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Broadcast Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Duration: One hour
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:
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, 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.
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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