PNSQC 2014
2014-10-20..2014-10-22
Portland, United States
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who it's for
qa engineers, software testers, test automation engineers, agile coaches, product managers, business analysts, engineering managers, ux designers
topics
Incremental Commitment Spiral Model; anchorpoint milestones; continuous verification and validation; NPS callback programs; A/B testing in production; cycle time variation and forecasting; WIP limits and kanban; given when then BDD; Cucumber and SpecFlow automation; mobile top tasks usability
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| PNSQC 2014 - Dr. Richard Turner | Richard Turner | 01h 24m |
Argues that software and systems engineering must be bridged by a risk‑driven, evidence‑based process that balances agility and discipline, using the… | ||
| PNSQC 2014 - Jon Bach | Jon Bach | 01h 22m |
Explains how eBay measures and improves live site quality with concrete practices: an NPS callback program that surfaces customer pain, daily mission… | ||
| PNSQC 2014 - Hillel Glazer | Hillel Glazer | 01h 32m |
Claim: decisions made from only historical points create lag and unpredictable outcomes. Proposal: break work into small pieces, measure cycle time variation… | ||
| PNSQC 2014 - Karen Johnson | Karen Johnson | 42m |
Argues that offshoring succeeds only when work is codified into tiny explicit steps and regularly reviewed, not left as mysterious scripts; finds regression… | ||
| PNSQC 2014 - Jeana McClure | Jeana McClure | 46m |
Team switches acceptance criteria to given when then BDD mid-project while rewriting the most complex web transaction, with a roughly four‑to‑five developer… | ||
| PNSQC 2014 - Alicia Cook | Alicia Cook | 23m |
Argues that pairing business analysts and quality analysts reduces delivery risk on highly integrated systems by keeping QA embedded early and BAs involved… | ||
| PNSQC 2014 - Halim Dunsky | Halim Dunsky | 01h 27m |
Compares scrum (fixed two‑ to three‑week iterations) with kanban (continuous flow), explains metrics and tooling like burn‑up, cumulative flow and Jira control… | ||
| Usability and UX - What You Need to Know | Philip Lew | 01h 13m |
Argues that mobile UX must focus on a few prioritized tasks not full desktop parity and recommends designing and testing the top 3–5 tasks for each persona… | ||
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