Broadcast Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time:
- North America: 10:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm CDT / 1:00 pm EDT
- Europe: 10:00 am BST / 11:00 am CEST
- Asia Pacific: 11:00 am Singapore / 1:00 pm EST Australia
Duration: One hour
  
Speakers:
Lisa Crispin, Agile Testing Practitioner and Coach, ePlan Services, Inc.
Stephen Walters, Product Marketing Manager, Borland
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal
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With Agile adoption on the rise, understanding the needs of Quality Assurance (QA) in Agile software delivery projects is possibly the biggest challenge in the IT industry today in terms of reducing costs, while improving quality and time to market. In Agile or mixed methodology environments, the need for automated quality doesn’t change, it only intensifies.
Automation is necessary, but how do software delivery teams make it work effectively in Agile environments? Can traditional tools live up to the Agile challenge? Does Open Source support or impair rapidly changing needs? A recent Borland Agile Testing survey reveals some interesting industry trends and statistics addressing these questions and more. Join us as we share some of these study results as well as explore:
- The most common Agile test automation challenges faced by QA professionals today
- The evolving role of QA in the Agile Shift – how the role will change and how to get ahead of the curve
- A practical approach to adopting and embracing test automation in Agile environments
Agile test automation can be done successfully and have dramatic impact on product development and strategy. That was true with Borland, and it could be true for your organization. Join us to learn more.
About the Presenters:
Lisa Crispin,
Agile Testing Practitioner and Coach,
ePlan Services, Inc.
Lisa Crispin is an Agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She specializes in showing testers and Agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Her mission is to bring Agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the Agile development world.
Lisa joined her first Agile team in 2000, having enjoyed many years working as a programmer, analyst, tester, and QA director. Since 2003, she’s been a tester on a Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc. She frequently leads tutorials and workshops on Agile testing at conferences in North America and Europe.
Lisa regularly contributes articles about Agile testing to many industry publications and co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House.
Stephen Walters,
Product Marketing Manager,
Borland
Stephen has been working within the IT industry since 1992. He has operated in numerous customer sites as a Borland Consultant, developed hands-on, in-depth experience in all aspects of Application Lifecycle Management. He has operated as a Project Manager, including process improvement projects to defined standards and in Agile Transformation. Currently, Stephen works as Product Marketing Manager for Borland, bringing to bear his experience to deliver Borland’s LQM solutions and products to market.
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About the Sponsor:
Borland is the leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) -- open to customers' processes, tools and platforms -- providing solutions that transform software delivery into a more manageable, efficient and predictable business process. Borland software, services and training help customers manage, measure and improve each critical process within the delivery lifecycle. Our Open ALM platform delivers process-based integration across all lifecycle assets, activities and tools so that customers can collaborate, share information and track the entire software delivery process. Borland is opening the world of software delivery to empower customers to maximize the business value of their software.
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