Agile + DevOps East 2022 - Quality Assurance
Customize your Agile + DevOps East 2022 experience with sessions covering quality assurance for software developers or testers.
Tuesday, November 8
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...
Wednesday, November 9
Transformation Leadership in Action
Leading and driving change in our companies, organizations, and teams can be as difficult as pushing a wet rope uphill! Even with the best processes and best tools in place, we may not achieve our business and customer satisfaction goals because our work environment is stuck in the status quo. Ultimately transforming an organization is about changing culture. Culture is influenced by our values, beliefs, goals, assumptions, purpose, priorities, and other factors. Therefore, transformational Leadership is a key ingredient in driving cultural change. Join Mike Sowers to learn more about the...
Avoiding the Chaos of an Agile transformation
Agile is not a fairy tale. You have to face real life challenges well prepared in order to succeed. The reality is: the bigger and older your organization is, the more difficult it is to pass through process level changes and that's when Chaos is born. Resolving all the issues with Chaos could potentially take years.
Peter will share his story of one of his projects where he had to face numerous obstacles as a Test Manager in achieving proper Agile implementation and to raise the quality of the products of his client. Some of the obstacles included: agile ceremonies not followed;...
Thursday, November 10
API Testing Made Easy With Postman
Application program interface (API) has become the connecting tissue that allows the exchange of data and logic between software products and different layers of an application (data layer, service layer, and presentation layer). Multiple independent systems can be integrated easily with the help of APIs and its specification. Testing these APIs before and/or after they are consummated can greatly improve the efficiency of your test strategy as a whole because the API layer directly touches both the data layer and presentation layer, it presents itself as a good candidate for continuous...
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7 Strategies To Build High Performing Teams
If you are a supervisor or a team leader, you know how difficult it is to manage distributed teams with constant pressure to perform and deliver quality product/service on time. This is especially true for offshore teams who are in different timezones, regions, cultures and working styles. If you do not put in effort to come up with effective strategies to manage these teams, it may eventually lead to low team morale, disgruntled employees, and most importantly poor performance. This is the reason why companies are investing millions of dollars in training, organizational and team...
Engaging the Hive Mind Through Swarm Test Planning
Are you looking for more ways to shift quality to the left? Do you wish your team was more proactive and less reactive when it comes to quality? Do you rely on a single QA or developer to come up with all of the test cases on their own?
We know that from concepts similar to Mob Programming, the collective mind can often be more effective than any one individual. Applying this principle to testing, we introduce the practice of Swarm Test Planning.
In this session we will teach the concept of Swarm Test Planning, using structured brainstorming and heuristic categorization to...