Tutorials
Michael Bolton on "Illustration the Quality Story"
Testing
Testing Story
Status of the product
How the testing was done
How good your testing was
..about asking "Is there a problem here?"
Mnemonics
San Francisco Depot
Structure
Function
Data
Platform
Operations
Time
crusspic stmpl
Start by testing "sympathetically"
Measurement
..art and science of making reliable observations (JW)
asking "What do we want to know?"
Estimation
"When do you want to ship?"
Positive Deviance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Deviance
McLuhan's Laws of Media
ENHANCE
REVERSE
RETRIEVE
OBSOLESCE
http://www.horton.ednet.ns.ca/staff/scottbennett/media/
Recommendations
Cem Kaner - Software Engineering Metric http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/metrics2004.pdf
Jerry Weinberg - Quality Software Management, Vol2: First-Order Measurement http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/Site/QSM_vol_2.html
Cem Kaner - Software Testing as a Social Science http://testingeducation.org/a/ifipkaner.pdf
Dan Gilbert - TED Talk on Why are we happy? http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html
Show stopper ~ it makes more sense to fix it than to ship it
James Whittaker on "How Google Tests Software"
10 minute testplan
Attributes
Components
Capabilities
ACC http://code.google.com/p/test-analytics/wiki/AccExplained
Google Test Analityics
You don't really have to write code, you just have to read code.
Keynotes
Dr. Richard Sykes The New Testing: Delivering Assurance in the Age of the Virtual
Gojko Adzic, Death To The Testing Phase
Nice hand written/drawn slides
Remove the safety net
Testing is not a phase, but a team approach
People who ask for control probably want visibility
James Whittaker Pursuing Quality? You Won't Get There By Testing
Privacy testing
Daryl Elfield Power to the People – Achieve Fast, Sustainable Change in Quality by Harnessing the Crowd
Isabel Evans Quality In Use: The Beating Heart Of The Customer Experience
Talks
Julian Harty Pushing The Boundaries Of User Experience Test Automation
Heuristics for Test Automation
Tabbing - always come back where you started
Consistent flow on web forms
Look and work alike across all browsers
Doesn't allow security bypass
Tools
BiDi checker
DOM monster
Accesibility bugs are seldom fixed
Alt text/description
SEO
Accesibility
Automation is like a dog: great when it behaves, horrible when it doesn't.
Beware of AssertTrue(true)
Automated execution followed by human inspection
Resources
http://blog.bettersoftwaretesting.com
http://enough.de
http://code.google.com/u/julianharty/
John Montgomery What The Top 10 Most Disruptive Technology Trends Mean For QA And Testing
Test is not dead, just moving to a different neighborhood
top 10
Mobile apps
Tablet apps
4g
Geo-location
HTML5
Cloud
Continuous Deployment
Not only SQL
Social Media
Consumerisation
Anna Baik Life's Too Short: Make A Difference
When process is king, customer comes a distant second
We don't often see enthusiasm on testers' CVs
Bryan Bakker Automated Reliability Testing via Hardware Interfaces
Test Lab
Mind mapping with Michael Bolton
ET session on RedNotebook using a mind map
Notes
Issues
Bugs
Product claims => test ideas
Testing with Shmuel
Paired ET session
Testing RedNotebook
using Rapid Reporter
Rapid Reporter consolidated report
Testing Competition
Mission
Test the file handling in RedNotebook
Find and report the best bug
Our team
Ruud Cox
Ru Cindrea
Best Bug Report: Application hangs when reading corrupt journal files
People
Test Lab Team
Henrik Emilsson
Torbjorn Wiger
Jonathan Watts
Robin Anderson
Shmuel Gershon
All others that I knew from online only