process improvement, specifically the involvement of the test organization into software development activities. David is a software test professional with over 14 years of software industry experience, 12 of that specifically in software testing and quality assurance. Mr. Petrella holds a MBA in Computer Resources Management from Webster University and a BS in Aeronautical Studies/Computer Sciences from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Testing With
Virtual Machines Concepts: This presentation will discuss how testing with virtual machines can
save time and money, and how they can simplify the testing process. Presentation
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What is a virtual machine? Learning
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How to increase use of existing hardware Biography: Bryan Patrick Coleman is a consultant with Questcon Technologies in Greensboro, North Carolina. A
Testing Strategy for e-business
This presentation examines the key similarities and differences in the applications domain, identifies the business and technical risks, characterises the development environment, and proposes a practical strategy for software verification and validation. In summary, this presentation gives a rounded view of verification and validation across the whole e-business development cycle and beyond.
Angelina Samaroo has spent her entire career in software testing. A large part of her time was spent testing real time avionics software. She tested from first principles, and has expertise in testing at all levels, from unit testing through to UAT, specialising in integration testing, using white and black box techniques. Over the last 18 months she has devoted her energies to the testing challenges of e-business, both from management and development perspectives. Her most recent public presentation was at the Commonwealth Institute, London, where she spoke on the project management issues of e-business. Angelina is a chartered engineer, and is an approved trainer for the iseb Foundation course in software testing. Automated
Testing and the Web
This presentation will explore the paradigm shift from managing the testing efforts of traditional applications such as client/server application to testing web applications. The presentation will point out that test engineers will still be able to apply traditional testing methods, such as the Automated Software Testing Life-cycle (ATLM) described in the book "Automated Software Testing." This presentation will explore how the ATLM applies to Web testing and discuss the various testing categories for testing web application. How test teams introduce an automated software test tool on a new project is nearly as important as the selection of the most appropriate test tool for the project. A tool is only as good as the process being used to implement the tool. By developing and following a strategy for rolling out and implement an automated test tool as part of the Automated Testing Life-cycle methodology, the test team can avoid having to make major unplanned adjustments throughout the test process. The presentation "Automated Software Testing" addresses these various issues and their solutions in a web testing environment. Finally, this presentation will contain a case study that explores the evaluation of the various testing tools on the market. The case study will define how the tools were evaluated, what evaluation criteria was used, which tools were chosen and why.
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