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SQuAD Conference 2009- Day Two Keynotes
Tearing Down the Ivory Tower of Testing
Danny Faught
Software projects are so prone to failure. QA and testing staff watch it happen, knowing it won’t go well. We need to assert ourselves and reign in the craziness. Right? Wrong. Building an ivory tower and telling people how to do their work is more likely to hasten disaster than to prevent it. But we can do our part by paying attention to the needs of the project, and working cooperatively with the other people who are trying to make the company successful. The company will probably succeed in the long run whether we do a good job or not, but we can help make the difference between mediocrity and big profits. This talk will give you some practical ideas on how software testers and QA staff can do that.
Testing in an Agile Context: 9 Principles and 6 Testing Practices That Contribute to Agility
Elisabeth Hendrickson
As more teams are adopting Agile practices such as XP and Scrum, software testing/QA teams are being asked to become “Agile” as well. But what does that mean? Is the "Agile" label yet another buzzword? Or could it be Agile practices are actually changing the way software is tested? In this talk Elisabeth Hendrickson shares her perspective on testing in an Agile context by explaining the 9 principles and 6 concrete testing practices applied by successful Agile teams. Along the way, she’ll provide an overview of how Agile development practices differ from traditional practices and discuss what those differences mean for independent test teams.
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