CAST 2017
who it's for
software testers, automation engineers, test architects, test coaches and facilitators, performance testers, security testers, test managers
topics
build an automation framework from scratch; web service validation for UI tests; regression testing in continuous integration; session based testing in agile projects; exploratory testing simulations; threat modeling for security testing; incremental porting of legacy code; continuous regression performance testing; open-space TestRetreat facilitation; making the business case to attend conferences; mobile testing practices; testing games and social exercises
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The AST CASTcast: Pilot: Introducing | Michael Larsen, Claire Moss | 09m |
Podcast introduces CAST 2017 logistics (Aug 16–18, Gaylord Opryland, Nashville) and a plan to live blogging and live tweeting sessions, prioritizing talks… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 2: A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer | Angie Jones | 11m |
A full-day, hands-on workshop that teaches how to build an automation framework from scratch and leave with working code on a laptop, demonstrates how to shift… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 3: What to do While in Nashville for CAST 2017 | Justin Rohrman, Michael Larsen, Claire Moss | 10m |
CAST 2017 runs at the Gaylord Opryland hotel with four 8-hour tutorials on August 16, two conference days of workshops and talks on August 17–18, and a… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 4: Creative Ways to Make the Case to Attend CAST - Part 1 | Erik Davis | 12m |
Explains concrete tactics that actually got people to CAST: submit a talk to get conference fees covered (accepted even without a finished draft), use… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 5: Creative Ways to Make the Case to Attend CAST - Part 2 | Carol Brands | 14m |
Explains how an individual contributor builds a business case by Googling templates, drafting options and passing them to a team lead, listing 2–3 sessions… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 6: Explaining Testing With Exercises | Matt Heusser | 13m |
A one-hour, hands-on simulation drops attendees into a pressured development sprint with an intentionally vague spec, timeboxing, negotiated requirements and… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 7: Black Swans Wear Hoodies | Josh Gibbs | 10m |
Everyday testers can become effective security testers without a radical career shift by learning specific techniques: think like an attacker to identify… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 8: TestRetreat | Claire Moss, Michael Larsen, Matt Heusser | 10m |
A one day open space event that grew from a two day Test Coach Camp and runs right after CAST, focused on turning conference ideas into concrete next steps. It… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 9: Reducing Risk When Changing Legacy Code | Tina Fletcher | 11m |
Practical tactics for making changes in long-lived codebases: incremental porting of small components to shrink a hard-to-change core, mapping dependencies to… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 10: A Day in the Life of a Test Architect | Lee Hawkins | 10m |
Describes a concrete job: a Test Architect at Quest who is one person in the role and spends days mentoring teams, travelling to offices, and running remote… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 11: Continuous Regression Performance Testing | Arun Dutta | 10m |
Claims that performance checks run continuously with each change catch regressions early, reduce go-live failures, and cut cost by shifting fixes left. The… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 12: Session Based Testing in an Agile Project | Simon Peter Schrijver | 11m |
Session-based testing adapts exploratory work into sprint cadence by preparing before code lands: create intake notes from user stories, run a survey to gather… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 13: Demystifying Mobile Testing | Raj Subramanian | 09m |
A compact method maps common testing approaches to actual defects so testers can run mind map guided quick tours that surface authentication, data leakage and… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 14: A Survival Guide for the Ethical Software Tester | Fiona Charles | 14m |
Hands-on tutorial showing how to spot and respond to real ethical dilemmas: falsified test results, privacy-invasive features (Facebook-quiz linking and… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode15: How Software Testers Can Become Effective Communicators | Raj Subramanian, Carleen Weismeyer | 08m |
Identifies concrete communication gaps testers hit when working across cultures—misread body language, mismatched expectations about email versus calls, and… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 16: What the Heck do Performance Testers Really Do? | Chris Burgoyne, Justin Harrison, Michael Larsen, Claire Moss | 11m |
Explains how performance testing recreates production throughput in preproduction using JMeter plus proprietary libraries and an in‑house proprietary analysis… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 17: Developing the Conference Theme | Rob Sabourin | 14m |
Conference theme centers on what testers really do and the program uses a concrete, repeatable selection method: about 100 proposals compete for roughly 24… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 18: Facilitating CAST | Paul Holland | 19m |
CAST schedules sessions with a 40/20 split—two thirds presentation, one third for questions—and uses dedicated facilitators who enforce clarifying-question… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 19: Testing Games | Erik Davis | 13m |
Live from CAST 2017 a podcast explains why tester games teach testing skills rather than just entertain: the pen game forces modeling and hypothesis testing… | ||
| The AST CASTcast: Episode 20: Airplane Safety and Scaled Agile | Cathy Toth, Alexandre Baudin | 10m |
History of the NNSA Program Management Information System Generation 2 (launched 2007) becomes a concrete case of scaling Agile from a six‑person team into a… | ||
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