GWEN IARUSSI – Quality Services Practice Director & Solution Architect, UST Xpanxion
CHATGPT: THE QUALITY AND TESTING SUPERHERO YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the future of quality and testing practices! Are you feeling burnt out with your current testing practices? Hitting a brick wall when it comes to coverage and bug prevention? Are you searching for a way to maximize your value add as a tester? Well, what if I told you there’s a technology out there that’s going to change the game? It’s called ChatGPT, and it’s like the Swiss Army Knife of language models.
With its natural language processing abilities, ChatGPT can help us create better test cases, automate repetitive tasks, and dramatically increase software quality outcomes. And I’m not just talking about a slight improvement – we’re talking about a serious boost in efficiency and effectiveness. So, get ready to throw out your old ways of testing and step into the future with ChatGPT. Trust me, you won’t want to miss this.
KEVIN PYLES – Director, Test Engineering, O.C. Tanner
WATERFALL, AGILE, DEVOPS, WHAT’S NEXT? OH MY!
The evolution of software development has been led by the past. Huh? That’s right. The waterfall methodology was defined after we had moved on the Agile. Agile was defined after we already had the tools in place to implement it. DevOps? This is really just the natural speeding up of Agile. But what if we can see what is coming next before it is here?
In this presentation, we will look at what the future holds. And no, AI isn’t going to take over the world replacing all designers, developers, and testers. But yes! AI will be part of our future in an AI-Partnered software development methodology. What is this? What does it look like? How do we prepare? Come find out what the future has in store for us as testers and all the other practices around software development.
BOB JOHNSTON – CEO, Critical Logic
SUCCESSFUL AUTOMATED TESTING – IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS
Automated testing is a critical aspect of modern software development. However, one of the main challenges we face when attempting to automate testing is the level of detailed instruction required to create automation scripts. In this talk, he will provide valuable insights into this issue and what we can do to meet that challenge.
We will dive deep into the complexities of turning test cases into automation scripts and discuss the challenges that arise from the need for intricate details. This includes the difficulties in handling complexities easily understood by humans, documenting, maintaining, and updating scripts when functionality and environments change.
To help you tackle these challenges, he will share practical and actionable advice to streamline your automation script creation process. We will explore techniques such as Model-Based Testing, keywords, generated tests and scripts, and accountability.
Additionally, we will discuss the importance of collaboration between the business, developers, testers, and other stakeholders to ensure that automation scripts are useful and maintainable. By employing modern technologies and processes, you can improve your automated testing and deliver high-quality software.
CARLOS KIDMAN – Director of Engineering, Qualiti
EXPLORING AI APPLICATIONS IN TESTING
AI tools and vendors like ChatGPT are bringing AI to the public, but AI tools for Testing and Quality are not as obvious. This presentation will compare multiple tools and cover practical applications of AI that Testers and teams can use right now. For example, AI for functional testing or helping with Test Data Management. Not all are free, but examples will be shown so the audience can see them in action. Attendees will walk away with a list of multiple AI tools and how to apply them. They will understand the different problems that can be solved and how their efficiency, productivity, and overall testing can be improved by applying AI right now! AI won’t replace Testers, but we should know how to leverage AI to make us better and raise our Quality.
AMANDA CURTIS – Sr. QA Analyst, GBI
EXPLORING TESTING TOOLS FOR MOBILE APPS
As mobile app Quality Assurance (QA) engineers, we are constantly on the lookout for the most efficient and effective testing tools to ensure the reliability and functionality of our applications. In this talk, we delve into a comprehensive comparison of three popular mobile testing frameworks: Android Espresso, iOS XCUITest, and Appium. Each tool comes with its unique set of advantages and challenges, and understanding their respective strengths and weaknesses, considering the app design approach, is crucial for making informed testing decisions.
CRAIG RANDALL – Senior Director of Quality Assurance, Lucid Software
THE MISUNDERSTOOD ART OF TESTING
When you work in Quality Assurance, you’re bound to hear the question, “What do you do?” It’s a much more difficult question to answer than you would think because what we do in testing is fundamentally different from the rest of the company. Everyone in your company is responsible for creating something; a plan, a report, a forecast, or even the product itself. Testers, on the other hand, do not produce something. Instead, they help validate the lack of something; bugs. This different paradigm can make it hard for managers and executives to understand how we provide value to the business, and it can lead to testers becoming little more than robots. Let’s talk about why it’s important to champion how QA work differs and why testers should take charge of testing.
CHRISTIAN GIBBS – Sr. SDET, Sorenson
TESTING TODAY’S APPLICATION: POSTMAN API TESTING IN PLAYWRIGHT
How to write and execute API tests from within Playwright, including importing and executing Postman tests.
