CONCURRENT S E S S I O N S
1 PDU per
Session
Thursday, June 11, 1:30pm
BETTER SOFTWARE
BT9
BT10
BT11
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PROJECTS & TEAMS
METRICS
WEARABLES
TESTING
Enough about
Process, Let’s
Use Patterns
Making Numbers
Count: Metrics
That Matter
Paul E. McMahon,
PEM Systems
Mike Trites, PQA Testing
The Coming
Mobile
Wearables
World
Prevent Test
Automation
Shelfware:
A SeleniumWebDriver Case
Study
When new
developers and
testers join the
company, we
want them to
learn the “way we do software
here.” So we give them the
“stone tablets”—the volumes
of process documentation—to
study. However, the problem is
that the details in this
documentation are primarily
for beginners and don’t give
practitioners what they need to
perform at a high level. Paul
McMahon has found a better
way to achieve and sustain
high performance—by
focusing on common patterns
that repeat in organizations to
help practitioners make better
decisions. Join Paul as he
shares common software
development patterns he has
observed, questions
practitioners should be asking,
and tips and warnings to help
them make better decisions.
Take away practical and easyto-use techniques to identify
and communicate repeating
patterns specific to your
organization, patterns that can
help less experienced
practitioners learn faster and
consistently perform at a
higher level.
As testers and
test managers,
we are frequently
asked to report
to stakeholders
on the progress and results of
our testing. Questions like How
is testing going? may seem
simple enough, but the answer
is ultimately based on our
ability to extract useful metrics
from our work and present
them in a meaningful way. This
is particularly important in agile
environments where clear,
concise, and up-to-date
metrics may be needed
multiple times each day. Mike
Trites identifies a number of
ways we can use metrics to
measure progress during a test
cycle and, ultimately, to
determine when testing should
be considered complete. Learn
the common pitfalls of metrics
misuse and how you can avoid
them by giving proper context
when communicating metrics
to your stakeholders. Discover
key metrics for measuring the
effectiveness of your testing
and how to use what you
learn on one project to
improve your testing process
on future projects.
Phil Lew, XBOSoft
From floppy discs
to solid state
drives and batch
computing to
mobile apps and
wearable devices, we have
witnessed lightning-fast
advances in hardware and
systems in a less than a
generation. Today, mobile has
become a hub in our lives and
wearable is on track to invade
every part of our being. Sensors
in new wearable devices
produce data faster than ever
before, and we can now access
all this data, stored in the cloud.
New systems and applications
are leveraging these many data
sets in deeper, broader, and
more meaningful ways to not
only analyze but also predict
what we want and will do next.
Phil Lew explains how mobile
devices will become the data
aggregator for wearable
applications and explores
context—the most important
element of mobile/wearable
user and customer experience.
Phil discusses how to
incorporate context into your
mobile app design and
development. Learn the
contextual elements you need
to incorporate right now and
identify key factors for future
generation products.
Alan Ark, Eid Passport
Eid Passport had
a suite of
Selenium tests
with a bad
reputation—
difficult to maintain, broken all
the time, and just plain
unreliable. A tester would
spend more than four days to
get through one execution and
validation pass of these
automated tests. Eid Passport
was ready to toss these tests
into the trash. Alan Ark
volunteered to take a look at
the tests with an eye toward
showing that Selenium-based
tests can, in fact, be reliable
and used in the regress