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Testing: Software Development Catalyst

Testing is not an isolated activity. It interacts with and influences other disciplines in software development such as design, coding, release management, and deployment. As testers, our skills and experiences add value far beyond the immediate context of verifying functionality. Threats to value other than software errors exist.

Yet our discussions are often constrained to the testing space, omitting the connections to, and dependencies on, other roles and activities. Testing is an integral discipline of software development, and often plays an active and important role in bridging gaps between technical and business-focused roles, between leaders and engineers, and between makers and users.

How does the testing piece fit into the software development puzzle? How does – and how should – testing interact with other disciplines in software development? How can we most effectively add value to the software development projects we participate in?

Please join us for our 11th annual conference at the Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver, Canada, August 8-10 2016.

 


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Dawn Haynes

PerfTestPlus. Inc.
CEO, Testing Yogini
Palm Bay, FL
Dawn Haynes is a champion of software testing and testers worldwide. As a former Secretary and Director for the Association for Software Testing, Dawn supports seekers of testing education, peer collaboration, and public speaking opportunities. As a highly regarded trainer of software testers, she blends experience and humor to provide testers of all levels with tools and techniques to help them generate new approaches to common and complex software testing problems.  In addition to training, Dawn is particularly passionate about improving the state of performance testing across the industry.  She has more than 20 years of experience supporting, administering, developing and testing software and hardware systems, from small business operations to large corporate enterprises.  Dawn holds a BSBA in MIS with a minor in programming from Northeastern University.