STARWEST 2018 - Industry Technical Presentations

• What is Accessibility and why is it important to my role on an Agile dev team? • How does test automation work with accessibility? • How can teams prevent issues before testing begins?

A new Forrester research project surveyed over 600 organizations to determine what matters the most for DevOps and Agile success. The research discovered high-level findings like: 1) They are transforming software testing into continuous testing by adopting five core practices. 2) Experts focus primarily on contextual metrics (e.g., requirements coverage) while others focus on “counting” metrics (e.g., number of tests). 3) Experts are more likely to measure the user experience across an end-to-end transaction while others rely on application-specific or team-specific metrics.

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In the digital era, where every bug hurts your business, organizations are forced to trade off between faster time to market and flawless user experience. Can AI resolve this conflict? AI is affecting almost every domain, including quality assurance, which is currently one of the biggest the bottlenecks in achieving CI/CD.

In this talk, we will discuss the reasons for this tension and drill down into some specific challenges around creating stable, scalable test automation. We will show how applying artificial intelligence is helping engineering teams achieve quality-velocity...

As software development shifts left, most teams focus on continuous integration and continuous delivery, and neglect the important practice of continuous testing (CT). Continuous testing ensures that your code not only works, but that it is always in sync with operations, documentation and all the other teams involved in the deployment process. Without CT, you really can’t achieve continuous delivery. Join us to explore the 5 essential components of a successful continuous testing environment and discover how it can help you reduce risk, improve response time and increase velocity.

You may have been told “we need to automate all our test scripts” or “we need to test faster, so let’s automate our tests”, but automating only tests likely will not improve your quality or time to market. Applications are continuing to become more and more complex, with integrations to back-end mainframe systems all the way to mobile devices, and everything in between. With this additional complexity, delivering high-quality applications in a timely manner is difficult.

We share how looking at your delivery pipeline to determine where improvements can be made is necessary for...

• Customer experience monitoring can provide insights on how real users are using a software process and whether the system is meeting its business goals. • Software can be tested in terms of customer experience, rather than the traditional view of functional, performance or other forms of testing. • Customer experience insights can be used to link the world of customer analytics back to the development process — to provide a tangible improvement in code which can have a measurable business improvement benefit.

In the most recent Forrester Omnichannel Functional Test Automation Wave, industry analysts indicated that test automation is still largely unpenetrated, with only 29% of surveyed organizations reaching high levels of automation. In a world with smart everything, technology is rapidly evolving, but the adoption of test automation to rapidly test these products is moving at a snail’s pace. Where are the time-traveling DeLoreans of software testing?

A leader in Forrester’s Wave, Parasoft was recognized for its product strategy and vision to increase the implementation of test...

• How ML can be applied to test automation maintenance • Leveraging manual testers’ knowledge by using codeless Selenium • Real examples of ML algorithms implementation & statistics • Q&A session

• The pitfalls organizations typically encounter as they deploy test automation • A practical approach to scale your test automation initiative • Specific examples/case study where this approach has been implemented

We know - you’re sick of hearing about AI - but what if you could harness it to plot a new course for your career? Get yourself a raise and promotion? Have recruiters calling you with attractive new job opportunities? Visual AI is here. It’s not a vision for the future. It’s not science fiction. It’s a technology allowing manual testers to plot a new career path for themselves.

It’s time for manual testers to step out from the back room and into the limelight. A new professional career track is yours for the taking.

Join this session to learn: (i) Evolution of manual...