Archived Presentations - 2002

November 2002

• Topic: Quality Auditing presented by David Barth
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October 2002

• Topic: Becoming an Effective Team Leader
• This presentation examines the ten most challenging issues seen in test automation and provides ways to deal with each challenge. Many organizations have attempted to apply automated test tools and most people see the value in using automated test tools, yet research shows that most organizations perform more manual testing than they do automated testing. However, some organizations have been very successful in acquiring and applying automated test tools. What are the keys to success that these organizations have discovered? This presentation describes the lessons learned by successful organizations and how to apply those lessons in other organizations to add value to their testing efforts.

September 2002

• Topic: Enterprise Framework for Test Automation
• Many organizations attempt to implement test automation, but end up with shelfware instead of testware. This can represent a substantial loss in costs associated with tool evaluation, licenses, and training. Additionally, this can adversely impact team productivity & morale, which creates a lost opportunity to improve the effectiveness of the testing process.

August 2002

• Topic: Ice Cream and Experts
• At the August membership meeting our own panel of experts went to work on a number of questions. Here are the questions they tackled, and the "answers" they came up with.

June 2002

• Topic: Deliver Reliable Applications Faster presented by Dave Kapelanski of Compuware
• Click here for presentation. Understand how IT challenges impact your ability to develop and deploy reliable applications; learn better, faster and safer ways to manage the application lifecycle; managing multi-team tasks via lifecycle automation; Understanding the importance of data management throughout the entire lifecycle; starting your testing initiative while applications are still in development. Build quality in "right from the start".

• Topic: Risk Management presented by Paula Duchnowski
• Click here for presentation. Paula Duchnowski of General Casualty spoke about understanding risk in an organization. She sited examples and had some great visual aids for everyone.

April 2002

• Topic: Panel of Expert on Quality Issues

March 2002

• Topic: Software Testing Processes, From Concept to Reality
• Click here for presentation. Burt Greenberg and Colleen Maloney of Process Management Group, called upon people to start testing tasks as early as gleam in the user's eye. They reviewed several definitions and concepts about multiple Processes like "Black Box vs. White Box" testing, SEI CMM, Functional Builds and others. Then they conducted a "hands on" workshop that was hailed by all.

February 2002

• Topic: Hurdling Quality and Testing Roadblocks
• Click here for presentation. Bill Hufschmidt, Development Support Center, Inc. led a panel of experts in the the quality field on a discussion of a few important quality hurdles.

January 2002

• Topic: Software Accessibility and Section 508 - It's the Law!
• Click here for presentation. Mitch Kite, Esker Software, addresses Section 508: It's the Law! What are some of the tools that are used to check compliance, helpful tips, and some useful sights to get additional information