STARWEST 2016 - Industry Technical Presentations
Wednesday, October 5
One Touch Testing
- Emergence of end to end Automation across software lifecycle leveraging Natural language processing
- Refactored and containerized test execution cycle thru machine learning
- Auto discover, selfheal, autonomous and analytics driven testing to reduce testing cycle
Load Testing Best Practices: 3 Use Cases Every Company Should Run
- Why should every company be load testing
- How stress tests concurrency tests & disaster recovery tests will keep visitors returning to your site
- What load curves look like & how to evaluate them, as well as when to load test
Next Generation Lifecycle Automation and Business Assurance
Over the last decade, the testing service industry and product companies have focused on automating test execution. In so doing, organizations have optimize limited portions of the testing life cycle. With the advent of DevOps and Continuous Integration, organizations must now address the entire lifecycle of testing capabilities. The challenges of the next decade will center around test lifecycle automation and business assurance, including; automated test design, data provisioning, test execution, verification and validation. This discussion focuses on practical...
How to Conquer Agility Leveraging Analytics on Automation Data?
- Running tests multiple times a day can create a productivity nightmare, with repetitive analysis leading to false negatives, configuration issues and a lack of actionable insights.
- How do you deal with the deluge of data that Test Automation creates … test results, screen shots and server logs, to name just a few?!
- Learn how to use big data, streaming analytics and visualization the right way to tame automation analytics, maximizing optimization and minimizing testing time.
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Make Continuous Testing Work: Explore and Automate
- Continuous Testing is a Must
- The Future of Automation
- Manual Testers Will Become Automation Expert
Early Performance Testing
Development and deployment contexts have changed considerably over the last few years. The discipline of performance testing has had difficulty keeping up with modern testing principles and software development and deployment processes.
Most people still see performance testing as a single experiment, run against a completely assembled, code-frozen, production-resourced system, with the “accuracy” of simulation and environment considered critical to the value of the data the test provides. But what can we do to provide actionable and timely information...
Why Testers Can’t Test: How Alaska Airlines Solves the Test Environment Dilemma
How did Alaska Airlines receive J.D. Powers’ “Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Traditional Carriers” recognition for 9 years in a row, the “#1 on-time major North American Carrier” award for the last 5 years, and "Most Fuel-Efficient US Airline 2011-2015"? A large part of the credit belongs to their software testing team. Their industry-leading, proactive approach to disrupting the traditional software testing process ensures that testers can test—faster, earlier, and more completely.
Join this session to hear Alaska Airlines Automated Test Engineer...
QA Transformation Through Lifecycle Virtualization: 5 Technologies to Protect Your Brand and Your Business
QA teams are no longer isolated from the software lifecycle and focused on finding bugs. Today’s enterprise QA teams are savvy, well connected to the business, and concentrate on identifying risk.
Software quality is more critical now than at any other time and is the difference between customer retention and customer loss, customer fatigue and customer delight, and a business that is thriving instead of expiring.
Lifecycle virtualization and its five associated technologies is a way for every QA organization to gain quick and measurable insight on...
API Virtualization ... Why, When and How
- API Virtual…WHAT? What is API Virtualization and why would I use it
- When, Where and How should I take advantage of virtualization
- Best Practices and maintenance
How to Get Intelligent Automated Testing With Real-World Test Data Management
- Accelerate continuous delivery with automated test case and real-world test data creation and maintenance
- Why and how the typical testing cycle must break status-quo and get Agile now
- How to use Selenium for automatic maintenance of automated test scripts at a keyword level
Learn how Kraft Heinz Company overcame the challenge of having one automation framework that spans both ERP and non-ERP technologies!
The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) successfully expanded testing coverage through hybrid automation. In partnership with Infosys, KHC developed an end-to-end QA automation framework that was scalable and elastic enough to conduct business process testing across SAP and surrounding/interfacing, 30+ non-SAP applications covering multiple technologies, ensuring zero-defect delivery for many flagship projects and big cost savings. Regression automation was up from 0% to 85% (2000+ scripts automated) and defect leakage in production was cut from 40% to 5%.
Thursday, October 6
Best Practices for Delivering Quality Responsive Web Apps Across All Digital Platforms
Developing a successful RWD app that delights your users is challenging, but can be achieved by:
- Having an optimized test lab that covers the right digital platforms
- Using robust test automation that relies on both visual object analysis and native objects identification
- Using precise test reports for all digital platforms so that RWD apps can be continuously maintained throughout market changes
- Having the right lab and tools that allow for efficient automation, cross-team collaboration and the ability to scale ...
Load Testing with eggPlant Performance: Live Demonstration and Q&A
- Overview of the eggPlant Performance toolset
- Performance testing web content: capturing end-to-end response times as well as HTTP-level statistics
- Server monitoring and results analysis
Outlasting the Digital Storm: Survival Guide for QA Function
In the ‘Default is Digital’ world organizations across domains are witnessing and adapting to the digital storm in business and technology strategies, to stay relevant and competitive. In such a scenario, the Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing function needs to stay one step ahead at all times. Coupled with the advent of new development methodologies, Digital plays an important role in redefining QA and aligning it to business and technology strategies. Being one of the technology game-changers, a well-crafted Digital Assurance strategy not only secures your...
Automated Testing Made Awesome with Sauce Labs
- Brief overview of the Sauce Labs platform and capabilities
- Demonstration of an entire test suite running at once in multiple browser/OS/device combinations
- Demonstration of test suite running through CI server as part of a pull-request build
Improve your Mobile Testing Strategy with Continuous Delivery
- Testing on real devices vs. emulators. Learn more about each method and which is best for you
- Discover different ways to streamline cross-platform testing for continuous app delivery
- Learn how to optimize your manual and automated testing strategies for continuous quality delivery
Think you can just ‘Test’ that API? Think again…
APIs are the new world order and more-and-more businesses are cashing in on the value of making sections of code readily available to other applications. However, APIs present particular testing challenges and testers must embrace the modern development practices associated with them.
Faced with complex chains of APIs, testers need a systematic approach to generate tests which are rigorous, but can be executed within a short iteration. The tests require accurate test data and production like environments, which must all be updated whenever one API changes...
Shifting Left – Evolution of Automation
- Attendees will learn growing changes in Automation and Continuous Integration
- Audience will learn how Open Source tools can be used and how to integrate with your Software Development and Business Needs
- Session will demonstrate what new requirements are for Test Engineer skills within CI automation
ZAPTEST – The Game Changer!
- 100% QA Time
- 600% Increase Test Automation Productivity
- 10X Testing ROI
Kick-Start Your Automation Program with Build Acceptance Automation
Rising consumer expectations for mobile apps can be challenging. The demand for new features and the intolerance for anything short of flawless functionality drive the push toward agile development and fully integrated test automation.
Fully automating your testing through each stage of the agile development process is a necessary, yet extremely time-consuming project. However, there is a way to define an initial automation effort that is smaller in size but has huge payoff. Automating your build acceptance testing eliminates some of the most tedious and...
How to Deliver Secure, High Quality Test Data Faster Than Ever Before
- Why data is key to accelerating application projects
- The shortcomings of current solutions & how they impact software development
- Best practices in preparing, securing and delivering test data
Deliver an Exceptional Mobile User Experience in 5 Minutes
Join this technical session to learn how to quickly validate both quality and performance for an exceptional user experience in less than 5 minutes. You will be able to establish a robust environment to ensure mission-critical applications are able to handle peak loads and perform for all users, no matter the device, network, or location.
You’ll also learn how to:
- Maintain user experience quality across devices, browsers, and geographies
- Deliver snapshot performance testing with continuous integration
- Track mobile and web...
Improving Quality and Efficiency in Testing by Making Test Data Part of DevOps
- Use production data for testing after identifying and masking sensitive information
- Generate test data where sufficient data does not exist
- Setting up predictable and repeatable test data as part of DevOps, to make running regression test suite a breeze
Accessibility Testing: Taming the Beast
Accessibility testing has a reputation for driving up the costs of software quality due to reliance on manual testing and the difficulty of hiring or training qualified resources.
Over-reliance on manual testing is in-part due to misunderstandings about how to handle accessibility testing and in-part due to a lack of the best tools and methodologies.
Deque Systems has 17 years of accessibility experience. Dylan Barrell, Deque’s CTO, will give an overview of the relevant accessibility testing concerns, best practices and methodologies for effectively...