Andreas Tolf Tolfsen on OperaWatir
Monday, June 20th, 2011
On Watir Podcast #42 and #43 Željko Filipin talks with Andreas Tolf Tolfsen about OperaWatir, just in case you wanted more of both Opera and Watir.
Archive for the ‘Speakers’ Category
Bret Pettichord on Watir Podcast
Friday, June 17th, 2011
If you did not have enough of Bret Pettichord at Watir Day, listen to Watir Podcast #1, #7, #19, #22, #29 and #45. Bret is a guest in all of them.
Željko Filipin on Watir
Saturday, June 11th, 2011In preparation for Watir day, take a look at Željko Filipin’s talks at Spletne Urice #106
and at IT Showoff conference (in Croatian).
Operwatir and Testing at Opera
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011In preparation for Watir day, take a look at Andreas Tolf Tolfsen‘s talk at Selenium Conference 2011.
A Ninja Strike to the Brain
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011In preparation for Watir day, take a look at Bret Pettichord‘s Opening Keynote at Selenium Conference 2011.
Andreas Tolf Tolfsen: Browser Automation – or Why Humans Shouldn’t Do a Machine’s Job
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
About the Talk
Watir makes automated testing of web applications easy and accessible for everyone. OperaWatir is new to the Watir family of testing toolkits, and finally brings automated testing to any device.
I will be giving an introduction to the browser automation scene, what lies ahead, and give practical examples of how we at Opera have turned things upside-down: Instead of using the browser for testing web applications, we use web pages to test the browser itself.
The talk will give you a broad introduction to as to why emulating actual user behaviour is quintessential to the success of your testing, and how automating browsers will increase the reliability of your tests.
About the Speaker
Andreas Tolf Tolfsen does browser automation at Opera Software, where he is a contributor on the OperaWatir and OperaDriver projects. He has a background as a browser tester and web developer, and has previously given talks on browser automation with WebDriver and Watir at various conferences in San Francisco and Oslo. He holds a BA in Musicology from the University of Oslo.
Links
home.e-tjenesten.org/~ato
twitter.com/tolfsen
linkedin.com/pub/andreas-tolf-tolfsen
Miroslav Zaninović: Test Management in Complex Environments
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
About the Talk (slides)
Writing and running tests sometimes isn’t enough. Managing a small number of test cases, organizing and running them is something that is easy to do and not much attention is given to it. But what if we have tens or even hundreds of test cases? When it comes to complex environments with high number of test cases, managing those tests and reporting on them becomes a priority. A lot of questions arises at that point. How do we manage the scripts? How do we manage the test data? How do we run the tests? Are all tests able to run? Are all of the transactions in my script reversible? What are differences in tests process between classic and agile (Scrum) methodologies?
Good test management must answer all those questions.
Complex environments are often implemented in more than a few technologies. We will show what steps need to be taken to organize test management in complex environments and how IBM tools helped us in that task.
About the Speaker
Miroslav is Quality Team Leader in the Croz testing centre. Miroslav’s experience comes from numerous projects where he worked as a technical lead. All those projects can be described by several key words – quality, functional testing, performance testing, testing methodology, change and configuration management, agile development…
Miroslav’s specialty is leading complex testing projects where he continually finds new challenges. He is an expert in IBM and HP quality tools.
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Valentina Kirinić: Software Product Quality and Evaluation Standards
Monday, May 30th, 2011
About the Talk (slides)
The talk will cover two initial set of standards: ISO/IEC 9126: Software engineering – Product quality (Parts 1-4: quality model and metrics) and ISO/IEC 14598: Software product evaluation (Parts 1-6). New set of standards (under development) ISO/IEC 25000: Software Engineering – Software product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) will be presented too.
We will (hopefully!) talk/discuss some aspects of using these standards:
- Do we really need them?
- Do we really use them?
- Why no? Why yes? Problems and obstacles/benefits, when, how much it costs, examples, best practices,…
About the Speaker
Valentina Kirinić, PhD (in information science), is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems Development, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin. After 5 years of experience in industry in the fields of information systems and information technology she started to work at the Faculty where she teaches information retrieval and classification, digital publishing, and software quality courses. Her recent research has focused, besides information literacy and ICT in education, on web/software quality: web usability and accessibility and software product quality models and metrics.
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Zdravko Krakar: Quality and Maturity of the IT Profession, and Different IT Views (IT as Practice; IT in Business Systems; IT in Croatia)
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
About the Talk (slides)
There is no doubt that quality is also contemporary business paradigm for ICT. It can be observed as multi-layer problem – as quality in production of software equipment, as quality in providing ICT services, as quality of ICT activities and also as ability of utilization the ICT potential of particular country, therefore Croatia also. Do we, as members of ICT profession, understand our profession, what makes it, how it managed to develop so far? Can profession quality be measured, what it depends on, what it needs to be done considering enhancement of its current level and is validation, verification and testing field independent from this questions?
As participant of round table, I will try to answer some of these questions. Issues will be cascading from utilization knowledge (quality) of our national ICT potentials to quality in production and usage of software equipment. In seeking questions to these answers, relevant models of ICT profession development will be shown with experience from Faculty of Organization and Informatics in University of Zagreb.
About the Speaker
DSc Zdravko Krakar is our well known name in fields of: ICT management, Quality Systems, Information Security Systems, Business Continuity Management and Information systems Audit and controls. He is a full professor on University of Zagreb. Furthermore, he lectures on several universities on graduate, postgraduate and doctor studies while his basic university is Faculty of Organization and Informatics. Also, he is a consultant and has done many projects for leading Croatian companies, ministries, government agencies, public sector institutions and etc. Finally, he is a member of several international and domestic scientific and professional organizations. He achieved a lot of acknowledgements for his work, among the others the State Award for Science (2001) and Primus award for special contribution to development of consultancy services in Croatia (2010).
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Mirna Vlainić: Organizational and Development Process Changes with Introduction of Software Testing Department
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
About the Talk (slides)
Large number of SMB (Small and Medium Business) companies in Croatia have only recently started to realize the importance of efficient and effective product testing and only few of these have formed departments in their organizations specialized for testing. I was lucky to be given a chance of starting a testing department “from scratch”.
In my presentation I will talk about introducing and organizing testing department within the design department – organizational changes, implementation of changes in software development process, choosing and conquering testing automation tools, transferring responsibilities to testing team, etc.
There are different strategies that can be found in specialized literature and on the internet, but in the end, every company has to tailor one for itself. I will talk about the lessons learned – from both books and experience.
In the second part of my presentation I will present Combis’ homemade issue tracking system (defects, tasks, enhancements, change requests), which is used by both development (and testing) team and our customers.
About the Speaker
Mirna Vlainić is the head of Software Testing Department in Combis. She received a B.Sc in telecommunications from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, where she also graduated in Management postgraduate studies.
Mirna has wide experience on different projects, mostly in telecommunications industry, in requirement specification, solution design, testing, customer education and change management.
She had a role of Testing Manager in several large projects in T-Com where the testing team grew up to 25-30 members.
Mirna’s interests are testing techniques improvement and benchmarking, testing automation, software change management, quality management.
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