When is the last time you read a five-star review in the App Store or Play Store that raved, “This app is so well-tested! Their quality assurance team really knows what they’re doing. Their test automation must fit so well into their CI pipeline that they can find all sorts of issues in a snap”? The fact is most end-users don’t care about all the things we do in testing on a day-to-day basis. Instead, they care that our applications solve their problems in the way that they expect them to or in a new way that delights them. Andrew Bardallis will challenge you to first think about...
Andrew Bardallis
Target
As a Senior Engineer in Test for Mobile Apps at Target, Andrew Bardallis leads the QA and test automation development efforts for all Target guest-facing mobile applications. He has built numerous test automation projects – mostly in Ruby using tools such as Cucumber, Calabash, Appium, Net::HTTP, and Charles – to help testing teams quickly identify the introduction of regressions and to better define release risk to business stakeholders. He is passionate about influencing test and development teams to make decisions not based in technology, but rather based on what will best serve the needs of Target’s guests.