Conference Schedule

When you hear these words, do you imagine someone who would NEVER fit into a corporate environment…and more importantly, someone a corporation would definitely not want? Wrong! Turns out that corporations love rebels and DISRUPTORS and often these are people who rise and shine the most. Why? Because they aren’t satisfied with the status quo and are fearless enough to actually DO something about it. Because they believe that rules are someone else’s opinion, they aren’t afraid to break them and make newer and better ones. Does this sound familiar, fellow testers? If you’re ready to shake up...Read more

The rise of test automation has reduced the manual testers footprint significantly. We have more and more AI and ML tools that are taking on things like visual regression and providing smart test automation. Companies are hiring SDETs at an increasing rate, while reducing their manual test roles with the hopes that a high amount of test automation will result in a higher quality product. So where does that leave manual testing? Join Erika as she showcases the value of manual testing as a non-negotiable partner alongside a robust test automation strategy. Reconnect with thought based...Read more

Microservice and Cloud Applications are being the number one choice in today's architecture decisions. But with a high complexity of dozens of services how can such environments be tested sufficiently?

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Many testing teams today use Selenium for their automation needs, and rightfully so: Selenium allows for cross-browser and mobile support, it’s free, and it has a large open source community behind it. Regardless of its feature set, Selenium—and test automation in general—has its own list of pain points that can have a large impact on testing metrics, depending on the test architecture used and the design patterns being followed. To address these pain points, a team can use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) via open source libraries. This enables the tests to...Read more

When testing enterprise applications, most people manually test the application’s UI. Test automation is more efficient and scalable, but delivering a compelling digital experience requires constant UI updates that make it difficult to create a stable UI test to use and reuse reliably over time.

To increase test coverage, you can extend your testing approach to include automated codeless API testing to validate your applications more reliably and with faster test execution times. Join this...Read more

Agile principles and associated approaches to software development have been in use for more than a decade. However, teams are still unsure of how to integrate testing as not only specific tasks within a given process (Scrum, kanban, TDD, etc.), but as an extension of the philosophies and mindset that produced the Agile Manifesto in the first place. As a result, teams either ignore testing, test less than is necessary, or dramatically over-test by acting like we’re still on a waterfall project in 1987. Paul Herzog will take a trip back to the very beginning of agile by walking...Read more

The challenge was simple: Build a voice-powered mixologist capable of making drinks based on whichever spirits and mixers were placed into it. Working with his team, Mark Gharibian designed an AWS-powered, Alexa-driven, Arduino/Raspberry Pi-running, laser-cut bartender prototype. Using an iterative approach, they designed and developed the hardware and software in tandem. Each iteration taught them something new and changed the way they approached testing in the innovation space. They operated in a nontraditional way, on a nontraditional project, using nontraditional tools—and how they got...Read more

Everyone wants to develop software quickly, but there is a valid concern that increasing velocity may decrease quality. At Indeed, we set a company-wide goal to double velocity of our software development without hurting the quality of our releases. To accomplish this goal, we looked at each stage of the software development lifecycle and found which parts took the most time. Deployment and verification in our QA environment was one of the biggest bottlenecks and was due to our historic reliance on human quality assurance testing for each release. To alleviate this bottleneck, we...Read more

Testing continues to evolve as Agile, DevOps, and now DevSecOps are the new standards for the software the application lifecycle. Great efficiencies have been gained with automation playing a larger role in testing. With a “shift-left” mindset, testing is now more involved, and earlier in the process. However, “shift-right” has also taken hold allowing testing to extend beyond releases and gain valuable data from production systems, which can then feed back into more robust testing that actually more closely resembles how software is used. The combination of these new paradigms has...Read more

Do you have the seed of an idea that might make an interesting talk? Do you have a burning question that you’d like to discuss with your peers? Do you REALLY miss the hallway track of conferences, and just want to riff on a theme with the other attendees? If you answered yes to any of this, then the open conference IS FOR YOU! Broken up into four 15-minute time slots across three rooms, the open conference is for anyone – new attendee, veteran, or speaker to talk about whatever is interesting to you! No slides or prep needed (but supporting material is fine) – if there’s a topic...Read more

Do you have the seed of an idea that might make an interesting talk? Do you have a burning question that you’d like to discuss with your peers? Do you REALLY miss the hallway track of conferences, and just want to riff on a theme with the other attendees? If you answered yes to any of this, then the open conference IS FOR YOU! Broken up into four 15-minute time slots across three rooms, the open conference is for anyone – new attendee, veteran, or speaker to talk about whatever is interesting to you! No slides or prep needed (but supporting material is fine) – if there’s a topic...Read more

Imagine living in an exciting fast paced corporate world of test automation and DevOps then being thrown into a completely manual test world. That's what happened to me. I was asked to join a new company and a new team with lots of problems, but the biggest problem... manual testing. Join me in learning about how I created a successful automation team with zero automation to being an automation hero. Learn strategies and how taking small steps to create big changes for a new testing world with automation and DevOps.