Agile testing principles and practices - Anil KaradeIndicThreads
Traditional test processes are not adaptive to extensive changes in software. Agile process emphasizes on ability to adapt to changing business needs, customer collaboration, integrated teams and frequent delivery of business values. Agile is an umbrella term that describes a variety of methods including XP and Scrum.
The talk will discuss pitfalls of the traditional testing process. Traditional testing process happens very late in the SDLC Where as Agile process focuses on test-first approach. The talk will explain benefits of going agile. Principles and practices of agile process will be discussed and agile methodologies Scrum and Extreme Programming will be discussed in detail. Purpose of Scrum, its effectiveness, timings and managing the scrum will be discussed. Some of the practices for XP like Pair Programming, Test Driven Development will be discussed. The Talk will also cover the QA role in agile world. The talk will cover the implementation issues while shifting from traditional to agile process. Talk will also include an interactive game for illustration of concepts.
Agile testing principles and practices - Anil KaradeIndicThreads
Traditional test processes are not adaptive to extensive changes in software. Agile process emphasizes on ability to adapt to changing business needs, customer collaboration, integrated teams and frequent delivery of business values. Agile is an umbrella term that describes a variety of methods including XP and Scrum.
The talk will discuss pitfalls of the traditional testing process. Traditional testing process happens very late in the SDLC Where as Agile process focuses on test-first approach. The talk will explain benefits of going agile. Principles and practices of agile process will be discussed and agile methodologies Scrum and Extreme Programming will be discussed in detail. Purpose of Scrum, its effectiveness, timings and managing the scrum will be discussed. Some of the practices for XP like Pair Programming, Test Driven Development will be discussed. The Talk will also cover the QA role in agile world. The talk will cover the implementation issues while shifting from traditional to agile process. Talk will also include an interactive game for illustration of concepts.
Agile Testing – embedding testing into agile software development lifecycle Kari Kakkonen
My presentation on Agile Testing, including a tuning concept and a case study of agile testing choices in a project, held 16 of June, 2014 at a customer internal seminar.
Until now there have been two camps for Application Quality Management (AQM) systems. Traditional Tools like HP QC that have proved inflexible for agile developments and maintenance heavy, or new agile tools from Version One or Rally Software, which are agile specific tools and not suitable for use outside agile environments or corporate-wide where teams are using a mix of processes.
With many organisations moving to or experimenting with Agile, Original Software has been acclaimed by the analyst community as the best solution for supporting Agile.
[Original Software nominated Agile Best Tool Award]
Just as improvements in developer's software tools and methods have enabled a shift in development approaches, next generation technology for test automation is similarly reframing the opportunities for testers to automate earlier in the delivery cycle without incurring the heavy burden of script maintenance so often associated with traditional automation tools. This means that not only can an agile environment be adopted, application quality is maintained and the total testing time reduced.
- See more at: http://www.origsoft.com/solutions/agile-software-testing/
How to Build in Quality from Day 1 using Lean QA and Agile TestingAtlassian
If you're struggling to implement QA methods that fit with agile's core principles, you're not alone. Join Giancarlo and Maurizio as they explain how their teams found a sweet spot at the intersection of agile and QA engineering. They'll share common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Plus, get tips and tricks on how to capture requirements and link JIRA to test repositories for complete traceability.
Shift left as first transformation step into Quality AssuranceZbyszek Mockun
Do you work in a company which has established effective testing process, which ensure high quality and support Agile methodologies? Can your testing process be used as a model for other companies? Fortunately, we were in that place a few years ago and had to ask ourselves a question about the next step. The answer was: Let’s be Quality Assurance Engineers rather than Testers. But what should we do? How can we do this transformation?
At the same time, I got feedback from my colleague – Head of Java practice: “Your testers found defects in areas / scenarios which weren’t included in development scope / my devs didn’t know that should cover those edge cases. What can we do with that?”
I had to agree with him. There is no sense to test scenarios which weren’t implemented. This was the starting point of our transformation. We decided to implement Shift left model as it looks like the most promising one. But when we implemented it not everything worked as smooth as we wished. New challenges appeared, but more in my presentation.
Slides from a session presented by Fadi Stephan from Kaizenko at the 2019 Global Scrum Gathering in Austin, TX on 05/20/2019 DC. Also see the blog series on Agile Testing at https://www.kaizenko.com/agile-testing/
Abstract:
Many teams struggle with fitting in testing activities inside of a Sprint. They end up doing primarily development activities in a Sprint and push testing activities to run in dedicated testing Sprints following the coding Sprints or have a coding and testing Sprint running in parallel. However, in Scrum, the output of every Sprint is a potentially shippable product increment. This means the product increment should be well tested within the Sprint and ready to be delivered. Come to this presentation to learn how to tackle testing on an Agile team, what kind of tests to execute, what to automate and what not to automate, the different test responsibilities, and when to run which tests. Leave with a testing strategy that you can start applying the next day to gradually get a team to start testing from day 1 of the Sprint and deliver a true product increment at the end of each Sprint.
An overview of agile testing and how to incorporate it into an agile software development process.
From a Webinar by uTest: http://www.utest.com/webinar_agile_testing.htm
Have you ever bumped into a wall with your automated tests? Many developers bump into various roadblocks and hurdles when writing test code. Are your test methods starting to fail because the code-under-test uses the current date and time? Are your automated integration tests failing because the database they integrate with keeps changing? Do you have an explosion of test methods, with the ratio of test code to code-under-test way too high? Is your effort to refactor and improve code overwhelmed by the time it takes to rewrite all those failing unit tests? This presentation is about clearing away Agile testing obstacles, avoiding common pitfalls, and staying away from dangerous practices.
Let's explore what is agile testing, how agile testing is different than traditional testing. What practices team has to adopt to have parallel testing and how to create your own test automation framework. Test automation frameworks using cucumber, selenium, junit, nunit, rspec, coded UI etc.
Agile QA: Redefining Quality in the Wild WestFord Prior
Agile has flipped the traditional software development lifecycle on its head. For the QA specialist, the waterfall-driven "testing stage"—where testers execute a pre-defined set of tests within a pre-defined timeline—has been redistributed and re-framed within Agile. I would even say it's been reborn.
Topics: Is Agile changing the quality game? How are QA thought leaders attempting to redefine our space? What are some tips/tricks/mindmaps I can use to do QA right on an agile team?
In this session, we would discuss what "Agile Testing" is, what are the well known methods and models of Agile Testing and what to expect on the future of Agile Testing.
The Three Pillars Approach to Your Agile Test StrategyTechWell
Far too often, agile transformations focus just on development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as adoption strategies unfold. Often the testing activity and the testing teams are left behind in agile strategy development or worse yet, they are only along for the ride. That’s simply not an effective transformation strategy. Join experienced agile coach Bob Galen as he shares the Three Pillars Framework for establishing a balanced strategic plan to effectively implement agile quality and testing. The pillars focus on development and test automation, testing practices, and whole-team collaboration activities that will ensure you have a balanced approach to agile testing and quality. Specifically the framework focuses on effective tactics of risk-based testing, exploratory testing, paired collaboration around agile requirements, agile test design, and TDD-BDD-functional testing automation. Leave with the tools to immediately initiate or rebalance a much more effective agile testing strategy.
Agile Testing - presentation for Agile User Groupsuwalki24.pl
Agile testing was present on Agile User Group. Presentation covers all aspects of testing on agile process, highlight the role of automation and issues with managing it.
High percentage of IT project failures and reduced time to capability have forced organizations to adopt agile methods. Waterfall to Agile transformation creates new opportunities and challenges to deliver quality products to customers and partners. This transformation involves devising new quality strategies by enabling change in people mindset, process, and technologies. This speech focuses on employing quality strategies in agile environment for large organizations.
Agile Testing – embedding testing into agile software development lifecycle Kari Kakkonen
My presentation on Agile Testing, including a tuning concept and a case study of agile testing choices in a project, held 16 of June, 2014 at a customer internal seminar.
Until now there have been two camps for Application Quality Management (AQM) systems. Traditional Tools like HP QC that have proved inflexible for agile developments and maintenance heavy, or new agile tools from Version One or Rally Software, which are agile specific tools and not suitable for use outside agile environments or corporate-wide where teams are using a mix of processes.
With many organisations moving to or experimenting with Agile, Original Software has been acclaimed by the analyst community as the best solution for supporting Agile.
[Original Software nominated Agile Best Tool Award]
Just as improvements in developer's software tools and methods have enabled a shift in development approaches, next generation technology for test automation is similarly reframing the opportunities for testers to automate earlier in the delivery cycle without incurring the heavy burden of script maintenance so often associated with traditional automation tools. This means that not only can an agile environment be adopted, application quality is maintained and the total testing time reduced.
- See more at: http://www.origsoft.com/solutions/agile-software-testing/
How to Build in Quality from Day 1 using Lean QA and Agile TestingAtlassian
If you're struggling to implement QA methods that fit with agile's core principles, you're not alone. Join Giancarlo and Maurizio as they explain how their teams found a sweet spot at the intersection of agile and QA engineering. They'll share common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Plus, get tips and tricks on how to capture requirements and link JIRA to test repositories for complete traceability.
Shift left as first transformation step into Quality AssuranceZbyszek Mockun
Do you work in a company which has established effective testing process, which ensure high quality and support Agile methodologies? Can your testing process be used as a model for other companies? Fortunately, we were in that place a few years ago and had to ask ourselves a question about the next step. The answer was: Let’s be Quality Assurance Engineers rather than Testers. But what should we do? How can we do this transformation?
At the same time, I got feedback from my colleague – Head of Java practice: “Your testers found defects in areas / scenarios which weren’t included in development scope / my devs didn’t know that should cover those edge cases. What can we do with that?”
I had to agree with him. There is no sense to test scenarios which weren’t implemented. This was the starting point of our transformation. We decided to implement Shift left model as it looks like the most promising one. But when we implemented it not everything worked as smooth as we wished. New challenges appeared, but more in my presentation.
Slides from a session presented by Fadi Stephan from Kaizenko at the 2019 Global Scrum Gathering in Austin, TX on 05/20/2019 DC. Also see the blog series on Agile Testing at https://www.kaizenko.com/agile-testing/
Abstract:
Many teams struggle with fitting in testing activities inside of a Sprint. They end up doing primarily development activities in a Sprint and push testing activities to run in dedicated testing Sprints following the coding Sprints or have a coding and testing Sprint running in parallel. However, in Scrum, the output of every Sprint is a potentially shippable product increment. This means the product increment should be well tested within the Sprint and ready to be delivered. Come to this presentation to learn how to tackle testing on an Agile team, what kind of tests to execute, what to automate and what not to automate, the different test responsibilities, and when to run which tests. Leave with a testing strategy that you can start applying the next day to gradually get a team to start testing from day 1 of the Sprint and deliver a true product increment at the end of each Sprint.
An overview of agile testing and how to incorporate it into an agile software development process.
From a Webinar by uTest: http://www.utest.com/webinar_agile_testing.htm
Have you ever bumped into a wall with your automated tests? Many developers bump into various roadblocks and hurdles when writing test code. Are your test methods starting to fail because the code-under-test uses the current date and time? Are your automated integration tests failing because the database they integrate with keeps changing? Do you have an explosion of test methods, with the ratio of test code to code-under-test way too high? Is your effort to refactor and improve code overwhelmed by the time it takes to rewrite all those failing unit tests? This presentation is about clearing away Agile testing obstacles, avoiding common pitfalls, and staying away from dangerous practices.
Let's explore what is agile testing, how agile testing is different than traditional testing. What practices team has to adopt to have parallel testing and how to create your own test automation framework. Test automation frameworks using cucumber, selenium, junit, nunit, rspec, coded UI etc.
Agile QA: Redefining Quality in the Wild WestFord Prior
Agile has flipped the traditional software development lifecycle on its head. For the QA specialist, the waterfall-driven "testing stage"—where testers execute a pre-defined set of tests within a pre-defined timeline—has been redistributed and re-framed within Agile. I would even say it's been reborn.
Topics: Is Agile changing the quality game? How are QA thought leaders attempting to redefine our space? What are some tips/tricks/mindmaps I can use to do QA right on an agile team?
In this session, we would discuss what "Agile Testing" is, what are the well known methods and models of Agile Testing and what to expect on the future of Agile Testing.
The Three Pillars Approach to Your Agile Test StrategyTechWell
Far too often, agile transformations focus just on development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as adoption strategies unfold. Often the testing activity and the testing teams are left behind in agile strategy development or worse yet, they are only along for the ride. That’s simply not an effective transformation strategy. Join experienced agile coach Bob Galen as he shares the Three Pillars Framework for establishing a balanced strategic plan to effectively implement agile quality and testing. The pillars focus on development and test automation, testing practices, and whole-team collaboration activities that will ensure you have a balanced approach to agile testing and quality. Specifically the framework focuses on effective tactics of risk-based testing, exploratory testing, paired collaboration around agile requirements, agile test design, and TDD-BDD-functional testing automation. Leave with the tools to immediately initiate or rebalance a much more effective agile testing strategy.
Agile Testing - presentation for Agile User Groupsuwalki24.pl
Agile testing was present on Agile User Group. Presentation covers all aspects of testing on agile process, highlight the role of automation and issues with managing it.
High percentage of IT project failures and reduced time to capability have forced organizations to adopt agile methods. Waterfall to Agile transformation creates new opportunities and challenges to deliver quality products to customers and partners. This transformation involves devising new quality strategies by enabling change in people mindset, process, and technologies. This speech focuses on employing quality strategies in agile environment for large organizations.
Scaling Agile at Spotify (representation)Vlad Mysla
This presentation is about real-life example of Software Company, which's design is based on Agile principles and can be scaled for huge companies.
References:
1. Evolution of Networks: The Stages of Human Organization
By Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps
2. Scaling Agile @ Spotifywith
By Henrik Kniberg and Anders Ivarsson
After doing testing on multiple Agile projects, I have come to realize certain aspects about the process and techniques that are common across projects. Some things I have learned along the way, some, by reflection on the mistakes / sub-optimal things that I did.
I have written and published my thoughts around the "Agile QA Process", more particularly what techniques can be used to test effectively in the Iterations.
Moving Towards Zero Defects with Specification by ExampleSteve Rogalsky
Love tracing bugs in a defect tracking system? Love the bug-fix cycle? If so, then don't come to this presentation. We'll be discussing how Specification by Example (also known as Acceptance Test Driven Development) will help move you towards a zero defect system by building the right thing the first time.
Using flow approaches to effectively manage agile testing at the enterprise l...Yuval Yeret
Slides from my upcoming LSSC11 talk:
More and more organizations want to become more agile these days. When the theory hits the shores of reality, few organizations can get to an idealistic agile feature team that does all testing within sprints, has no need for release-level processes, and where everything is fully automated continuous deployment style. Usually the testing organization is in the eye of the storm when talking about Big Batches, Wastes, ineffective handoffs and mountains of rework, as well as high transaction costs. I’ve recently been using Lean/Kanban flow based approaches to provide a way to evolve testing organizations to a more effective way of working, so that they can better support earlier feedback and higher flexibility. I will present this work as well as case studies from enterprise-level product development companies that are starting to use these approaches.
We will deal with the following challenges:
* Complex environments when it is not realistic to finish all required work within a sprint
* How to visualize and reduce testing batch sizes within sprints/releases using CFD
* How to deal with the testing bottleneck so common in product development organizations – practical suggestions and how to deal with the mindset issues
* How to run stabilization/hardening periods using Flow-based thinking
http://lssc11.crowdvine.com/talks/18074
Developing Quality Products Quickly through a Culture of CI/CDPaul Hepworth
Teams are stuck at one to two week releases. Some invest in tech, others in culture. In order for teams to speed up their delivery teams must have alignment across culture, practices, and technology. Companies and teams that invest in continuous cultures will reduce the chances of being disrupted by competition.
Test Improvement - Any place, anytime, any whereRuud Teunissen
Test Improvement is all about giving an organization or a team the “means they can use” to help achieve their goals. Means that are in line with their skills and they can use in their context. That’s why successful Test Improvement requires leadership and management. In this presentation I share experiences in Test Improvement in a wide variety of environments, using different models and approaches.
[Webinar] Test First, Fail Fast - Simplifying the Tester's Transition to DevOpsKMS Technology
DevOps is a spectacular mish-mash of development and operations processes and practices that has been growing increasingly popular in recent years. With the upward trending rate in adoption comes the need for organizations to fully understand the key practices as well as thoroughly integrating team members, especially testers, throughout the delivery pipeline. Getting started with DevOps practices can be a little tricky when choosing the right tools, people, and processes. In this webinar, we’ll focus on helping you make the switch without diminishing the team’s delivered product quality, so that the transition meets the enterprise objectives of speed and reliability.
Tune in to learn:
The biggest concern when moving to DevOps - and how to handle it
Why you need ‘Coding Testers’
The best tools for the job
The process of failing fast, and its significance to testers
Measuring the transition - recommended metrics
The value of DevOps long-term - efficiency, repeatability & reliability
Don’t worry about failing - it’s a part of the process!
Shift left, shift right the testing swing.
This deck shows the testing framework we use today in our agile & Devops team. We do Behavior Driven Development (Shift left) and test in production as well (shift right).
Continuous delivery requires more that DevOps. It also requires one to think differently about product design, development & testing, and the overall structure of the organization. This presentation will help you understand what it takes and why one would want to deliver value to your customers multiple times each day. #CIC
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan Ardita Karaj
Test-driven development is generally regarded as a good move: it should result in simple decoupled design, your tests tend to cover behaviour not methods, and far fewer bugs. However, just getting unit tests in on a real, commercial project is hard - switching to TDD is even harder. Often you can start a project with good intentions and coverage, then the deadline looms and the tests go out then the hacks come in. So, instead of beating ourselves up about not being perfect let's look at an interative approach to adopting TDD principles. We'll look at tactics for selling TDD to your client, boss and colleagues. This talk will also cover methods for making TDD easier for you by showing you what tools you can use to integrate it into your development environment. In the project itself, we'll examine how we can make small but permanent steps towards full TDD, without losing that progress when deadlines hit. We'll also cover a few methods for learning on your own time and how the whole process can actually be made quite enjoyable.
The DevOps Dance - Shift Left, Shift Right - Get It RightInflectra
As more organizations move towards continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) with DevOps pipelines becoming the norm, where is the right place to do different kinds and levels of testing? In this presentation, I will provide a blueprint for test managers on how to think about shifting left and shifting right while keeping the overall QA picture and goals in mind.
'Stakeholder Engagement Shortcuts': Ilan Goldstein @ Colombo Agile Conference...ColomboCampsCommunity
Change is difficult, and the reality is that in many organisations, an agile adoption means considerable change. Kickstarting a new initiative such as Scrum requires support from your senior stakeholders. This presentation outlines some powerful shortcuts to help engage with your stakeholder community to ensure that Scrum is given the best opportunity to flourish!
Real case studies of QA management in big teams (60-100 people). How to setup robust QA processes and approaches in them. Main impediments and problems, how to solve them. SAFe.
This talk was given at Eurostar 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
“Significant forces in the IT industry that mean testing in most organisations is under extreme pressure. Bosses wonder why they need people ‘over here’ to make sure people ‘over there’ do their job properly. Users, analysts, developers and testers may have to redistribute responsibility for testing and checking and by collaborating more effectively.
Testers won’t drive this transition, and they may be caught out if they ignore the winds of change. There's complacency, self-delusion and over capacity in the testing business; there is too little agreement about what testing is, what it’s for or how it should be done. In this talk, Paul will suggest what leadership is required in our industry, the market and our organisations.
Of course, some responsibility will fall on your shoulders. Whether you are a manager or technical specialist, there will be an opportunity for you to lead the change.”
Keeping Your DevOps Transformation From Crushing Your Ops Capacity Rundeck
Presentation by Damon Edwards, co-founder of Rundeck, at DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco, November 13, 2017
See a Demo of Rundeck Enterprise :
https://www.rundeck.com/see-demo
--or--
Download Rundeck Open Source here:
https://rundeck.com/open-source
Connect:
Stack Overflow community: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rundeck
Github: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck/issues
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rundeck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RundeckInc/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com › company › rundeck-inc
Beyond TDD: Enabling Your Team to Continuously Deliver SoftwareChris Weldon
Many project teams have adopted unit testing as a necessary step in their development process. Many more use a test-first approach to keep their code lean. Yet, far too often these teams still suffer from many of the same impediments: recurrent integration failures with other enterprise projects, slow feedback with the customer, and sluggish release cycles. With a languishing feedback loop, the enterprise continues to put increasing pressure on development teams to deliver. How does an aspiring agile team improve to meet the demands of the enterprise?
Continuous integration is the next logical step for the team. In this talk, you’ll learn how continuous integration solves intra and inter-project integration issues without manual overhead, the value added by continuous integration, and how to leverage tools and processes to further improve the quality of your code. Finally, we discuss the gold standard of agile teams: continuous deployment. You’ll learn how continuous deployment helps close the feedback loop with your customers, increases visibility for your team, and standardizes the deployment process.
Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
Writing and maintaining a suite of acceptance tests that can give you a high level of confidence in the behaviour and configuration of your system is a complex task. In this session, Dave will describe approaches to acceptance testing that allow teams to:
work quickly and effectively
build excellent functional coverage for complex enterprise-scale systems
manage and maintain those tests in the face of change, and of evolution in both the codebase and the understanding of the business problem.
This workshop will answer the following questions, and more:
How do you fail fast?
How do you make your testing scalable?
How do you isolate test cases from one-another?
How do you maintain a working body of tests when you radically change the interface to your system?
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8539/acceptance-testing-for-continuous-delivery
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Slides as presented at the Lean Agile London / Lean Agile Global meetup, Oct. 20, 2022 (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6989216827318882304/)
No (Lab) Jacket Required Workshop [Kanban Global Summit 2022]Matthew Philip
Slides as presented in my workshop at the 2022 Kanban Global Summit in San Diego, USA, 23 Aug 2022.
https://register.kanbanevents.com/event/52b366e6-e669-4ebc-9da2-52f4fa47c8ba/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce
The 8 Stances of a Transformational LeaderMatthew Philip
Patterned after the popular "Eight Stances of a Scrum Master," this talks introduces the eight stances -- "mental or emotional positions adopted with respect to something" -- of leaders at all levels who want to enable high-performing people, teams and organizations. To improve organizational outcomes, the eight stances are aimed at:
- Reducing friction to allow teams to do what they do best
- Fostering a learning environment to enable high performance, mastery and innovation
- Creating aligned autonomy to scalably connect strategy to action
Strategy Deployment: Aligning Action to VisionMatthew Philip
Strategy Deployment is any form of organizational improvement in which solutions emerge from the people closest to the problems. This is an example of how to bring about such improvement through fast, focused, collaborative activities like Visioning, X-Matrix and Experiment Canvas.
Metrics at Every (Flight) Level [2020 Agile Kanban Istanbul FlowConf]Matthew Philip
Slides as presented on Dec 8, 2020 at FlowConf organized by Agile Kanban Istanbul. https://www.flowconf.com/
Organizational change often stalls out at departmental boundaries, whether that is IT or another division. How do we help organizations connect vertically and horizontally to realize the outcomes that they have when undertaking large-scale change efforts?
Join this session to learn from a case study of a bank that combined flight levels and metrics to bridge their departmental boundaries and recognize gains not only in software delivery effectiveness but unifying higher-level strategy.
Stop writing stories, start validating working softwareMatthew Philip
Slides as presented at the 2020 Ágiles Latam Conference.
Abstract:
Barry O’Reilly exhorts today’s leaders to “break the cycle of behaviors that were effective in the past but are no longer relevant in the current business climate, and now limit or may even stand in the way of your success.” After more than two decades of writing, refining, grooming, estimating and documenting user stories, it’s time to unlearn them.
In a vast and sad irony, user stories have become the heavyweight documentation and process that they were meant to replace. This session proposes that we strip away the accrued behaviors and get back to the heart of agile and focus on delivering — and measuring progress by — working software.
No (Lab) Jacket Required: Designing Experiments for Learning [XP2020 Conference]Matthew Philip
Slides as presented at the XP2020 Conference (Copenhagen/Online) by Matthew Philip (Accenture | SolutionsIQ).
Abstract
Hypothesis-Driven Development is thinking about the development of new ideas, products and services – even organizational change – as a series of experiments to determine whether an expected outcome will be achieved, so we need to know how to design and run experiments properly. This workshop session helps participants understand the importance of using experiments to help teams and organizations learn and improve, while giving hands-on practice in designing experiments to yield measurable evidence for that learning. We’ll even play a couple of inductive-logic games to get us in the mindset of how to write tests to validate — and invalidate — our hypotheses in order to acquire knowledge. Whether you’re in product development of organizational improvement, for those wanting to move from projects to experiments in the quest of continuous learning and evolutionary improvement, this session will provide the tools and mindset for going beyond simply calling something an experiment to conducting experiments with the proper rigor to maximize learning.
This 60-minute workshop session helps participants:
understand the importance of using experiments to help teams and organizations learn and improve
gain hands-on practice in designing experiments to yield measurable evidence for that learning
understand how to properly measure outcomes without confirmation bias
https://www.agilealliance.org/xp2020/xp-2020-online-program/industry-and-practice-abstracts/#Philip
From Andon to Yokoten: Japanese for AgilistsMatthew Philip
Slides as presented at the 2020 Lean Agile US conference (https://www.leanagileus.com/schedule-2020).
Kanban, Andon, Kaizen as we are using these words in our English-speaking knowledge workplaces, but what do they mean? The fact that many of these Japanese terms originate in manufacturing complicates matters. We all discuss what they mean and why they are important in knowledge work today and go beyond the simple buzzwords. To help us remember not only the words but, more importantly, the concepts, we all use our own version of the popular Point travelers books so that participants can have a little fun learning.
No (Lab) Jacket Required: Designing Experiments for Learning [2019 Flowcon]Matthew Philip
Slides as presented during the workshop with Karl Scotland at Flowcon, Paris, Dec. 12, 2019. https://www.flowcon.fr/
Hypothesis-Driven Development is thinking about the development of new ideas, products and services – even organizational change – as a series of experiments to determine whether an expected outcome will be achieved, so we need to know how to design and run experiments properly.
This session helps participants understand the importance of using experiments to help teams and organizations learn and improve, while giving hands-on practice in designing experiments to yield measurable evidence for that learning. We’ll even play a couple of inductive-logic games to get us in the mindset of how to write tests to validate – and invalidate – our hypotheses in order to acquire knowledge.
Whether you’re in product development or organizational improvement, for those wanting to move from projects to experiments in the quest of continuous learning and evolutionary improvement, this session will provide the tools and mindset for going beyond simply calling something an experiment, to conducting experiments with the proper rigor to maximize learning.
Slides as presented at the 2019 Prairie DevCon Deliver Conference. http://www.prdcdeliver.com/
Leadership at Every Level: Practices for Aligned Autonomy
What does it mean to have leadership at every level of an organization? How do you create aligned autonomy in your team or organization? This talk connects the philosophy of intent-based leadership with practices that enable you to realize the benefits of aligned autonomy, regardless of where your name is in your org chart. By discovering virtual safety nets and vision balloons, you’ll learn how to pragmatically establish psychological safety and alignment of purpose, two of the core traits of high-performing teams.
No (Lab) Jacket Required [Agile Midwest Conference]Matthew Philip
Slides as presented at the 2019 Agile Midwest Conference.
https://agilemidwest.org
Abstract: Hypothesis-Driven Development is thinking about the development of new ideas, products and services – even organizational change – as a series of experiments to determine whether an expected outcome will be achieved, so we need to know how to design and run experiments properly.
This session helps participants understand the importance of using experiments to help teams and organizations learn and improve, while giving hands-on practice in designing experiments to yield measurable evidence for that learning.
Leadership at Every Level: Practices for Aligned AutonomyMatthew Philip
[Slides from track talk at Lean Agile US 2019]
What does it mean to have leadership at every level of an organization? How do you create aligned autonomy in your team or organization? This talk connects the philosophy of intent-based leadership with practices that enable you to realize the benefits of aligned autonomy, regardless of where your name is in your org chart. By discovering virtual safety nets and vision balloons, you’ll learn how to pragmatically establish safety and alignment of purpose, two of the core traits of high-performing teams.
http://www.leanagileus.com/ #leanagileus19
Portfolio kanban (St. Louis Agile Product Ownership Meetup)Matthew Philip
Slides as presented at the St. Louis Agile Product Ownership Meetup, Dec. 10, 2018. https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Product-Ownership/events/tnhplqyxqbnb/
Thriving (Not Merely Surviving) the First Year: Redesigning the Onboarding Ex...Matthew Philip
Slides as presented at XP2018 Conference, Porto, Portugal in the Agile in Education and Training/Building competence in industry track https://www.agilealliance.org/xp2018/program/
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.
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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.
5. Why this talk?
1. Agile QA 1.0 never
made it past “staging”
2. Call-to-action to
reinvigorate the state
of the practice
6. Why this talk?
1. Agile QA 1.0 never
made it past “staging”
2. Call-to-action to
reinvigorate the state
of the practice
3. Work together to
come up
with better ways
8. Eliminate the need for massive
inspection by building quality into the
product in the first place.
-- Edwards Deming (1982)
So what have
we learned?
”
“
19. How did this happen?
We simply repeat the same process
that we've always done
QAs aren’t assertive enough to ask for change
We figure that, if we don’t, the QA
won't have anything to do (resource
efficiency)
#1
#2
#3
20. But why is this
a problem?
End-‐of-‐cycle testing (mini waterfalls)
#1 Creates too long a feedback loop
#2 Virtually ensures that our testing efforts are
misaligned with value
#3 Reinforces gatekeeper role (oppositional)
#4 Creates inefficient test suite
21. But why is this
a problem?
Limits
options to
checking
through
GUI
Creates inefficient test suite
Which
leads to
this
24. Remedies Bring QA Forward
#1 Bring QA forward
* QA and devs collaborate to determine the
right places to test
25. Remedies QA and devs collaborate to determine the
right place to test#1 Bring QA forward
Many
here
Some
here
A few
here
26. Remedies Bring QA Forward
#1 Bring QA forward
* QA and devs collaborate to determine the
right places to test
* Specify acceptance tests up-front
(Acceptance-Test-Driven Development)
27. Remedies Acceptance-‐Test-‐Driven Development
Development
Iterations
Development
Engine
Write Story and Scenarios
Business Showcase
Story Testing
Story Planning Session
BA / QA Signoff on Dev Box
Daily BA/QA demo
Tester
Dev
BA
TesterDev
Tester BADev
Tester BADev
BABusiness
Tester
Start
Here
System
Testing
Implement Functionality
BABusiness
Implement Automated
Acceptance Tests
Dev
End Development Iteration
Start Development
Iteration
#1 Bring QA forward
28. Remedies Bring QA Forward
#1 Bring QA forward
* QA and devs collaborate to determine the
right places to test
* Testing efforts are aligned with business
needs and risk
* Specify acceptance tests up-front
(Acceptance-Test-Driven Development)
29. Remedies Re-‐start by mapping your done list to the wall
#1 Bring QA forward
#2 Map done list to the wall * Simple value-stream
* Lets the team take a conscious role in
defining its wall
30. Remedies Include QA in Work-‐In-‐Progress Limits
#1 Bring QA forward
#2 Map done list to the wall
#3 Include QA in WIP limits
Expand
this…… to
include this
* Encourages whole-team approach
33. Other considerations Quality Advocacy
Quality Advocacy
* Consultative
* Service provider
* Enabling and informing (not gatekeeping)
* Big picture-oriented
* Polyskilled and skill sharer
* Courageous
34. Other considerations Integrated QA:
QA is nowhere – and everywhereQuality Advocacy
Integrated QA * Remove Test/QA as a separate column altogether
* QA provides real-time, zero-cycle-time feedback
* Decouples what from who,
decreases bottleneck
* Commits devs and testers
toward same goal:
working, tested software
35. So do we have a place for
any kind of end-of-cycle testing?
36.
37. Other considerations Exploratory Testing as First-‐Class Practice
Quality Advocacy
Integrated QA
Exploratory testing
* Not simply “clickin’ around” but
highly-skilled discipline
* Anyone with the right skill, independence can do it
* Model it on the wall
38. So what are you
going to do starting Wednesday?
39. References
§ Alister Scott, http://watirmelon.com/2013/02/28/the-new-qa-the-quality-advocate/
§ Barry Boehm, Software Engineering Economics
§ Martin Fowler, http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html
§ InfoQ, http://www.infoq.com/articles/David-Anderson-Kanban
§ Deming Institute, http://deming.org/
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