Ryan Scott

Rally Software Development

A software engineer and development manager at Rally Software, Ryan Scott scales teams, production systems, and testing infrastructure. Before working for Rally, Ryan held software engineer and technical architect roles for several large financial firms. He has software engineering experience delivering software systems ranging from enormous data warehouses to extensible JavaScript components. Ryan is passionate about keeping development teams moving fast while making the right choices. He writes regularly about agile, software engineering, and automated testing on the Rally Engineering blog. When not obsessing about testing and scalability, Ryan enjoys playing with his kids, skiing, rock climbing, and home brewing.

Speaker Presentations

Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 10:15am

Agile Test & QA

Scaling Your Tests: Continued Change Without Fear

Agile teams move faster when cycle times are short and code deployments are frequent. To release often, a robust suite of automated tests is a must-have. Tests are the safety net that enables fearless change. Throughout a software system's lifespan, its test suite grows, evolves, and decays. Left unchecked, test execution times increase and non-deterministic failures erode confidence. Ultimately, the test suite that once served as a change-enabler becomes an anchor, grinding progress to a halt. Scaling a test suite is complex and difficult—and vital to successful organizations.