lightning talks presented at the software test and performance conference 2008...

Lightning Talks

Presented at the Software Test and Performance Conference 2008

matt.heusser@gmail.com San Mateo, California April 17, 2008

Mona Shah

Interactive Data/Real Time ServicesSomething Interesting

monashah@interactivedata.com

Edward J. CorreiaBZMedia

“Purely Coincidental”ecorreia@bzmedia.com

Michael BoltonDevelopsense

Something Interesting mb@michaelbolton.net

Matt HeusserSocialtext

Offshore, inshore, outsource, outhouse?matt.heusser@gmail.com

On the optimization of physically distributed program management, development, testing, and operations

By Matthew Heusser

You Are Screwed

(I Was Wrong)

“Awesome”

Hans BuwaldaLogiGear

Something Interestinghansb@logigear.com

GoogleSomething Interesting

hugs@google.com

Jason Huggins

Markus Tiede

Automated GUI Testing:common misbeliefs

Markus.Tiede@bredex.de

If tools did spam…

Not so ridiculous…?

Why do we believe?

• Capture-Replay tools make us believe!– “automate testing as easy as recording a test”– it is highly praised as a “miracle cure”

• People cling to this promise– automated testing should not involve any effort– as it is described as a simple task

… and take up the offer for the “miracle cure”…

Side effects

• Not enough forward planning for resources

• Not enough time set aside to…… learn to use tools

… design tests

… build a testing infrastructure

→ automated tests are often doomed to fail

Learn to spot the spam

• automated testing is an important task– “You can’t get something for nothing!”

• Take it as seriously as software development

Thank you for listening…… for any outstanding questions: stand 10

Markus TiedeMarkus.Tiede@bredex.de

Matthew Heusser‘Best Practices’ – for who?Matt.Heusser@gmail.com

• Scrum

• Extreme Programming

• CMMI

Douglas HoffmanDoug.Hoffman@acm.org

Black Box Testing – A modeldoug.hoffman@acm.org

Expanded Black Box Testing Model

System

Under

Test

Test Inputs

Pre-condition Data

Pre-conditionProgram State

EnvironmentalFactors

Test Results

Post-condition Data

Post-conditionProgram State

EnvironmentalOutcomes

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Conclusions

• The factors are always present

• When there are defects

– Unexpected influencers may be involved

– Unexpected outcomes are possible

• Not Reproducible means influencers are not all known or controlled

• No Problem Found No Defect Present

Michael BoltonDevelopsense

Something Interesting – IImb@michaelbolton.net

So long – and thanks for all the fish!