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Although he is currently based in Paris, Raphael is internationally mobile, and is open to giving talks around the globe. Here’s a list of presentation available for reservation. All presentations can be given in either English or French.
Basé à Paris, Raphael peut se déplacer pour des rencontres partout à l’international. Voici une liste des présentations disponibles. Toutes les présentations peuvent être données en français ou en anglais.
The Phantom QA: How Do We Test Without A TESTER?
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Are you in a situation or team where there is no tester? How’s it going? Who does all the testing? What does your quality process look like?
This situation can occur for several reasons: Maybe there is a lack of resources, perhaps the organisation does not believe in a dedicated QA role. Though it’s not ideal, your team can indeed continue to function in a lean fashion, optimising quality assurance with minimal resources.
Is There A Future For Manual Testers?
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I think it's fair to say that in the QA world today, if you know nothing about test automation, you should be worried. QA isn’t what it used to be 15, 20, years ago. Testing is getting more technical, and the very trade now demands a completely different set of skills. Remember when we had a QA organisation that was simply split between those who wrote test cases and those who executed them? Those days are long gone, and now we talk about those who test manually, and those who automate.
The PERILS OF CHOOSING A TEST AUTOMATION LANGUAGE
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Much has been said about which programming language should be used for building your test automation scripts. This is easily one of the most contentious issues at the beginning of any test automation effort. There are generally two major schools of thought. Same language solution: Choose the same language the application in question is written in. Easiest language solution: Choose the language easiest for non-programmers (i.e. testers) to learn.
A Tale of the Tester’s Machine
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As testers, we didn't use to give much thought to our machines. Especially when we did only manual testing. The QA function wasn't any different from that of the business analyst in terms of computational needs. We got the standard company machine, which was most likely a PC. Even more so if the company was not particularly in the tech industry. All we needed was a machine that could run the software which we were testing. So what were we testing?
Is A.I. Disrupting Our QA World?
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2009 was a very important year for test automation. It signalled the dawn of a new era of seriousness on the subject. Eight years after Cem Kaner and James Bach published Lessons Learned in Software Testing, a landmark piece which helped defined the QA role as we know it, QA experts turned to automation and its proper integration into test strategy. Along with this awakening came several key publications that till today, are seen as major contributions to the test automation and QA world.
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