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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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Bas Dijkstra UKSTAR 2019 Keynote, Deep Dive, Software Testing Conference, Meet the speaker

Building Robust Automation Frameworks

  • Trevagh
  • Uncategorised
  • Oct 18, 2018
In this deep dive presentation, we’re going to take a look at what it takes to build a robust, fit-for-the-future automation solution. What

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“I don’t believe in your tests”: Documenting exploratory testing

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
Modern technologies and software evolve rapidly – it’s a known fact. To adjust to the pace the way of working on software developmet also

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BDD automation traps. What I’ve learned so far.

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
Different things can drive our development. It can be the documentation, the tests or the behaviour of the system itself. BDD gained popularity

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Where Does Data Come from? What Data Should Leaders Use to Lead Teams

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
With all the tools available on the market it can be overwhelming as to which ones might meet your needs and which ones will work best in your

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Devil in the Ops

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
It is becoming clear that Agile transformation (although making teams more efficient) is not solving all the problems in software development and

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A Rough Guide to Cloning a Person

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
– Would you like your person to be of any particular age or gender? – Would you like an address with that? – How about an

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Thumbling down the Pyramid

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
“We don’t want your service tests. They’re too slow for our pipeline.”, said the developers. I was baffled. Just a few years earlier I had been

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How to tame your Automation Tests!

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
In this session, I would be sharing few titbits on how few best practices that has helped me in my automation journey, such that UI Tests are

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Bootcamp for Agile Leaders: Understanding your Value to the team

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
The key to helping your teams transform and be successful in an agile world is knowing what skills are needed for you to be effective. Join

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What’s Your Leadership IQ? Do you know?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
Have you ever needed a way to measure your leadership IQ? Or been in a performance review where the majority of time was spent discussing your

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The Life of a Tester from Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After (or Infinity and Beyond)

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 18, 2018
People feared the first automobiles because there was not a horse attached to it with the sense to prevent an accident.  In fact Alfred Sennett

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Maximum Human Intervention

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 17, 2018
As the world rushes headlong towards the automation of everything, with the objective of reducing human intervention to a minimum, Susie Maguire

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There’s More to Automation than Just Testing

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 17, 2018
You may have been told “we need to automate all our test scripts” or “we need to test faster, so let’s automate our tests”, but automating only

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Kubernates + Docker Selenium Grid

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 17, 2018
I would like to give a presentation about Kubernates + Docker Selenium Grid

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Automation Enemy No. 1: how we fight flaky tests at Unity3d

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 17, 2018
On a stage, automation looks great. In private conversations, however, people often confess, that they have a lot of troubles with their

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Shift Left Testing: Prevention Instead of Detection

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 17, 2018
With the introducing of the software development practices that emphasize on a fast time-boxed delivery process, a lot of new challenges emerged

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Chatbots and How to Test Them

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 17, 2018
Machines that are performing automated conversations are expected to bridge the gap between companies and end users via the most natural method

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Test leadership in agile world

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 16, 2018
Software testing has changed significantly in the last decades with the raise of Agile approach and many organizations adopting it to software

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Mobile test automation in digital banking

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 16, 2018
Mobile banking is evolutionary changing how people are performing their daily financial operations. Banking becomes efficient and frictionless

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From tester to test coach, a voyage into the unknown

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 16, 2018
I believe the future of software testing industry lies in test coaching. A future where test coaches work with teams to create a shared vision of

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Testing Automation

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 15, 2018
VBA Scripting is used by both end-users and testers to automate processes. But do you test the automation code? This presentation will look at

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Performance testing – #ShareTheFail

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Have you ever wondered how to start performance tests in your project? Or maybe you’ve got those tests already but working with them scares you

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Cognitive Testing – Insight Driven Testing Powered By ML

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Cognitive is an Intelligent Test Planning automation capability which automates – the most humanly possible activity in testing. Automation

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How Fragile is Your Agile? What Could Possibly Go Wrong with a .click();?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
In order to do Agile ‘properly’ we need test automation – even more so with DevOps. API test automation can be reliable and is often the first

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TEST-OPS [QA as DEVOPS]

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Devops is playing a major role in faster product developments now a days as more teams are moving towards infrastructure and deployment

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The Next Level of Test Automation

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
In modern software development, the main drivers are agility, speed and cost, which are challenging drivers for quality. At the same time the

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Why we need to put a lot of effort into documenting business processes

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Acquiring and implementing new IT solutions is largely about changing or adapting your organization’s work processes to the new solutions.

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Evolution of Super Tester (ONE MAN ARMY) in Digital World

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
With the marriage of ‘Development’ and ‘Operations’ so-called “DEVOPS” and the introduction of Agile,

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Testautomation without assertions

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Testing has been voted THE major pain point in the development life cycle by a recent Forrester research. And for good reason. Test automation

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When will AI replace your job as a tester?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
AI has come to take our jobs—when will yours be gone? At some point, AI will be able to do everything better than humans. And it is widely

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Optimize your Tests for Continuous Integration

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
“Test early, test often.” If you’ve worked with me, you are probably sick of hearing me say that. But it’s common sense that if your tests find a

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Quality Data Visualization – Creating a Dashboard in JIRA

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Data in your bug tracking system has many stories to tell. Software testing metrics can be very difficult: there are thousands of them out there,

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Test Automation – Cost Savior loses its magic if principles ignored

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
The word automation cannot necessarily mean by default always be perfect and fast as per its name, you need to work on its principles to enjoy

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Dummies guide to synthesizing useful test data

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Synthetic test data is imperative to speed and quality in software development. Production data only seems better because we are lazy. They may

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Yet another mobile app testing framework, but cross-platform and dockerized one

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Session discusses a process of creating testing framework for mobile apps with Java, Appium and Docker. To benefit from the session an audience

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Modern Tester Manifesto

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Dear UKSTAR Committee members, You will find attached highlights of my presentation. All learnings shared will be backed up with real life

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Lessons learnt from testing world’s busiest airport IT solutions

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
London

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101 Tricks You Can Do With Puppeteer in 35 Minutes

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Puppeteer is the de-facto API to interact with headless Chrome. In this talk we’ll be going through 101 different ways you can use it to do

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Everyday Leadership in Software development

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Software impacts millions worldwide. As developers we have the power to shape the future but it comes with great responsibility. At the speech

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The Agile PMO – Practical Value Driven Change Leadership in Projects and Portfolios

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Approximately 50 percent of Project Management Offices (PMO) are terminated in 2 years. Yet, the same mistakes are repeated in the

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Being an Agile Software Tester in a constantly transitioning agile environment

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
What is expected from a Software Tester in an Agile environment? There are many articles, books, forums and discussions around best practices,

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olistic Testing Holistic Testing: Testing Software is not enough

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
The production of software products is a lengthy and complex process, involving lots of people communicating through different media. One of the

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The importance of Accessibility Testing

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
As testers it is our duty to make sure that the products we deliver work for all users. How come accessibility is something not all testers know

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Fashionable Test Automation for iOS Apps with XCUITest

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Apple is investing heavily on testing tools and techniques. They introduced Swift programming language in 2014 and launched Xcode UI Testing

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We are a Part of The Team Too

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
SDeT. When a hiring manager finds out they have to hire/work with an SDET, there is bound to be confusion. What is this role? Do they only write

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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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Knowing your automation

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Joel Spolsky famously wrote in 2002 that “All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.” This of course doesn’t mean that

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Demonstrating value in Test Automation

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
After a month of automated test development, I was asked by the product managers how many tests had been automated. I replied that only 3 tests

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Test Automation is great, but don’t forget the Manual Tests

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Test automation is a very risky approach to testing software. Many things can go wrong, it often takes many months of development before any

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Adapting to your surroundings

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Company needs and corporate cultures vary, and succeeding in different situations requires situational awareness and versatility. The focus is on

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The recipe for making a successful testing practitioner

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 14, 2018
Out on an endeavour to understand what it takes to progress from an amateur status to an expert level in the world of testing, I have been trying

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Toolbox for creating a pool of Technical Testers

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
Transforming the operation from waterfall to agile requires moving through some basic steps and building the right capabilities. A new pool of

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One to rule them all

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
A quest to unify the different automation frameworks and testing workflows throughout the company. Maxlinear has done a number of acquisitions in

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What To Look For in a Test Automation Tool

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
When my team had to pick an API testing tool, we went with Postman. And the more I used it, the more frustrated I became with it. Both

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Functional whitebox regression mobile UI testing… can you use it in a sentence, please?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
Which of these don’t belong: functional testing, whitebox testing, regression testing, mobile testing, UI testing? The answer is all of

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Failing Twice with Behavior Driven Development: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
Nowadays, to stay in the race, successful teams have to develop software faster with a high quality. That’s where Behavior Driven Development

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Testers – Is It Our Own Fault We Are Underrated?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
I recently wrote a blog post with the same title as this presentation and it has gauged a lot of interest in the software testing community. It’s

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Software Testing Lessons from House of Cards

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
The Netflix series House of Cards is my favorite TV Show. It depicts the US politician Frank Underwood, and his struggle to gain power and

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Ignite Security Testing Practice in your Team and Company

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
In recent times, more companies started to prioritize Security Testing practice in their development teams. It caused managers and engineers to

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Delivering Good Quality with Trainees in Your Team

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
Working with trainees with no prior testing experience is always an exciting up and down rollercoaster of high expectations, set goals, hard

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A layered approach to accelerating continuous delivery

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
In this presentation we will talk about the role of CI/CD in the automation world as we see software releases getting faster and trying to keep

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Privacy by Design and GDPR for Testers

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
Modern Testers need a wide arrange of skills to keep up with the latest trends and technologies. In teams, they generally have the best overview

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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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Join the revolution! Saturate the platform with tests

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 13, 2018
A revolution has come! It is disrupting the way we do business, work with and think about the solutions we build. It is a cultural revolution,

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What new skills does the modern tester need? Will old skills remain useful?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 12, 2018
In this conversation track Eveline will start with painting a cultural perspective of changes in the testing profession. Recent organizational

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Better Testing Through Process Automation

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 12, 2018
Automating testing is currently still one of the top priorities among CIOs, and it remains a popular topic in the industry. Yet though it’s not a

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Professional Play

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 12, 2018
There is so much to learn about testing that sometimes it can be overwhelming to me. Whether it’s the latest book, podcast, conference

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Are We Crazy?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 12, 2018
Testing is dangerous. No, I don’t mean it’s hazard-pay dangerous or wear-your-helmet dangerous, but it is drive-you-crazy dangerous.

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Internet of Pets – risks, challenges and flying snacks

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 12, 2018
IoT world grows by 30% every year (up to 25 billion(!) devices till 2025) and that’s just a matter of time when some of us will have

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How smart is your test automation solution?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 12, 2018
Dear UKSTAR Committee members, You will find attached a few highlights from my presentation. All learnings shared will be backed up with real

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What Aircrews Can Teach Testing Teams

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
United Flight 232 should have crashed with all 296 lives lost. Asiana Flight 214 should not have crashed at all. But the reality is very

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Finding Failure, Not Bugs

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
As testers, we are wired to find and prevent software defects during the application development lifecycle. As agile and DevOps practices become

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A Wearables Story: Testing the Human Experience

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
I became interested in testing wearables in a rather unusual way. I ran the Boston Marathon. What does the Boston Marathon have to do with

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Timeless Skills for Modern Testers to Champion Quality and Innovation

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
As testers in today’s world of Agile and DevOps, we are challenged to champion quality in new and unique ways. We are challenged to develop

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Implementing DevOps as a Quality Improvement Measure

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
DevOps has some fundamental concepts like Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration. Ideally, it enables companies to have daily deploys of

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Approval testing: Superpower your automation feedback

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
How do we ensure the feedback we are getting from our automated tests is targeted and informative? What information are we throwing away in an

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A Tester’s Survival Guide for Agile Transition

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
Agile transformation is challenging, especially for testers who are accustomed to working in a silo. As a lone tester on a team, it’s difficult

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Evolution of Super Tester (ONE MAN ARMY) in Modern Technological World

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
With the marriage of ‘Development’ and ‘Operations’ so-called “DEVOPS” and the introduction of Agile,

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Finding the Ikigai in Software Testing

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
Ikigai is a Japanese word that means ‘a reason for being alive’ or ‘a meaning for (to) life’. It’s the sweet spot or the balance among four

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Introduction to Outside-in-development

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
BDD or Behaviour Driven Development has become a popular approach in promoting a shared understanding and gaining clarity of the problems that

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Automating responsiveness with 1 script, yeah right..

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 10, 2018
“I use Selenium to test the responsiveness of my app” is on of the sentences I hear a lot during automation discussions. After diving into the

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Wayne Rutter UKSTAR 2019

The Agile tester: key to being truly Agile — and what it means if you don’t have any

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 9, 2018
Let’s check out what kind of value the Agile tester brings to a team, and see how the role is directly tied to the level of Agile maturity

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So you think you know Appium because you know Selenium

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 9, 2018
In the last few months, when I helped a lot of people in different automation communities, I saw a lot of people overestimating the

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How we tested smart and paid back the debt

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 9, 2018
To compete in the Big Data telecoms market it was necessary for our project to switch from a Continuous Integration model of delivering release

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Using TestOps in a Startup to deliver better software faster

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 7, 2018
I’ve been working in the startup company for a while now, and if you are thinking of working in a startup, think again. It is not easy, it

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Taming Automation

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 7, 2018
One of the reasons we look to use automation is to allow us to run more tests in a shorter timeframe. Machines are, after all, better at running

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Systems Thinking for Software Testers

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 7, 2018
Are you good at thinking outside the box? What does that even mean? As a tester, it’s your job to think of the things that others don’t. The

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Testers DO NOT have to know how to do automation to survive as a modern tester.

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 7, 2018
Virtually every testing job spec I get sent at the moment seems to be asking for an automation tester, and I’m getting a little fed up with

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Building maintainable Test Automation with Robotframework

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 7, 2018
“Building maintainable Test Automation with Robotframework” Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and

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How Not To Convert An Organisation To Agile

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 7, 2018
How many times have you spoken with a development team lead or product manager that declared themselves as an “Enlightened One”, a

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Can we measure agility?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 6, 2018
We hear everywhere about how important it is to be agile. How agile is the future of software delivery? How many companies struggle with agile

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Dockerized Distributed Load Test Infrastructure

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 6, 2018
They says, Dress to Impress. Today, you will dress the distributed load tests and impress your manager with this awesome open-source and free of

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Future-Proofing Testers in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 6, 2018
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of every organisations 2020 business strategy. As a Tester how do you bridge the Cognitive

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How to keep a test community vibrant, engaged and valuable?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 6, 2018
As a senior tester in an organisation with many different development teams I realised that while we had a lot of very skilled technical testers

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All of My Automated Tests Pass, Why Is the Application Broken?

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 6, 2018
Monday morning, the build runs, all the unit tests, automated functional tests pass, and the tester goes to test the happy path of the user

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When You are Moving House and the Pipeline Needs Re-Plumbing

  • cathal
  • Uncategorized
  • Sep 5, 2018
Having worked for the same employer for 12 years, I recently joined another company. Having come from a situation where I’ve set up a test

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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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  • cathal
  • Uncategorised
  • Aug 29, 2018
testing

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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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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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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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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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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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Frank Wammes

Connecting the Beats with the Bytes

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 27, 2017
No, this keynote will not be about Techno or House music, but about the miracles we can achieve when we connect our heartbeat with the computer

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Paul_Gerrard

Assurance, the Evolution of Test Management

  • Rebecca
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 27, 2017
When the Agile approach emerged over fifteen years ago, there was no clear role for test managers (or even testers, at first). Over time, some

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Alan Richardson

Mapping Cognition to Software Modelling & Testing

  • Rebecca
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 26, 2017
Have you ever wondered how how a study of magic and prestidigitation can improve your software testing? Alan Richardson did, and that’s why

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christina_ohanian

Connecting the Dots – Empowering People Through Play

  • Rebecca
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 26, 2017
As testers we care just as much about our projects and products as our Product Owners and Developers. With a history of being the people at the

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James Lyndsay

Basic Pathologies of Simple Systems

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 26, 2017
In this hands-on track, you’ll explore very simple systems to discover surprising emergent behaviours. You’ll find dynamic systems that (under

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Gustav-Kuhn

The User Illusion; Why Magic Works

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 26, 2017
Magic is one of the most captivating and enduring forms of entertainment and magicians all over the world have baffled and amazed their audiences

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Fran_O_Hara

The Seven Deadly Sins of Scrum

  • Ronan
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 26, 2017
The intent of Scrum is to deliver potentially releasable software every Sprint. However, in practice I continue to see many implementations of

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The Tester’s 3 Cs: Criticism, Communication and Confidence

  • Ronan
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 26, 2017
Communication in agile teams is supposed to be seamless and much better than the “old days”. But how can communication be effective when you are

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Leadership, Fellowship & Followership

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 26, 2017
We work in teams. Teams that have goals, that work together to solve problems, that sometimes squabble and make up. How people in the group

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christina_ohanian

Growing a Testing community of practice and navigating ‘traditional’ mindsets

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Sep 26, 2017
Many organisations are beginning to feel the need to be leaner and more nimble in order to better adapt to today’s ever-changing and uncertain

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Moving a Giant Towards Synthetic Test Data

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Aug 2, 2017
NAV, the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration, is a major governmental organization holding sensitive data about more or less every citizen

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Predictive Quality Analytics with AI & Machine Learning – 5482

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Aug 2, 2017
Tracking bugs and fixing them through automation and manual testing processes, and with help of various tools is becoming increasingly efficient.

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Hristo_Gergov

Quality of Things

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 31, 2017
The emerging of the Internet of Things domain faced the Quality Assurance engineers with various challenges in the areas of tests execution, test

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Getting rid of software testing: Replacing it with Quality – 5479

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 31, 2017
How do the biggest apps in the world make it globally? Continuous delivery marked a new era in how fast companies release and iterate their

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Scrum’s Impact on Product Quality and Human Resource – 5478

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 31, 2017
Talking on the positive impact of agile development and in particular Scrum. Scrum’s Impact on productivity. Which would be focusing on

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Independent tester – a game changer – 5477

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 31, 2017
“I don’t need a software tester!” Strong words coming to a new software tester from an experienced developer. This is one of the developers that

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5 Things every Tester should know about Regression Testing – 5476

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
For starters: Did you know that regression testing is not actually testing? No wonder UI test automation is an unsolved problem and does not work

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Tested by Monkeys – The End of Banana Software – 5475

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
If the future of testing is AI, come and see how it will be applied to testing! Various automation tools are available, but due to high creation

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Susie Maguire

LifeTesting and Leaps of Faith

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
I would like to share the story of four occasions when I leapt into the unknown … and in answer to the question “what if I learned to

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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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LifeTesting and Leaps of Faith

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
Human beings are passionate beings. We feel strongly about our families, our work, our politics, our sports teams, our hobbies and more and we

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Test Automation in Python – 5471

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
Abstract Here Kyle provides a look at test automation in Python. Python is continuing to show strong growth in general language adoption and jobs

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Should you build your own tools? – 5470

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
Why talk about tools? – To share my experience on working in teams that built their own tools – To help people not to make the same

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Enjoy Test Data – 5469

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
The quality of a product is directly related to testing competency. Test data set determines our testing competency level because customers

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Tester in charge – Judge, jury & executioner – 5468

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
Let us take a different look at software testing process. Imagine it is a trial. A defendant – software. The goal of this trial is to

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What is stopping you? – 5467

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
In this presentation I am going to talk about how did I overcame a massive nervous breakdown, and how my life changed from there by beating my

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Knowledge Sharing – The Key to Quality – 5466

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
As we work on increasingly sophisticated solutions, across ever diversifying teams, the importance of documentation and knowledge sharing cannot

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Mind maps to support Exploratory Testing: An a team approach – 5465

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
This presentation is about how mind maps are used to support exploratory testing in an interdisciplinary team. Claudia will share how mind maps

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varuna srivastava

Beyond Performance using Taurus

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
Learn to optimise performance scripts of API’s using Taurus. This talk will cover: How to test the application by hiding the complexities

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Why open source solution might cost you more than you think! – 5463

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
Today, many open-source solutions are used not only by small and medium firms but also by some large organisations. The decision whether to

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Fear of competing with the Crowd? Here is your key to unlock it… – 5462

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 30, 2017
Testing applications with the allocated or available test cases to evaluate application behaviour is the traditional testing approach followed

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It’s all about you – 5461

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
It’s all about you!!! How we choose our targets. The way in which we select the people with whom we want to work. Identifying the level of

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How to not build castles in the sand – improve your backlog management skills – 5460

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
Nowadays backlog is used in almost every project. It can be a source of IT requirements or even your very own container for weekly tasks.

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DevOps for the Rest of Us

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
There is a lot of talk about DevOps recently, the tools used and how it will help your teams move faster. Terms like CI, CD, infrastructure as

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Jitesh Gosai

Testing Fast and Slow – 5458

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
As testers we are making decisions all of the time – What should we test? – What shouldn’t we test? – Is this worth

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Testing the Zombie Apocalypse – 5457

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
When the zombies finally take over the world, it’ll be the agile software testers who have the best chance of survival. And here’s

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Interactive session: Striving for Continues Integration and deployment – 5456

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
Continues Integration and deployment (CI/CD) empowers organizations to bring their solution in production fast and frequent. In this interactive

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The many hats that a Tester must wear – 5455

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
The role of a Tester is continually evolving and changing in terms of technology, software development methodologies and skills. I will

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The rising of millennial testers – 5454

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
Even thought millennials are a big presence in almost all companies, and by 2025, 4 of 5 employees will be millennials, only few subjects or

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Brain Basics – Turning the Unthinkable into the Incredible – How to Out-Think, Out-Do and Out-Live Your Competition – 5453

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 29, 2017
Going beyond the typical Myers Briggs, DISC or personality results and discovering how to become exceptionally successful in leadership,

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Agile tester – Have you done risk-based testing lately? – 5452

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
While coming of age as a Test Manager I have read all about the virtues of risk-based testing in the ISTQB syllabi and in TMAP. The strategy has

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Vlad_Romanenko

Pros of Proactive iOS App Profiling as a QA Pro

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
I believe that QA engineer could do much more that just tapping the device screen and exploring how the UI responds. So, let’s take an iOS app,

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Shift Left and DDT(Data Driven Testing) – 5449

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
The speed at which QA is getting builds is constantly increasing, so how can you be sure you’re covering changes being introduced? This

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UI testing by using Serenity BDD – 5448

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
The aim of our presentation is to introduce Serenity BDD for Auto QA Engineers. We will explain different challenges that they must overcome to

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Page Object mindset: all tests need a Functional Model – 5447

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
When automating application tests, the well-known “Page Object” pattern models the AUT is recommended. It focuses on functional

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Load Testing – the Elephant in The Room – 5446

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
Let’s discuss what has been the “elephant in the room” for pretty much every project and product I’ve been involved with over the past few years

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Why we will never have world peace until we consistently recruit good testers – 5445

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
By understanding a tiny bit of neuroscience with a peppering of psychology we will look at how we can, and why we have a responsibility to,

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Stick to Your Guns, But Think of Your Context

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
I was on a project once where both the customer and contractor were both very immature organizations. Neither had worked with Test Managers or

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Joshua_Crowther

Performance Testing in a DevOps World

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
As DevOps becomes increasingly popular when delivering a software solution, it has become even more important to provide Performance Testing with

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A Practical DevOps Maturity Assessment Workshop – 5442

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
Join Victor Laurel for a roundtable practical discussion that will touch on the three key components to IT success, and give you insights into

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Innovation doesn’t wait for resources. You shouldn’t either. – 5441

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
Application delivery teams are under constant pressure to release quality features as quickly as possible in order to keep up with accelerated

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Modern Development – Don’t Forget Quality Assurance and Quality Control – 5440

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
I am very fortunate to have spent time on many projects/products with lots of organisations and so I wanted to share my experiences and what I

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The Long Road to Intelligence – 5439

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
We have optimised the actual test process. It’s now responsible for catching 70% of defects. But despite this 10% of defects still get into live.

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Escaping the black hole of technical debt – 5438

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
Anyone who works in business that is over 25 years old is under pressure to modernize legacy IT systems, in a bid to outstrip out competitors and

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Think globally, act locally – build stronger distributed agile teams – 5437

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
Many companies today deliver software developed by teams distributed in multiple geographical locations. There is a real need for it since

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Testing Meetup Group – From Scratch to Hatch – 5436

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
“Think globally, act locally”, is the famous saying. Indeed, if you want to achieve change and improvement in your community, the best

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Governance: quality supervision like a film director – 5435

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
In most business processes there’s the “Demand” and “Supply” side of the game. The interests of those parties must be glued together. An

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Exploratory Robotesting – 5434

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
Do you use a smartphone today? Yes. Did you use a smartphone 10 years ago? No. Do you use a robot today? Probably not. Will you use a robot in 10

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How I learned to control my testing OCD – 5433

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
“Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, recurring thoughts

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Eternal seesaw – automation and exploratory testing – 5432

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
In Agile things are going very fast. In most cases, we cannot achieve good testing with only manual testing. We need test automation to speed us

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Are we right for each other? – 5431

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
What exactly mean “the right tester”? Is finding that kind of a person similar like finding a Holy grail? It could be if we do not know what kind

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The Testing Sale – From Pursuit to Delivery – 5430

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
Most test practioners arrive on site to start or fulfil a delivery have little awareness of the process that preceded them. This talk will have

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Artificial Intelligence and Testing; How to use AI in testing and how to test AI – 5429

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
I’m going to talk about the relation between AI and testing. We’re going to explore some myths and misconceptions, trying to

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Aleksandar_Ristic

Using Service Virtualization in Service Level Testing

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
This workshop will teach the audience how to approach the service level testing in the complex platform environment. In today’s world, there are

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Agile Transformation Guide for Test Engineers – 5427

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 28, 2017
My presentation is meant to be a guide for Test Engineers in Agile Transformation. I will explain different challenges that they must overcome to

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Adaptability — Why and how to use it in organizations. Stories based on working with test teams. – 5426

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 27, 2017
Reorganization of test teams working on complex, high scale systems using KANBAN and empowerment of individuals for the magic of testing. We

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Adaptability — Why and how to use it in organizations. Stories based on working with test teams. – 5425

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018, Uncategorized
  • Jul 27, 2017
Reorganization of test teams working on complex, high scale systems using KANBAN and empowerment of individuals for the magic of testing. We

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Introduction to User Acceptance Testing – 5424

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 27, 2017
This workshop discusses what UAT is and more importantly what it isn’t. It explains why UAT testing isn’t the poor relation of testing and how to

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Service Virtualization: What Testers Need To Know – 5423

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 27, 2017
Unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment—including the application under test and all of its dependent components—is

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CD in a Box: Deploy and Destroy Test Environments – 5422

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 27, 2017
Continuous integration and delivery makes early and fast testing mission-critical for a lot of organizations. However, test execution is blocked

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Mobile Testing vs Web Testing, where are we? – 5421

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 27, 2017
Mobile testing frameworks have been around for a while now. At Sauce Labs we believe that mobile testing will soon be as established in every IT

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A Holistic Approach to Software Quality: Yes, You Can! – 5420

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  • Jul 27, 2017
As software organizations grow, maintaining quality is vital. As digital transformation gains strength in the industry, both clients and IT

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Regression tests in a Continuous Delivery world – 5419

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  • Jul 27, 2017
Many of us testers have been asked to provide a report on the status of their regression tests. To my surprise my understanding of regression

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How Bad do You Want it? – 5417

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  • Jul 26, 2017
Les Gold is the patriarch of the family behind American Jewelry & Loan in Detroit. He’s an entrepreneur, best selling author and star

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Yann_Person

Zero to One: Notes on quality for startups, or how to start from scratch

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  • Jul 26, 2017
The idea behind the session is to present how startups can improve the overall quality of their products with very simple testing tips and

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How to become Balanced – 5415

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  • Jul 26, 2017
I will show the whole audience how to Balance by giving everyone there a card to keep and will guide them step by step how to follow the

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Ali_Hill

My Journey in Attempting to Become a ‘More Technical’ Tester

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 26, 2017
With the current ‘shift-left’ focus in software testing, there is an idea that testers need to become more technical. This can be an intimidating

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Estimation & Risky Behaviour: How the Act of Estimation Will Cause Your Project to Become Riskier That You Ever Intended it to Be.

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  • Jul 26, 2017
Estimation and risky behaviour: How the act of estimation will cause your project to become riskier that you ever intended it to be. Everybody

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Why do we make mistakes? Cognitive biases and software defects. – 5412

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  • Jul 26, 2017
• What causes a thought to end up as a software defect? • Can we spot patterns in those thoughts? • Can we prevent them? If so, how? One of the

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Stories in Testing – 5411

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  • Jul 26, 2017
Stories are all around us without us realizing sometimes. Using them in the within the realm of testing allows the tester to bring context to the

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Quick start to Rest-assured libary: learn how to enhance test automation of web application with fast and reliable test suite. – 5410

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 26, 2017
When it comes to test automation of web application, most of the testers think about Selenium and front end tests. If we are using only Selenium

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GDPR – Hiding Your Sensitive Data – 5409

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 26, 2017
A discussion on how to find sensitive data and ensure that it is hidden from view – just in case there’s a data leak in

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Testing Transformation in the era of IoT – 5408

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 26, 2017
In the next few years, when more than 20 billion devices will be connected to the Internet, many of us will be IoT testers—in one way or another.

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Testing in the age of digital transformation: what is in store for all of us – 5407

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 26, 2017
Technologies, testing processes, and the role of the tester have evolved significantly over the past several years. As testing professionals, it

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Requirements for Performance Testing – 5406

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 25, 2017
Performance tests are not the easiest kind of tests. And they become more difficult, when you haven’t requirements. And projects sometimes forgot

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Richard Paterson

Talking About Talking About Testing

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 25, 2017
Software testing as a field is arguably still finding its feet, and often struggles to find its voice. The more Testing events I attend, the more

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Ice cream or pyramid? The right way to automate testing! – 5403

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
In several projects, I have been working on, either as developer or manager; the test team and the customer has used manual regression tests to

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No More Shelfware! Let’s Drive!

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
When I learnt to drive a car, back in the 20th century, I also learnt how to check, clean and change spark plugs, mend the fan belt with a

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Ultimate testing survival

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
Listening to testing presentations and reading testing blogs and books might leave you with the false impression that testing is easy, well

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Why I am going back to school…: – 5400

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
30+ years into my IT career, and time to go back to school. Why am I doing this? Why am I embarking in my 63rd year on what might be a 10-year

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Testing a stand-up – 5399

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
I have had a dream for many years of being a stand-up performer – not just speaking at testing conferences, but performing for the public. I’d

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How to kill several flies with one stone, in a test process – 5396

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
Introducing new IT-solutions in medium or large organizations today is increasingly affecting the process of testing This is because

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Design better automation using Test Automation Patterns – 5395

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
Many organizations find that test automation does not work as well as they thought it would. In many cases, these failures can be due to generic

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Test in the future – how to prepare? – 5394

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
It took us over 100 years to add wheels to our suitcases. How much time and effort is needed to learn how to test new technologies? In 2015 one

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5 proven ways to ruin your Test Automation – 5393

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
At most conferences, somebody will show you in talks or tutorials how to get started with test automation or how to improve it. Nobody ever tells

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Myths of Agile testing – 5392

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
Agile development methodologies have been at the center stage for many organizations, and with DevOps evolving, testing in agile environments has

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metrics – what gets measured, gets done! – 5391

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 24, 2017
What is a metric? Metrics and KIPIs Why do I use them? How do I use them? How do I begin a metrics program? Fundamental level intermediate level

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When machines lie to us and why manual testing is still needed – 5390

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 22, 2017
Tell me those it sound familiar? Thest is failing but when you recheck it manually it the broken test, not the actual issue. But have you thought

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Veterinary Specialist in Software Testing – 5389

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 22, 2017
What makes me find my story interesting to share was meeting once with a Belgian journalist who during an interview asked me if I continued to

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Simon Berner

Testing in the Pipe

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 22, 2017
In today’s agile world where DevOps and Continuous Delivery rule the place, we are standing at the threshold to an exciting (new)

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How I build a testorganisation and got the business people be interested in test – 5387

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 22, 2017
It is about how to work with the business people and make them realize that test is important so they will come to you and ask for testing help

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Saga-Davidsdottir

How to Deal With Change – The Story of the Test Manager Who Stood Alone Against an Army of Engineers

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
As a consultant I am presented with more challenges then just managing test when sent out to a new costumer. I am often hired to implement test

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Gameception – A game about creativity and critical thinking – 5385

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
While working as a tester in projects I often I hear people say: ‘Just think out of the box’. The reaction to this line often is

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Bug Hunt Your Multi-Platform Application – 5384

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
“Testing is a team responsibility”. We hear this all the time nowadays. Most of the time this results in Test automation being done

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The art of test design – 5383

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
Ok, so you are a tester in an agile project and you want this product to be tested really good. Where do you start? Do you need a test strategy?

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Testers know your customers!

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
In the end your software will be used by multiple people. But how do you know these end users can or will actually use your product? What do you

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Saurabh Shrihar

Unified Automation Using Robot Framework for GxP Development in Agile

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
The challenge with maintaining multiple automation framework when working across multiple technologies such as Selenium, Appium, Sql etc. in a

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Rick Tracy

The Tidy Tester Model – 5380

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
Recently my wife handed me a book called “The Life-Altering Magic of Tidying Up,” a small book detailing how we were thinking of an organized

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The human factor of DevOps – 5379

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
I want to look at the individual inside of the organization. What do you need personally to truly integrate with other departments and

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Testing Tests and Where to Test Them

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
This is the story of how I moved from a structured data warehouse team to an absolutely chaotic reporting team and what I had to learn along the

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Johan Sandell

Testing Through the Log File

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 21, 2017
When was the last time you used your log files for something other than a reference to go back and look at when you have noticed something going

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What to test? apps , games or yourself? – 5376

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 20, 2017
I studied in a underdeveloped country Pakistan (with almost no tech knowledge). I wanted to be an architect engineer who design beautiful homes

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Jesper Ottosen

Experiences in Testing Infrastructure Projects

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 20, 2017
This is an experience report of solving testing problems in the operations and infrastructure domain. The purpose of this talk is to provide

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Continuous Requirements – 5374

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 20, 2017
In this talk I will go into something that has me wondering for quite some time. Over the last couple of years the testing world has seen

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Joep_Lobee

The Unintended Veteran Tester or How Software Testing Changed My Life.

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 20, 2017
In this story I will tell how I went from a degree in Molecular Biology to software testing. I quite literally was dropped into testing and it

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Writing end to end tests with a smile – 5371

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 20, 2017
Improving a product’s quality isn’t possible without the needed appreciation throughout every member of the team, but finding the right approach

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Self-Organizing the 24h GoForIT Innovation Challenge

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 19, 2017
GoForIT is a 24 hour challenge focused on Innovation. Participants sign up with a team and their ideas. These ideas are NOT tested beforehand on

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Marianne Duijst

Wearing Hermione’s Hat: Narratology for Testers – 5367

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 19, 2017
Creating a best-selling test isn’t magic – learn to read between the lines. *Warning: Harry Potter spoilers ahead* When we find those pesky bugs

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Laurent PY

Shift Left and Shift Right: The Testing Swing

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 19, 2017
Over the past few years, my team has moved from a release every 2 weeks to continuous deployment (between 5 to 10 times a day) and DevOps. The

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Anyone Can Cook – 5363

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 17, 2017
Manual testing is becoming increasingly more complex, causing companies to realize they can help testers be more effective and efficient at their

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James Thomas

The Anatomy of a Definition of Testing

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 16, 2017
My name is James Thomas, and I’m a semanticoholic. Elisabeth Hendrickson’s book, Explore It!, contains this definition: “Tested

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Enhanced Customer Experience by Proactive Performance Testing – 5361

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 16, 2017
Now a day, customer experience plays the crucial role for both traditional and digital business. Customer experience is about knowing the

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From zero to hero – 5360

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 15, 2017
When I first started at my first job I was still a junior, but because of certain circumstances, the senior tester of my team left the company.

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How I’ve Made Moves in Becoming a ‘Next Generation Tester’ – 5359

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 13, 2017
Introduction – Lots of talks on becoming more technical, next generation, not many are specific (it’s hard to be). – Want to

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Baking in Quality for our products: Cultural Transformation at Scale – 5358

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 13, 2017
How does CloudBees deliver continuously with high quality? This is the story of how we changed from thinking of quality in the last phases of the

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Baking in Quality for our products: Cultural Transformation at Scale – 5357

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 13, 2017
How does CloudBees deliver continuously with high quality? This is the story of how we changed from thinking of quality in the last phases of the

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Testing in the Hundred Microservices World: When the Pyramid Becomes a Yo-Yo

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 13, 2017
We went from testing monoliths applications and its challenges to testing integrations of hundreds of microservices and that comes at a price:

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Chinese Whisper – Why is communication so difficult? – 5355

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 13, 2017
Communication is essential for a good project. Only by an intense communication of all participants an acceptable result can be reached. However,

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Why traditional performance testing cannot survive in an agile and DevOps world – 5346

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 12, 2017
The world of software development has changed dramatically in the 21st century. While the consumer demands good performance in their

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Improve quality by improving collaboration – 5345

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 12, 2017
The idea of this talk is to present some common patterns in successful agile testing and to explore the challenging transformation from the

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How I automate my negative tests! – 5344

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 11, 2017
Negative Tests/Sad Tests/Alternate Tests are always tricky to automate – it’s different than automating a positive/happy path test.

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Refinement as a quality enabler – 5343

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 11, 2017
Quality is not only measured by the absence of bugs. Derk-Jan de Grood explains how refinement helps to get quality my means of clear defined and

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Interactive session: Striving for Continues Integration and deployment – 5342

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 11, 2017
Continues Integration and deployment (CI/CD) empowers organizations to bring their solution in production fast and frequent. In this interactive

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Test process Improvement becomes Agile Coaching – 5341

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 11, 2017
Test maturity is of all times. But the way to improve testing has changed radically. In this presentation I will share my vision and experience

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What makes me an agile tester/ I am an agile tester because… – 5340

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 11, 2017
Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory were trying to find a definition of agile testing in an online discussion. In this thread is was stated that

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The rocky road towards continuous deployment – 5339

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 10, 2017
The Release and Test Automation team at trivago was founded a year ago to pave the way towards continuous deployment. Since I work mainly on the

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Thomas_Mantsch

Testing Under The Bonnet – What You See Ain’t All There Is

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 10, 2017
Way too often we focus only on the visible and completely neglect all there is on the backend of a system. This leads to a narrow view and may

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The Veteran – Traits of a great tester. – 5335

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  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 7, 2017
Have you ever wondered just what is it that makes someone a great tester? It can be hard to work out exactly what it is that makes someone a good

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The two unmentioned phases of a burnout – 5333

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 7, 2017
This a personal but logical analysis of a burnout. Current literature underlines frequently the very visible signs right before a burnout and a

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Automating visual regression testing – 5332

  • ukstar
  • UKSTAR 2018
  • Jul 6, 2017
This talk is around a recent blog post I wrote and further spoke about at a local developer meet-up.

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Give we quality!!!!111 – 5331

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jul 6, 2017
When quality level is low, sometimes first temptation we have is to bring in more testers on a project. Interestingly, though, it is not always

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Magnus_Pettersson

Skills I Use in Testing That I Learned From Playing Dungeons and Dragons

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jul 5, 2017
Can we learn vital testing skills from a collective daydream? I say yes, and I’ll tell you how it worked for me. Roleplaying has elements that

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Seeing Around Corners – The Future of Software Testing – 5329

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  • Jul 3, 2017
As indicated above, the speech will be a hoax, where I would impersonate an industry pioneer or expert. Research will ensure that I am

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“Keeping Up & Thinking Ahead Of The Innovation” – Applying Adaptive Analytics – 5328

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  • Jul 3, 2017
As we continue to move into innovation, data analytics, and AI, it is no surprise that people want a more unique learning experience in trend

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Test automation – the bitter truth – 5326

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jul 3, 2017
“I see a lot of people being excited about automation, but for a different reason – because they see it as the ultimate solution to all testing

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The Test of IoT Architecture – 5325

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  • Jul 3, 2017
The Internet of Things is a growing concept as of late, and many developers are being exposed to it as more systems are transitioning to utilize

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Agile Testing Balloon Modelling Workshop – 5324

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  • Jun 30, 2017
This fun and interactive workshop involving many balloons will enable participants to unleash their creativity, they by taking a humble balloon

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Choosing a Locator Strategy – 5323

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 30, 2017
In this presentation, I would like to talk about choosing a locator strategy for UI automation. When it comes to select a locator people always

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Optimization of Manual & Automation Testing with BDD & Cucumber – 5322

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 30, 2017
I would like to elaborate more on below points 1. How I started as manual tester and what was my role way back in 2002 1.1 what does manual

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Kinga_Witko

Make IT Accessible

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 29, 2017
A friend of mine – Basia – is blind, but she works and lives a normal life. She also uses a smartphone. The way she does that is

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Leading with Passion – 5320

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 29, 2017
You are magnificent. You were born lucky. You were granted a gift to be here, enjoying this amazing country you live in and what this stunning

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Leading with Passion – 5319

  • ukstar
  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 29, 2017
You are magnificent. You were born lucky. You were granted a gift to be here, enjoying this amazing country you live in and what this stunning

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Why do we have to manage Daily Stress? – 5317

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 28, 2017
Be prepared to travel back in time, with The Caveman Speaker. The Principles takes listeners on a journey as they follow his cavemen characters.

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The Scrum board is alive! – 5316

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 28, 2017
Testing is a common activity when it comes to assuring quality. There are tons of books and speeches for those who like to dig deeper into the

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Test Automation? Yes, for the right reasons and in the right way. – 5315

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 28, 2017
Introducing test automation in a company or even a single project, can be a hassle. Fear of the unknown, resistance to change, no in-house

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Navigating the Mobile Odyssee “An understanding of the Mobile Testing Challenges” – 5314

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 28, 2017
With more than 2.1 billion smart phones worldwide and 4 million mobile apps, the world of software testing is changing. The domain of testing is

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Unity3d: A Brief History of Automation

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  • Jun 28, 2017
Inside Unity Technologies, we built one of the most challenging automation setups in the world. We make software that runs on 20+ platforms with

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Life’s a Riot with Stubs, Fakes, Spies and Mocks – 5312

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 27, 2017
Ever wished you had more control over third party API responses? Have you been unable to test specific API responses? Perhaps you’re trying to

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software pipeline – delivering quality to enterprise – 5311

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 27, 2017
As an SME providing SaaS to much larger enterprise customers, our team needed a way to leveraged way to improve quality as our customer base

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Agile transformation – a Quality journey – 5310

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 26, 2017
The presentation is an interactive journey specifically designed with testers and QA in mind. Following a strict walk through of the Agile

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Quantifying the business value of testing – 5309

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 26, 2017
Quantifying the business value of testing is not easy. But until we do this difficult work, we should expect the bombardment to continue – and we

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Rediscover Exploratory Testing – 5308

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 26, 2017
Exploratory Testing has been in practise for past couple of years. In this presentation I will be explaining Exploratory Testing rediscovery for

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Communication and Testing_Why You Have Been Wrong All Along! – 5307

  • ukstar
  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 26, 2017
Communication is a critical factor for effective test utilization. Lack of proper communications makes all our test planning, scheduling,

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How testing and release process have involved and changed in retail sectors – 5306

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  • Jun 26, 2017
Testing and Release processes are not just limited to Technology company or software sector. Now every company is a software company that

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Building a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) – 5305

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  • Jun 26, 2017
I will brief on the Business Readiness & Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE),Voice of Customers,TCoE Models,Scope,Activities,Critical Success

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Count your chickens before they hatch-defect forecast in testing project – 5304

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  • Jun 26, 2017
Defect Prediction Models is the need of the hour and I present the model which I have been using for past 5 years

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AdaptiveTesting Techniques – 5303

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  • Jun 26, 2017
Adaptive Testing Techniques use Reduce Cycle Time and Smart Testing for effective Test Reduction Techniques. Benefits of Adaptive Testing are

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Service Virtualization for the Platform Testing – 5302

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  • Jun 25, 2017
In the beginning, life was easy, you had one app, one web page and you needed to test it. Manual testing was sufficient and if you wanted to

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Service Virtualization for the Platform Testing – 5301

  • ukstar
  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 25, 2017
In the beginning, life was easy, you had one app, one web page and you needed to test it. Manual testing was sufficient and if you wanted to

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Harry Girlea

13 vs 18, Who Says “We” Cannot be “Them”?

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  • Jun 25, 2017
In this presentation I will try to make the attendees understand that a gaming community with a great potential, gamers below 18yo, are not taken

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Rediscover Exploratory Testing – 5299

  • ukstar
  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 25, 2017
Exploratory Testing has been in practise for past couple of years. In this presentation I will be explaining Exploratory Testing rediscovery for

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AGILE TESTING IN A HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT – 5298

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  • Jun 25, 2017
Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of agile software development. Agile testing involves all members of a

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DEFECT PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT – 5297

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 25, 2017
We have executed many projects Large Projects, Small Projects etc. Most of the time we have found that lot of defects raised by the testers are

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TEST ESTIMATION – 5296

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 25, 2017
We have executed many projects Large Projects, Small Projects etc. Sometimes we miss our testing deadlines because there is no defined criterion

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Digital Experience Monitoring with Continuous Performance Mandatory for Digital Business – 5295

  • ukstar
  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 23, 2017
Now a day, all the organizations are moving towards digital transformation. To make that successful, companies have to leverage the concepts of

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Rhian Lewis

Blockchain Applications and How to Test Them

  • ukstar
  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 22, 2017
Blockchain technology – the architecture that underpins Bitcoin – is set to revolutionise the world in the same way as the internet.

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Daring to Provide More Value Than Simply Testing

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  • Uncategorized
  • Jun 22, 2017
Many testers believe their jobs is to test. That is that the value they provide to their organizations is in the area of executing test cases and

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Testing Spreadsheets – the Dark Matter of IT – 5289

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  • Jun 22, 2017
This session outlines how to address current concerns about risks from the uncontrolled use of spreadsheet-based information systems. They are

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The Agile Cycle – 5287

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  • Jun 22, 2017
For a child, learning to ride a bicycle is a leap into the unknown; a “magical” mastery of control if accomplished without any bruises, can

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Part of the Pipeline – 5282

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  • Jun 20, 2017
Nobody /really/ likes change, its human nature. Testers have a special relationship with changing tools and techniques, they change and we tend

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Model Driven Testing – current of future? (customer case) – 5281

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  • Jun 20, 2017
Model Based Testing can help you really to improve your development process!!… not in the future but start today I will share my experience

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Crossing Over: How Developing a Feature Made Me Love Testing Even More – 5280

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  • Jun 19, 2017
The harrowing tale of how a seasoned tester had the opportunity develop a feature and came face to face with the challenge of producing quality

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Metrics to drive embedded software test in Agile development – 5279

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  • Jun 19, 2017
List the issue of current embedded software test, especially in agile development model, and find the solution according to experience in Dyson

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Discovering Logic in Testing – 5277

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  • Jun 19, 2017
We all test in different ways and sometimes it can be hard to explain the thought processes behind how we test. What leads us into trying certain

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Measure- How agile is your agile qa team, using a 50 point checklist – 5276

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  • Jun 19, 2017
The whole world of IT wants to get into Agile as it being the latest buzz word in the industry. Water fall is changing fast into agile, rather it

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IMPLEMENTING A FRAMEWORK IN TEST AUTOMATION PROCESS – 5275

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  • Jun 19, 2017
One of the biggest problems that a team faces when it comes to automate their first test cases is to know what strategy to implement. In most

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IoT testing: How to overcome 5 big challenges – 5273

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  • Jun 18, 2017
Gartner says that more than 6.4 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be in use in 2016, and that number will grow to more than 20

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MINDMAPS – ULTIMATE THINKING TOOL FOR EFFECTIVE TESTING – 5272

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  • Jun 17, 2017
Tester’s are expected to come up with a lot of artifacts during the process of testing. The traditional test artifacts are time intensive,

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Testing within an complex ecommerce environment – 5271

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  • Jun 16, 2017
Retail nowadays is all about time to market and being the first online with an innovative service or having the most displayable properties for

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How is Software Quality measured – 5270

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  • Jun 16, 2017
In this talk, I will be discussing how software quality can be effectively measured in a real organisation scenario, with the aim for sharing key

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Testing Lesson s from Lean Startups – 5268

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  • Jun 15, 2017
The statistics are dismal. Even though magazines and newspapers and blogs and even movies tell stories of successful entrepreneurs, most startups

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Adventures in field testing – 5267

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When I started my current job, I had no idea that about two weeks later, I would find myself freezing my toes and fingers off at a bus depot at

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The Bright Side of Getting Old – 5265

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  • Jun 15, 2017
Getting old brings a number of problems — it’s more difficult to get around, the vision starts to go, and the hearing too. Oh, and

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Dan Billing

Web Application Security: A Hands on Testing Challenge

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  • Jun 15, 2017
We know that application security is important. We have to protect our customers’ data and our employers’ data while keeping our

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Dan Billing

How to be a Redshirt and survive – 5263

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  • Jun 15, 2017
What is a Redshirt? In science fiction lore, it’s those unfortunate crew members who give their lives. Either to protect their comrades or

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A Tester’s Journey: Back to our Roots

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  • Jun 15, 2017
Testing has changed over the years. Speaking through the lens of my career to date, this talk will explain the journey I have taken that has

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Nicholas_Hjelmberg

Testification – Learning Testing Through Gamification

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  • Jun 15, 2017
Gamification and board games are two emergent trends. Both appeal to the human curiousity to explore and discover. Testing is also about

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Lena_Wiberg

Tax Calculation – How Mind Mapping Helped Me Keep Sane

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  • Jun 15, 2017
Some years ago I faced the seemingly impossible task of verifying that a particularly evil part of code,tax calculation (Who knew there are so

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Faster, Better & RockStar – 5259

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  • Jun 15, 2017
How I applied the principles of testing to make Sky’s Adsmart offering – faster and scalable – a product that’s now

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Test automation is a hassle? Think again – 5257

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  • Jun 14, 2017
Introducing test automation in a company or even a single project, can be a hassle. Fear of the unknown, resistance to change, no in-house

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Simon Prior

If the Universities Won’t Help us, How do we #MakeATester?

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  • Jun 14, 2017
In 2016, I did some research into how many universities cover software testing as a topic in their core Computer Science syllabus and the results

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Testing in the Age of Complexity

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  • Jan 26, 2017
As testers we are often asked to testing complicated systems but the recent excitement around trends such as Machine Learning, Big Data and IoT

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Test Automation Management Patterns

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  • Nov 30, 2016
NOTE: Laptops or tablets required for this workshop In this workshop Dorothy Graham and Seretta Gamba will use patterns to help attendees to

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Automated Design of Smart Test Cases for Android

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  • Nov 21, 2016
This talk will review the existing state-of-the-art and practice in automated smart test case design. It will outline exciting emerging

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The Thermostat, the Hacker, and the Malware

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  • Nov 21, 2016
Following the PoC of thermostat ransomware that Pen Test Partners showed at DefCon 24, this presentation digs deep into IoT devices and their

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UKSTAR Speaker Rik Marselis

Information Ethics for Robotics

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  • Nov 21, 2016
This talk is paired with DataEthics: We don’t cross that bridge when we get there! as part of a conversation track on Information Ethics.

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UX – what about TX for test automation?

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  • Oct 31, 2016
This talk is paired with What does technical enough mean? as part of a conversation track on Automation and People View More   Is it me, or

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Moving from Tester to Software Engineer – Changing our Work Culture

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  • Oct 25, 2016
In this ever-changing and turbulent world, we are all faced with our storm to weather. My department is now transitioning to DevOps as the next

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Agile Testing – Adding values to agile teams

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  • Oct 25, 2016
Is tester’s role on agile project same as the one on a traditional project? What values testers add to agile teams? What are the problems most

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Working Smarter

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This talk is paired with Mind the Gap as part of a conversation track on Skill Changes   View More   We are fortunate to work in an age

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Mind the Gap

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  • Oct 25, 2016
This talk is paired with Working Smarter – How to do more with less time and be happy about it! as part of a conversation track on Skill Changes

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“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn” – Experiences from the Software Testing Clinic

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  • Oct 25, 2016
The Software Testing Clinic has been running for a number of months now. It offers a free, safe environment for testers of all levels of

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Hiring & Getting Hired – From an Ex-Recruiter

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  • Oct 25, 2016
Today, I thoroughly enjoy testing and working in IT. Two years ago, I was recruiting other people for IT roles! I’ve picked up an awful lot

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Testing anything, any time with containerized service virtualization

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  • Oct 25, 2016
With continuous integration and continuous delivery firmly establishing themselves in the software development and delivery world, early and fast

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Changing software delivery culture through test assurance and learning frameworks

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  • Oct 25, 2016
A year ago testing wasn’t as valued as it needed to be by our stakeholders; at the same time we were embarking upon lots of new changes to how we

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Quality vs Velocity

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  • Oct 24, 2016
This talk is paired with Focus on Testing value first before correctness as part of a conversation track on Quality   View More   I

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Enhancing your testing with Puppet

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  • Oct 24, 2016
I will describe my experience of challenges and successes in adopting Puppet (and other configuration management tools) into the QA processes at

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UKSTAR Speaker Bryan Jones

The Psychology of Testing

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  • Oct 24, 2016
This talk is paired with The Tester Co-dependancy Problem as part of a conversation track on Head Hacking.   View More     Testing

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Cultural differences for Dummies: Poland

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  • Oct 24, 2016
Most of us are working within distributed teams. Today I want to focus on the cooperation with the people from Poland. I’m going to use my

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UKSTAR Speaker Jitesh Gosai

Mis-Adventures in Test Automation – iPlayer Mobile

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  • Oct 24, 2016
Exploring the journey of the BBC iPlayer Mobile App team’s pursuit to move faster and better; from 2-3 releases a year to every 4 weeks getting

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The Tester Co-dependancy Problem

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  • Oct 24, 2016
This talk is paired with The Psychology of Testing as part of a conversation track on Head Hacking.   View More   It is a strange dance

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Monitoring System Performance

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  • Oct 24, 2016
Performance testing is something that not all testers are familiar with. For some it is even a taboo. In some cases, it looks like a scary

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From the Cubicle to the Open Road…Chasing Dreams and WiFi Connections

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  • Oct 21, 2016
Remote work is on the rise. The obstacles that once were very difficult to overcome, have become easier and easier to work around, as more and

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Test Data Marathon

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  • Oct 21, 2016
For most runners, a marathon is not just 42km of physical endurance. It means months and months of arduous, painstaking preparation until the

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UKSTAR Speakers - Steve Watson & Bhagya Mudiyanselage

The Communication Bridge

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  • Oct 21, 2016
Good communication between colleagues and business contacts is vital, but there are many pitfalls. We are working more globally than ever before

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What does technical enough mean?

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  • Oct 18, 2016
This talk is paired with UX – What About TX for Test Automation?as part of a conversation track on Automation and People   View More  

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Visualisation and Data Driven Quality bridging Dev and Ops

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  • Oct 16, 2016
I’ve often mentioned as a side note how using operational intelligence software helped our testers better understand the technical

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UKSTAR Speaker Stephen Janaway

Up and Away? How Moving Into Software Management Gave Me a Different View Of Testing

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  • Oct 10, 2016
Until two years ago I had a fairly typical career in testing; perhaps you recognise it as similar to your own. I’ve been a Tester, a Test

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UKSTAR Speaker Laurent Py

Focus on Testing value first before correctness

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  • Oct 5, 2016
This talk is paired with Quality vs Velocity as part of a conversation track on Quality   View More   Over the past few years, my team

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DataEthics: We don’t cross that bridge when we get there!

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  • Oct 5, 2016
This talk is paired with Information Ethics for Robotics as part of a conversation track on Information Ethics.   View More   This

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Not making a drama out of a crisis: How we dealt with losing one third of our testers overnight

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  • Oct 5, 2016
How would you cope if you lost one third of your testers overnight? Well, this happened to us – we went, with no warning, from 12 to 8 testers in

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UKSTAR Speaker Siegfried Goeschl

Gatling – Tales From A Journey

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  • Oct 4, 2016
We all love to deliver well-tested and responsive software in rapid cycles to our customers. Consequently we invest a lot of time in test

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