STARWEST 2018 Concurrent Session : A Tale of Continuous Testing

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Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

A Tale of Continuous Testing

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When the atmosphere is hostile to QA, and yet the demands on the QA Team are increasing, how do you transform a team where everything is tested and deployed manually, to an organization that delivers great software multiple times a day? Where do you start and how do you create the strategy for implementing Continuous Testing? Join David Lumpkin as he shares his company's journey to answer these questions and the team's evolution along the way. Over a three-year period, Craftsy went from an environment hostile towards QA, to one that embraces automation and exploratory testing, achieving the right level of coverage for every use case, device and browser. It wasn’t easy though and David shares their experience through many experiments, failures and revisions that finally made Continuous Testing a reality. If you're looking to learn from someone who's taken on the Continuous Testing challenge in the real world and won, then join David for this session and take away lessons, hints, tips and techniques for success.

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David Lumpkin is a Senior SDET at Craftsy, an online and mobile platform based in Denver that delivers craft education via interactive video tutorials and workshops. With more than ten years of software engineering experience, he is focused on improving customer experience through innovative tools, continuous delivery, and an extremely lean tester to developer ratio. His expertise includes extensive work with browser automation, load testing, TDD/BDD development, operational support in cloud architectures, and agile project management. David is active in the Denver startup community, presenting at the Software Quality Association of Denver and Denver startup week, and is passionate about furthering the Quality Assurance profession and improving available testing technologies.