STARWEST Virtual+ 2020 - Test Leadership
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Thursday, October 8
Building the QA Team of the 2020s
PreviewThis past decade, the QA profession saw incredible, positive growth. As we look into this new decade, the landscape for the role of testers will continue to evolve. QA leaders must continue to learn and employ new strategies to ensure we are building the best teams possible for our organizations. Join tapQA Vice President Kirk Walton for an important look at building an optimal testing/QA team for your organization in the 2020s. He will detail the current and future testing landscape and specific skills that will define the QA professional, including the balance between end-user empathy...
Safe to Fail Agile Culture
PreviewBuilding a new software product and testing it is a highly innovative and creative process. Things simply don't go to plan all the time, setbacks and failures are inevitable along the way. What makes a difference is how a team deals with them. Each failure is an opportunity to reassess, make a change and try a different approach. In order to succeed, testing teams must become resilient to failure and focus on the learning outcomes that they present. As a QA lead, you need to encourage initiatives and via the right questions assist the team in taking the best possible decision based...
Robots + Humans: Rise of the Tester
PreviewTesters and test tooling working together can be much more successful than either of them working independently. Both humans and automation have strengths to be taken into consideration when drafting quality strategies and test planning. As an organization evolves, the quality needs should be reevaluated with each step. This session will discuss where humans are still strongest in the software testing discipline, and contrast that with where test tools are most valuable. Various testing tools will be included in the comparison, with a heavy focus on test automation. That information...