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Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 7:15am - 8:15am
Bonus Session
B1

Service Virtualization in Action: How Alaska Airlines tests for snow storms in July Prior Year Content

Why did Alaska Airlines receive J.D. Powers' “Highest in Customer Satisfaction” recognition for 8 years straight, plus the “#1 on-time major North American Carrier” award for the last 5 years? A large part of the credit belongs to their software testing team's proactive approach to disrupting the traditional software testing process. The team uses advanced test automation in concert with service virtualization to rigorously test their complex flight operations management application, which interacts with myriad dependent systems (fuel, passenger, crew, cargo, baggage, aircraft, and more). The result: operations that run smoothly—even if they encounter a snowstorm in July. Attend this session to get a first-hand account of how Alaska Airlines leverages service virtualization to address common testing challenges, and to learn Alaska Airlines' best practices for managing the complexity of multiple dependent systems for testing.

Wayne Ariola
Wayne Ariola, Parasoft

Chief strategy officer Wayne Ariola leads the development and execution of Parasoft’s long-term strategy. Wayne has contributed to the design of core Parasoft technologies and has been awarded several patents for his inventions. He is a recognized leader on service virtualization, API quality, quality policy governance, and application security. Wayne brings more than twenty years of strategic consulting experience in the technology and software development industries.

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Ryan Papineau
Ryan Papineau, Alaska Airlines

Ryan uses systems engineering, cross team collaboration, along with data analytics to provide complex test environments that behave like production.
 

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