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Leading practitioners have begun a process of defining “World Challenges for Software Quality,” which will be the basis for a major international campaign of research and collaboration. Is testing part of the problem ... or part of the solution ... or a bit of both?
"World Challenges" is to serve as a framework for concerted action, and will be launched at the World Congress for Software Quality in September 2008.
How do testing issues fit into a worldwide network of collaborating professionals, specifically directed at a three-year initiative to enhance the reliability, security, and empowering value of software-based systems?
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Performing daily or continuous builds is essential for ensuring working software. Yet, what if you could extend this into the entire deployment process so that deployment is the “click of a button”? In “Continuous Deployment: From Development to Production”, Paul Duvall demonstrates how to automate the steps in the deployment process so that authorized users can move deployment artifacts from development to QA, QA to Staging and Staging to Production with minimal effort and reduced errors.
Paul will show how to extend the CruiseControl Continuous Integration server along with some clever Ant build scripting to:
* Baseline the target environment
* Modify the version
* Build (including database integration) the software
* Deploy to application server (e.g. Tomcat)
* Run Automated Tests in target environment
* Label Deployment Artifacts
* Notify interested parties via Email or website
Paul will also cover key Continuous Integration practices such as:
* Produce a Clean Environment
* Centralize Software Assets
* Create a Consistent Directory Structure
* Separate Build Scripts from your IDE
* Single Command Build
* Build for any Environment
* Automate Database Integration
* Automate Functional Tests
* Label a Repository’s Assets
* Label Each Build
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Participants will gain information and inputs on the basics of Regression Testing, Types of Regression Testing and Practical issues encountered when formulating regression test strategy. This paper will also lay emphasis on a new methodology called “Two Fold Approach?to aid the regression test strategy creation. This approach will cover the aspects of “Understanding Big Picture of the Application?and “Thinking outside the Box?to outline the balance between testing and delivering product with desired quality.
This presentation addresses the following key aspects of regression testing and provides details on a practical approach to improve accuracy, and to identify the best regression test strategy.
- Definition of Regression Testing
- Types of Regression Testing
- Practical Challenges in Estimating Regression Test Strategy
- ”Two Fold?Methodology
- Provides details on a practical approach to improve accuracy and identifying the best regression test strategy.
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When are processes mature and repeatable enough to facilitate automation? What does my organization expect to achieve through automation? Can we achieve it? Are we ready to automate? This session will be a general testing discussion that answers these questions and examines when to consider automating, implementing a process improvement strategy, suggestions on areas to consider for quick automation wins, and lessons learned.
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Combinatorial testing is a developing method that applies to areas as diverse as testing software, optimizing manufacturing processes, or even finding the best combination of conditions to grow crops. It can guide testers to get better error detection at lower cost. We will explain the basis of combinatorial testing with illustrations (as in, why didn't I think of that before?!), in addition to presenting new algorithms and cost-effective tools. We conclude with empirical results on error detection effectiveness, and an example of using combinatorial testing as a guide to select tests for source code analyzers.
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In this Object Oriented age, a primary requirements/design articulation tool is the use case. The contents of use cases are a gold mine of information for authoring test cases.
This presentation shows test case authors how to derive test cases from use cases.
The primary contents of a use case are related to the primary contents of a test case. Then there is a discussion on how to analyze sample use case to create a complete set of test cases and how to avoid some pitfalls in test case derivation.
By the conclusion of this presentation, participants will learn how to associate use case contents to test case contents and how to derive test cases from the use case contents.
How they can apply the information
Participants can take their own application use case documentation and derive test cases from it.
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During this session Scott Barber and Dawn Haynes will address
some of the most common and frustrating challenges that facing performance
testers in their interactions with the rest of the project team. Attend
this session to find out why misunderstandings around performance testing
happen and what to do to avoid them.
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Internet users are quite savvy and their visits are always attracted by the fastest and latest web properties. The migration of Internet users impacts the bottom line of companies that rely heavily on online advertising revenues. Even as the technology changes, the basic concept on how to retain or attract consumers does not change. Consumers will differentiate web properties based on the experience they have while viewing it .One of the key differentiation factors is the consumer’s experience relating to the rendering of various internet properties. This could be as simple as rendering of a web page or the speed of audio/video playback.
An automated, reliable, efficient automation measurement of consumer experience in ‘near’ real-time can help companies in retaining and attracting consumers to their sites. Such an automated test system has to be reliable, efficient, robust and agile at the same time. We will discuss what the benefits and impact of such a system is, built using ‘open-source’ tools. Various companies are involved in collecting ‘various metrics’, although true last mile consumer experience metrics is elusive. We will discuss the challenges and solutions to obtaining the last mile consumer experience metrics.
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ACCOMP, short for ACtion COMPiler, is an internal Symantec tool
developed to help generate the most optimal and efficient set of test
samples required to test a product release. Using ACCOMP has helped to
produce better, clearer, and more concise documentation as well force
thought about the breadth of the expected behavior and testing all
possibilities. It has also helped to discover areas where we were over
and under testing.
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