CAST 2016
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Software Testing Training | Dawn Haynes | 11m |
Advice for picking software testing training: compare actual delivery modes (CBT, virtual, face-to-face better for technical), match course length (three to… | ||
| Automated Testing | Richard Bradshaw | 20m |
CAST Live at CAST 2016 distills practical automation rules: automation must support testing, not replace it; regularly review and delete automated checks with… | ||
| Agile Software Testing | Janet Gregory | 33m |
Teams must shift testers from a late-stage checkbox role to proactive contributors who push testing into story breakdowns, pair with devs, and read code; adopt… | ||
| Announcement | 01m | |
webCAST 2016 runs Aug 9-10, 2016 and live-streams keynotes, full track sessions, and "CAST Live". The stream is free and requires no personal information. The… | ||
| Tweet Printer | 01m | |
Have a question during the webCAST? Tweet them, the tweet printer will be standing by. | ||
| Test Management Revisited | Anne-Marie Charrett | 55m |
Company grows testing from 5 to 23 testers (later ~27) while moving from a central team to embedded testers into teams; leadership experiments with hiring… | ||
| Babble & Dabble: Creating Bonds Across Disciplines | Carol Brands, Katrina Clokie | 59m |
Teams adopt huddles (three‑amigos) and debriefs, publish a “testing for non‑testers” pathway on a public blog, and run an annual in‑house testing conference… | ||
| Teaching Testing to Non-Testers | Kate Falanga | 43m |
Monthly 90‑minute workshop trains non‑testers via hands‑on activities (requires a laptop, Hangouts for remote), scheduled with Doodle and promoted through… | ||
| How King Uses AI in Testing | Alexander Andelkovic | 46m |
King uses bots that combine Monte Carlo tree search and NEAT to validate and tune levels at scale rather than restating topics. The system targets Candy Crush… | ||
| Neuro-Diversity and Software Development | Larissa Profum | 01h 26m |
Presents hard numbers: analysis of 14,866 sentences of pair‑programming dialogue shows senior developers talk less; creativity needs incubation and the quiet… | ||
| Shifting the Testing Role Pendulum | Melissa Tondi | 55m |
Argues that testers regain balance by using a six-area plan and a tight automation strategy: automate smoke/BVT first, then automate acceptance criteria, then… | ||
| Why Companies Without Testers are the Best Place to Be One | Natalie Jean Bennett | 51m |
Company runs without a separate QA group: engineers write tests first with TDD, pair about 80–90% of the time, and push through CI using Concourse pipelines… | ||
| Against a Harmful Divide: Testing as the Lifeblood of Development | Jesse Thomas Alford | 59m |
Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry work argues that testing must live inside development, not sit in a separate QA silo; distributed deployments take 20–30 VMs with… | ||
| When You're Evil: Building Credibility-Based Relationship with Developers | Curtis Pettit | 58m |
Frames credibility as a wager: every question, bug report or favor risks a little currency to buy future influence. Specific tactics include learn and… | ||
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