SPEAKERS
ERIC BYRON - Consultant, Byron Consulting Services
INTEGRATING AUTOMATED TESTING INTO DEVOPS AND AGILE
As product release cycles get shorter and shorter and companies look for ways to get to continuous deployments and adopt DevOps and Agile software development approaches, customer expectations for high quality software products also increase. This puts tremendous pressure on organizations to find ways to keep up with software testing to ensure high quality software before it is released. This talk will discuss how automated testing integrates with DevOps and Agile software development strategies and highlights some practical steps you can take to ensure both speed and quality in your product release cycles.
MHAHESH MURALEEDHARA - Test Architect, UST Global
THE CASE FOR SYNTHETIC TEST DATA
Synthetic Test Data has come a long way. This session will discuss the advantages of synthetic data over masking production data. We will look at a right combination of live and synthetic test data can be applied to have maximum test coverage and how it is redefining the use of data in Agile, DevOps and Waterfall environments.
SUMA THOVINKERE SRINIVASAIAH - Chapter Lead – Test Automation & Devops, Centelon
HETEROGENEOUS CLOUD BASED AUTOMATION FRAMEWORK
Robust Automation Framework to support on premise and cloud based application in the disruptive technology. Scalable Test Automation solution to new cutting edge technology
ELI ELIMELECH - Automation Frameworks Architect / Team leader
CODED VS. CODELESS - THE FUTURE OF IN-HOUSE AUTOMATION FRAMEWORKS DEVELOPMENT
With many new codeless tools coming into the market, the question of coded vs. codeless solutions is back.
The answer to this question will radically change the roles within the automation industry.
NIKO MANGAHAS - Director Enterprise Quality, RCG Global Services
ROAD TO HYPER AUTOMATION
It is a tremendous challenge to find a good answer to how much testing we need. Do we not do testing enough or are we doing too much testing? How do we justify the time and effort that goes into testing? The answer lies in understanding the "Total Cost of Quality" which is using metrics and data to understand how much is being spent in 'quality activities' and compare that to how much value it is presently or potentially generating across various aspects and areas.
LOKESH GANGAIAH - Test Automation Manager, 86 400
KARATE
Karate is an API test automation open source tool,which helps in combining API test with performance and ui automation as well. About the karate framework, How to write a simple API test, How to integrate your API to test functionality, performance and UI testing
ANUP DAMODARAN - Automation Specialist | Architect, Ocean Software
TEST AUTOMATION - CHANGING TRENDS AND TOOLS
Test Automation has ever evolved into different technologies and tools over the time. This Topic gives an idea 'How to stay relevant in Test Automation' with Today's Tech Challenge in relation with Web technology, where is the Test Automation Trend is leading to in future
MONICA CHIS - Freelancer IT Software Consultant & Trainer, Freelancer
BEST PRACTICES FOR SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE IN AN AGILE ENVIRONMENT
Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) are 2 very important topics for any product and for any industry. Software Quality Assurance is a necessary step for launching a successful software product. I am promoting the idea that Software Quality Assurance is part of the project work and is the responsibility of the whole team. Agile is a great platform for managing all the complex aspects of software development. In the transition from waterfall to agile, all of us have faced many issues related to quality assurance. The SDLC methodology is a structured process that splits each aspect of software development into different phases. In an Agile Software Development Life Cycle, the team can jump back and forth between SDLC phases. That’s why we should define the process for Software Quality Assurance in order to be sure that, in the end, we will deliver a quality product.
The agile practitioners have also claimed that the use of the agile approach has greatly improved the quality of their products. I will analyze these issues in order to better understand the relation between Software Quality Assurance and the Agile environment. I will try to provide directions towards future integrations of Quality Assurance aspects within Agile development practices. I would also like to highlight that Software Quality Assurances is not only testing.
JAN MICHAEL MOLINA - Associate Manager, Accenture
TEST OPTIMIZER AND TEST PATTERN MINING
Planning for tests in a fast paced schedule could become very hard and a lot of challenges are encountered. Some of the common challenges projects encounter are:
There are too many test scripts, do we need to test all?
Which test scripts are impacted by a particular defect?
Do we have redundant test scripts?
In this session, we will learn how we can address the challenges in planning for tests and at the same time be more efficient.
GEORGE UKKURU -Head of Quality Engineering, UST Global
PRODUCTION FEEDBACK ANALYSIS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
In the present time, organizations are running on a racetrack to maximize the reach of products and services to the end-users. But a Quality engineering team seldom gets involved in the analysis of consumer behaviour, application usage and production tickets after the application is deployed to production. This often results in high defect leakage, and low application availability leading to the weak consumer experience. 74% Customer experience leaders acknowledge the need for more significant commitment to improving customer satisfaction, says Gartner’s studies for 2020. The presentation will provide view of how AI can be used for production defect analysis, application performance monitoring, usage pattern and sentiment analysis to improve the overall end consumer experience
LYNDON JASON CATALAN - Head Of Quality Assurance, Stratpoint
HOW TO GET AN “A+" IN UAT
An application to be used by both internal employees and external customers from 50 different countries, teams scattered across the world, an offshore team that has little UAT experience - a UAT nightmare in a global scale, indeed. See how our UAT team, located offshore, faced these massive challenges. Take a look at what we did from planning to designing to executing and automating, to reporting, until supporting the release. Apply these learnings into your own UAT processes and deliver more value to your customers’ businesses. Let’s put the “A+” in your UAT!
SANJAY KUMAR -Founder and Creator, SelectorsHub
INNOVATIVE LOCATORS SKILL
In web automation we waste almost 60-80% of our time on writing locators, but we are still creating them using Chrome DevTools or some tools, which is like writing code in Notepad in 2020 while there are so many intelligent editors available. In this session, we will learn how we can reduce the percentage of our time spent on writing locators to 4-5% and how we should think in order to develop innovations that are based on our daily problems.
GEORGE HAMBLEN - Sr QA Architect, Quality Consultant
AUTOMATION TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY - CASE STUDY (Copresenter with Anand Sahu)
Organization’s often need a viewpoint from an outsider to understand how to take their group forward. This was the case for one of the United State’s largest and well know financial services companies. Join Anand and George as they walk through the transformation journey from a waterfall organization to an Agile one for this company.
ANAND SAHU - VP, QA Business Development and Customer Success, Cigniti Technologies, Inc
AUTOMATION TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY - CASE STUDY (Copresenter with George Hamblen)
Organization’s often need a viewpoint from an outsider to understand how to take their group forward. This was the case for one of the United State’s largest and well know financial services companies. Join Anand and George as they walk through the transformation journey from a waterfall organization to an Agile one for this company.
