Richard E. White II& Francois Garceau
Afterburners The Flawless Execution ModelSM
Fighter Pilots follow a rigorous, but simple process of Planning, Briefing, Executing, and Debriefing their missions to ensure success every single time. We call this the Flawless Execution Model. At Afterburner, we know that the same process that makes a military Fighter Pilot successful will make a "Business Fighter Pilot" successful. Whether you’re a member of the Test Team, a Quality Manager, or even a CEO, the tools and techniques of Flawless Execution can dramatically enhance your performance.
A Study in Test Case Styles
An understanding of the stylistic variability of test cases can help the software tester produce a more effective test suite. This presentation will examine the pros and cons of several features of test case style, including linguistic form, data instantiation, and constraints based on storage and organization.
A Study in Test Planning
This presentation focuses on the test planning phase. We are always asked to “do more with less” and good planning can optimize scarce resources. The need for a test strategy and subsequent test plans (one per level of test) will be discussed. This presentation will also discuss some techniques for determining which features or components within a program to test more intensely than others.
Building A Test Team That Can Fly Like An Eagle Testing in an increasingly complex technical environment requires specialists who can get the job done right. This session will identify key roles and skills needed on a test team, discuss how to build a successful team, and examine the dynamics of working on a testing team. Your test team needs to be carefully balanced to provide members with challenges and room to grow as they tackle your company’s “Mission Impossible”.
Break The Testing Tool Sound Barrier with Excel
Can’t Afford Expensive Tools? Learn how to use a tool that everyone has on their desktop – Excel – to document, rate risks, and track preparation and execution of test cases. Learn how these test case spreadsheets can be linked together to provide accurate metrics for the complete testing life cycle.
Watch that First Step, It’s a Doozie: a Proven Model for Appraisals
Many companies either perform internal appraisals or want to perform them, but very few follow a process. This tutorial will present the System Development Process Assessment (SDPA™) appraisal model. The SDPA was developed through years of experience and can be used for all types of appraisals. The presenter will lead the participants through the step-by-step process and explain how to achieve the best results. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, express concerns, or solicit assistance for how to successfully perform their own internal assessments.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: How to Get your Organization to Support a Quality Management Plan Knowing what to do is not enough; organizations need to commit to the process, so it will become reality. This session looks at the issues involved in securing that commitment and an approach for creating consistent, organizational support for an effective Quality Management Plan.
We live in a time culture of rapid change; innovation would seem to be an essential part of every organization. But is it really? What if, on closer examination, your organization is not good at managing innovation? Can this be changed; can we learn to manage innovation more effectively? This timely and thought-provoking presentation looks at how attendees can help their organizations meet the challenge of continuously integrating new practices into their existing infrastructure while continuing to meet their business objectives.
GUI Test Automation Approaches and Frameworks – An Overview As part one of “Manager’s Guide to GUI Test Automation,” this presentation includes:
Introduction of mainstream GUI testing tools
Major principles and current industry standards of GUI test automation
Major test automation approaches/frameworks
Selecting test automation framework to fit your test automation needs
Test automation frameworks for agile development
Alternative and future GUI testing tools/frameworks
This presentation is not tool specific, does not require preliminary knowledge of a GUI test automation tool, and assumes knowledge of basic testing concepts.
Measurements Implementation Saga
This presentation describes how the Bank of Montreal rolled out the measurement process in a 200+ person department as part of our flight from a CMM Level 3 to a strong CMM Level 4 organization. The presentation will focus specifically on sharing best practices and lessons learned, while offering a view of the challenges faced and the challenges that still lie ahead.
What You Should Know and Need to Have to Successfully and Efficiently Test Web Sites This seminar is intended to help the software quality professionals understand better specifics of Web site testing.
Quick overview of completed projects.
Project based QA approach.
Why requirements are necessary. What you really need to know.
Protecting the company and the client from project failure.
Managing GUI Test Automation
As part two of “Manager’s Guide to GUI Test Automation,” this presentation is partially based on the ideas and concepts discussed in part 1 and includes:
Deciding if a specific project should be automated or not.
Defining the scope of test automation.
Potential problems and roadblocks of test automation.
Managing a test automation project
Building a GUI test automation team
Case study of offshore outsourcing of GUI test automation
Diet-CMMI for Small Settings This session will present the tailoring elements required to implement high-maturity framework in small settings. In small development centers, tailoring is required around three key areas: staffing and managing the SEPG and SQA function with optimal investment, proving process and product improvements statistically, and tapping process improvement ideas and cross pollination.
Project Portfolio Management Technology is usually bombarded with project requests that range from minor changes in a reservation system to building the Kitty Hawk. A portfolio of projects with views across the business transforms requests from “one off” expenses to investments in the future. Learn what it takes to create a project portfolio.
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Jack Astor’s - 144 Front Street West at University
Dinner Buffet, Beverages, Entertainment, Prizes
7:00 am