Conference Presentations

STAREAST Testing The DevOps Challenge: Now Is the Time to Be a Champion of Quality
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Software failures continue to make news headlines daily. Yet all the industry hype we hear is about DevOps, a set of practices that seems to exclude quality and testers. Does quality matter? Will it become part of the equation? We must take notice of exclusionary movements and become...

Lisa Dronzek
STAREAST Testing Infrastructure Testing: The Ultimate “Shift Left”
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Organizations worldwide are continually required to make significant investments in upgrading, re-engineering, and protecting their IT infrastructure. However, unlike application software development, many companies lack a structured quality assurance approach for infrastructure testing.

Carl Delmolino and Hitesh Patel
STAREAST Testing Agile Testing at Scale
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Over the past twenty years, Mary Thorn has had the opportunity to work at many startups, creating several QA/test departments from scratch. For the past ten years, she has done this in agile software companies. Recently Mary moved from leading small agile test organizations to leading a...

Mary Thorn
STAREAST Testing Test Automation at the Speed of Agile: Making It Work Every Build
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Join Danny McKeown, Paychex’s lead test enterprise automation architect, to see how a small tools group supports nearly one-hundred agile teams as they move toward achieving continuous delivery. Take part in the conversation to understand how Paychex is progressing in the third year of its...

Danny McKeown
STAREAST Testing Pairing: The Secret Sauce of Agile Testing
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Finding time to learn test techniques, mentor other testers, grow application knowledge, and cross-train your team members is a daunting task with a complicated recipe. What if you could do these things while testing and finding bugs? Enter Pair Testing. What’s that? Well, maybe you’ve...

Jess Lancaster
STAREAST Testing Owning Quality: The Culture of Empowerment at Riot Games
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At Riot Games, the League of Legends team faces the challenge of delivering content patches to a global audience on a tight timeline—every two weeks. By employing the tenets of the company’s core values (the Riot Manifesto), QA representatives work to ensure the highest possible quality...

Jane Jeffers
STAREAST Testing Adapting Test Teams to Organizational Power Structures
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Scapegoats, spin-doctors, white knights, and sycophants—have you found your test team playing these roles? Organizations, both large and small, often have distinct cultures and power structures with significant but insidious impact on how individual testers and teams are expected to operate.

John Hazel
STAREAST Testing Continuous Context Driven Test Improvement
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Classical test process improvement is often not today’s best solution. With virtualization, SOA, web, cloud, mobile, and integration with social media, the way we develop, test, and manage has drastically changed. Jeroen explores why Agile, context-driven testing, SCRUM, continuous...

Jeroen Mengerink
STAREAST Testing Appium, Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration
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James Koch demonstrates how to apply test-driven development and continuous integration using Appium, an industry leading open-source automation tool. Appium was inspired by Selenium for web browser testing. Their philosophy—Why do anything different for mobile? Appium allows you to run...

James Koch
STAREAST Testing Use Docker to Enhance Your Testing
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Wonder how you can make your testing more efficient? Join Glenn Buckholz as he explores Docker, a technology that allows rapid development and deployment via containers. First, he explains exactly what composes a container, and discusses the differences between a container and an image. 

Glenn Buckholz

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