STARCANADA 2018 - Industry Technical Presentations
Wednesday, October 17
Testing Together: Get Your Software Team on the Same Page
This talk will focus on the risks of separate Agile and testing teams, (illustrated by one team for instance using Jira, and another recording test cases and defects in ALM).
Whilst synchronization can work across teams, problems can emerge if test cases act as requirements but are not transparent to product owners or developers. Test cases can also become the de-facto “definition of done”, meaning sprints can run into challenges achieving their velocity.
-How to integrate testing teams to your SDLC (waterfall or Agile) -Evaluation of different Testing tools and methods...
Testing at Loblaw Digital
- This is how Loblaw Digital keep things running smoothly as we grow from a manual first to an automation first organization - Our mission is continuous testing with a shift-left mentality to provide confidence across the Software Development Lifecycle - It's about delivering compelling multi-channel experiences to help Canadians live life well
No Agility Without Quality
- Growing adherence to the DevOps approach is an asset to Agility and stands out as a logical evolution to an Agile transformation. One of the key factors in the success of this approach is the automation of development processes, hence, testing. - However, if tests are automated, they are often far from the user stories that are yet the target of Sprints to deliver business value. Teams typically support the automation of unit and functional tests but rarely integrated testing. In order to deliver business value quickly, it is necessary to test user stories, thus performing end-to-end...
Shifting Left: The Evolution of Automation
- Learn about how and why automation has become such a critical component of the QA Lifecycle - Gain an understanding of the growing changes in Continuous Integration - Learn how Open Source tools can be used and how to integrate with your software development and business needs - Learn about the new requirements for Test Engineer skills within CI Automation
Thursday, October 18
How to End the Wait for Test Data
- Why data represents the most significant bottleneck in the SDLC - Best practices for achieving fast access to secure test data - How industry leaders are leveraging DataOps to accelerate development and testing
Continuous Testing Made Awesome with Sauce Labs
- Overview of how to run your automated Selenium tests in the Sauce Labs cloud - Decrease the amount of time it takes your suite to run by executing tests in parallel - Ensure your apps work all of the time with functional testing on real devices