In QA organizations today, a tester must have technical know-how, good communication skills, and attention to detail. We know that a tester’s main responsibility is to test the software that developers develop to ensure that the product meets the quality standards expected of today’s applications. But apart from that, it’s difficult to measure what exactly makes a good tester.
QA managers and their team members are constantly under pressure to test faster and more efficiently, and deliver software with fewer defects. The role and importance of QA in today’s R&D teams is evolving from simply finding defects to protecting the corporate image. As a result, your testers have to be more productive and more efficient, and change their mindset to think about quality over quantity. It’s not just about finding bugs; it’s about continuing to measure and improve, and finding the right bugs to make the end-user experience better.
In this lecture I will share with you some of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that we use to measure our own testing efforts: Percentage of high/critical, escaped defects, Time to test, Defect resolution time, Percentage of rejected defects and what we’ve learned from each of them, and how our team improved its efficiency and productivity as a result.
Panoramic Quality: The Fellowship of Testing in DevOpsBrendan Connolly
DevOps has expanded the opportunity for testers to become arbiters of quality. I'll share 3 core responsibilities of testers in DevOps: to know, protect, and verify. I'll establish a working definition of Quality Ownership and discuss its relationship to Product Ownership to help testers look beyond deriving quality from executing tests and shift instead towards becoming quality owners. Helping testers to find their path to enabling continuous quality, through pairing and sharing test ownership across the team while instilling value from pull request to production.
How Digital Changed the Game... and how to cross platform test for itLizzy Guido (she/her)
Covered in this webinar:
- Today's Digital Reality and Challenges
- Perfecto's CQ Digital Lab
- Devices and Platforms
- Perfecto's Open Source Strategy
- DEMO
- Q & A
By the end of this webinar, you'll be able to tackle the challenges of the digital experience and recommend the best solutions for your clients.
In QA organizations today, a tester must have technical know-how, good communication skills, and attention to detail. We know that a tester’s main responsibility is to test the software that developers develop to ensure that the product meets the quality standards expected of today’s applications. But apart from that, it’s difficult to measure what exactly makes a good tester.
QA managers and their team members are constantly under pressure to test faster and more efficiently, and deliver software with fewer defects. The role and importance of QA in today’s R&D teams is evolving from simply finding defects to protecting the corporate image. As a result, your testers have to be more productive and more efficient, and change their mindset to think about quality over quantity. It’s not just about finding bugs; it’s about continuing to measure and improve, and finding the right bugs to make the end-user experience better.
In this lecture I will share with you some of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that we use to measure our own testing efforts: Percentage of high/critical, escaped defects, Time to test, Defect resolution time, Percentage of rejected defects and what we’ve learned from each of them, and how our team improved its efficiency and productivity as a result.
Panoramic Quality: The Fellowship of Testing in DevOpsBrendan Connolly
DevOps has expanded the opportunity for testers to become arbiters of quality. I'll share 3 core responsibilities of testers in DevOps: to know, protect, and verify. I'll establish a working definition of Quality Ownership and discuss its relationship to Product Ownership to help testers look beyond deriving quality from executing tests and shift instead towards becoming quality owners. Helping testers to find their path to enabling continuous quality, through pairing and sharing test ownership across the team while instilling value from pull request to production.
How Digital Changed the Game... and how to cross platform test for itLizzy Guido (she/her)
Covered in this webinar:
- Today's Digital Reality and Challenges
- Perfecto's CQ Digital Lab
- Devices and Platforms
- Perfecto's Open Source Strategy
- DEMO
- Q & A
By the end of this webinar, you'll be able to tackle the challenges of the digital experience and recommend the best solutions for your clients.
Testing NodeJS, REST APIs and MongoDB with UFTOri Bendet
Today’s applications are becoming more complex. From multi-layers applications, to micro-services to containers, QA & automation engineers are required to test more with less and without compromising the quality of the app.
Join me and Yossi Neeman as we explain the pros & cons of testing at each of the different layers of the application and also share some best practices around Agile Testing. Everything will be demonstrated on a demo application built with the latest technology stack including NodeJS, REST APIs and MongoDB and tested using UFT 12.52.
Covered in this webinar:
- High level introduction to Perfecto
- Digital Challenges seen in the market today
- Understanding the Continuous Quality Perfecto Lab
- Basic Architecture/Setup and Look and Feel of the Lab
- Q & A
By the end of this webinar, you will be able to confidently understand the Perfecto business and product.
Bringing Quality Design Systems to Life with Storybook & ApplitoolsApplitools
** Full webinar recording: https://youtu.be/R6WnEzlMHac **
Bringing design systems and component libraries to life can be a large, challenging process without the right tools. On top of that, maintaining a high level of quality throughout those systems brings its own challenge.
While there’s no shortage of ways to manually create a design system from scratch, doing so can be time consuming and can lead to technical debt when the system itself isn’t itself in a structure.
Storybook is a tool for developers that helps bring design systems and component libraries to life, providing structured tooling and a web dashboard. It gives those developers, and even designers, a way to focus on each individual component while being able to see the system from a higher perspective.
On top of that, Applitools is an automated Visual Testing solution that easily stacks right on top of Storybook with the Storybook Eyes SDK. With a single command, Applitools provides full test coverage for each component of your design system.
Join Developer Advocate, Colby Fayock, as he walks through:
How to take advantage of using Storybook to build scalable design systems
How Applitools makes automating the testing of those components easy
How to focus on building great experiences while automating quality checks with visual testing
Automation testing requires specific techniques to handle errors differently to manual testing. There shouldn't be "procedure processing" problem that prevents you from perform your steps as you are well aware when to stop or continue the test flow, when to capture screenshot or to report failed step. With automation testing, things are different. There are numerous obstacles and errors will fail your test cases because of processing problems. Below are some of the tips and trick that can help you improve the thoroughness of your scripts. Improve compliance regulation easily with automation.
1) How to deal with IFrame?
2) How to deal with Popup?
3) Manage Xpath nesting?
...
By applying linting (static code analysis) tools to test code, preferably the same tools as for application code, tests can be improved which can eventually lead to better maintainability, readability and more robust tests, without even running them!
SauceCon 2017: Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Testing in MindSauce Labs
Now more than ever, engineering teams of all sizes are under pressure to deliver quality code more frequently. With the DevOps ecosystem growing larger every day, it might seem overwhelming to fully understand how to create an end-to-end solution that allows developers to continually commit new code with confidence, without having to slow down due to rollbacks. Achieving this true Continuous Deployment pipeline is difficult, but not impossible.
Join Neil Manvar, Solutions Architect from Sauce Labs, as he demonstrates a full CD pipeline containing a Pull Request build which will be used to test changes in isolation before code is merged into the master codebase. Using a JS based code tech stack, with AngularJS for the source code, Karma/Jasmine for unit tests and Protractor for functional (Selenium) tests, he will safely push quality code to production leveraging the following tools:
- Jenkins for CI / orchestration
- Github for Source Code Management
- Docker for creating/deploying container running the application
- Sauce Labs for running tests in various browser/OS combinations
By running through all of the various steps involved in deploying code changes safely and automatically to production, Neil will discuss the ways in which the PR Build creates a real time developer feedback and enforcement mechanism, thus eliminating bottlenecks. He will also discuss the implementation strategies, as well as challenges, along with results and culture changes that come with truly embracing DevOps methodologies.
Software testers and QA Engineers play a vital role in any firm. And with time and practice, they will be able to aim for higher positions and pay cheques. Here are the pros and cons of choosing Software testing as a career path.
Video Testing Best Practices: How to Guarantee High-Quality Video for your Cu...Perfecto by Perforce
Video delivery is becoming more and more prevalent on mobile applications. Customer expectations for video are higher than ever and cannot be neglected. According to Nielsen, smartphones and tablets were responsible for the highest growth rates in video consumption in 2015-2016.
In this webinar, experts from Perfecto and Accenture StormTest, and British Telecom will show how you can automate your video quality performance testing while simultaneously measuring customer experience.
IoT Software Testing Challenges: The IoT World Is Really DifferentTechWell
With billions of devices containing new software connected to the Internet, the Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to become the next growth area for software development and testing. Although many traditional test techniques and strategies remain viable, challenges in IoT testing include huge amounts of data, multiple communication channels, device protocols, resource limitations (battery or memory), addressing sensors and controllers, cloud-hardware-device integration, and security concerns. Jon Hagar says that for IoT testers to be successful, they must develop new knowledge and skills, and apply them based on real data and proven test design methods. Testing analytics should include raw test data, data relationships across software integration boundaries, and social media inputs, as well as a keen understanding of sociological and psychological factors. Jon shares insights into math-based testing, model-based testing, attack-based exploratory testing, and appropriate types of standards as basics of IoT testing. Take back a new holistic view for your IoT testing which considers the world environment, connected systems, local systems, and the IoT device itself.
How to Avoid Continuously Delivering Faulty SoftwarePerforce
As organizations continue to compress development and delivery lifecycles, the risk of regressions, integration errors, and other defects rises. But how can development teams integrate defect prevention strategies into their release cycles to ensure that they're not continuously delivering faulty software? In this session, learn the key development testing processes to add to your Continuous Delivery system to reduce the risk of automating the release of software defects.
Testing Hourglass at Jira Frontend - by Alexey Shpakov, Sr. Developer @ Atlas...Applitools
** Full webinar recording: **
Two leading developers -- from Jira/ Atlassian and Pushpay -- shared their insights, tip, tricks, and best practices on how to maintain quality across the Dev-Test-Release cycle, without losing speed or coverage.
Talk 1: Reducing the Risk of Rapid Development and Continuous Delivery -- by David Corbett (Director of Engineering @ Pushpay)
In this talk, David showed us what goes on under the hood of Pushpay's development cycle.
He also talked about the ways in which Pushpay is empowering Dev and Test teams to be more autonomous, and prompting them to use advanced test automation tools & techniques, such as visual validation, in order to gain confidence in deploying many times each day.
Talk 2: Testing Hourglass at Jira Frontend -- by Alexey Shpakov (Sr. Developer - Jira Frontend @ Atlassian)
We often hear people talk about the testing pyramid.
In Jira Frontend, we talk about testing hourglass -- that means we expect our developers to be responsible for the whole lifecycle of the code -- starting from creating tests and finishing with running a 24/7 on-call.
In this talk, Alexey did a deep-dive into the various types of testing they have in Jira Frontend, and discussed the various tools that allow them to deliver Jira to customers in a low-risk manner.
SauceCon 2017: Are Manual Testers Needed In Automated DevOps World?Sauce Labs
When Anurag joined Honeywell in 2014, it was an industrial company on a mission to transform itself into a Digital industrial company. Development was done in a traditional waterfall method, testing was only done manually, resulting in very few software releases with below average quality. He is helping transform the organization by driving (scaled) agile development, test automation and effective DevOps. The big question faced by the company now is how to best leverage the army of manual test resources in this automated DevOps world. In this talk, he will explain how he helped answer that question.
Functional to Visual: AI-powered UI Testing from Testim and ApplitoolsApplitools
As leaders in the application of AI to test automation, Applitools and Testim have come together to simplify test creation, maintenance and execution. Join this webinar to learn how you can elevate your approach to test automation with AI-powered codeless functional and visual UI testing.
Testing NodeJS, REST APIs and MongoDB with UFTOri Bendet
Today’s applications are becoming more complex. From multi-layers applications, to micro-services to containers, QA & automation engineers are required to test more with less and without compromising the quality of the app.
Join me and Yossi Neeman as we explain the pros & cons of testing at each of the different layers of the application and also share some best practices around Agile Testing. Everything will be demonstrated on a demo application built with the latest technology stack including NodeJS, REST APIs and MongoDB and tested using UFT 12.52.
Covered in this webinar:
- High level introduction to Perfecto
- Digital Challenges seen in the market today
- Understanding the Continuous Quality Perfecto Lab
- Basic Architecture/Setup and Look and Feel of the Lab
- Q & A
By the end of this webinar, you will be able to confidently understand the Perfecto business and product.
Bringing Quality Design Systems to Life with Storybook & ApplitoolsApplitools
** Full webinar recording: https://youtu.be/R6WnEzlMHac **
Bringing design systems and component libraries to life can be a large, challenging process without the right tools. On top of that, maintaining a high level of quality throughout those systems brings its own challenge.
While there’s no shortage of ways to manually create a design system from scratch, doing so can be time consuming and can lead to technical debt when the system itself isn’t itself in a structure.
Storybook is a tool for developers that helps bring design systems and component libraries to life, providing structured tooling and a web dashboard. It gives those developers, and even designers, a way to focus on each individual component while being able to see the system from a higher perspective.
On top of that, Applitools is an automated Visual Testing solution that easily stacks right on top of Storybook with the Storybook Eyes SDK. With a single command, Applitools provides full test coverage for each component of your design system.
Join Developer Advocate, Colby Fayock, as he walks through:
How to take advantage of using Storybook to build scalable design systems
How Applitools makes automating the testing of those components easy
How to focus on building great experiences while automating quality checks with visual testing
Automation testing requires specific techniques to handle errors differently to manual testing. There shouldn't be "procedure processing" problem that prevents you from perform your steps as you are well aware when to stop or continue the test flow, when to capture screenshot or to report failed step. With automation testing, things are different. There are numerous obstacles and errors will fail your test cases because of processing problems. Below are some of the tips and trick that can help you improve the thoroughness of your scripts. Improve compliance regulation easily with automation.
1) How to deal with IFrame?
2) How to deal with Popup?
3) Manage Xpath nesting?
...
By applying linting (static code analysis) tools to test code, preferably the same tools as for application code, tests can be improved which can eventually lead to better maintainability, readability and more robust tests, without even running them!
SauceCon 2017: Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Testing in MindSauce Labs
Now more than ever, engineering teams of all sizes are under pressure to deliver quality code more frequently. With the DevOps ecosystem growing larger every day, it might seem overwhelming to fully understand how to create an end-to-end solution that allows developers to continually commit new code with confidence, without having to slow down due to rollbacks. Achieving this true Continuous Deployment pipeline is difficult, but not impossible.
Join Neil Manvar, Solutions Architect from Sauce Labs, as he demonstrates a full CD pipeline containing a Pull Request build which will be used to test changes in isolation before code is merged into the master codebase. Using a JS based code tech stack, with AngularJS for the source code, Karma/Jasmine for unit tests and Protractor for functional (Selenium) tests, he will safely push quality code to production leveraging the following tools:
- Jenkins for CI / orchestration
- Github for Source Code Management
- Docker for creating/deploying container running the application
- Sauce Labs for running tests in various browser/OS combinations
By running through all of the various steps involved in deploying code changes safely and automatically to production, Neil will discuss the ways in which the PR Build creates a real time developer feedback and enforcement mechanism, thus eliminating bottlenecks. He will also discuss the implementation strategies, as well as challenges, along with results and culture changes that come with truly embracing DevOps methodologies.
Software testers and QA Engineers play a vital role in any firm. And with time and practice, they will be able to aim for higher positions and pay cheques. Here are the pros and cons of choosing Software testing as a career path.
Video Testing Best Practices: How to Guarantee High-Quality Video for your Cu...Perfecto by Perforce
Video delivery is becoming more and more prevalent on mobile applications. Customer expectations for video are higher than ever and cannot be neglected. According to Nielsen, smartphones and tablets were responsible for the highest growth rates in video consumption in 2015-2016.
In this webinar, experts from Perfecto and Accenture StormTest, and British Telecom will show how you can automate your video quality performance testing while simultaneously measuring customer experience.
IoT Software Testing Challenges: The IoT World Is Really DifferentTechWell
With billions of devices containing new software connected to the Internet, the Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to become the next growth area for software development and testing. Although many traditional test techniques and strategies remain viable, challenges in IoT testing include huge amounts of data, multiple communication channels, device protocols, resource limitations (battery or memory), addressing sensors and controllers, cloud-hardware-device integration, and security concerns. Jon Hagar says that for IoT testers to be successful, they must develop new knowledge and skills, and apply them based on real data and proven test design methods. Testing analytics should include raw test data, data relationships across software integration boundaries, and social media inputs, as well as a keen understanding of sociological and psychological factors. Jon shares insights into math-based testing, model-based testing, attack-based exploratory testing, and appropriate types of standards as basics of IoT testing. Take back a new holistic view for your IoT testing which considers the world environment, connected systems, local systems, and the IoT device itself.
How to Avoid Continuously Delivering Faulty SoftwarePerforce
As organizations continue to compress development and delivery lifecycles, the risk of regressions, integration errors, and other defects rises. But how can development teams integrate defect prevention strategies into their release cycles to ensure that they're not continuously delivering faulty software? In this session, learn the key development testing processes to add to your Continuous Delivery system to reduce the risk of automating the release of software defects.
Testing Hourglass at Jira Frontend - by Alexey Shpakov, Sr. Developer @ Atlas...Applitools
** Full webinar recording: **
Two leading developers -- from Jira/ Atlassian and Pushpay -- shared their insights, tip, tricks, and best practices on how to maintain quality across the Dev-Test-Release cycle, without losing speed or coverage.
Talk 1: Reducing the Risk of Rapid Development and Continuous Delivery -- by David Corbett (Director of Engineering @ Pushpay)
In this talk, David showed us what goes on under the hood of Pushpay's development cycle.
He also talked about the ways in which Pushpay is empowering Dev and Test teams to be more autonomous, and prompting them to use advanced test automation tools & techniques, such as visual validation, in order to gain confidence in deploying many times each day.
Talk 2: Testing Hourglass at Jira Frontend -- by Alexey Shpakov (Sr. Developer - Jira Frontend @ Atlassian)
We often hear people talk about the testing pyramid.
In Jira Frontend, we talk about testing hourglass -- that means we expect our developers to be responsible for the whole lifecycle of the code -- starting from creating tests and finishing with running a 24/7 on-call.
In this talk, Alexey did a deep-dive into the various types of testing they have in Jira Frontend, and discussed the various tools that allow them to deliver Jira to customers in a low-risk manner.
SauceCon 2017: Are Manual Testers Needed In Automated DevOps World?Sauce Labs
When Anurag joined Honeywell in 2014, it was an industrial company on a mission to transform itself into a Digital industrial company. Development was done in a traditional waterfall method, testing was only done manually, resulting in very few software releases with below average quality. He is helping transform the organization by driving (scaled) agile development, test automation and effective DevOps. The big question faced by the company now is how to best leverage the army of manual test resources in this automated DevOps world. In this talk, he will explain how he helped answer that question.
Functional to Visual: AI-powered UI Testing from Testim and ApplitoolsApplitools
As leaders in the application of AI to test automation, Applitools and Testim have come together to simplify test creation, maintenance and execution. Join this webinar to learn how you can elevate your approach to test automation with AI-powered codeless functional and visual UI testing.
How To Avoid Continuously Delivering Faulty SoftwareErika Barron
As organizations continue to compress development and delivery lifecycles, the risk of regressions, integration errors, and other defects rises. But how can development teams integrate defect prevention strategies into their release cycles to ensure that they're not continuously delivering faulty software? In this presentation, learn the key development testing processes to add to your Continuous Delivery system to reduce the risk of automating the release of software defects.
Enhancing Quality and Test in Medical Device Design - Part 2.pdfICS
Join us for the second installment of our webinar series, during which we explore the interesting and controversial aspects of quality and test solutions used in engineering for medical devices.
In this session, we'll weigh the pros, cons, motivations and alternatives for the canonical forms of software tests.
We'll also differentiate Medical Device Verification from other forms of testing to ensure you don't pay twice for the same result. And, we'll discuss how the concept of "reliability" in medical devices has evolved for software, and how "durability" might have more value.
If you’re developing medical devices and are trying to improve the value and efficacy of your quality budget, this session is a can't-miss!
End-to-End Quality Approach: 14 Levels of TestingJosiah Renaudin
In 2015, the Standard & Poor’s Ratings IT team set out an ambitious objective—to tighten the process and controls around the quality of code deployed to production. Based on internal cost of quality assessments, and supporting agile and waterfall internal engineering processes, distinct testing levels were identified to help push quality left and root out the underlying causes of defects as early as possible. The ‘14 Levels of Testing’ were defined to collaboratively span organizational functions, establish quality expectations, and help track towards the goal of eliminating defects. Adrian Thibodeau and Chintan Pandya review their 14 Levels of Testing and focus specifically on sharing the processes and tools employed to help govern the delivery of quality. Adrian and Chintan discuss metrics and dashboards, defect lifecycle management, their home-grown QA Workflow Portal, testing vendor SLAs and contracts, and facilitating UAT best-practices.
Ben Walters - Creating Customer Value With Agile Testing - EuroSTAR 2011TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2011 presentation on Creating Customer Value With Agile Testing by Ben Walters. See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Enabling continuous deployment of pixel-perfect user interfacesstefanorago
Modern organizations invest vastly on designing top-notch visual user interfaces that improve their credibility, strengthen their brand and help them win new customers, but how do they ensure that they look flawless when delivered to the end users? How do they prevent regressions and visual defects given all the possible combinations of devices, platforms, browsers, screen sizes and resolution that proliferate from day to day?
Those who care enough often use dedicated, manual QA stages that inevitably introduce delays in the deployment pipelines and cost a great deal of resources and time. Those who, on the other hand, leave this aspect unaddressed, incur the risk of exposing defective interfaces that negatively impress their audience, often times losing them to competitors.
We present an approach to visual testing that is completely automated and integrated into a continuous deployment pipeline, capable of blocking visual regressions and defects at early development stages thus saving resources, costs and reducing the time needed to deliver impeccable user interfaces.
A live demo will highlight all the steps involved, from design to deployment, using GitLab, Python, Selenium and Docker.
SonarSource provides open source projects and commercial products the means to inspect the code for Reliability, Security, and Maintainability.
We will be reviewing SonarQube and its benefits to organizations and various roles on a development team.
Staying in control of your software portfolio. Combine agility and security.
Presentation by Omnext, August 2016
Omnext helps your organization in becoming future-proof. Our goal is to provide the capability to control and accelerate not only (outsourced) software development, but also maintenance, modernization and rationalization processes. Control and monitoring lead to improved agility and quality and thereby risk & cost reduction. We can help you to deliver superior performance, right now and in the future by mapping out risks and putting them in context to create hands-on information to improve, change and become future-proof.
This session will give an overview of Static Code Analysis, its impact on the SDLC, its benefits and problems, the various automated tools used, and a demonstration of the code analysis of a Javascript web application using Sonarqube.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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.
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.
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
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
2. Agenda
Presenter
Quality & QA
DEV Lifecycle
Cost of quality
Technical debt
Issues
Git, CI, Sonar, Se
Bottom line
Thanks
3. Ady Beleanu
• Quality inquisitor
• 10 years in field of QC & QA
• Managed projects & teams
• Coached & inspired testers
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/adybeleanu
4. Quality
Quality (ISO) = The totality of the characteristics of an entity
that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs
“= ability of product to be able to satisfy end users”
The concept of making products fit for a purpose.
Minimising defects and problems.
You - feel it!
6. Quality Focus – Final product
Added value
Attention to detail
Process behind the product Innovation & Pioneering
Both – from point A to point B
the difference - usability, safety, comfort, reliability, and so
on
vs.
7. Quality Assurance – The Pieces
For the system to work, each piece has to be:
Perfect
Easily integrated
Tested
Reusable
vs.
8.
9. Key Success Criteria
THE BIBLE of the project
• Business case
• Architecture
• Requirements
• Quality strategy
• Project Synchronization
“Establishing your Automation Development Lifecycle”, Galen
20. Problem no.1 – Code Quality
http://www.bonkersworld.net/code-reviews/
Poor unit test coverage Complexity for integration test
No full regression (100%) Tight couplings
21. Why code review?
Find bugs early / Fix cheap
Coding standards compliance
Sharing knowledge
Consistent design and
implementation
Higher software security
Team cohesion
Confidence of stakeholders
24. Context – project done with & without code review:
10k LOC,
10eng,
3month project
Measured # of bugs found by QA Team in the next 6
months
The result: Code review would have saved half the cost of
fixing the bugs. Plus, they would have found 162 additional
bugs.
Code Review – Case Study
27. Code Review - trend & numbers
2012 study (VDC Research)
• 17.6% software engineers surveyed currently use automated tools for CR
• 23.7% expect to use them within 2 years.
Capers Jones' - 12,000 SW dev projects:
- 60-65% - The latent defect discovery rate of formal inspection.
- < 50% - For informal inspection.
- 30% - The latent defect discovery rate for most forms of testing.
150 lines of code per hour - Typical code review rates.
Code reviews => ~85% defect removal rate (avg. rate of about 65%)
75% of CR defects evolvability rather than functionality
suitable for long product / system life cycles => increase of Technical DEBT.
30. Continuous Inspection with SonarQube
7 Deadly Sins of source code
Duplications
Bad distribution of complexity
Spaghetti Design
Lack of unit tests
No coding standards
Potential bugs
Not enough / too many comments