Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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1.1 sustainable development and system innovation vezzoli 09-10 (32)
1. course System Design for Sustainability
TODAY:
1. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN:
THE REFERENCE FRAMEWORK
1.1 Sustainable development and system
innovation
1.2 Evolution of sustainability within design
carlo vezzoli
politecnico di milano . INDACO dpt. . DIS . faculty of design . Italy
Learning Network on Sustainability
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
2. course System Design for Sustainability
subject 1. Sustainable development and design: the reference framework
learning resource 1.1
Sustainable development and system
innovation
carlo vezzoli
politecnico di milano . INDACO dpt. . DIS . faculty of design . Italy
Learning Network on Sustainability
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
3. CONTENTS
. a context in strong evolution (and crises)
. the sustainable development
. environmental sustainability
. socio-ethical sustainability
. economic/legislative sustainability
. dimension and quality of change
. system innovation for sustainability
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
4. A CONTEXT IN A STRONG EVOLUTION
. advent of information and comunication
technologies (technologies of knowledge are at
the based of productivity, competition and power)
. interconnection (people, ideas, images, goods,
money, are circulating like never before)
. network society (not anymore only divided into
independent and isolated nations or
communities)
. enterprises in network (teamwork, networking,
outsourcing, subcontracting, delocalisation,…)
.…
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
5. A CONTEXT IN A STRUCTURAL CRISES (1/2)
ECONOMIC CRISIS (AND SOCIAL) 2008-201X:
[STRUCTURAL, NOT JUST FINANCIAL]
. crisis of the industrial model based on material consumption:
services (not products) produce 50% Europe GDP and 75% of
U.S. GDP
. high feedstock„s prices
. global food crisis
. high global inflation
. threat of a recession in the world
. crisis of credit
. crisis of confidence in stock exchange markets
...
. unemployment
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
6. A CONTEXT IN A STRUCTURAL CRISES (2/2)
ENVIROMENTAL CRISIS: THE
DISCOVERY OF ENVIROMENTAL
LIMITS (AND IRREVERSIBILITY
HARMFUL EFFECT)
1972: Meadows, Meadows, Randers,
Behrens, Limits to Growth, MIT, USA
> FIRST FORECAST OF A POSSIBLE
GOBAL ECO-SYSTEM COLLAPSE
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
7. FACING THE DOUBLE CRISIS (TODAY):
SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL
危机: CRISIS (危: RISK; "机: OPPORTUNITIES ')
in Chinese (as in other languages), the word crisis
has two meanings, risk and opportunity
. many (rightly) talk about risks
. we should/must (also) talk about opportunities
[the same nature of design is to consider the
opportunities and become its promoter]
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
8. [about opportunities]
A KEY CONTEMPORARY QUERRY:
WITHIN THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMICAL
CRISIS WHICH ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES?
DO WE KNOW ANY OFFER/BUSINESS MODELS
CAPABLE OF CREATING (NEW) VALUE
DECOUPLING IT FROM THE MATERIALS AND
ENERGY CONSUMPTION?
> significantly reducing the environmental impact
of traditional production/consumption systems?
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
9. SUSTAINABILITY: INTERNATIONAL PRIORITIES?
"The threat of climate change is serious, urgent and growing."
"The response to this challenge of our generation will be judged
by history, to the point that if we fail, we risk to deliver to
future generations an irreversible catastrophe"
"There is now a widespread understanding of the urgency of
the challenge we are facing. We know what must be done. "
Barack Hussein Obama, USA president, September 22, 2009,
the UN General Assembly
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
10. EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL PRIORITY
2005-2014: UNITED NATION DECADE ON
EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
integrate the principles, values,
and practices of sustainable
development into all aspects of
education and learning
even DESIGN FOR
SUSTAINABILITY starts to be
diffused in the curricula of
design schools
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
11. THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
A SOCIAL AND PRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT
that takes place within the limits set by the
“nature” and meets the needs of the present
without compromising those of the future
generation within a world-wide equitable
distribution of resources
. 1987: Our common future, WCED, ONU (first definition)
. 1991: Caring for the earth, UNEP, WWF, IUCN
. 1992: conference ONU, Environment and development, Rio de Janeiro
. 1994: fifth environmental action plan, European Commission
…
. 2002: summit ONU, Sustainable development, Johannesburg
. 2006/2009: Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS), European
Commission
. 2005-2014: Decade UNESCO “Education for Sustainable development”
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
12. THE SUSTAINABILITY DIMENSIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL: CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL
- not to exceed the biosphere and geosphere
“resilience”
SOCIO-ETHICAL
- same resources (satisfaction) level for future
generations
- equity in the distribution of resources (satisfaction)
ECONOMIC (AND LEGISLATIVE)
- economically practicable and prosperous solutions
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
13. THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
[THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE]
THE HARMFULNESS/IRREVERSIBILITY OF THE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS/EFFECTS
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
14. serra
greenhouse effect
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
15. ozono
ozone layer deplation
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
21. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: SCENARIOS
BIO-COMPATIBILITY
resources flows compatible with the natural system
NON-INTERFERENCE
“self-financing” of the artificial system‟s resource
flows
DEMATERIALIZATION
reduction of the resources flows to satisfy a
particular social demand of needs and desires
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
22. SOCIO-ETHICAL SUSTAINABILITY
EQUITY PRINCIPLE [UN, Johannesburg, 2002]
“every person, in a fair distribution of resources, has a right to
the same environmental space, i.e. to the same availability of
global natural resources”
(or better, to the same level of “satisfaction” that can be
achieved from these resources in different ways)
SOCIAL EQUITY AND COHESION [EU, SDS, 2006/2009]
“promotion of a democratic, socially inclusive, cohesive,
healthy, safe and just society with respect for fundamental
rights and cultural diversity that creates equal opportunities
and combats discrimination in all its forms”
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
23. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIMENSION: ACTIONS
ERADICATING POVERTY
Rome, 11.2009: World Summit on Food Security, FAO
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
24. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIM.: (OTHER) ACTIONS
[. eradicating poverty]
. promotion of principles and rules of democracy
. promotion of human rights and freedom
. achievement of peace and security
. access to information, training, employment
. respect for cultural diversity, regional identity
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
25. ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
ECONOMIC PROSPERITY [EU, SDS, 2006]
promote a prosperous, innovative, knowledge-rich,
competitive and eco-efficient economy
which provides high living standards and full and high-
quality employment
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
26. ECONOMIC (LEGISLATIVE) SUSTAINABILITY: ACTIONS
PROPER ATTRIBUTION OF THE COSTS TO RESOURCES
environmental resources‟ costs “internalisation”
ORIENTING (MAIN) ONGOING TRANSITIONS
interconnection, glocalization, services, information, etc.
ENHANCING PROMISING (OF NICHE) ECONOMIC MODELS
e.g. sustainable system innovation or distributed
economies
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
27. SUSTAINABILITY: SIZE OF CHANGE
IN 50 YEARS A WORLD-WIDE EQUITABLE SYSTEMS
OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION SHOULD USE
~90% LESS RESOURCES THAN THE
INDUSTRIALISED CONTEXTS ARE DOING TODAY
. 1993: Wuppertal institute,vari report
. 1993: WBCSD, Getting Eco-Efficient
. 2004: Meadows, Meadows, Randers, Behrens, Limits to
Growth: The 30-Year Update
. 2007: IPCC, Climate change report
…
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
28. SUSTAINABILITY: QUALITY OF CHANGE
RADICAL CHANGE (“DISCONTINUITY”)
PROMOTE (EVEN) SYSTEM INNOVATIONS
DIFFUSED INNOVATION
PROMOTE PLAUSIBLE AND “ATTRACTIVE” (SYSTEM)
INNOVATIONS
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
29. SYSTEM INNOVATIONS
from the process and product innovation
to the system innovation:
innovation of the mix of products and services
that are together able to fulfil a particular demand
of (customer) “satisfaction”, as well as the
innovation of the interaction of the stakeholders
of the related “satisfaction system (or value
production system).
“A value system includes the value chains of a firm's supplier
(and their suppliers all the way back), the firm itself, the firm
distribution channels, and the firm's buyers (and presumably
extended to the buyers of their products, and so on).”
[Michael Porter, 2006]
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
30. AN EXAMPLE OF
(SUATINABLE) SYSTEM INNOVATION
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
31. ARISTON + ENEL: PAY-PER-USE
payment is based on number of
washes and includes: delivery of a
washing machine at home (not
owned), electricity supply (not directly
paid), maintenance, up-grading and
end-of-life collection.
the innovative interaction between the two
companies and the client, make the companies‟
interest to design and provide (and design) high
efficient, long lasting, reusable and recyclable
washing machines
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy
32. SYSTEM INNOVATION: CHARACTERISTSICS
WIN-WIN POTENTIAL: SYSTEM ECO-EFFICIENCY
innovation in which is the company/companies‟
economic and competitive interest that leads to an
environmental impact reduction (system eco-
efficiency)
STAKEHOLDERS‟ INTERACTIONS INNOVATION
radical innovation, not so much as technological
one, but rather as innovative
interactions/partnership/services among the
stakeholders of a particular satisfaction system
Carlo Vezzoli
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / Faculty of Design / Italy