STARWEST 2018 - Bonus Sessions
As a conference attendee you will also gain access to a variety of complimentary bonus sessions on various testing and quality assurance topics.
More bonus sessions are coming soon. In the meantime, please join our mailing list to stay updated on these bonus sessions and other conference program updates.
Wednesday, October 3
Taking Flight: How Continuous Testing in DevOps will Help you Achieve Business Success
Everyone talks about building great apps to gain a competitive edge, but there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work that is required before your app can take flight. Moving your organization to a continuous testing model is key to achieving business success for the long term. Join Continuous Testing experts Alex Martins of CA Technologies and Adam Auerbach of EPAM Systems as they discuss what it takes to get your flight team and your apps ready to soar! This lively panel discussion will be moderated by Jeff Hughes of CA Technologies who will ask them the tough questions that you want answered...
The Future of AI in Software Development
Generations of software engineers and QA personnel have been slowed down and nearly brought to a standstill by the vexing and intractable problem that so much manual effort is still relied upon in the software development and testing processes: transforming stories to test cases; transforming test cases to test scripts; generating and stewarding test data to support rapid and large scale testing; responding to application and business process changes – all these things have largely or exclusively been manual efforts, to-date. The real change and the real acceleration in development...
Thursday, October 4
The State of API Testing: New Industry Survey Results Highlight the Challenges of Test Automation
APIs provide the core business logic that powers today’s modern applications, but when you couple the technology with the accelerated adoption of microservice-based architectures, and today’s rapid Agile development cycles, you open the door for significant business risks. API testing has become a critical methodology for test teams in order to mitigate these risks, as well as keep pace with development efforts. However, many organizations face challenges that result in struggling to scale API testing and recognize the true value of the practice. Join voke founder/analyst Theresa Lanowitz...
Friday, October 5
The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)
Join us at The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)—a free, full-day bonus session held on Friday after the conference concludes. A unique peer workshop, WREST is dedicated to improving the practice of testing regulated systems. We define regulated software as any system that is subject to an internal or external review. WREST relies on its attendees to make the workshop a success. There are no formal presentations, only experience reports with plenty of time designated for facilitated discussion. We hope to learn from each other by hearing the success and (especially!) failure...