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STAREAST 2022 - Experienced Tester

Monday, April 25

Tariq_King
test.ai
MB

Unit Testing: What Every Developer and Tester Should Know

Monday, April 25, 2022 - 8:30am to 12:00pm

Do you want to take your testing skills to the next level? Are you trying to stay relevant on an agile team where testing is shifting to the left on the project timeline? Do you want to help your organization reap the full benefits of testing earlier? Then join Tariq King to explore the fundamentals of unit testing so you can find bugs as soon as they happen and do more thorough, targeted testing during software development. This introductory session is for everyone—of all programming skill levels. Learn how to apply program-based techniques such as testing by looking, automated unit...

Tariq_King
test.ai
Dionny Santiago
test.ai
MG

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Skills for the Testing World

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Monday, April 25, 2022 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Software continues to revolutionize the world, impacting nearly every aspect of our work, family, and personal life. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are playing key roles in this revolution through improvements in search results, recommendations, forecasts, and other predictions. AI and ML technologies are being used in platforms for digital assistants, home entertainment, medical diagnosis, customer support, and autonomous vehicles. Testing practitioners are recognizing the potential for advances in AI and ML to be leveraged for automated testing—an area that...

Melissa Benua
mParticle
MH

Test Design for Fully Automated Build Architecture

Monday, April 25, 2022 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Imagine this … as soon as any developed functionality is submitted into the code repository, it is automatically subjected to the appropriate battery of tests and then released straight into production. Setting up the pipeline capable of doing just that is becoming more and more common and something you need to know about. But most organizations hit the same stumbling block—just what IS the appropriate battery of tests? Automated build architectures don't always lend themselves well to the traditional stages of testing. In this hands-on tutorial, Melissa Benua introduces you to key test...

Adam_Auerbach
EPAM Systems
MI

Instill a DevOps Testing Culture in Your Team and Organization

Monday, April 25, 2022 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

The DevOps movement is here. Companies across many industries are breaking down siloed IT departments and federating them into product development teams. Testing and its practices are at the heart of these changes. Traditionally, IT organizations have been staffed with mostly manual testers and a limited number of automation and performance engineers. To keep pace with development in the new “you build it, you own it” environment, testing teams and individuals must develop new technical skills and even embrace coding to stay relevant and add greater value to the business. DevOps really...

Tuesday, April 26

Tariq_King
test.ai
TA

Testing Strategies for Microservices

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 8:30am to 4:30pm

Software development is trending toward building systems using small, autonomous, independently deployable services called microservices. Leveraging microservices makes it easier to add and modify system behavior with minimal or no service interruption. Because they facilitate releasing software early, frequently, and continuously, microservices are especially popular in DevOps. But how do microservices affect software testing and testability? Are there new testing challenges that arise from this paradigm? Or are these simply old challenges disguised as new ones? Join Tariq King as he...

TB

How to Get Started with Cypress.io

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 8:30am to 4:30pm

The web has evolved. Finally, testing has also. Cypress is a modern testing tool that answers the testing needs of modern web applications. It has been gaining a lot of traction in the last couple of years, gaining worldwide popularity. If you have been waiting to learn Cypress, wait no more! Filip Hric will guide you through the first steps on how to start using Cypress and set up a project on your own. The good news is, learning Cypress is incredibly easy. You’ll write your first test in no time, and then you’ll discover how to write a full end-to-end test for a modern web application....

Jeff Payne
Coveros
TJ

Integrating Automated Testing into DevOps

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

In many organizations, agile development processes are driving the pursuit of faster software releases, which has spawned a set of new practices—DevOps. DevOps stresses communications and integration between development and operations, including rapid deployment, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. Because DevOps practices require confidence that changes made to the code base will function as expected, automated testing is essential. Join Jeffery Payne as he discusses the unique challenges associated with integrating automated testing into continuous integration/continuous...

TK

Holistic Performance Testing for Modern Applications

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

With the advent of frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue, the landscape of application performance has changed significantly in terms of testing and measurement. Gone are the days of measuring response time as a single value based on back-end performance. In modern web and mobile applications, additional layers need to be peeled apart at the front end to truly understand its performance characteristics. Traditional approaches to performance testing are no longer sufficient to provide a delightfully responsive user experience. Join Kaushal Dalvi as he details new developments in the...

Rob_Sabourin
AmiBug.Com, Inc.
TL

Test Estimation in the Face of Uncertainty

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Anyone who has ever attempted to estimate software testing effort realizes just how difficult the task can be. The number of factors that can affect the estimate is virtually unlimited. The keys to good estimates are understanding the primary variables, comparing them to known standards, and normalizing the estimates based on their differences. This is easy to say but difficult to accomplish because estimates are frequently required even when we know very little about the project—and what we do know is constantly changing. Throw in a healthy dose of politics and a bit of wishful thinking,...

Andrew Knight
Applitools
TM

Web UI Testing with Playwright in Python

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Everybody gets frustrated when web apps are broken, but testing them thoroughly doesn't need to be a chore. Playwright, a new open-source browser automation tool from Microsoft, makes testing web apps fun! Playwright offers a slew of nifty features like automatic waiting, mobile emulation, and network interception. Plus, with isolated browser contexts, Playwright tests can set up *much* faster than traditional Web UI tests. In this tutorial, we will build a Python test automation project from the ground up. We will automate web search engine tests together step-by-step using Playwright for...

Wednesday, April 27

Eran-Kinsbruner
Perforce
W1

Cypress Advanced Capabilities Declassified for Efficient Cross-Browser Test Automation

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

Cypress is the fastest growing test automation framework for cross browser testing and it's open source. It has a ton of benefits for developers and test engineers, but also some very advanced and cool capabilities that by knowing them - practitioners could enhance their productivity and test coverage volume. To name a few - interception and network control, visual testing, cloud executions, plugins are a subset of such abilities that organizations need to be familiar with. In this session, Eran Kinsbruner, DevOps Chief Evangelist and best selling author will walk through the top...

W4

What's New in Chromium and Other Tools in 2022

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

It is 2022 and the number of open source frameworks, tools and libraries available is mildly reminiscent of the shovel sellers during the gold rush. With a new tool or framework cropping up almost every other week, it is near impossible to keep up and do meaningful evaluations for your use-cases without losing your sanity. And eventually, FOMO starts to creep in. If this feeling sounds familiar to you, join Kaushal Dalvi in this session as he goes over what is new in 2022 from a web performance perspective and goes over scenarios and situations where some of the shiny new toys can...

Megan-Hutchinson
QualityWorks Consulting Group
W9

Let’s Get Basic: Manual Testing is the Beginning

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
VIRTUAL ONLY

Manual Testing has been looked down upon since the emergence of automation testing, although it is it’s building block. However, this presentation will return to the basics and remind individuals why Manual Testing is important and the tools that can be used to record these types of tests. Manual testing is not rigid, meaning there is more flexibility when it comes on to executing the test cases, individuals don’t need extensive coding experience or any coding experience at all. Furthermore, manual testing involves an analytical mindset and can assist in developing an individual's...

Thursday, April 28

Mala-Punyani
Splunk
T1

Why Salesforce Test Automation Shouldn’t Be Painful

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 9:45am to 10:45am

In this talk, Mala will share a holistic view of the challenges of traditional software testing in the complex Salesforce testing ecosystem and provide a roadmap for leaders to overcome implementation roadblocks in partnership with R&D teams. Mala will demonstrate how an investment of a DevOps solution with a Sauce Labs integration helped her agile team achieve time reduction of up to 50% for overall flow, while doubling release velocity without additional headcount. If you are a manager looking to scale end-to-end testing coverage and/or wondering how to make your Salesforce test...

Adam_Auerbach
EPAM Systems
T2

AI in Testing and Testing AI: A Moderated Panel

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 9:45am to 10:45am

Synergies among AI and software testing include both leveraging AI for test automation, and devising methods for testing AI systems. Researchers, software vendors, and practitioners are already using AI to develop a new wave of test automation tools. These tools automatically explore, model, reason, learn, and test software applications. However, as with most AI and ML-based technologies, these tools raise concerns around whether or not we really trust and depend on them. ML-based systems tend to be highly dynamic and adaptable at runtime, thereby requiring extensive testing both offline,...

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
T3

Best Practices for Testing Your Serverless Applications

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 9:45am to 10:45am
VIRTUAL ONLY

This talk is about applying best practices of testing to your serverless applications. Serverless technologies allow you to focus on building your application by reducing the work you do managing infrastructure. You'll learn how to overcome the challenges of testing in a serverless architecture, and how to efficiently test your Lambda functions efficiently. This includes unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing. After this talk, you will gain an understanding of the benefits of using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI to test code manually, and verifying...

QualityWorks Consulting Group
T10

Improve Test Maintenance and Coverage with Data-Driven Testing

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 11:15am to 12:15pm

Imagine this... You are an automation engineer and you are tasked to automate a workflow in an application that has multiple entry points for different inputs. What is the most efficient way you could ensure that you have all the test coverage that is needed per permutation and that you will be able to easily manage the test data? We know that maintaining test data for automation can be tedious and creating different test cases using different types of test data can be time-consuming. These issues can be solved by separating test data from test scripts. Whether you're a beginner or senior...

T19

Defining Test Automation Requirements Through Recordings

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Most organizations have gone away from the concept of record & playback as their preferred automation method. The early failures of this approach to automation years ago has left significant doubt that this can be used as a primary method of automation. Instead, automation engineers may rely on manual test cases that outline what needs to be done, review a business requirements document, or analyze a design document. Why can’t recordings help not only fill these requirements, but also provide the foundation for automation engineers to work from? The recorders of today are so much...

federico-toledo
Abstracta
T21

How Do You Help Motivate Testers?

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Anyone can do testing, but only good and motivated testers can do great testing. The mindset of a tester is different from that of anyone else in a software development team, and so are their motivating factors. There are special difficulties to confront in our undervalued field that we must be aware of if we want to keep the motivation of our testers high. In order to help testers grow, we must take proper care. I started out as a tester, led a team of testers, and now, I am leading test leaders. I want to share my experiences and the lessons my fellow team leaders and I have learned...