STAREAST 2023 - Product Owner
Customize your STAREAST 2023 experience with sessions for product owners.
Wednesday, May 3
RIP UI Test Automation. You Failed. CX Observability Will Lead Us to Software Quality
Despite the massive efforts around testing phases, pyramids, vegetables, periodic table, etc., users keep finding bugs, which leads to poor CX. Testing is an activity; quality is the goal. We’ve been focused on making the activity better, but that didn’t improve quality. In this session, Alex Martins will discuss his best efforts and experiences around testing and never being able to achieve the dream of software quality. Alex has been on projects that spent more money on testing than on development, and still didn’t catch all bugs. He's thrown AI/ML into my testing lifecycle and still...
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Why Your Digital Engineering Effort Will Not Produce the Results You Think
You have read the books, purchased your tools, containerized your apps, moved to the cloud, and automated your development pipelines. Awesome! Surely you are going to knock this transformation out of the park! But that's not enough. There are several principles you need to consider. It is the combination of tools and technologies, people, and principles combined that make a digital engineering successful. Let’s discuss the principles for technical agility and how to apply a test-first mindset. These principles will help attendees build the foundation for successful digital engineering...
Testing Machine Learning Functionality: The Need for a New Way of Thinking
When testing functionality based on machine learning or trained functionality, the focus of your testing changes. The code itself stops being interesting to some degree, and instead the focus needs to be elsewhere. Based on personal experience and research projects, this session will highlight the importance of testing your data, why independent testing is vital, and how some "old school" tools can help when thinking & planning test activities. This session will also demonstrate trained functionality intended for autonomous driving, and will touch more general problems faced when...
Thursday, May 4
Representation Matters for Women of Color in Tech
PreviewHow can you see yourself in a technical position; but there's no one who looks like you. This is one of many challenges Women of Color (WOC) experience in the tech field. The tech field is majority white men. As a Gen-X black woman, Lettie Ar-Rahmaan wasn’t encouraged to enter the tech field. Therefore, she struggled between service and technology. In the end, her passion for technology won and she's found success in technology from developer, QA tester, test manager, and now a product manager. The memories of being told she's not good enough came to her as she wrote her book,...
Women in QA: Challenges Faced by Women at Work and How to Solve Them
One of the major concerns faced by working women in technology these days is work‐life prioritization and resource management. Many women tech leaders have to make bolder decisions in life, leading to a career break or ending their professional careers early in their life due to their personal commitments towards their families. However, there can be a “best‐fit” for these women who seek support from their organizations, especially leadership and their teams. There are a lot of organizations that support women to grow and become impactful tech leaders, while also providing programs to...
Transformation to an Agile Based Performance Testing Model
The Transformation to an Agile Based Performance Testing Model session will take attendees through an IT transformational effort from waterfall delivery to agile, and from project management to product management. This session will chronical the real-world transformational journey of a manager and a six-person horizontal capacity and performance testing team that created a new testing model that balances the performance testing needs for nearly 20 product teams. Attendees will learn how this small team was built, and the roles and skills necessary to staff this new testing model....