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STP Online Summit: Achieving Business Value with Test Automation

Due to the overwhelming success and positive reviews of the last STP Online Summit: Business Value of Performance Testing, we've decided to do it again -- only this time, we're going to explore Achieving Business Value with Test Automation.

Join me (while I continue practicing my radio host skills for my emergency back-up career as a sportscaster) and 7 other presenters that I consider to be elite practitioners, teachers, and thinkers in their test automation areas of specialization for 3 half days online to learn their tips and methods for achieving business value with test automation. If you or your organization are using, or thinking about using, automation to enhance or improve your testing, you're not going to want to miss this online summit. I honestly can't think of anywhere else you can get this concentration of relevant and thematically targeted information at a better price, but you be the judge:

When: Tuesday October 11 10:00AM - Thursday October 13 1:30PM PST

Cost: $195 USD before 9/26/11 $245 USD after 9/26/11

Theme: For more than 15 years organizations have been investing in the promise of better, cheaper, and faster testing through automation. While some companies have achieved demonstrable business value from their forays into test automation, many others have experienced questionable to negative returns on their investments. Join your host, Scott Barber, for this three day online summit, to hear how seven recognized leaders in test automation have achieved real business value by implementing a variety of automation flavors and styles for their employers and clients. Learn how to answer the ROI question by focusing on business value instead of testing tasks, and how to implement automation in ways that deliver that value to the business, not just to the development and/or test team.

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Uruguay surpasses world with professional development program for software testers.

Submitted by sbarber on Tue, 07/06/2011 - 16:45. context-driven testing | events | functional testing | general software testing

The Centro de Ensayos de Software (CES), a non-profit software testing laboratory in Uruguay, has recently launched a program that is certain to become the new “gold standard” in professional development for software testers. The program, endorsed by the Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay), the Universidad Castilla La Mancha (Spain), and sanctioned by the Uruguayan IT Chamber (CUTI), is the most comprehensive, affordable, and publicly available training program for software testers on the market. Based on my market research and comprehensive review of the program, I have no reservation in rating it as market leading.

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A new take on GPS voice bugs

Submitted by Erik Petersen on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 10:01. events | functional testing | people issues | usability test patterns

It is a type of testing I had never imagined, testing pronounciation and even patience. If you were recording voiceovers with a celebrity voice who hadn’t done it before, how would you correct them if they mispronounced something? You could send them a checklist perhaps beforehand.

What if they were intimidating and known for their short temper and meglomaniacal tendencies? A famous celebrity recently was recording a GPS voice over, and was saying “roundabound” not “roundabout”. Luckily a tape of the incident has been released and is now being watched around the galaxy…..

They may have even more problems later when they try the same thing with a linguistically challenged little green man ...

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New version of Oracle Application Testing Suite (former Emprix)

Submitted by Alexander Podelko on Thu, 29/04/2010 - 21:24. functional testing | non-functional testing | performance testing | performance testing tools

New version of Oracle Application Testing Suite 9.10 (former Emprix – now part of Oracle Enterprise Manager) was released recently. It is available for download (subject to OTN License). A lot of additional materials available (including webinars, white papers, etc.).

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Cool Tools - for customer data etc

Submitted by Erik Petersen on Thu, 05/11/2009 - 07:40. functional testing | test automation

Test data is often a bottleneck on testing projects. Security and privacy issues can require complex massaging of existing information, Today, there are tools to make it easy to create it from scratch! I find two in particular quite useful.

I’ve been telling people about generatedata.com for several years. It is an amazing tool for generating data for customers or other items, including items chosen from lists and data ranges. It is free, customizable and can even be run off a USB (after it is customized for the computer and database etc).

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Testing vs. Checking ... my 2 cents.

I was pleased to see Michael Bolton's series on Testing vs. Checking. If you haven't been following, what I consider to be the central thread of the topic (and the unfortunately inevitable fallout that seems to happen in "testerland" almost any time someone says something that makes sense).

From Michael:

From James Bach: