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AGENDA
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18:00 - Check-In / Doors Open
18:20 - Welcome by #theCharmingOrganizer
18:30 - From Waterfall Testing to Agile Quality Assurance, Pia Wiedermayer
19:10 - Upskilling Test Automation with A4Q, Giang Hohmann
19:30 - Break
19:40 - Good Enough Testing: Finding the Goldilocks Zone, Sanne Visser
20:20 - Observability Meets a Flaky Test, João Proença
21:00 - Call it a day
The Zoom session opens 6pm CEST so we can have a timely start.
ATTENTION: Zoom Limit!!!
There's will be a max cap of 100 participants to join the conference call when the event starts. We'll go first come, first served when the event opens on Zoom.
Looking forward to seeing you all.
#theCharmingOrganizer
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JOBS
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++ IVM Technical Consultants
+++ Test Manager (m/w/d) - https://bit.ly/3Q5rZMt
+++ Software Tester (m/w/d) - https://bit.ly/3RZycev
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From Waterfall Testing to Agile Quality Assurance
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Abstract:
When I joined this project in 2019, testing was not about quality, but about detecting failure. The rifts were deep, the mistrust high and the quality…well, there was a lot of room for improvement.
Sounds familiar to you? If you are looking for ideas on how to change such destructive working modes join my talk. I will take you on our journey from the former waterfall setup to the current agile quality assurance organization. Blood, sweat and tears included…and we are not done yet.
Thanks to SAFe & DevOps transformation "built-in quality" is finally receiving the appropriate attention within the bank.
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Good Enough Testing: How to find the goldilocks zone
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Abstract:
Goldilocks was a spoiled little girl and a home invader. Fortunately, that's not the moral of that story. The value of the fairy tale is that there is a point at which something can be just right.
Just right is a porridge that is not too hot or too cold, a chair that is not too big or too small and so forth. This parable is relevant to software testing. I love the idea that there is a point where our test efforts are just right or in the Goldilocks Zone.
The tricky thing is that there is no steady state in which to define that Goldilocks Zone.
The shape that testing should take is one where test effort input while producing good software is just right, that is to say, not too big or too small. The just-right point thus is one that we always need to be readjusting. It is common to become too heavily invested in our work and its importance, to the point that we become blind to the art of moderation. Making the hard choices to delete test cases, not build features, and even cancel entire projects feels like failure. However, these actions are necessary for maintaining a balance where quality is good enough to provide value to your business without overburdening your teams.
In this presentation, I will discuss seven maxims or prevalent thoughts in IT and testing that could use some moderation:
- Testing is dead
- Build fast, fail fast
- The customer is always right
- Automate all the tests
- Bugs found early are cheap to fix
Never Agile Enough
In each example, I'll show you how to find that Goldilocks Zone.
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Observability Meets a Flaky Test
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“Observability”. A word that is quite popular in tech these days, but not always easy to understand what it means in the real world, right? “How is it not monitoring?”
Well, one day my team was struggling with a flaky test in our CI/CD pipeline. The way we were able to unravel the mystery surrounding that test illustrates a few key observability concepts on the availability of data and the friction in accessing it.
In this talk I will tell you the story about that painful flaky test and how it showed us how (the lack of) observability could already be present in our daily lives, without us even realizing it! By the end of this tale, even if you know nothing about observability beforehand, you will understand a bit more.