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 Ryan Papineau share how they used 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.

Takeaways:

• Get a technical account of how Alaska Airlines leverages service virtualization to address common testing challenges
• Explore the ABCs of Service Virtualization: Access, Behavior, Cost, and Speed
• Learn how to leverage service virtualization with Docker and the cloud (Azure, AWS, Google)
• Understand how technologies like service virtualization, automated API testing, and test environment management enable DevOps and Continuous Testing