BEN OCONIS – QA Lead, Storyblocks
BREAKING DOWN SILOS – BUILD BRIDGES BETWEEN TEAMS IN YOUR ORG
Do you often feel you are the last team in your organization to know about features before they reach customers or that when features are finally ready for testing, it’s too late to produce a high-quality product? Have you felt a divide between your testing team and other engineering or product teams within your organization? In this talk, Ben will review how in his organization he has built a bridge between product, engineering, stakeholders, and our testing team, forming a productive and cooperative environment. We will walk through how my testing team has built that relationship over time. He will review why testing teams may find themselves isolated in silos in their organization. He will review the impact this has on the organization. Finally, he will look into strategies such as building communication, empathy, early team-building exercises across teams, and testing as a whole team approach to help dig out of the silo and create open communication channels shared across your org. So join and learn how to create a more collaborative and productive environment in your organization.
MICHAEL TURNER – QA Technical Release Manager, Hyperproof
BUILDING A ROBUST QUALITY ROADMAP
Standing up a QA department or plan is difficult. What do you prioritize? When do things start moving? When does the needle start to move? This presentation will go through scenarios and possibilities for setting up for success in the short and long term.
LESLIE BROOKS – Consultant, The BDD Coach
IN-SPRINT TEST AUTOMATION – DELIVER EARLY FOR MAXIMUM VALUE
Delivering test automation in-sprint – before the developers finish writing the code – delivers far more value than test automation delivered later. Delivering in-sprint lets the developers run all of the tests before they open a pull request, so they find and fix the bugs before QA ever gets the code. This is a win-win-win – it significantly improves developer and QA efficiency and delivers new features faster with fewer bugs, making the product owner and the customers happier too!
MAX SAPERSTONE – Technical Sales Manager, Steampunk
TEST DATA: BECAUSE YOUR TESTS NEED TO EAT TOO
As most testers know, data management is important to testing. For automated testing, this importance increases significantly. Testers need the correct data in the system in order to elicit the desired response. While manual testers can make adjustments on the fly to the system under test, automated tests are much pickier. If the system isn’t in a completely set and known state, the outcome of some actions might be the correct one, but interpreted by the automated scripts as the wrong one. Max Saperstone will discuss several different tactics used in real-world scenarios that were effective in managing test data. These include: preparing systems for testing, designing tests to be idempotent, and data management techniques to allow multiple tests to run in parallel without conflict. He will cover the Arrange Act Assert pattern, and how that can be used for more effective tests, along with different ways to seed and manage test data.
JON SZYMANSKI – VP of engineering, MarketWise Solutions
BEYOND TEST CASES: WHY IT IS OKAY TO “SHIFT RIGHT” AS PART OF YOUR TEST STRATEGY
Traditional testing focuses on writing test cases with known data sets, steps, and expected results, in a controlled test environment. But how do we know we are testing the right use cases before deployment? What if we have highly complex business rules that preclude managing clear and easily executable test cases? As testers, our goal is to assess software quality, and thus, provide confidence to our customers that the systems will perform to expectations. But we don’t usually have the time and the means to test everything, and sometimes we just don’t know what we don’t know. With the rise of big data and the push to use analytics for decision-making, as testers, we too can leverage data to assess system behaviors without having to replicate the end-to-end business scenarios.
SUJATA PATRO – Quality Engineer, Exact Sciences
BEYOND THE HYPE: TEST AUTOMATION IN ACTION – A TALE OF SUCCESS AND TRANSFORMATION
“Let’s Unlock the Future of Test Automation: Join her, a passionate advocate for software quality, as she takes you on an exhilarating journey through the often-misunderstood world of test automation. In today’s tech-driven world, test automation isn’t just a trend; it’s an absolute necessity. But the path to success is filled with challenges, pitfalls, and, most importantly, strategic choices.
In this session, Sujata will share her real-world experiences and offer solutions, using a compelling case study from Philips. This isn’t just a theoretical exploration of test automation; it’s a riveting account of our journey, full of obstacles and triumphs. We will dive into the heart of test automation, unlock the key to aligning tool choices with your project’s unique requirements, and discover how to harmonize the contrasting mindsets of developers and testers.
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just embarking on your automation journey, this session is your compass to navigate the future of testing. Don’t miss this opportunity to harness the power of strategic test automation and drive your projects toward lasting success. Let’s embark on this journey together!”
HAJER BEN MOUSSA – Senior Consultant, Code Lingual
BOXING AND AUTOMATION: A SURPRISING COMBINATION
“Jabs, Crosses, and Code” delves deep into the unexpected intersections of boxing and test automation. We’ll dissect the core strategies that boxers employ in the ring and draw uncanny parallels to the strategic planning involved in crafting robust automated testing frameworks. Through interactive exercises, attendees will step into the shoes of both a boxer and a test automation engineer, understanding the agility required in both domains. Uniting the seemingly unrelated, this keynote will unfold the layers of discipline, agility, and innovation shared by champions in boxing rings and coding arenas alike.
