Location: Test trackTime: 2007-11-15 09.00Level: Intermediate
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Lloyd Roden & Julie Gardiner, Grove Consultants, UKLloyd has been involved in the software industry since 1980, studying computer science at LeicesterUniversity. He joined Pearl Assurance as a programmer in 1983 and worked there for five years before becoming a Senior Independent Test Analyst for Royal Life. Three years later he joined Peterborough Software where he became project manager for the Product Assurance department. He also set up and managed the Independent Test Unit for nearly 3 years. During his 8 years at Peterborough Software he worked through key issues in test management such as; testing to pre-defined deadlines, managing a test team, successfully implementing and using test automation tools and building quality into the testing process. He joined Grove Consultants in April 1999. Lloyd was chairman of the QARun User Group for three years, and is a lively and enthusiastic speaker at conferences and seminars. He has been a keynote speaker at EuroSTAR and AsiaSTAR and he has also spoken at StarEast, SQE Automation, Test Congress and Unicom conferences as well as Special Interest Groups in Software Testing in a variety of different countries. Lloyd, together with the other members of Grove Consultants, jointly chaired the first SQE Test Automation Conference in 2001. Lloyd has been Programme Chair for both the tenth and eleventh EuroSTAR conferences. He won the EuroSTAR Software Testing Excellence Award in 2004 in Cologne.At Grove Consultants, he provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specialising in test management, people issues in testing and test automation.Lloyd is married to Chris, and when software testing, consultancy and training aren´t taking his time and energy - his two children are!Julie has over 16 years experience in the IT industry including time spent as an analyst programmer, Oracle DBA and Project Manager. Julie has first hand experience in the roles of test analyst, test team leader, test consultant and test manager. Julie recently joined Grove Consultants where she provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specialising in risk-based testing, agile testing, and test management and people issues. She is also a certified SCRUM master.
Her experience has been gained across a broad range of industries including financial, utilities, retail, web and the public sector using various software development approaches from traditional to agile methodologies.
Julie is a regular contributor to Testing in the UK and is a marker for the ISEB Practitioner qualification; a committee member for the British Computer Society´s Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing and has been EuroSTAR´s England Country Co-ordinator for the past 4 years.
An enthusiastic and motivated presenter Julie is a regular speaker at software testing conferences including EuroSTAR, STAREast, STARWest, ICSTest and the BCS SIGIST. Julie won best presentation at STAREast 2005 and subsequently was a keynote speaker at STARWest 2005. She also won best presentation at BCS SIGiST 2005 and best tutorial at EuroSTAR 2006.
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6 hrs Workshop - Classification Trees and Pairwise Testing - the powerful techniques Introduction: Most testers will use the common test design techniques such as Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis during their testing. This session will look at some of the more unusual test design techniques such as Classification Trees, Orthogonal Arrays and Pairwise Testing. Tools and utilities will be demonstrated to help testers in the use of these techniques, helping the tester become more effective and more efficient with their time.Skills Gained: • Understand the theory and practice surrounding the following test case design techniques:o State Transition Testingo Orthogonal Arrays and Pairwise Testing• Dispel some of the misunderstandings of these techniques• Practical outworking of these under-utilised techniques helping testers become more effective and more efficient in their testing. Finding more faults with less effort
Abstract
Exhaustive testing is impractical in the majority of situations so we must turn to both systematic and non-systematic techniques to utilise our time to maximum benefit. During this session the delegates will not only learn the theory behind these under-used systematic techniques, but will apply these techniques to various applications demonstrating their power and agility. Free tools and utilities will be demonstrated during the session helping testers use these test design techniques in a powerful way.
These techniques not only reduce the number of test cases but they have a high probability of detecting bugs. They are highly visual and can assist the tester in choosing the best tests within a short time span.
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