Micro Focus to Discuss Best Practices in Test Automation at STARWEST 2010

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced that the company will participate in several sessions examining best practices in testing and test automation at the STARWEST Conference in San Diego, CA September 26 – October 1.

Micro Focus’ Clinton Sprauve, a senior product specialist for Silk testing solutions, and Dietmar Strasser, a senior testing manager, will be participating in sessions and sharing their testing experience and expertise.

In the session "State-driven Testing: An Innovation in UI Test Automation,” Dietmar Strasser will explore the drawbacks of keyword-driven testing, which include complexity and maintenance efforts. The session will focus on how state-driven testing employs an application state-transition model as its basis for UI testing to address the disadvantages of keyword-driven testing.

In the session "Futility-based Test Automation,” Clinton Sprauve will discuss how flawed test automation efforts have prevented many development teams from achieving the productivity and savings that their organizations expect and demand. He will share real-world customer experiences, expose the most common bad habits that test automation teams practice and reveal the common misconceptions about keyword-driven testing, test-driven development, behavior-driven development, and methodologies that can lead to futility-based test automation.

Session Details

State-driven Testing: An Innovation in UI Test Automation

When: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 3:00pm PT

What: This session will explore the issues with key-word driven testing and how state-driven testing can develop maintainable and stable test cases in minutes rather than hours or days.

Who: Dietmar Strasser, senior testing manager at Micro Focus

Futility-based Test Automation

When: Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 1:30pm PT

What: This session will identify the current flaws in testing automation and provide tips and new ideas for avoiding futility in this critical part of software development projects.

Who: Clinton Sprauve, senior product specialist for Silk testing solutions at Micro Focus

For more information on Micro Focus and its family of Continuous Quality Assurance solutions, please visit http://www.microfocus.com/mcro/cqa/. Or stop by Micro Focus Booth 21 at the STARWEST Conference.

About Micro Focus

Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization, Testing and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com