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What to Expect in the Huddle | UKSTAR 2019

  • Trevagh
  • Blog, UKSTAR 2019
  • Mar 4, 2019
  • No Comments
We are just so excited for UKSTAR 2019. We cannot wait for everyone to see this years new and improved Huddle area! We are building on

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Talks You Should Attend at UKSTAR 2019 – Bill Mathews Picks

  • Mark Foley
  • Blog, UKSTAR 2019
  • Feb 25, 2019
  • No Comments
In this blog post, co-chair of UKSTAR 2019 Bill Matthews shares what talks he would like to see at UKSTAR 2019 based on his own current learning

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Getting A Handle On Future Technologies

  • Mark Foley
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Feb 18, 2019
  • No Comments
The world and technology is changing so fast. Keeping yourself up-to-date takes some effort and planning. What will stay relevant and what will

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Test Automation Conference

Test Automation at UKSTAR 2019: Automation Talks to Harness Your Automation Skills

  • Mark Foley
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Feb 18, 2019
Automation promises to free employees from repetitive tasks and refocus them on tasks that require human cognition all while improving speed and

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UKSTAR Software testing conference

Meet the Speaker | Artem Vasiuk

  • Trevagh
  • Blog, UKSTAR 2019, Uncategorized
  • Jan 15, 2019
  • No Comments
Introducing this weeks speaker; Artem Vasiuk. Artem will be presenting his talk ‘Ignite Security Testing Practice in Your Team‘ on

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UKSTAR Meet-Up Hero – Winner Announced

  • Ronan
  • Blog, UKSTAR 2019
  • Dec 20, 2018
  • No Comments
After 3 weeks of nominations, 6 days of voting we have finally come to the end of the Software Meet-Up Hero and have a winner. The Meet-Up Hero

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Hot Fuzzing: Testing with the full power of your data

  • Ronan
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Oct 24, 2018
Security testing, like any other kind of testing, has its challenges. It also has a wide variety of techniques and tools available to help solve

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Embracing Uncertainty in Software Development

  • Ronan
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Oct 23, 2018
Uncertainty is a normal condition in software development. Managers and teams often have to act and make decisions without having all the

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Level Up: API Exploratory Testing

  • Trevagh
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Oct 22, 2018
Ever wanted to know how to dig beneath the surface of a GUI by using API’s? Perhaps busy projects have prevented you from acquiring this

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Why Do We Have So Much Technical Debt?

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 14, 2018
The biggest driver of technical debt is invisible – and most people are not aware that this driver even exists Technical debt is a

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Is it Possible to Automate Customer Support?

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 13, 2018
There is no better way to learn about your customers, test assumptions and prove your product than by doing customer support. Whether if

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Test Together, Learn Together – Save 20% on 3 Tickets

  • Ronan
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 7, 2018
  • No Comments
At UKSTAR we are all about bring teams together. Those that test together, can learn together. That is why we encourage testing teams to attend

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Adept: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Laziness

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 4, 2018
For some years, I’ve worked on using machine learning to predict software defects. About this topic and the success of this technology in

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How to combine lessons from sport with QA team building

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 4, 2018
Did You ever wonder what it takes to build a perfect team? How lessons from team sports can give You guidelines on enhancing Your team. How facts

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Lets re-define testing

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 4, 2018
Why do we need Test Policy above test plan and strategy? How to define: Why do we test? What are Test goals and values? When does testing start,

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Microservices. For test automation

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 3, 2018
Speed, reliability, flakyness, testing on different environments – all these problems are familiar to those who running test automation at

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Building quality mindset and reaching continuous delivery on legacy product lacking automation

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 2, 2018
Test automation is key! Unfortunately, legacy projects are common and the level of automated tests is insufficient if not completely absent. In

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Open yourself to A.I.

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Sep 2, 2018
As Artificial Intelligence is gaining more attention, my team also wanted to make use of it. We started by looking at other teams solutions. The

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Been there, done that…how to automate for the future

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 30, 2018
Working as either a developer or manager; I have experienced that manual regression tests are used to accept a new release. These tests are often

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Three little pigs and test automation

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 30, 2018
Once I created a JIRA task to the developer’s team in my new project to include code coverage. The JIRA task was postponed from one sprint

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Three little pigs and test automation

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 30, 2018
Once I created a JIRA task to the developer’s team in my new project to include code coverage. The JIRA task was postponed from one sprint

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Don`t be a manager, be The Leader

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 30, 2018
I will describe the difference between management and leadership, why is it important, what culture it makes in the team. Then I will divide

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How testautomation have reduced the critical failures

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 29, 2018
Within the Swedish Pension Agency we have done a hugh job to change the process of develop and test system before they run in production

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Owning the Testing Craft

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 27, 2018
Back in 2016 I was placed as the tester on a brand new microservice project. I had little to no experience with API’s and frankly had no

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Manual Testing – Struggling?

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 27, 2018
Today everyone from IT, is talking about the future of manual testing and by that way, manual tester. In this story will highlight the exact

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Exploratory testing of AI Enabled System and Applications

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 27, 2018
Today almost every sector using applications built on emerging technologies. By using Machine Learning and Deep learning new products are getting

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How to use Agile on TaaS environment

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 26, 2018
How difficult it is to implement agile methodology when the customers are not directly involved. ITeste is a company specialized in Software

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X Lessons i learned from my developers

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 26, 2018
As an automation focused tester, i have always worked in a team where my developers were within reach. I could ask them questions or they would

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Expedition: Scrum Master – Slipping into another role as a tester

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 24, 2018
As a tester in agile teams you are often focussed in your testing stuff, team internal communication and talking to the product owner. But your

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Recognizing and Addressing Software Disruption on Test Managers

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 24, 2018
Why disruption exists? Where is it coming from? Which test organizations will it affect? Know the terrain Recognizing current disruptions

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Automation of the Users, by the Users, for the Users

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 23, 2018
An IT system is nothing without its users. In the hands of the developers, it’s only a technology framework for managing information. But

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The Modern Tester, a rare animal.

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 23, 2018
When your main job is to hire a QA team from scratch, you struggle like hell to find modern testers. Wait but first, what’s a modern

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The importance and origin of reasoning skills used within software testing

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 22, 2018
We use our reasoning skills every day. Mostly they work well, but sometimes they let us down. Unfortunately, one place they let us down is when

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Risks of neglecting human factors in increasingly automated systems

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 22, 2018
As software development becomes increasingly automated through processes such as CI and DevOps, what will happen to risks, particularly those

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Let’s Share the Testing!

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 21, 2018
In the world of DevOps and Continuous Delivery how can we, as Software Testers, adapt to continue to add value within our teams? Within my

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The two sides of test automation

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 21, 2018
In this talk I want to show how test automation for trivago’s main application evolved over the past two years, what went well and where we

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Source code generation instead of writing: do we need to test it?

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 21, 2018
At Sioux we have developed several projects with a Model Driven Development (MDD) approach, that enables software designers to model behavior of

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How to make your test environment work for you

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 20, 2018
Over the years, I’ve learned one key lesson from my experience in automating test cases. Regardless of how much effort I put into making my test

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Become the Leader You Always Wished You’d Had

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 19, 2018
Have you had that leader in the past that you just could NOT believe was promoted to a leadership role? Every time they called a meeting there

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The A.R.T of Leadership

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 18, 2018
There’s a lot more to leadership than simply being the one put in charge of others. Without fundamental skills, abilities and cultivating the

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Accelerating API Development, Testing and Delivery with API Virtualisation

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 17, 2018
In an ideal world, API development, testing, and operations teams always work together in perfect synchrony, delivering high-quality APIs on

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Automation mindset to Development Team to achieve DevOps

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 17, 2018
Flow or DevOps methodology do not differentiate between Developers and Testers. The developers though are still in the habit of sending code over

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Would you like to be a Supertester?

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 17, 2018
Working as a test automation engineer and a team lead for 12 years, I have crossed paths with a lot of testers. I noted that, despite completing

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Challenges in Agile Testing and How to Overcome Them

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 17, 2018
As testers working in an agile environment, we are faced with a number of challenges on a daily basis. The nature of our work has changed

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ATDD example using FitNesse , Selenium and Java

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 17, 2018
During presentation I want to share industrial experience regarding creating and using combination of frameworks for using TDD approach in the

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Why Cats are the Best Test Automators

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 17, 2018
Are you a manager looking for test automators? Or, are you a tester or a developer who would like to try it out with test automation? By studying

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Committee Answers Your Questions About the Call for Speakers

  • Ronan
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 16, 2018
  • No Comments
The 2019 Call for Speakers has officially been launched. Now that the submission process is open we are here to help you to apply to speak at the

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The role of the QA Manager – Redefined. – 9379

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 13, 2018
If testing is changing, what will happen to the role of the QA Manager? Do we need a QA leadership function when testers are part of organic

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Will we still call it testing in 2030?

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 13, 2018
“Testing is changing”, saying this is already a cliche! But many testers and managers are actually missing the pace this is happening and the

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Don’t Test just put it live

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 8, 2018
• Do we really need to test software that should just work well enough to gain valuable customer feedback as early as possible? • Is putting

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Automation – The answer to life, the universe and everything

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 8, 2018
Over the years I have talked to numerous customers and been on numerous projects where, all of which thought that if we could just automate we

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Frontend Testing: Stepping in and Collaborating with Developers – 9372

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 8, 2018
Testing is shifting left, moving closer to testing the code itself, and not the full product. But while managers dictate a shift to the left, the

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Not Only Cars: “AI, Please Test My App”

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 8, 2018
Autonomous cars were a Scifi dream not 10 years ago. A computer driving a car? No way. But in May of 2014, Google did the impossible, and

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Testing – expense or investment?

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 6, 2018
In today’s world of Agile Transformation everyone is talking about Continuous Integration / Continuous Development, DevOps and Test Automation.

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The ASS!

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 6, 2018
A story about how to visualize complex backend systems in a really easy way, so that god discussions and understanding can grow.

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Spot the Difference; Automating Visual Regression Testing

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 5, 2018
This session looks at common issues with just relying on end to end automation testing tools, using examples to demonstrate common pitfalls and

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Python saves the day – Test data generation and data evaluation using Python

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 5, 2018
Data! In many cases it becomes an increasingly larger part of our testing. The need to evaluate it or the need to create it. 5 years ago when I

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That’s not my bug

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 3, 2018
In my previous position I had the privilege to be on the Revenue Cycle Analytics team, which did reporting on all other parts of revenue cycle

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CSS Selectors from zero to awesome

  • cathal
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 3, 2018
When writing Selenium tests, you need to identify the page elements by using some kind of selectors. XPATH, although much more complicated than

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Troubleshooting The Fudge Out of It

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 3, 2018
An issue has been identified in the system. Its’ root cause is very difficult to determine. It is not very obvious how the issue occurs and how

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Improvised Storytelling for the Modern Tester

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 2, 2018
Why did Little Red Riding Hood go to Grandmas house? In testing we talk a lot about asking questions, but what do we do with the information we

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Testing Java applications with Spock

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 2, 2018
Remember the old days when you tested using JUnit? How boring it was? You made a lot of excuses to avoid testing your code. Luckily those dark

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Unleash your firestarters to deal with the future

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 2, 2018
The future for testing, how it’s done, who it’s done by, is not known. Regardless what people tell you, it’s simply their opinions One thing that

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Wayne Rutter UKSTAR 2019

Cognitive QA

  • Adam
  • Speakers, UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 2, 2018
I have been on a journey for the last six months exploring Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing and how they

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The waiting game – How to design reliable Selenium tests

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 2, 2018
The biggest issue when it comes to Selenium tests is attempting to interact with the page elements when they are not ready. Trying to click an

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Automation approach: guidance from the quadrant and pyramid

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 2, 2018
Are you doing automation just for the sake of it? Are you doing it just because it’s a buzz word or trending topic? Do you know exactly where

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Mind-mapping your way to greater test coverage

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 2, 2018
In this talk I will share how I used Mind Maps in the Software Testing world. Software Testing is crucial in establishing a high level of quality

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Simon Prior

Baptism of Fire – Lessons Learned from My First Year in QA Leadership

  • Adam
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Aug 2, 2018
Having been in Software engineering for 11 years and QA for 7 years, in June 2017, I became a QA Engineering Manager. Without any training, I

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Technology’s Feet on Society’s Ground

  • Cliodhna Broder
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Jul 25, 2018
Technological advances have always trampled and rearranged the ground occupied by society. Each wave of Industrial Revolution has brought massive

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How To Lead Successful Organisation Change

  • Cliodhna Broder
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Jul 25, 2018
Few projects need an endless supply of new tests, and even fewer people would be happy with a job that only involved writing tests. Happily

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Why Do We Automate?

  • Cliodhna Broder
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Jul 25, 2018
Throughout my career in testing and automation, I’ve seen (and created!) a lot of horribly ineffective automation ‘solutions’.

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The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World

  • Cliodhna Broder
  • UKSTAR 2019
  • Jul 25, 2018
Our world is changing. Artificial intelligence is being employed in just about all walks of life – from virtual assistants to self-driving

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Why No One Should Underestimate an Old Guy on a Mission! – 5473

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018, UKSTAR 2019, Uncategorized
  • Jul 30, 2017
This presentation inspires those who do not believe they can achieve their education and other successes which also offering a look at how

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