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If you haven’t already checked it out, do have a look at the speakers, sessions & schedule for the 1st IndicThreads Conference On Software Quality. We still do have a few seats left but I am pretty optimistic of filling them up today. In case you are considering registering, head over to http://q10.indicthreads.com/register. Do note that ‘at the venue’ registrations are pricier than the current reg rate.

Additionally, testing the application in simulator, using various debugging tools are some further adventures which the tester undergoes during testing cycles. With a blend of these challenges as the core of the address, we would be presenting our experience from our product development cycles.

Maybe there’s a nephew’s birthday around that time or you just realized that 6th was a “Saturday”, the day you take your kid to the movies. Or maybe the reason is more routine like “The project is in fire-fighting mode. I can’t spare a minute.” .

There are always reasons and excuses that stop you from doing things that you know you should be doing. In the software industry the easiest way to get into trouble is to stop learning.

Why should I attend the IndicThreads Conference On Software Quality?

1. Global Perspective: The IndicThreads conference will be playing host to a great bunch of talented speakers from India. They are innovators and experts in their chosen line. They will be speaking on a variety of topics and giving invaluable insight into what’s buzzing and what’s out cold. You’ll meet the men and women who are challenging conventional wisdom about the tools, techniques and methodologies for next-generation applications. You not only will get to learn from them but you can also meet them and discuss things one-on-one.
2. Stimulating Experience: If you feel the need to brainstorm over ideas with smart people from the industry, the conference is just the place. The air will be thick with discussions, debates and ideas. We welcome you to savour it.
3. In-Depth Sessions: The sessions cover a wide range of topics in the Software Quality domain and hold the promise to give attendees a truly meaningful exchange. You will appreciate the sessions as the expert speakers will take you on an informative and in-depth journey of their chosen domains.
4. We Are Independent: The IndicThreads conference is an independent conference. Meaning, the technical sessions are dedicated to learning new and emerging concepts, techniques, tools and not meant to push any products through free lunches and t-shirts.You pay for quality and you get it.
5. Value Add Sessions: Apart from the technical sessions, the conference will also have informal birds-of-feather (BOF) sessions and panel discussions. The sessions are all planned in a manner that will enable you to keenly enjoy and absorb everything that the conference has to offer.The conference schedule allows the attendees free space to interact and mingle with the speakers.
6. It’s Fun Too: The IndicThreads conference will also be the place where you can chill out and have some fun. The conference is hosted at a four-star hotel. In between sessions, you can relax in the lounge or even explore the trendy college hang-outs at Fergusson College Road.
7. Amazing Value For Money: At the rates we are offering this is an unheard kind of learning opportunity. Unfortunately we can’t quantify learning. If we could, we surely would have stated “If you can find this level of content at a lower cost you win a Ferrari.” No Ferraris this year, but the content is definitely there. Grab the early bird offers and just the food might be worth more than the fee

How do I make my boss want to send me to the conference?
Even if you think your boss will never let you, just try it out and you might be in for a surprise. Present the following arguments and unless your boss is right out of Dilbert, you should make it to the event.

• Skill Enhancement - Recruiting skilled people is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks for most companies these days. So the easiest way for companies is to invest in skill enhancement of the existing staff. Suggest that once you get back from the conference you will conduct knowledge sharing sessions in-house.
• Learn and Relax – The employee gets a short break from the grind and returns to work more knowledgeable and all charged up to face new challenges.
• Company Invests a Friday You Invest A Holiday - Most bosses would be glad to know that an employee is learning in his holiday time.

The talk will discuss pitfalls of the traditional testing process. Traditional testing process happens very late in the SDLC where as Agile process focuses on test-first approach. The talk will explain benefits of going agile.

Principles and practices of agile process will be discussed and agile methodologies Scrum and Extreme Programming will be discussed in detail.

Purpose of Scrum, its effectiveness, timings and managing the scrum will be discussed. Some of the practices for XP like Pair Programming, Test Driven Development will be discussed. The Talk will also cover the QA role in agile world. The talk will cover the implementation issues while shifting from traditional to agile process. Talk will also include an interactive game for illustration of concepts..

All you need to do is drop a mail to conf@indicthreads.com with the subject ‘Media / Blogger / Guru Pass’ and state your detailed credential and links to your articles.

If approved you will get a special discounted pass to the conference within 2 working days. Although it would be great if you could mention the conference in your blog, publication, etc.; the conf pass as such comes without any such obligations.

Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.

Test Automation involves automation design and execution of automated tests. The Flex test automation feature provides developers with the ability to create Flex applications that use the automation APIs. These APIs can be used to create automation agents or to ensure that applications are ready for testing.

This session would cover basics of Flex Test Automation. One of the many available tools to be touched upon in this session would be FlexMonkey – a testing framework for Flex applications that provides for the capture, replay and verification of Flex UI functionality.

Many of the testers understand the importance of automated tests which can test the system end to end. There are plenty of tools like Selenium, Watir, White etc. which allow you to drive your web or desktop ui for these tests. The intention of these tests is to mimic the user’s interaction with the system and automatically validate that he could achieve his goals.

Considering this, wouldnt it make sense for tests to talk the same language that an end user understands. Although, When we look around today most of the functional tests talk the language that the browser understands, it goes click button A, enter value in textfield B etc.

In this session we will share various approaches which allow you to build tests which an end user can understand and maybe even participate in writing.

Problems with the usual approach of end-to-end writing tests

**Too verbose,  **Too Technical (talk the language of DOM, HTML),  **Doesnt convey intent

Benefits of writing tests in the end user’s language

** Better readability, ** Tests become more modular, ** Potential to reuse module across tests,  ** Ability for end users/ Customers/ Business Analysts to write tests and validate them

Ways to achieve this

** Build a fluent interface in your test script framework,  ** Use tools like Cucumber which let you write tests in business understandable simple and plain english, ** Use tools like Twist which provide IDE support while writing these plain english test suites

Key Takeaways

Learn about a different philosophy of writing end to end tests, Learn the benefits of tests writing in a business understandable language, Learn how current tools make it so easy to do