Agile + DevOps East 2021 - Test Automation Engineer
Customize your Agile + DevOps East 2021 experience with sessions covering test automation for engineers.
Monday, November 15
What DevOps Means for Testers and Testing
DevOps is more than a buzzword or a passing fad. It's a radically new approach to rapidly deliver high-quality software applications. However, many organizations don’t fully grasp the magnitude of this change or what it means for everyone involved in the software development lifecycle. Jeffery Payne says that DevOps—when done right—drives higher quality and efficiency into software development, software testing, and application management activities. It empowers teams to remove impediments to quality and productivity throughout the entire software lifecycle. However, when DevOps is done...
An Agile Coaching Practicum in 360 degrees
Let’s face it, agile coaching isn’t for the timid or faint of heart. In most companies, it’s an incredibly challenging and nuanced role. And an important part of it is having the ability to coach in 360 degrees: downward—across your teams, outward – across managers and peers, and upward—towards those pesky leaders. Oh, and did we say that virtually EVERYONE is an agile coach? In this workshop, join Bob Galen as he share tools and experiences coaching in all directions. He will review three different coaching models from the X-Wing, to Powerful Questions, to 9-Stances, to the Agile Coaching...
Tuesday, November 16
Learning How to Lead High-Performing Agile Teams
Currently much of agile adoption—coaching, advice, techniques, training, and even the empathy—revolves around the agile teams. Leaders are typically ignored, marginalized at best, and in the worst cases even vilified. But Bob Galen and Mary Thorn contend that there is a central and important role for managers and leaders within agile environments. Join Bob and Mary as they explore the patterns of mature agile managers and leaders. Examine why those who understand servant leadership know how to effectively support, grow, coach, and empower their agile teams in ways that increase the team's...
The Transformation Mindset: A Leader's Guide to Embracing Agile
NewMany leaders want to transform their organization to become more agile, adaptive, and responsive to the market. However, most do not deeply understand how to lead their organization through such a massive change. They install prescriptive scaling frameworks and send employees to training, but discard the elements of true transformation that are difficult. When the inevitable failure ensues, they switch frameworks, fire people, and revert back to what worked for them in the past. What these leaders fail to recognize is that the mindset they used to build their organization conflicts with...
Wednesday, November 17
Bringing DevOps to an Entrenched Legacy Environment with the Kanban Method
Innovative Silicon Valley companies like Etsy leverage DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices to achieve new levels of automation and agility, shrinking development lead times and deploying to production many times each day. However, many companies struggle to implement these practices for the legacy systems that run their core business. To make matters worse, the agile community offers relatively little practical guidance for implementing DevOps practices in legacy environments. Fortunately, the Kanban Method provides a practical way to gradually evolve these core systems towards...
Practical Tips to Speed Up Your UI Automated Tests
Automated UI Tests are at the top of the automation pyramid and are considered slower and more prone to failure than automated tests at the other layers. Given that, how do you increase the speed of those tests to ensure that they are as efficient and provide as much value? In this talk, Julia will go through practical tips that you can implement in your UI test automation to increase its speed and get faster feedback. Key takeaways will include: how to increase the speed of UI tests, practical tips to make your test automation more efficient, and how to make your UI test less flaky and...
Containerizing Tests In Your CI/CD Pipeline
Managing your continuous integration server is an essential part of practicing DevOps, but it's easy to let it run away from you. Domain-specific languages, plugins, and configurations can result in servers so heavily customized that the test environment ceases to be replicable, and you become locked into your specific choice of CI server. Your CI server might not support the tool you're trying to use. Containerization is a simple way to push back against creeping complexity in your CI server. With containers, you can define configuration as code alongside your test, produce modular,...
Thursday, November 18
Creating Test Stability To Achieve Continuous Delivery
In our company, our automated tests were taking 30 minutes of execution time and the occurrence of flaky tests was just multiplying this time and reducing the confidence in the results. Our automated tests were maintained by various team members and some of them were not following leading practices - I needed to find out the root causes. I started my investigation and found the common issues were because of the environment, locators, coding practices, and a lack of knowledge sharing and code reviews. I improved our locators, coding practices, debugging, and simultaneously the developers...
Building a Winning Cross-Browser Testing Strategy with Selenium, Cypress and BDD
Digital channels are at the core of every business, however, with the growing technologies around web including progressive web (PWAs,), Responsive web and mobile, teams are required to build continuous testing into each and every build and within the cycle. Advancements in leading frameworks like Selenium and Cypress together with BDD (Cucumber) that supports both are positioned high in the priority of organizations as part of their shift-left of testing. In this session, Eran Kinsbruner will walk through the key benefits of both these frameworks, the main uses cases per persona and...