Spring 2019 Speaker Presentations

Welcome to the STPCon presentations downloads. This page contains all of the presentations* for the STPCon Spring 2019 Conference and Expo being held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel – April 1-4 2019. You must be a registered attendee to access this content.

* Presentations marked “pending” have not been provided to STP by the speaker. STP will post all presentations as they become available to us. STP will only post Keynote presentations with permission of the speaker.

Workshop Presentations

Monday, April 1st:

9:00am – 12:00pm:

	WORKSHOP: Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing – Part 1 (Bolton)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation (Jones)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Techniques for Successfully Walking the Agile Testing Tight Rope (Roske)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD
	WORKSHOP: Performance Automation for Everyone (Tomlinson)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD
	WORKSHOP: What’s Your Testing Leadership IQ? (Bonine)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

1:00pm – 4:00pm:

	WORKSHOP: Testing Software with Machine Learning (Arbon)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Unwrapping the Box of Paired Testing (Subramanian)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Building a Testing Framework from Scratch (Larsen)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD
	WORKSHOP: Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing – Part 2 (Bolton)	PRESENTATION: See “Part 1” for slides.
	WORKSHOP: Please Open the Door!! (Removing Project Barriers for Testing) (Lyles)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

Tuesday, April 2nd:

9:00am – 12:00pm:

	WORKSHOP: Agile Risk Based Testing Techniques (Sabourin)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Critical Thinking Skills for Testers – Part 1 (Bolton)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Implementing Exploratory Testing (Kelln)	PRESENTATION: IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK / DOWNLOAD SLIDES / TEMPLATE

	WORKSHOP: Test Case Design Intensive – Basics (Hackett)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Creating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Automated Testing (Grant)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

1:00pm – 4:00pm:

	WORKSHOP: Keys to Transitioning to Agile Testing (Sabourin)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Software Design Patterns for Quality Engineers … and then some (Kim)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	WORKSHOP: Critical Thinking Skills for Testers – Part 2 (Bolton)	PRESENTATION: See “Part 1” for slides.

	WORKSHOP: Test Case Design Intensive – Advanced (Hackett)	PRESENTATION: See “Basics” for slides.

	WORKSHOP: Breaking Web Applications (Mishra)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

Session Presentations

Wednesday, April 3rd:

10:15am – 11:15am:

	SESSION: “Help, I’m Drowning in 2 Week Sprints, Please Tell Me What not to Test” (Thorn)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: What to Do When QA is Backed Against the Wall? (Kim)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development) is a Whole Team Approach – A Real Case Study (Subramanian)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Panoramic Quality – The Fellowship of Testing in DevOps (Connolly)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Today’s Regression Automation Challenge for CI/CD (Hackett)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

11:30am – 12:30pm:

	SESSION: Testing AI-Based Systems (Arbon)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You SHOULD! (Roske)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Warp Speed Testing at an Enterprise Level (Juc/Mills)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: The QA/QE Role: Supporting DevOps the Smart Way (Tondi)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Improve Test Strategies and Outcomes with Mind Maps (Bonine)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

1:15pm – 2:15pm:

	KEYNOTE: Keynote: Testers as Their Own Worst Enemies (Bolton)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

2:30pm – 3:30pm:

	SESSION: Optimize Your Tests for Continuous Integration (Ruberto)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Design Inclusively: Future Proof Your Software (Larsen)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Hyper-Connected Apps: Don’t Let Peripherals Play Havoc with Mobile App Testing (Morgan)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Trials and Tribulations of Test Testing (Saylor)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Successfully Implementing BDD in an Agile World (Grangard)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: It’s All About the Peeps: Hiring (and Retaining) Great QA Teams (Walton)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

3:45pm – 4:45pm:

	SESSION: Stacking The Automation Deck (Grizzaffi)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Agile Performance Testing in the Real World (Patel)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Using Agile to Adapt to Changing Goals (Jagodzinski)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Testing Like a Kid (Lyles)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: The Science of Testing (Haver)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

Thursday, April 4th:

9:00am – 10:00am

	KEYNOTE: Testing all the World’s Apps with AI (Arbon)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

10:15am – 11:15am:

	SESSION: Rapid Software Testing in Agile Contexts (Bolton)	PRESENTATION: PENDING

	SESSION: Keep Automation Agile (Buwalda)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Why Are You NOT Performing Risk Analysis to Improve Your Testing? (Crews)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Crossing the Streams – Multi-Platform Mobile Framework Design (Edstrom)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

11:30am – 12:30pm:

	SESSION: Making the Move to Continuous Testing – 6 Key Considerations (Lydon)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: The Truth! – The Importance of Good Test Data Management (Walsh)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: The “Do Nots” of Testing (Tondi)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: The Path to Continuous Testing (Kitchener)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

2:15pm – 3:15pm:

	SESSION: APIs – Security & Performance – How to Avoid Getting in the News! (Sandman)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Internet of Things: How it Changes the Ways We Test (Fraser)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Modern Testing Teams and Strategies (Tomlinson)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Data: What, Why, How?? (Mishra)	PRESENTATION: PENDING

3:30pm – 4:30pm:

	SESSION: Fixing Your Automation Challenges in the Era of CI/CD (Milman)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: New Skill Set for the New QA Specialist (Montvelisky)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Security from Testers Perspective (Skrilec)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

	SESSION: Spot the Difference: How Front-end and UI Bugs are Hurting You, Your Team and Your Company (Barlev)	PRESENTATION: DOWNLOAD

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