Track: Test
The test track will feature some of the most interesting thinkers within test from all over the world, with special focus on issues that could very well be the future of testing. These include automating higher-level testing, driving development through testing, and especially fostering the highly skilled and creative tester.
The communication and collaboration across disciplines in a project, with the tester as an information hub, is often the key to successfully releasing high quality products to a more demanding and discerning market. This is why parts of the track are related to communication as well.
It doesn't matter if you are a tester, a test leader or a developer interested in testing – the test track has something for everyone.
Thursday
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Test Manager in an agile team
This is a story about a tester and seven developers in a Scrum team. I felt as Snow White my first days in the project: Test manager with only developers in the team, seven of them.
Am I supposed to do all housekeeping while other work in Dwarf’s mine? Shall I do all manual testing alone?
It was obvious that everyone must do testing in order to do it well. In this presentation I will tell you story about my fantastic fellow developers and how they learned to like, even love testing.
Davor Crnomat
Davor Crnomat has long experience in software development and testing. Davor works mostly as test automation specialist and test manager.
He worked mostly as a test manager in traditional projects but some time ago he “discovered” agile projects and agile testing which he perceived as a fresh wind.
This is the second time he is a speaker at Øredev and this time he will talk about his experiences from an agile project.
Davor is a certified ISEB Practitioner and Scrum Master.
Test-Driven Web UI Development
This session demonstrates the use of application models in test development. Starting from a typical test script generated by the Selenium IDE test recorder, test code will be evolved through a series of steps from an old-fashioned unit test into a readable and executable description of an application using domain models, RSpec, Ruby, and Selenium RC.
Scott Bellware
Scott Bellware is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, Texas. Scott works with teams who are adopting agile development to improve existing agile development practices, and to help integrate agile development teams into their surrounding organizations. He teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US, Canada and Europe. Scott is the founder of the AgileATX community of practice.
Sleight-of-Quality: A Magical Approach to Testing
The study of traditional magic principles can help testers raise their awareness of bugs that can be found in their testing environments, leading to improved QA. Software likened to a magical “trick” offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of method and effect. Psychological principles and heuristics in both fields causing both the software tester and the audience to be deceived. This talk will discuss and exploit the principles of magic in order to better educate testers.
Jeremy Kominar
Jeremy has over 6 years experience in Software Quality Assurance. His studies at the University of Guelph, Canada have allowed him to combine two diverse fields, Computer Science and Fine Arts, in his approach to testing. At RIM, Jeremy leads a team of security software testers. Jeremy’s tenure at RIM and experiences in the industry have exposed him to many testing processes he leverages within his team.
Large-Scale Testing of Highly Configurable Systems
Adam Porter
Adam Porter is a full professor in Computer Science Dept. at the Univ. of Maryland. He currently serves as the Associate Director of the UM Inst. for Advanced Computer Studies. He has won the prestigious US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award and serves or has served on the editorials board of the ACM Transactions on Software Eng. and IEEE Transactions on Software Eng. Porter's research is in use at may large IT companies and open source projects.
Efficient Software Regression Testing
This presentation briefly summarized previous research, elaborates on the state-of-practice and outlines steps towards efficient regression testing. Previous research is mostly rather small-scale and focuses on code analysis to identify changes and need for regression testing, which is hard to scale up. State-of-practice is labor-intensive and rather imprecise when it comes to identify what actually has to be regression tested.
Per Runeson
Dr. Per Runeson is a professor in software engineering at Lund University, Sweden, and is the director for the industrial excellence center EASE (Embedded Applications Software Engineering). His research interests include methods to facilitate, measure and manage various aspects of software quality, especially testing and inspection methods as well as agile methods. The research has a strong empirical focus including cooperation with major companies.
Specification Workshops - The Missing Link for ATDD & Example-driven Development
Specification workshops are intensive hands-on domain and scope exploration exercises, which ensure that the implementation team, business stakeholders and domain experts build a consistent shared understanding of what the system should do, so that developers and testers have enough information to complete their work for the current iteration. In this talk, Gojko Adzic presents the case for specification workshops and helps you kick-start them in your team.
Gojko Adzic
Gojko Adzic is a software craftsman with a passion for new technologies,
programming and writing. He runs Neuri Ltd, a UK-based consultancy that
helps companies build better software by introducing agile practices and
tools and improving communication between software teams, stakeholders
and clients.
Gojko is the author of Bridging
the Communication Gap and Test Driven .NET Development with Fitnesse and the primary contributor to the
DbFIT opensource database testing library.
