1. Lightning Talks Presented at the Software Test and Performance Conference 2008 matt.heusser@gmail.com San Mateo, California April 17, 2008

2. Mona Shah Interactive Data/Real Time Services Something Interesting monashah@interactivedata.com

4. Edward J. Correia BZMedia “Purely Coincidental” ecorreia@bzmedia.com

43. Michael Bolton Developsense Something Interesting mb@michaelbolton.net

45. Matt Heusser Socialtext Offshore, inshore, outsource, outhouse? matt.heusser@gmail.com

46. On the optimization of physically distributed program management, development, testing, and operations By Matthew Heusser

47. You Are Screwed

48. (I Was Wrong)

49. “Awesome”

50. Hans Buwalda LogiGear Something Interesting hansb@logigear.com

52. Google Something Interesting hugs@google.com Jason Huggins

54. Markus Tiede Automated GUI Testing: common misbeliefs Markus.Tiede@bredex.de

55. If tools did spam…

56. Not so ridiculous…?

57. 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”…

58. 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

59. 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

60. Thank you for listening… … for any outstanding questions: stand 10 Markus Tiede Markus.Tiede@bredex.de

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

63. Scrum Extreme Programming CMMI

64. Douglas Hoffman Doug.Hoffman@acm.org Black Box Testing – A model doug.hoffman@acm.org

65. Expanded Black Box Testing Model System Under Test Test Inputs Pre-condition Data Pre-condition Program State Environmental Factors Test Results Post-condition Data Post-condition Program State Environmental Outcomes Copyright © 1999-2008 Software Quality Methods, LLC.

66. 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

67. Michael Bolton Developsense Something Interesting – II mb@michaelbolton.net

69. So long – and thanks for all the fish!