K1

Kaushal Dalvi
UKG

KEYNOTE | Harry Potter and the Performance Store

After defeating the Evil Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter thought he was destined for a long career as an Auror with the Ministry of Magic, spending his time catching dark witches and wizards.

Join Kaushal Dalvi as he shares the tale of Harry Potter and the Performance Store. It's a tale where Harry sells magical spells and solutions to solve the world's greatest performance issues. You'll learn about a new set of spells like ISR, SSG, SSR, DPR, and OUI, and not only walk away knowing what they stand for, but how to use them to bring about magical improvements to the performance of your applications.

K2

Mary Thorn, S&P Global Ratings
Bob Galen, Zenergy Technologies

KEYNOTE | Agile Leadership:Thru the Looking Glass

What is leadership? And more to the point, what is modern-day leadership in today’s VUCA world? Mary Thorn and Bob Galen will share their lifelong journeys in becoming agile leaders in contexts of software development, testing, and product delivery. They’ll explore the power of self-reflection and how central it has been to their continuous learning. How receiving and earning the right to give candid feedback has been a powerful discovery in leading teams. You’ll hear stories of success, failure, learning, and growth. But more than that, you’ll get a sense for how today’s leaders (you) need to show up in unique contexts. All so that you can become the leader that your team and organization need you to be.

W1

Test Automation*

How to Build and Implement Your Salesforce Test Automation Strategy

Mala Punyani, Splunk Inc.

W4

Mobile Testing*

A Realistic Approach to Scalable and Cost-effective Cross-browser and Device Solution

Ambighananthan Ragavan, Expedia Group

ITP1

Industry Technical Presentation

Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, and Software Quality: Are we there yet?

Clint Sprauve, Tricentis

ITP4

Industry Technical Presentation

ZAPTEST: The Ultimate Software Automation Solution

David Chernyak, ZAPTEST

W7

Test Automation*

The Quest of a Performance Engineer. A Tale of the Adventures of This Mythical Creature.

Leandro Melendez, K6-Grafana

W9

Test Leadership*

Engineering Productivity via Metrics

Nagesh Chetan, mParticle

ITP7

Industry Technical Presentation

Shift Right into the Metaverse with Digital Twin Testing

Jonathon Wright, Keysight

ITP8

Industry Technical Presentation

How to Tackle Quality-Driven Testing for Salesforce and Beyond

Stephen Lockard, Copado

ITP9

Industry Technical Presentation

How Ascensus Unlocked a New Mindset for Dynamics Test Automation with Leapwork

Sune Engsig, Leapwork | Dan Madden, Ascensus

ITP10

Industry Technical Presentation

Orchestrate Tests with LambdaTest

Harshit Paul, LambdaTest

W16

RPA*

Intelligent Test Automation for Agile Teams

Gregory Goldshteyn, Fox Corporation (aka 20th Century Fox)

W17

DevOps*

Speed Up your Cloud Transformation by Giving Developers Back Control Over Their Dev & Test Environments

Gerta Sheganaku, LocalStack GmbH

ITP11

Industry Technical Presentation

Ready Tester One! Unlock Your Continuous Quality Quest

Jeff Peeples + Adam Attanasio, Parasoft

K3

Alison Wade
TechWell, Corp.

KEYNOTE | Lightning Strikes the Keynotes

Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period. Lightning Talks are the opportunity for speakers to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation. And now, lightning has struck the STAR keynotes. Some of the best-known experts in testing will step up to the podium and give you their best shot of lightning. Get multiple keynote presentations for the price of one—and have some fun at the same time.

K4

KEYNOTE | The Future of Software Testing

It’s become standard practice for test engineers to test their code in a staging environment, fix all inconsistencies there, and then deploy to production. In this waterfall process, testers have no visibility into what’s happening in production. What do you do if your test results in staging don't match production? The future of software testing has no staging environments - only production. Testing in production is a proactive approach to testing as you ensure your features work in the environment that your features will live in, not a dummy environment. In this talk, learn about feature flagging, canary releases, setting up a proper CI/CD pipeline, and data cleanup. At the end of the day, we don't care if your features work in staging, we care if they work in production.

T1

Test Automation*

A Journey to Better Automation with the Screenplay Pattern

Sarah Watkins, Q2

T2

Test Data*

Better Test coverage Through API Automation

Jean Candeloro Sindaco, David's Bridal

ITP14

Industry Technical Presentation

Shift Happens: How Perfecto & BlazeMeter Help Organizations Cover the Entire Test Pyramid for Innovation at Speed

Bharath Vantari, Perforce

ITP15

Industry Technical Presentation

Don't Leave Quality to Chance

Diogo Rede, TestRail

ITP16

Industry Technical Presentation

App Test Automation with AI-Powered Tools: Things to Consider Before We Jump In

Jae Jun Hwang, Apptest.ai

T10

Transforming Testing*

From Quality Advocate to Quality as a Service - Transforming a Legacy Quality Practice

Aaron Haehn, T-Mobile

T11

Agile Testing*

Stop Test Sprints! Develop a CLEAR Agile Product Roadmap

Robert Woods, Scrum Inc

ITP17

Industry Technical Presentation

Testing as PaaS: Delivering on Speed, Quality, Collaboration, and Autonomy

Ameet Deshpande, Qyrus

ITP18

Industry Technical Presentation

Bringing Harmony to Continuous Testing and DevOps With SpiraPlan

Adam Sandman, Inflectra

T13

Test Automation*

Cypress Holds the Belt. Is Selenium Still in the Fight?

Michael Piciulo, World Wide Technology

T14

Performance Testing*

A Performance Testing Pyramid

James Wood, Trimble PPM, Inc.

ITP22

Industry Technical Presentation

Mock, Stub, or Virtualize… let’s Shift Left

Matt Bonner, SmartBear

T19

Test Automation*

Building Resiliency in Test Automation

Yoosuf Maktoum, Sysco Corporation

T21

API Testing*

Microservice Architecture - Modernizing the Testing Strategy / Techniques at Different Layers

Sherl John, EPAM

ITP25

Industry Technical Presentation

No More Excuses - Overcoming Key Challenges to DevOps Test Automation

Jeffery Payne, Coveros

K5

KEYNOTE | A Journey to the Pyramids: Scaling Test Patterns in Microservices at Netflix

Netflix launched its streaming services in the US with a simple pricing model. As our global reach expanded, the requirements became increasingly complex, and so did our testing needs. The membership lifecycle ecosystem at Netflix consists of multiple teams, more than one hundred internal microservices, and a similar number of external partners and payment processors. As we strive to improve the efficiency of our continuous integration and release processes, we are progressively moving towards a paradigm known as the "Test Pyramid''. This approach is based on the principle of grouping tests into multiple buckets, and each bucket has a distinct target and focus. Helen and Budha will take you through the journey of embracing this paradigm in the Payments team. They will discuss the learnings from legacy testing practices and share experiences in adopting the Test Pyramid Pattern - with special emphasis on creating test isolation for a large-scale microservice ecosystem. In addition, they will discuss how these practices helped improve test quality and contribute to the acceleration of release cycles.