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STARWEST 2016 - DevOps

Sunday, October 2

Integrating Test with a DevOps Approach (2–Day)

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Sunday, October 2, 2016 - 8:30am to Monday, October 3, 2016 - 5:00pm

Tuesday, October 4

Jeffery Payne
Coveros, Inc.
TO

Integrating Automated Testing into DevOps

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Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 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 called 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...

Wednesday, October 5

Gene_Gotimer
Coveros, Inc.
W5

Testing in a Continuous Delivery Pipeline: Faster, Better, Cheaper

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

The continuous delivery pipeline is the process of taking new or changed features from developers, and getting features deployed into production and delivered quickly to the customer. Gene Gotimer says testing within continuous delivery pipelines should be designed so the earliest tests are the quickest and easiest to run, giving developers the fastest feedback. Successive rounds of testing lead to increased confidence that the code is a viable candidate for production and that more expensive tests—time, effort, cost—are justified. Manual testing is performed...

Adam Auerbach
Capital One
W11

The Journey to Continuous Testing

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 1:45pm to 2:45pm

Capital One’s highly integrated environment creates many interdependencies for its agile teams. Because these dependencies were not being completed until late in their sprints, Adam Auerbach says that Capital One faced prolonged integration and regression testing phases and did not realize expected improvements in quality or time-to-market. As technology leaders pushed for continuous delivery (CD), testing needed to shift left and occur simultaneously with development. To shift left, the testing community needed to learn basic development skills, including Ruby...

W17

A DevOps Primer: Whole Team Approaches for Better Software Quality

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

With fingers wagging and eyes squinting, they query Why didn’t you find this problem during testing? How many times have you tried to defend yourself with things like We can’t test everything or It’s a corner case? Everyone knows you can’t improve quality with testing alone, so what can you do? Marianne Hollier shares practices and tools that help improve your test effectiveness and overall software quality. Learn how early collaboration across your whole team can remove bottlenecks and surprises. See how capturing and agreeing on interfaces...

Thursday, October 6

T8

Agile Strategies for Traditional Software Development Teams

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Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 11:15am to 12:15pm

Many development and test teams are still working on more traditional software projects that release every few months or longer, rather than daily or weekly. Benefits of adopting continuous development strategies into a standard software cycle include immediate feedback on code changes, a clear understanding of the current risk-state of the software, and current and historical data to assess progress. Melanie Drake shares specific “modern” strategies that her development team has added and how these strategies enhance software quality. Some tools include...