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How Weather.com Achieves Quality at Speed

To plan for any given day, millions of people use weather.com. The team behind the weather portal knows this and ensures their website delivers accurate local weather forecasts with the best possible user experience. Todd Eaton from IBM will reveal how the team built an efficient testing and deployment solution to deliver accuracy and quality, […]

DevOps Dance – ShiftLeft, ShiftRight – Get It Right

As more organizations move towards continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) with DevOps pipelines becoming the norm, where is the right place to do different kinds and levels of testing? In this presentation, I will provide a blueprint for test managers in how to think about shifting left and shifting right while keeping the […]

Agile, Lean and DevOps: How We Got Here

The quick and profound departure from long-used traditional development to rapid delivery may seem as if it came out of nowhere. But these are actually the natural progressions from Lean practices long used in manufacturing. Lean Software Development (LSD) ideas have taken over development but are still not widely known. Understanding how we got to […]

Workshop: The Mega-Actionable Continuous Testing Workshop

If you’re struggling to understand how to implement continuous testing in your company, then this workshop is for you. In just four hours you’ll come away with a solid understanding of the three pillars to implementing continuous testing and the tools needed to be successful. Most importantly, you’ll get your own action plan customized to […]

Before and After You Say ‘I Do’ to Docker

Docker is the most popular containerized solution being used in the software industry for development. Test automation is no exception to this. Like any other test automation tool, implementation can get complicated, tricky and unmaintainable if all you understand is the “Record and Playback” features of docker or think it is the same as using […]

Example Mapping: The New Three Amigos

Example Mapping is a collaboration technique used by teams to help refine requirements. Every team should have a set of “ready” criteria that includes a workshop between team members to establish a shared understanding between the business and development team. In a time-boxed Example Mapping session, rules will summarize examples or constraints about a user […]

Workshop: Continuous Testing – Embedding Quality in Your DevOps

Decreasing the time to market has become mission-critical for many organizations. This heightened focus on speed has fundamentally changed the way software is designed, developed, released and tested. Not long ago it would have been common to see release testing efforts that took weeks or even months. This is no longer an option for most […]

Workshop: DevDroneOps

What can we learn from drones that we can apply to our testing practices to help in DevOps cultures? Join Paul Merrill for a fun-filled flight into the world of DevOps and Continuous Testing. Learn the keys to Test Automation, a critical component of DevOps. Learn principles of test automation through team challenges with drones […]