STAREAST 2017 - Industry Technical Presentations
Wednesday, May 10
A Practical Approach to QA Transformation in a Global Enterprise – Challenges, Learnings, & Best Practices
How many times have you tried transforming Testing organization? Have you tried to implement a change in your organization to improve the quality of application deployments which is important for offering compelling user experiences to your clients? Sandra Gaston, Sr. QA Manager at American Tire Distributors shares the list of ideas, implementation details, issues that were encountered, benefits that were achieved in her talk in doing exactly the same. This session covers areas different areas namely test automation for 3rd party products and in-house built apps, Performance testing, SOA...
Peer-to-Peer: 5 Lessons Learned from Implementing Test Automation
In global and highly complex enterprise environments filled with disparate systems, multiple applications, constantly changing ERP systems and integrated web apps, the road from manual testing to automated testing can seem insurmountable. Many companies wonder if it’s worth the effort.
This presentation shares 5 key lessons learned from the journey. These lessons are common across organizations and share pragmatic insight into how to successfully transition into a highly effective, efficient and quality-driven testing environment to drive better business outcomes.
If you’re...
Fidelity Investments and Hexawise: Improving Test Coverage and Efficiency with Combinatorial Test Design
Fidelity Investments has adopted combinatorial test design from Hexawise as a common approach across testing groups. Goals for this initiative include curbing the constant expansion of regression test suites, improving test coverage, and eliminating the repetition of test cases in multiple testing layers. Case studies from two separate Fidelity projects (services testing and front-end integration with services) will examine the problems addressed by this test design strategy and will highlight the following: • Benefits delivered in increased coverage and test case reduction • Optimized...
Case Study: Agile Performance Testing with CI/CD and APM
Application Performance is an important part of quality assurance to secure business risks. In this hands-on case study, you will learn about the transformation from a traditional legacy tool with manual testing to an automated performance test platform using Apica.
In this presentation, you’ll learn:
How performance testing can be adopted by an agile development process What the success factors for automated Performance Testing are A walk-through of Apica’s LoadTest platform How APM integration will make testing more effective
How Lyft’s QA Inspires Customer Loyalty and Builds a Competitive Edge
Sprint’s Testing Transformation: A case study in testing in the digital age
Sprint is going through a testing transformation. Like most organizations, their testing department is expected to deliver results at higher velocity and quality, yet with 50% less resources. While testing must become more agile, they look at testing as a critical step in their journey to achieve continuous delivery. To make this a reality, Sprint is turning to value-added solutions to provide synthetic generation of test data to reduce time-wasting processes, and to optimize their test cases to realize maximum test coverage. See how Sprint is accomplishing these goals to make sure...
Accessibility Testing: Taming the Beast
Shifting Left – Evolution of Automation
Why is Everyone Talking About the Future of Testing?
Over the past two years, the vast majority of industry experts have felt compelled to provide their perspective on “the future of testing.” This is unprecedented. Something must have fundamentally changed to generate so much buzz…what is it?
Although some claim that these fundamental industry shifts spell the death of “testing,” we believe they open an opportunity to elevate the role of the tester. This session explores the perfect storm currently disrupting testing, how it is already impacting testers across the industry, and how the role of testing and testers can evolve from a...
Thursday, May 11
Put Your Users at the Center of Your Testing Approach
Deploy and Destroy Test Environments with Service Virtualization
Learn how to:
Simulate dependent systems quickly, easily, with full functionality Use virtualization to resolve resource scheduling conflicts Get fresh test environment every time with worry of proper state or cleanup
DevOps: Testing Tomorrow's Release Today
One of the roadblocks on the journey from Waterfall to Agile is enabling the team to actually execute continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous delivery. As a result, software quality is suffering as agile teams release products that are not up to par.
Join us as we explore the challenges faced by teams implementing DevOps as they struggle to achieve the Agile dream. We will also demonstrate a working process that ensures continuous testing and continuous delivery of high quality software.
How to Launch Continuous Delivery for Mobile Apps in 5 Steps
Easily Create Scalable Automation Using Selenium
Embrace DevOps practices using the power of open source Easily record, run, export and manage Selenium scripts for “industrial/enterprise” use cases Deliver true cross browser/device testing automation solutions for your environment
Learn How to Accelerate and Standardize Your Functional Testing
Automated Testing Made Awesome with Sauce Labs
Universal Usability: Why Localization Testing is the Key to Global Success
Web and Mobile - Bridging the Gap Between GUI and API Testing
Unlock Testing Productivity by Mastering Test Data Management (TDM)
Applications have become the new competitive battleground, placing pressure on IT to deliver new features and releases to the business faster. While firms attempt to transform themselves through cloud, mobile and IoT, many have failed to address the largest constraint: test data.
Data mastery is the key to unlocking developer and tester productivity. To improve business agility, companies must look for ways to efficiently secure and deliver test data to application teams faster, so that they can release applications at a more competitive pace.
• Why data represents the most...
Shifting Performance Left: Integrating Application Performance Monitoring with your Automated and Performance Testing
Linking Requirements to Test Cases to Save Time and Frustration
Test Automation at the Speed of Agile: Making It Work Every Build
Join Danny McKeown, Paychex’s lead test enterprise automation architect, to see how a small tools group supports nearly one-hundred agile teams as they move toward achieving continuous delivery. Take part in the conversation to understand how Paychex is progressing in the third year of its agile transformation. Danny describes how this IT-wide initiative has impacted how the tools group supports so many teams and changed its own practices to provide more timely support. With the goal of increasing velocity, a solid automation strategy has become a powerful enabler. Danny describes how...