Past Conferences
2009 Papers and Presentations
These are the papers and presentations from PNSQC 2009. Available in the tables below are links to presentation abstracts, full papers, and full presentation slides.
Page Contents
- 2009 Keynote and Invited Speaker Presentations
- 2009 Best Paper Presentations
- 2009 Papers and Presentations
- 2009 Poster Papers
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2009 Keynote and Invited Speaker Presentations
| Title | Presenter | Links |
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| Keynote: Are Lifecycles Still Relevant? | Erik Simmons | -Abstract -Slides |
| Keynote: Agile, Testing, and Quality: Looking Back, Moving Forward | Elisabeth Hendrickson | -Video -Slides |
| The Myths of Rigor | James Bach | -Video -Slides |
| Lessons Learned in Large Scale Process Improvement | Erik Simmons | -Slides |
| Building Alliances | Karen Johnson | -Video -Slides |
| Learning from Pragmatic Project Managers: Make Your Project Successful | Johanna Rothman | -Video -Slides |
| Everyone Can Test Performance | Scott Barber | -Video -Slides |
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2009 Best Paper Presentations
Below are the paper presentations that were voted the best of PNSQC 2009.
| Title | Author First Name | Author Last Name | Additional Authors | Links |
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| Software Pedigree Analysis: Trust but Verify | Susan | Courtney | Barbara Frederiksen-Cross, Marc Visnick | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
| Test Faster | John | Ruberto | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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2009 Papers and Presentations
| Title | Author First Name | Author Last Name | Additional Authors | Links |
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| Reducing Test Case Bloat | Lanette | Creamer | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Build Robust Test Automation Solutions for Web Applications | Wei | Liu | Dawn Wilkins | -Abstract -Paper |
| Improve Quality By Making Clear Requests and Commitments and Avoiding the “I’ll Try” Trap | Pam | Rechel | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| The Effect of Highly-Experienced Testers on Product Quality | Alan | Page | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Too much automation or not enough? When to automate testing. | Keith | Stobie | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| The Elephant in the Room: Using Brain Science to Enhance Working Relationships | Sharon | Buckmaster | Diana Larsen | -Abstract -Paper |
| Some Observations on the Transition to Automated Testing | Robert | Zakes | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Can’t Travel? Virtual Retrospectives Can Be Effective! | Debra | Lavell | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Moving Software Quality Upstream: The Positive Impact of Lightweight Peer Code Review | Julian | Ratcliffe | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Web Security Testing with Ruby and Watir | James | Knowlton | -Abstract -Paper |
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| Retrospective Analysis and Prioritization Areas for Beta Release Planning Improvement | Ajay | Jain | -Abstract -Paper |
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| Quality Cost Management: Manage Your Quality Costs or Let Them Manage You | Ian | Savage | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Testing IPv6 Enabled Applications | Travis | Luke | -Abstract -Paper |
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| A Distributed Requirements Collaboration Process | Brandon | Rydell | Sean Eby, Carl Seaton | -Abstract -Paper |
| The Search for Software Robustness | Dawn | Haynes | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Developing Requirements for Legacy Systems: A Case Study | Bill | Baker | Todd Gentry | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
| Half-Baked Ideas for Rapid Test Management | Jon | Bach | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Distributed Team Collaboration | Kathy | Milhauser | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Best Practices for Security Testing: Top 10 Recommended Practices | Aarti | Agarwal | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Reconfiguring the Box: Thirteen Key Practices for Successful Change Management | Leesa | Hicks | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Moving to an Agile Testing Environment: What Went Right, What Went Wrong | Ray | Arell | -Abstract -Paper |
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| Why Tests Don’t Pass | Douglas | Hoffman | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Leveraging Code Coverage Data to Improve Test Suite Efficiency and Effectiveness | Jean | Hartmann | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Managing Software Debt: Continued Delivery of High Value as Systems Age | Chris | Sterling | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Score One for Quality: Using Games to Improve Product Quality | Joshua | Williams | Ross Smith, Dan Bean, Robin Moeur | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
| Visualizing Software Quality | Marlena | Compton | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Where are You in Usability? | Kelcie | Anderson | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| My Experience of Adopting an Agile Software Development Approach | John | Bartholomew | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| New Challenges to Quality in the 24×7 Enterprise IT Shop: Post-Integrated Business Automation Systems | Al | Hooton | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| An Empirical Study of Data Mining Code Defect Patterns in Large Software Repositories | Kingsum | Chow | Xuezhi Xing, Zhongming Wu, Zhidong Yu | -Abstract -Paper |
| Improving Your Quality Process: a Practical Example | John | Balza | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Holding our Feet to the Fire | Jim | Brosseau | -Abstract -Paper -Slides |
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| Data Mining for Process Improvement | Paul | Below | -Abstract -Paper |
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| I Have Two Managers?!: One Company’s Model for a Consultative Testing Team and Matrix Management | Amy | Yosowitz | - | href="http://www.pnsqc.org/past-conferences/2009-conference/technical-paper-abstracts#36">Abstract -Paper -Slides |
| ProdTest: A Production Test Framework for SAAS Deployment at Salesforce.com | Bhavana | Rehani | Kei Tang | -Abstract -Paper |
2009 Poster Papers
| Title | Presenter | Links |
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| Getting Quality in the Fuzzy Front-End | Mark Noneman | -Slides |



