The STP staff brought the Fall 2014 Conference “home” to Denver, Colorado. Fall was still in full swing November 3 – 6, 2014 with mild temperatures and plenty of sunshine. Downtown Denver offered lots of opportunities for networking within walking distance from the hotel. A compelling keynote by Keith Klain led to the announcement that James Bach was the winner of the 5th Annual Software Test Luminary Award. We even witnessed a full-on protest in Downtown on November 5th (Guy Fawkes Day). Good times were had by all!

Fall 2014 Schedule

Pre-Confernece Workshops – November 3, 2014

• Create Your Roadmap to Data-Driven Quality
• Keys for Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Testing – Lessons from the Trenches
• Field of Metrics: Bringing Your Measurement Program Back to Life
• Tester Awareness and Value Assessment

Day 1 STPCon: November 4, 2014:

• Keynote: Building a Culture of Quality–It Takes a Village
• McGyvering Through the Mysterious World of Mobile Testing
• Think You’re Ready For Automation?
• 5 Tips for Implementing Static Analysis
• Agile – Where the Rubber Hits the Road
• Evolving from Automated to Continuous with Service Virtualization
• Effective Communication for Testers
• Where Things Went Wrong: Going From a Manual to an Automated World
• Infuriatingly Fun Performance Puzzles
• Let It Be Written; The QA Document Suite
• Yin and Yang: Metrics within Agile and Traditional Lifecycles
• How To Use Selenium Successfully
• Mobile UX in Today’s Apps Economy
• You Need to Test to Deliver Your Best
• In the Cloud and On the Ground: Real-World Performance Testing Stories
• Thinking Fast and Slow For Testers
• Increasing the Value of your Testing
• Continuous Architecture Validation

STPCon Day 2: November 5, 2014:

• Keynote: How to Talk to a CIO About Testing (If you really have to…)
• Bugfest! Exterminating Bugs Using Kanban Techniques
• Jane, Stop this Crazy Thing!
• Interviewing Testers
• Roundtable: Continuous Testing
• How Manual Testers Can Break into Test Automation
• Testing is Priceless – Becoming a Better Tester Doesn’t Have to Cost a Pretty Penny
• RoundTable: Metrics in Software Testing
• Vertical Limits: Testing for Diverse Business Contexts
• Keynote: After Mobile: Ensuring App Quality and Beating the Competition with Wearables, Smart Technology and the Internet of Things
• Learning to Translate Requirements to Gherkin
• Mobile Testing Trends – Unique Challenges and Innovations that Address Them
• Continuous Performance Testing
• Roundtable: Career Development for Software Testers
• Conflict Resolution Within Your Team
• Agile Quality Assurance
• Roundtable: Tools 101

STPCon Day 3: November 6, 2014:

• Panel Discussion: Software Testing Trends and Tribulations
• Insightful Testing
• Reaching the Purple Standard
• Tips for Painless API Testing
• Roundtable: Changing the Role of The Tester
• Testing Skills Not Taught In Classes
• Keeping Them There from Browsing to Buying
• It’s JUST a Text Box!
• STPCon Presenter Mentoring: Speaker Invitation and Orientation