CAST 2015
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Moving Testing Forward | Karen N Johnson | 01h 24m |
Thirty years of testing experience condensed into concrete, repeatable moves: how to build a portfolio retrospection that reveals strengths, when to quit roles… | ||
| From Test Cases to Context-Driven: A Startup Story | Gary Miller | 01h 15m |
A startup payments team abandons a stale test‑case regression suite, runs an A/B experiment comparing JMeter/simulator‑driven checks against a heuristic… | ||
| Testing Is Your Brand: Sell It! | Kate Falanga | 01h 08m |
Claim: change testing’s reputation by owning it, setting clear expectations, and embedding testers in teams. Implements: replace long test scripts with no… | ||
| Visualizing Testability | Maria Kedemo | 01h 14m |
Year-long mission focuses on making “how easy it is to test” visible through a workshop, an onion model and three questions that push testers to list what they… | ||
| Using Feedback to Reduce Truthiness | Jeffrey Woodard | 01h 10m |
Feedback reduces “truthiness” by forcing facts over gut feelings and the talk gives concrete practices: a team of 18 testers (14 FTE, 4 contractors) across… | ||
| The Future of Testing Is Here | Ajay Balamurugadas | 01h 21m |
Argues that testing’s future is already practical: community-run training like Weekend Testing runs 130+ missions and produces 200+ public reports, BBST videos… | ||
| The Art and Science of Questioning | Jessica Ingrassellino | 01h 09m |
Career testers learn to apply qualitative methods to testing: uses BDD with Cucumber and Python, runs exploratory scenarios that once found 76 bugs in four… | ||
| Fomenting Change | Barbara Streiffert | 55m |
"Fomenting Change" by Barbara Streiffert
Many companies are risk averse, especially when the risk is to human life and/or involve significant financial… | ||
| Why Should I Hire You | Rob Bowyer | 01h 14m |
"Why Should I Hire You" by Rob Bowyer
As a test manager, coach and mentor, Rob has been involved in the careers of numerous testers. As a lifelong learner he… | ||
| Taking Control Of Your Test Environment | Ioana Serban | 01h 15m |
Shows concrete moves to stop flaky environments: add automation to catch regressions, quarantine flaky checks into a separate bug suite, use feature branches… | ||
| Notes on the Keynotes | Robert Sabourin | 21m |
Notes emphasize practical career moves: build a portfolio showing real work, run a self‑retro before changing direction, and play to your strengths (left… | ||
| Training Software Testers | Megan Studzenski | 19m |
A seven-day onboarding program teaches domain setup (create a SEQUEL database, install the product, run queries) for the first three days and then spends days… | ||
| Hiring Software Testers Panel Discussion | Rob Bowyer | 35m |
Panelists give concrete hiring practices: skim resumes to two pages, avoid rigid HR keyword filters, and value varied degrees over required CS credentials… | ||
| Catch Phrase (Testing Edition) | Diana Wendruff, Eric Davis | 07m |
A live, lighthearted game uses a modified Catch Phrase disc filled with software-testing terms and a buzzer: contestants must guess words under a timer with… | ||
| Notes on the Keynotes | Robert Sabourin | 13m |
Claim: the future of testing is already here and it advances by active learning and sharing via experience reports, not theory alone. Concrete tools mentioned… | ||
| Remote Working Panel Discussion | Ben Simo, Stephanie Liu-Barnes | 42m |
Discussion claims remote work is fully viable: agile ceremonies run via video first and screen sharing, Google Docs coordinates planning, and IM (notably IM… | ||
| Becoming a More Technical Tester | Erica Walker | 16m |
Describes a two‑year, problem‑driven path from test manager to hands‑on web tester, learning SQL with W3Schools and SQLFiddle, inspecting apps with browser… | ||
| Catch Phrase (Testing Edition) | Erik Brickarp, Dwayne Green | 05m |
A live Catch Phrase segment turns testing jargon into a timed guessing game with strict rules against rhymes, initial letters or word fragments. Players… | ||
| Catch Phrase (Testing Edition) | Chris Kenst, Scott Barber | 05m |
Live game show format where contestants race to guess software testing terms under a one‑device timer with rules forbidding writing or using the first letter… | ||
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