It takes more than faith, trust, and pixie dust to test a Disney theme park attraction. How does Walt Disney Imagineering ensure quality experiences for their guests? Janna Loeffler faced this challenge when she joined Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI). Since 2015 Janna has led the testing effort on some of Disney’s most complicated show and interactive systems. She describes the history of show software development and testing within WDI and discusses how to implement the right choice of quality solutions when working with different types of software. Learn how to assess the bigger picture, determine who your customer really is, and stretch yourself outside of your title and comfort zone to deliver a complete quality solution. Janna discusses helping WDI realize they needed more than testing; they needed an end-to-end quality solution that started before development and lasted past the release. Join Janna as she describes testing the technologies—or magic, as Disney cast members call it—behind some of Disney’s most popular theme park attractions.

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Testing
the
Magic
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Walt
Disney
Imagineering
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by:
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Loeffler
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Disney
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2.
Janna
Loeffler
Loeffler
In
her
more
than
fifteen
years
of
software
quality
experience,
Janna
Loeffler
has
worked
for
companies
including
Medtronic,
Boston
Scientific,
Gambro,
Campus
Management,
and
Emerson
Process
Management.
In
2011,
she
joined
the
Walt
Disney
Company's
Quality
Assurance
group
for
Walt
Disney
Parks
and
Resorts
Digital.
While
working
with
the
Digital
group,
Janna
was
responsible
for
testing
many
of
Disney's
Parks
and
Resorts
websites
and
the
My
Disney
Experience
mobile
application.
Janna
then
moved
into
software
development
as
a
software
development
engineer
in
test,
helping
to
develop
many
of
the
automated
tests
for
the
Walt
Disney
World
website.
She
joined
WDI
as
a
Show
Software
Test
Engineer
in
2015
and
has
since
taken
on
the
role
of
Quality
Lead,
overseeing
development
operations
and
show
software
testing.

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Testing Then
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Testing Now
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What are you currently doing for source control?
What languages are you coding in?
Are there any special requirements for your project? Security concerns?Partners
you are working with? New technologies?
What methodologies are you currently following? Agile? Waterfall? Other?
What are you currently doing for testing?
Where is this application going to run? In a park?On a cruise ship? Internally?
What is the most frustrating part of your job when it comes to software
development?
What systems or tools do you think would make your life easier?
How can I make your job easier?
What does your ideal world look like when it comes to software development?
Where to start?

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Past and Present

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