STARWEST 2010 - Software Testing Conference

Predictable software performance is crucial to the success of almost every enterprise system and, in some cases, to the success of the company itself. Before deploying systems into production, management is demanding comprehensive performance testing and reliable test results. This has created significant pressure on development managers and performance test engineers. Alim Sharif guides you through the basic steps for planning, creating, executing, and reporting performance tests.

Many testers believe the challenges of automating embedded and mobile phone-based systems testing are prohibitively difficult. By approaching the problem from a test design perspective and using that design to drive the automation initiative, William Coleman demystifies automated testing of embedded systems. He draws on experiences gained on a large-scale testing project for a leading smart-phone platform and a Window CE embedded automotive testing platform.

When visiting a new city, people often take an organized tour, going from landmark to landmark to get an overview of the town. Taking a “tour” of an application, going from function to function, is a good way to break down the testing effort into manageable chunks. Not only is this approach useful in functional testing, it’s also effective for security testing. Rafal Los takes you inside the hacker’s world, identifying the landmarks hackers target within applications and showing you how to identify the defects they seek out.

It seems that developers have as many definitions of “done” as Eskimos have words for “snow.” But without a clear definition of done, it is difficult to gauge progress on a project. Menlo Innovations has a simple solution. Instead of declaring a story card or feature done on its own, developers collaborate with the business analyst and testing teammates to determine when the application meets their requirements.