CAST 2014
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| More HC.gov bugs | Ben Simo | 14m |
Site receives about 8 million visitors Day One yet forces up-front mandatory registration that creates a bottleneck; a tiny estimator app appears later but… | ||
| Software Testing Standards | James Christie | 16m |
Argues that ISO 29119 is being pushed without the profession’s required consensus and that it functions as an anti-competitive standard marketed as “peace of… | ||
| Standards and Certifications | Karen N Johnson | 30m |
A petition asks the president of ISO to suspend publication and withdraw ISO/IEC 29119 (the 29119 parts named in the text) and argues sustained opposition… | ||
| Celebrity and the future of Conferences | Karen N Johnson | 19m |
Conferences favor repeat names and big stages — some talks play to rooms of about 1,200 and reward high‑energy performance, which makes it harder for quieter… | ||
| Building a Local Testing Community | Katrina Clokie | 15m |
Starts a local group called We Test workshops in Wellington (launched Oct 2011) and grows it to 200+ members in under two years. Runs events every six weeks… | ||
| The Art of Persuasion | Alessandra Moreira | 14m |
Persuasion works as a three‑step process: Discovery phase, evidence gathering and a targeted presentation, not a one‑shot demand. Use small, visible… | ||
| Getting Beyond Bewilderment | Lanessa Hunter | 11m |
Practical steps for escaping workplace bewilderment: use three days in silence painting rules (blank canvases, no commenting on others' work, and checking with… | ||
| Lanessa Hunter on CAST 2014 | Lanessa Hunter | 03m |
Claims that embracing chaos, discontent, criticism in testing yields concrete skills rather than paralysis, and maps specific moves that transform bewilderment… | ||
| James Christie on CAST 2014 | James Christie | 02m |
Argues that widely promoted software testing standards often serve economic and market interests more than they improve quality, drawing on 30 years of… | ||
| Håkan Ramberg on CAST 2014 | Håkan Ramberg | 02m |
Argues that testing fails unless testers adopt a business-minded tester approach, gives a concrete checklist of business metrics to track (revenue at risk… | ||
| Pradeepa Narayanaswamy on CAST 2014 | Pradeepa Narayanaswamy | 02m |
Announcement of care testing that claims practical benefits and a summary of personal lessons learned from applying agile testing in a Milwaukee consulting… | ||
| Michael Larsen on CAST 2014 | Michael Larsen | 04m |
Session titled coyote teaching explores a concrete mentorship method, delivered with co-presenter Harrison Lavelle and drawing on participants from the… | ||
| Dee Ann Pizzica on CAST 2014 | Dee Ann Pizzica | 03m |
CAST creates extended peer-to-peer conferring that starts in track sessions and continues through keynotes, workshops and into the evening with tester games… | ||
| Hilary Weaver on CAST 2014 | Hilary Weaver | 02m |
Explains why I am speaking at CAST 2014 with three concrete goals: make clearer how the app works for testing demos, improve tester-to-developer relationships… | ||
| Benjamin Yaroch on CAST 2014 | Benjamin Yaroch | 04m |
CAST 2014 runs in Manhattan with a focus on hands‑on interaction and affordability: one third of each session reserved for audience participation, practical… | ||
| Justin Rohrman on CAST 2014 | Justin Rohrman | 01m |
Argues that modern testing metrics are rooted in social‑science measurement mistakes and that common indicators — defect counts, test coverage, code churn —… | ||
| Parimala Hariprasad on CAST 2014 | Parimala Hariprasad | 02m |
Session draws lessons from Don Norman and Michael Graves’ rooster teapot anecdote to argue that emotion matters in testing, citing cognitive science claims… | ||
| Ilari Henrik & Jan Eumann on CAST 2014 | Ilari Henrik Aegerter, Jan Eumann | 03m |
Introduces how testers embed into high‑velocity Scrum teams at eBay and gives two concrete perspectives: a manager’s process changes and an embedded tester’s… | ||
| Erik Davis & Maria Kedemo | Erik Davis, Maria Kedemo | 02m |
Workshop titled balancing the leadership seesaw runs a sequence of short hands-on activities that make concrete the differences between leadership and… | ||
| Barbara Streiffert on CAST 2014 | Barbara Streiffert | 02m |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory builds one‑off spacecraft with unique instrument suites and command sets and develops software that checks commands and packages them… | ||
| Test Cases are Not Testing: Toward a Performance Culture | James Bach | 01h 11m |
Argues that testing is a live performance not a set of artifacts and testing is a performance; demos exploratory testing on FocusWriter’s scene selector… | ||
| Standards – promoting quality or restricting competition? | James Christie | 47m |
Argues that standards are being sold to create markets for consultants and certification bodies, using economic concepts like economic rent and asymmetric… | ||
| Scaling up with Embedded Testing | Trish Khoo | 01h 09m |
Teams remove separate QA and embed testing into development with measurable wins: Google reports over a thousand releases and shifts to 80–90% weekly releases… | ||
| Challenges of implementing CDT in a large organization | Jean-Paul Varwijk | 01h 07m |
Rabobank International trains all internal testers in Rapid Software Testing, runs testing dojos and exploratory workshops, and changes its test policy to… | ||
| Early Performance Testing: Finding News You Can Use | Eric Proegler | 53m |
Argues for fast, cheap, repeatable checks instead of one costly end-of-project simulation: run small synthetic workloads (notably a 10x10 test or 1x100 runs… | ||
| Recipe for Testing Spacecraft Ground Software | Barbara Streiffert | 01h 13m |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory ground software validates uplink command generation and packaging for unique spacecraft by combining a mission‑independent core with… | ||
| STEM to STEAM Advocacy to Curricula | Carol Strohecker | 01h 15m |
"STEM to STEAM Advocacy to Curricula" by Carol Strohecker
The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), one of the world's preeminent schools of art and design… | ||
| Adding value in an agile context | Henrik Andersson | 01h 05m |
"Adding value in an agile context" by Henrik Andersson
At a first glance you might relate testing in an agile context to abbreviations like TDD, BDD, ATDD… | ||
| There Was Not a Breach; There Was a Blog | Ben Simo | 01h 11m |
A user with browser developer tools on uncovers a chain of flaws: account existence leaks via error responses, cookies over 4KB breaking logins, full backend… | ||
| Test Automation != Less Testers || Faster Testing || More Time For ET | Richard Bradshaw | 01h 08m |
Argument: automating checks does not equal fewer testers, faster testing, or more meaningful exploratory time. Evidence: UI suites often take hours (one… | ||
| Looking to social science for help with metrics | Justin Rohrman | 43m |
Argues that software measurement borrows bad habits from early psychology, citing psychophysics experiments where subjects’ responses broke quantitative… | ||
| Software Testing State of the Practice (And Art! And Science!) | Matthew Heusser | 01h 07m |
Collected from about 200 stories of testers across roles and industries the claim is specific: testing shows high churn and fuzzy definitions (test case… | ||
| "Timbits" | Tim Coulter, Paul Holland | 30m |
Rapid-fire conference notes that name specific, actionable claims: use the levy flight heuristic to forage for bugs, embed testers on dev teams to raise… | ||
| Coyote Teaching: A new take on the art of mentorship | Michael Larsen, Harrison C. Lovell | 01h 08m |
Argues that mentoring works when it creates real problems, removes tools or adds constraints, and forces learners to answer questions with questions so they… | ||
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