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Joe Colantonio - Actionable Automation Awesomeness in Testing Farm.pdf

The document compares four automation tools: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and TestCafe. It provides a detailed comparison matrix covering aspects like supported languages, browsers, speed, APIs, fault tolerance, CI/CD integration, communities, learning curves, and ecosystems. The conclusion is that Playwright is a solid pick for end-to-end testing due to its flexibility, auto waits features, large and active community. Cypress can be easily adopted but has some limitations. While Selenium is widely used, newer tools like Playwright are faster and more reliable. The best tool depends on an application, team and test requirements.

Ravi Lakkavalli - World Quality Report.pptxQA or the Highway

The 2022 World Quality Report surveyed 1,750 professionals from 32 countries and 10 sectors to identify key trends in quality assurance. The report found that while agile adoption has improved delivery times and costs for many organizations, some still struggle with quality in agile projects. It provides recommendations for organizations to improve quality practices like implementing agile quality orchestration, focusing on test automation and data strategies, integrating quality into sustainable IT initiatives, and defining quality metrics aligned with business value. The report suggests quality teams will play an important role in emerging technologies and should develop new skills to ensure seamless user experiences.

Caleb Crandall - Testing Between the Buckets.pptxQA or the Highway

1) The document discusses different types of testing "buckets" and argues that overcategorizing tests can be counterproductive. It advocates combining ideas from different buckets to improve testing. 2) Several examples of "semi-automated" testing are provided, where scripts automate parts of a test that are repetitive or complex, but humans still provide some input. 3) The document questions strict definitions of "end-to-end" testing, arguing that tests can focus on parts of a system rather than every component from start to finish. The goal should be to test behaviors, interactions and risks specific to different areas.

Thomas Haver - Mobile Testing.pdfQA or the Highway

Thomas Haver is an ex-scientist and ex-baker who hates sand. M&T Bank needed a better way to test their mobile banking apps and ensure a good user experience. They lacked centralized testing practices and resources. Perfecto was selected as their primary mobile testing tool to help standardize practices and provide metrics. The manual testing features would help train teams, but automation capabilities were also important for maturity.

Thomas Haver - Example Mapping.pdfQA or the Highway

The document describes an example mapping group activity to help clarify acceptance criteria and examples for a user story. The group is provided a sample user story about adding and editing contact details in an Amazon mobile app. Participants will generate rules and examples for the story, which will be reviewed by the group. Example mapping is presented as a way to facilitate collaboration and ensure a shared understanding of user stories before development begins.

Sarah Geisinger - Continious Testing Metrics That Matter.pdfQA or the Highway

The document discusses the importance of tracking the right metrics in continuous testing to improve collaboration, efficiency, and impact. It recommends measuring factors that cause pain for the QA, development, and user teams, as well as metrics focused on by leadership like deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rates, restore time, and reliability. The document advocates integrating QA metrics into the development pipeline for continuous improvement, and using dashboards for transparency.

Jeff Sing - Quarterly Service Delivery Reviews.pdfQA or the Highway

This document outlines Jeff Sing's approach to establishing a quality roadmap through quarterly service delivery reviews. It discusses collecting the right data to understand quality trends, showcasing data during reviews to facilitate discussions, and iterating on initiatives based on review outcomes. The goal is to use a data-driven approach and collaborative discussions to continuously measure and improve how well an organization fulfills its customers' needs.

Leandro Melendez - Chihuahua Load Tests.pdfQA or the Highway

- The document discusses using small "Chihuahua-sized" load tests versus large "Big Ass Load Tests (BALT)" and argues that smaller load tests are better for continuous integration pipelines. - Chihuahua-sized load tests are described as small, lightweight, manageable, and easy to include in pipelines without disrupting environments or requiring many resources. - In contrast, BALTs are characterized as heavy, disruptive, resource-intensive, and only suitable when needed outside of pipelines. The document recommends focusing on small, lean, and friendly load tests that can be run continuously.

Rick Clymer - Incident Management.pdfQA or the Highway

The document discusses the importance of effective incident management processes when technical issues arise. It emphasizes the need to properly determine if an actual problem exists, communicate the incident to relevant parties, assign roles to responders, document all actions and decisions, provide updates to stakeholders, conduct a post-mortem analysis to identify root causes and preventative measures, and ensure lessons are learned to improve processes. The goal is to resolve incidents quickly while establishing practices that reduce the likelihood of future occurrences and build trust through transparency.

Robert Fornal - ChatGPT as a Testing Tool.pptxQA or the Highway

The document discusses using ChatGPT as a testing tool. It outlines the author's assumptions and research using ChatGPT to generate code, improvements, and unit tests for Angular applications and APIs. The author notes positives include ChatGPT's ability to suggest code improvements and generate unit tests over 50% of the time. However, the author cautions that evaluating ChatGPT's responses requires knowledge and experience to determine usefulness.

Federico Toledo - Extra-functional testing.pdfQA or the Highway

This document discusses extra-functional testing and how testers can improve their ability to observe non-functional aspects of a system during functional testing. It covers key concepts like observability, and how to incorporate testing of performance, security, and accessibility. Specific tools are recommended for each quality factor, and ways to automate extra-functional tests are described. The presentation aims to help testers expand their skills and collaborate more with other testing teams.

Andrew Knight - Managing the Test Data Nightmare.pptxQA or the Highway

The document discusses strategies for managing test data, including static and dynamic data preparation approaches. Static data preparation involves creating test data before tests run, which can make tests faster but also more brittle. Dynamic data preparation creates test data during test execution, avoiding brittleness but slowing down tests. The document recommends considering both approaches and their tradeoffs when setting up a test data management strategy.

Melissa Tondi - Automation We_re Doing it Wrong.pdfQA or the Highway

The document discusses common mistakes made in test automation and provides recommendations to improve practices. It notes that automation should not replace humans but make them more efficient. Common errors include creating large test suites that run overnight and are vetted by few people, focusing only on automation metrics without consideration of test landscape, and treating automation as the sole responsibility of test teams rather than involving developers. The document recommends breaking suites into smaller focused runs, prioritizing types of tests, using standards aligned with development, and providing self-service tests maintained by cross-functional teams. The goal is to apply learnings from failures to drive innovation through a collaborative approach.

Jeff Van Fleet and John Townsend - Transition from Testing to Leadership.pdfQA or the Highway

This presentation discusses transitioning from testing roles to leadership roles. It provides an overview of common career paths from manual tester to positions like test lead, test automation engineer, test manager, and quality assurance analyst. It encourages attendees to learn, apply, and share knowledge; look for opportunities to contribute and suggest improvements; and work with their manager to create a development plan. The presentation emphasizes that leadership opportunities exist in everyday work and recommends books on leadership and culture improvement.

DesiradhaRam Gadde - Testers _ Testing in ChatGPT-AI world.pptxQA or the Highway

The document discusses testers and testing in the context of ChatGPT. It provides an introduction to ChatGPT and discusses how it can be useful for software testers. The document outlines the typical roles and skills of testers, both currently and how they may evolve in the future. It suggests that artificial intelligence like ChatGPT will help enhance how testers do their jobs rather than replace testing roles. The conclusion emphasizes the importance for testers to increase their technical skills and learn how to work with AI tools to help improve testing performance.

Damian Synadinos - Word Smatter.pdfQA or the Highway

This document discusses semantics and word choice in testing. It explores the phrase "Testers [do|don't] (help) [prevent|detect] 'problems'" through deconstruction and analysis of the individual words. Key points made include: the definition of words like "testing", "problems", and the verbs used can impact meaning; problems are subjective and relative; and word choice around prevention versus detection reflects different perspectives. Consideration of context, definitions, and subjective views of different stakeholders is important to understanding the full meaning of statements involving testing.

Lee Barnes - What Successful Test Automation is.pdfQA or the Highway

The document discusses effective test automation and dispels common myths. It argues that test automation is a process, not just a tool, and should support business goals by automating high-value, reliable tests. Effective test automation provides fast feedback and allows testers to focus on critical tasks rather than repetitive work. The document broadens the definition of test automation to include activities beyond just automating user actions, like creating test environments and data.

Jordan Powell - API Testing with Cypress.pptxQA or the Highway

Carlos Kidman - Exploring AI Applications in Testing.pptxQA or the Highway

This document discusses how AI can be applied to testing in multiple ways, either with hands-on or hands-off approaches. It explores various tools that use AI for UI testing, API testing, code analysis, test data generation, and test integration. For UI testing, tools that use record and script, describe and NLP, or hands-off capabilities are listed. Similarly for API testing and code, specific tools are outlined. The document also discusses companies that provide test data solutions as well as ways to generate synthetic test data. It concludes by mentioning the potential to identify duplicate tests and automatically add data identifiers.

Ben Oconis - Breaking Down Silos.pdfQA or the Highway

The document discusses how organizational silos occur in testing teams due to factors like structure, communication issues, and different goals. This can impact organizations by reducing efficiency, collaboration, and innovation. The document then provides recommendations for breaking down silos, such as onboarding new hires together, shifting testing left into development, pairing testers with others, opening communication, and building relationships through training and celebrations. Breaking silos can positively impact organizations by strengthening relationships, improving future products, and reducing bugs in products.

David Leslie - Testing at MACH Speed.pptxQA or the Highway

David Leslie of Aries Solutions presented on testing strategies for MACH architecture projects. The presentation covered what MACH architecture is, examples of MACH stacks, and considerations for testing at different stages of a project. It discussed testing microservices and APIs, cloud environments, and headless user interfaces. The presentation provided guidance on testing individual components, connections, and end-to-end flows during sprints and integration. It emphasized flexibility and independence of layers in MACH projects.

Andrew Knight - Spicy Opinions.pptxQA or the Highway

The document shares opinions on various topics related to software testing and test automation. It discusses preferences for dog breeds, testing methodologies, programming languages for test automation, testing design patterns, test metrics, agile methodologies, and compensation for test engineers. The opinions expressed range from preferences for test frameworks and patterns to perspectives on the future of autonomous testing.

DesiradhaRam Gadde - Testers & Testing in ChatGPT-AI world.pptxQA or the Highway

Gone are the days where you can simply learn QA and QC concepts to get into software testing job. In the next generations “QA Role” would be evolved into automation first mindset. Focused where you need to be good with automation concepts even if you are tasked with manual testing on day-to-day basis. The automation technologies and testing methodologies has evolved the software testing and some of them even redefined how testing can be done. The current buzz word in the industry is “AI”, we believe that AI will also have the similar impact on software testing in the future. In this interactive session, we would like to discuss about our ideas on where AI & ML can benefit testing and testers. What do we need to be prepared for next “Decade” to stay relevant in the market. How testers need to evolve in the world of “ChatGPT”.

Angie Jones - The Reality of Developing in an Artificial WorldQA or the Highway

Our world is changing. Artificial intelligence is being employed in just about all walks of life - from virtual assistants to self-driving cars. How does this new way of life impact software testing? What is our role...is there even one? Of course there is! While the future of artificial intelligence is mostly unknown, remember that as testers, one of our strongest assets is being able to discover and report the unknown. Many software developers jump at the opportunity to learn and implement the new skills required for artificial intelligence. Let’s get on board and take our place in making history! In this talk, Angie Jones will share her personal journey in learning how to test AI-based applications, her views on the tester’s role in an artificial world, the skills needed to test such applications, and the impact that a tester can make in this space. Key Takeaways: - You will gain a better understanding of the testable features of AI - You will examine the skills needed to test AI - You will explore the impact that testers can have on developing AI application

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QA Automation has always been a strategy that when successfully implemented enables organizations to improve software quality while releasing more frequently. Roughly a year ago a new concept emerged from Gartner as the leading technology trend for 2020, “Hyperautomation”. Hyperautomation is the concept of automating everything in an organization that can be automated utilizing QA Automation, Robotic Process Automation, and Machine Learning / AI. Come discover how you can digitally transform your organization enabling the fully automated enterprise.

Aly Brine - LinkedIn: No Longer a Place Your Resume Goes to DieQA or the Highway

LinkedIn is no longer a place where your resume goes to die only to be revived if you need to land a new job. The leading online professional network boasts over 700 million users from every industry, meaning, no matter what you\'re looking to accomplish in your career, you can find a LinkedIn connection willing to help! But with dozens of social media platforms each having their own nuances of how to act, what to post and who to be, feeling comfortable using LinkedIn can be a bit overwhelming. In this session, you\'ll learn everything you need to know to use LinkedIn to connect with fellow professionals. From optimizing your profile to the settings you need to change in order to ensure your profile is being seen along with how to identify the decision makers and most importantly, how to turn those connections into genuine relationships and walk away with a refreshed and optimized LinkedIn profile. We may be living in a virtual world but using LinkedIn to create relationships will take your career to the next level.

Petros Plakogiannis - To BDD or not to BDDQA or the Highway

The reason Agile and now DevOps took off so strongly in the Development community is not because they were more technological approaches, but because they provided more value to the business aspects of our companies. These revolutionary practices allowed us to deliver features faster, made our companies more competitive and helped them to generate more revenues. As testers we have the opportunity of using what is being called Shifting Left & Shifting Right for the same goal of Business Value and to help our companies not only deliver functionality faster, but also to understand how this new value is being adopted (or not!) by our customers. In this session we will review how we can use techniques such as User Story Hypothesis Value, Instrumentation Planning, Behavioral Analysis in Production, and End-to-End metrics to help our companies navigate the hypercompetitive business environment we are all a part of.

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