Agile + DevOps Virtual 2020 - Industry Technical Presentations

Organizations today face unprecedented pressure to reduce bugs, technology glitches and other performance issues while also keeping up with ever-increasing expectations for continuous delivery. At the same time, the importance of providing a high-quality user experience at every interaction has never been more paramount.

Regardless of whether it’s a banking customer accessing account information via a mobile app or a nurse entering critical patient data into a custom workflow, users will settle for nothing less than a seamless experience every time.

As teams become more deeply integrated into the DevOps lifecycle, they find that quality becomes a bottleneck to reaping its full benefits. Traditional QA practices of waiting until post-merge for functional testing are not cutting it in this new era of lightning-fast development - teams need to test earlier and more often.

As engineering organizations make the shift from waterfall to Agile development practices, they find that one of the most difficult, and expensive bottlenecks to achieving true CI/CD is continuous testing. This presentation will show how to get this critical piece of your pipeline right, and properly implement automated testing in a DevOps environment. Stan Williams, Senior Solution Engineer at Sauce Labs, will demonstrate how to leverage test automation at scale with the Sauce Labs cloud.

Testing continues to evolve as Agile, DevOps, and now DevSecOps are the new standards for the software application lifecycle. Great efficiencies have been gained and automation plays a larger role in development, testing, and deployment. With a “shift-left” mindset, testing is now more involved, and earlier in the process. Automated processes continue to make inroads, not only for testing but for quickly and efficiently move code from unit to system testing, then to production, and finally with monitoring and continuous improvement steps to provide feedback and increase quality.

Enterprise mobility teams face challenges thanks to digital transformation and consumer demand. There is pressure to develop apps that are better and more innovative than ever. With increased development comes the heightened demand for more testing. In today’s world, consumers expect user experiences that work with no issues right out of the box.