We are proud to announce the line-up for the fourth annual EuroSTARonline Software Testing Summit! This FREE full-day event features four fantastic presentations & live audience questions with prominent testing figures including Paco Hope, Bob Galen & Mary Thorn, Randy Rice and 2014 EuroSTAR Conference Speaker Stephen Janaway. The day will also feature on-demand presentations from Michael Bolton, Kristian Karl, Isabel Evans and Jennifer Bonine. It gets better... all attendees will also be in with a chance of winning a FREE ticket to the EuroSTAR Conference 2014 in Dublin worth €1775!! Register Here: http://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/sessions.aspx?id=1081

2. The Current State of Mobile Testing
with Stephen Janaway
We are increasingly moving towards mobile devices to
fulfil our day-to-day computing needs. More
smartphones are sold than PCs but many people are
unclear on what changes to test strategies are needed
when working with mobile. The rate of change within the
mobile world is rapid and mobile projects are typically
equally fast paced. Currently available tools are less
mature than their desktop counterparts, and all of this
can combine to make a mobile testing strategy more
difficult to define.
This webinar will seek to answer come common
challenges one may face when starting to test mobile
devices or applications, and answer some of the common
questions that typically arise. Put simply, it will help you
start your mobile project right, or help you make changes
to an existing strategy to make it more effective.

3. Top Mobile Security Testing Techniques
with Paco Hope
Whether we are testing a mobile-only application or the
mobile interface to existing software, there are a number
of testing challenges that are unique to the mobile
platform. In this session we learn how to snoop on the
conversation between the mobile and the server, how to
impersonate the mobile application, and how to simulate
the real-world network conditions that mobile devices
experience. We show inexpensive, practical tools that let
us do repeatable mobile simulations in a test
environment. This session is best for people who have
experience testing mobile applications, but want to
incorporate security into their mobile testing activities.

4. The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy
with Bob Galen & Mary Thorn
Far too often agile adoptions focus just on the development teams,
agile frameworks, or technical practices as a part of their adoption
strategies. And then there’s the near perpetual focus on tooling or
developing test automation without striking a balanced approach.
Often the testing activity and the testing teams are “left behind” in
agile strategy development or worse yet, they’re simply “along for
the ride”. That is not an effective transformation strategy.
Join experienced agile coaches Bob Galen and Mary Thorn as they
share the Three Pillars framework for establishing a balanced
strategic plan for effective quality and testing. The Three Pillars
focus on development and test automation, testing practices, and
collaboration activities that will ensure you have a balanced
approach to agile testing. Specifically, risk-based testing,
exploratory testing, paired collaboration around agile
requirements, agile test design, and TDD-BDD-Functional testing
automation will be explored as tactic within a balanced Three
Pillars framework. You will leave with the tools to immediately
initiate or re-tool a much more effective and balanced agile testing
strategy.

5. Surviving as a Tester, Even in Difficult Circumstances
with Randall Rice
Most test professionals have worked at some time or
other in difficult organizations, dysfunctional cultures,
and for unreasonable managers and stakeholders. This
causes much internal stress and creates fear instead of
creativity. While some fortunate testers work in fantastic
and supportive organizations, Rice’s research with many
testers indicate most of the problems in testing are
“people problems.”
In this webinar, Randy will describe the most common
organizational issues that affect testers and will give some
tips and strategies on how to survive through them. He
will also discuss the difficult issue of knowing when to
move on to a new organization, as well as how to map
your own career growth.

6. A New Agile Testing Ecosystem
with Michael Bolton
Over the last several years, a set of ideas and activities have been
dumped into a steamer trunk called Agile software development.
Agile development has hit mainstream recognition, even though
there is often uncertainty and turmoil around what “Agile
development” means, in theory and in practice—and that
uncertainty and turmoil affects Agile projects and the people in
them. James Bach and Michael Bolton, authors of Rapid Software
Testing, hear testers expressing a good deal of pain over the role of
the tester and the structure of testing activity in Agile projects.
There are some discussion points, such as Mike Cohn’s Agile
Testing Pyramid and Marick, Crisipin and Gregory’s Agile Testing
Quadrants, and many people have found them helpful. However,
it’s time to build on what has gone before. In this presentation,
Michael Bolton will offer a review and an update of the Agile
Testing Quadrants as seen through the lens of Rapid Software
Testing—an agile (but not necessarily Agile) approach. Michael will
show how Agile development can—and should—be infused with
testing that helps to identify and defend the value of the product
while reducing the costs of development.

7. Model-based Testing - The GraphWalker Way
with Kristian Karl
Model-based testing [MBT] can be a great technique to
help your testing, and GraphWalker can be the tool to
help you accomplish that. It's not always obvious how to
go get started with MBT, and this presentation will focus
on the modelling part, which can be a tricky thing, using
an end-user acceptance test as an example. But a full
working test will be the end objective, and all code and
models will be available.

8. The Art of Testing Transformation: Blending a
change in technology and process
with Jennifer Bonine
Technologies, testing processes, and the role of the tester have
evolved significantly over the past several years. As testing
professionals, it is critical that we evaluate and evolve
ourselves to continue to add tangible value to our
organizations. In your work, are you focused on the trivial or on
real "game changers"? Jennifer Bonine describes critical
elements that, like a skilled painter, help you artfully blend
people, process, and technology into a masterpiece, woven
together to create a synergistic relationship that adds value to
your organization. Jennifer shares ideas in the areas of
mastering politics, manoeuvring core versus context, and
innovating your technology strategies and processes. She
addresses questions on how many new processes can be
introduced in an organization, what the role of organizational
culture is in determining the success of a project, and how can
you know what tools will add value versus simply adding
overhead and complexity. This discussion can lead you to
technologies and processes you can stake your career on.

9. Using influence diagrams to analyse cause and
effect during a change programme
with Isabel Evans
At EuroSTAR 2014, Isabel will speak about what happens when change
programmes go wrong. The keynote will be based on an analysis of a real
change programme, and she will discuss what went well and what went
wrong.
During the change programme, Isabel used influence diagrams to help her
understand and isolate the unexpected causes and effects of change and
improvement. In doing that analysis, she was able to look at what went
wrong, and re-plan. Some of the findings from the influence diagrams
were surprising, and radically changed what we did.
In this talk, Isabel will present why influence diagrams are useful, and
provide examples of how to construct and use influence diagrams. This will
show the "How to" behind the information which will be presented at
EuroSTAR.
Three key takeaways
1. influence diagrams and why they are useful
2. how to construct an influence diagram
3. Using influence diagrams to drive change stages