2013 Program
Keynote
Dorothy Graham
Dorothy Graham has been in software testing for 40 years, and is co-author of 4 books: Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, Foundations of Software Testing and Experiences of Test Automation. She is currently working on a new book with Seretta Gamba on Test Automation Patterns.
Dot was programme chair for EuroSTAR 2009 as well as the first EuroSTAR in 1993. She has been on the boards of conferences and publications in software testing. She was a founder member of the ISEB Software Testing Board and was a member of the working party that developed the ISTQB Foundation Syllabus.
She was awarded the European Excellence Award in Software Testing in 1999 and the first ISTQB Excellence Award in 2012.
Intelligent Mistakes in Test Automation
A mistake is where you do something wrong; an intelligent mistake is doing the wrong thing but for reasons that seemed sensible or logical at the time.
There are a number of ideas in test automation that seem sensible at first glance, for very good reasons. However, there are problems lurking below the surface, where what seemed like a good idea turns out to be a mistake. In this presentation Dot Graham will cover five of these “intelligent mistakes”:
- automated tests should find lots of bugs
- make sure you get the right tool
- automate all of our manual tests
- we must prove Return on Investment (ROI)
- testing tools are for testers to use
Knowing the pitfalls of what seems like a good idea is the first step to avoiding the problems.
GLSEC 2013 Parallel Sessions
Agile Development | High Performance Computing | Mobile and Web Applications | Software Process |
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Stephen Anderson Co-Founder Bendyworks My Adventure Building a Software Shop Based on Quality | Joel Adams Professor and Chair Dept. of CS Calvin College Multicore Programming in C/C++ Using OpenMP | Joe Johnston Dir. of UX and R&D Universal Mind It’s all about the context | Craig Taetsch VP Sales, Eastern US Parasoft Corporation Service Virtualization - Game changing to the SDLC |
Zach Seindler Chief Architect Olark Reliable Software Lessons from Firefighters, Stage Managers, and Nuclear Reactor Technicians | Kathy Smith Systems Engineer Software Center of Excellence GE Avionics Developing Mission-Critical Software | Tim Bugai Software Developer Collective Idea iOS Automated testing | Tom DeVries Principal & Co-founder Thoughtfull Surviving The Company |
David Crosby Software Developer Atomic Object Time-based Estimates Are For Suckers; Size-based Is The Way To Go | John Michael Hauck Manager Software Research and Engineering LECO Corporation High Performance Scientific Computing in C# using the Graphics Processing Unit | Becky Bertram Owner Savvy Technical Solutions What's New in SharePoint 2013 | David A. Dahl Project Manager Spectrum Health Building an IT Service Catalog – It’s Not as Easy as You Think |
Zach Dennis Developer / Co-Founder Mutually Human Software The Intentional Developer | Steve Vanderleest VP of Research and Development Nathan Studer Electrical Engineer DornerWorks Safe & Secure: Best of Both Worlds in an ARINC 653 Hypervisor | Brian Anderson Lead Software Architect Brian Scaturro Application Developer Open Systems Technologies (OST) How To Build Business Applications Leveraging a Domain Driven Architecture | Jace Browning Software Engineer Corporate Adoption of Distributed Version Control |
Drew Colthorp Software Craftsman Mike Marsiglia Vice President Atomic Object Nurturing Top-notch Tech Teams | Ross Wagner IS Quality Architect Gordon Food Services The Implementation of Software Quality Control Processes at a Food Service Company | Jonathan Engelsma Associate Professor School of Computing and Information Systems GVSU Mobile Gamification | Joseph Starwood Enterprise Strategy Architect Microsoft Corporation Get that monkey off your back!: How CIOs go from Information to Innovation |