James Christie CAST 2014 Standards – promoting quality or restricting competi...James Christie Christie
James Christie's talk on the anti-competitive nature of ISO 29119 and tester certification. It was given at CAST 2014, the conference of the Association of Software Testing, in New York on 12th August 2014.
Today’s cutting edge companies have software release cycles measured in days instead of months. This agility is enabled by the DevOps practice of continuous delivery, which automates building, testing, and deploying all code changes. This automation helps you catch bugs sooner and accelerates developer productivity. In this session, we’ll share best practices (including ones followed internally at Amazon) and how you can bring them to your company by using open source and AWS services.
Speaker: Raghuraman Balachandran, Solutions Architect, Amazon India
Taking the Best of Agile, DevOps and CI/CD into securityMatt Tesauro
Software development continues to move faster with the rise of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD, while traditional AppSec continues with slow delivery and failure to scale. In this talk, we’ll discuss lessons learned from forward thinking software development at a multitude of companies, and show you how to apply them to your org. By taking the best of DevOps, CI/CD and Agile, you can iteratively up your AppSec program and ascend out of traditional AppSec pitfalls.
My talk from Secure Coding Virtual Summit (2021-03-24)
The practical implementation of Continuous Delivery at Etsy, and how it enables the engineering team to build features quickly, refactor and change architecture, and respond to problems in production.
Presented at GOTO Aarhus 2012.
Like what you've read? We're frequently hiring for a variety of engineering roles at Etsy. If you're interested, drop me a line or send me your resume: mike@etsy.com.
http://www.etsy.com/careers
An introduction to the concepts behind Continuous Delivery as well as an introduction to some of the tools available for implementing continuous delivery practices on a new project. This presentation is geared towards Java developers, but is applicable to all.
James Christie CAST 2014 Standards – promoting quality or restricting competi...James Christie Christie
James Christie's talk on the anti-competitive nature of ISO 29119 and tester certification. It was given at CAST 2014, the conference of the Association of Software Testing, in New York on 12th August 2014.
Today’s cutting edge companies have software release cycles measured in days instead of months. This agility is enabled by the DevOps practice of continuous delivery, which automates building, testing, and deploying all code changes. This automation helps you catch bugs sooner and accelerates developer productivity. In this session, we’ll share best practices (including ones followed internally at Amazon) and how you can bring them to your company by using open source and AWS services.
Speaker: Raghuraman Balachandran, Solutions Architect, Amazon India
Taking the Best of Agile, DevOps and CI/CD into securityMatt Tesauro
Software development continues to move faster with the rise of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD, while traditional AppSec continues with slow delivery and failure to scale. In this talk, we’ll discuss lessons learned from forward thinking software development at a multitude of companies, and show you how to apply them to your org. By taking the best of DevOps, CI/CD and Agile, you can iteratively up your AppSec program and ascend out of traditional AppSec pitfalls.
My talk from Secure Coding Virtual Summit (2021-03-24)
The practical implementation of Continuous Delivery at Etsy, and how it enables the engineering team to build features quickly, refactor and change architecture, and respond to problems in production.
Presented at GOTO Aarhus 2012.
Like what you've read? We're frequently hiring for a variety of engineering roles at Etsy. If you're interested, drop me a line or send me your resume: mike@etsy.com.
http://www.etsy.com/careers
An introduction to the concepts behind Continuous Delivery as well as an introduction to some of the tools available for implementing continuous delivery practices on a new project. This presentation is geared towards Java developers, but is applicable to all.
Matt Callanan takes the 15 chapters of the famous "Continuous Delivery" book by Jez Humble & Dave Farey and distills it down into 1 hour of convincing arguments, walking through the pieces involved to make it happen including cultural challenges, automated testing, automated deployment & deployment pipelines. Not sure how to get started with DevOps? Finding it hard to convince colleagues & managers that CD is the way forward? Matt has used this presentation to help facilitate enterprise-wide adoption of Continuous Delivery. Slides from a presentation given at DevOps Brisbane March 2014.
How Netflix tests in production to augment more traditional testing methods. This talk covers the Simian Army (Chaos Monkey & friends, code coverage in production, and canary testing.
Continuous Deployment: The Dirty DetailsMike Brittain
Presented at ALM Summit 3 in Redmond, WA. January 2013.
Like what you've read? We're frequently hiring for a variety of engineering roles at Etsy. If you're interested, drop me a line or send me your resume: mike@etsy.com.
http://www.etsy.com/careers
Making Continuous Security a Reality with OWASP’s AppSec Pipeline - Matt Tesa...Matt Tesauro
You’ve probably heard many talks about DevSecOps and continuous security testing but how many provided the tools needed to actually start that testing? This talk does exactly that. It provides an overview of the open source AppSec Pipeline tool which has been used in real world companies to do real security work. Beyond a stand alone tool, the OWASP AppSec Pipeline provides numerous docker containers ready to automate, a specification to customize with the ability to create your own implementation and references to get you started.
The talk will also cover how to add an AppSec Pipeline to your team’s arsenal and provide example templates of how best to run the automated tools provided. Finally, we’ll briefly cover using OWASP Defect Dojo to store and curate the issues found by your AppSec Pipeline. The goal of this talk is to share the field-tested methods of two AppSec professionals with nearly 20 years of experience between them. If you want to start your DevSecOps journey by continuously testing rather then hear about it, this talk is for you.
Leandro Melendez - Switching Performance Left & RightNeotys_Partner
Since its beginning, the Performance Advisory Council aims to promote engagement between various experts from around the world, to create relevant, value-added content sharing between members. For Neotys, to strengthen our position as a thought leader in load & performance testing. During this event, 12 participants convened in Chamonix (France) exploring several topics on the minds of today’s performance tester such as DevOps, Shift Left/Right, Test Automation, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
End-to-end performance testing, profiling, and analysis at RedisFilipe Oliveira
High-performance (as measured by sub-millisecond response time for queries) is a key characteristic of the Redis database, and it is one of the main reasons why Redis is the most popular key-value database in the world.
To continue improving performance across all of the different Redis components, we've developed a framework for automatically triggering performance tests, telemetry gathering, profiling, and data visualization upon code commit.
In this short presentation, we describe how this type of automation and "zero-touch" profiling scaled our ability to pursue performance regressions and to find opportunities to improve the efficiency of our code, helping us (as a company) to start shifting from a reactive to a more proactive performance mindset.
Key takeaways
- Continuous “everything” is at the heart of agile and devops
- Continuous activities result in faster delivery and higher quality
- Rapid feedback and practice are essential for confidence in your delivery process
View webinar recording - http://testhuddle.com/resource/continuous-everything/
JavaOne - Performance Focused DevOps to Improve Cont DeliveryAndreas Grabner
These are the slides of my JavaOne presentation. The abstract goes like this:
How do companies developing business-critical Java enterprise Web applications increase releases from 40 to 300 per year and still remain confident about a spike of 1,800 percent in traffic during key events such as Super Bowl Sunday or Cyber Monday? It takes a fundamental change in culture. Although DevOps is often seen as a mechanism for taming the chaos, adopting an agile methodology across all teams is only the first step. This session explores best practices for continuous delivery with higher quality for improving collaboration between teams by consolidating tools and for reducing overhead to fix issues. It shows how to build a performance-focused culture with tools such as Hudson, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Selenium, and Compuware APM/dynaTrace
StarWest 2013 Performance is not an afterthought – make it a part of your Agi...Andreas Grabner
This presentation was given at StarWest 2013 in Anaheim, CA and also broadcasted through the Virtual Conference.
It shows how important it is to focus on performance throughout continuous delivery in order to avoid the most common performance problem patterns that still cause applications to crash and engineers spending their weekends and nights in a firefighting/war room situation
AppSec Pipelines and Event based SecurityMatt Tesauro
Presented at AppSec California 2017, this is a continuation of earlier talks about AppSec Pipelines and demonstrates 1st and 2nd Gen Pipelines, how OWASP is creating a pipeline for its projects and how several companies have benefited from combining DevOps, Agile, CI/CD and Security into an AppSec Pipeline to move beyond traditional AppSec testing.
Where Testers & QA Fit in the Story of DevOpsQASymphony
Where Testers and QA Fit in the Story of DevOps
Continuous delivery. CI. GitHub. Scrum. CD. Jenkins. Continuous testing. Continuous integration. These are just some terms that are supposed to describe the word soup that is DevOps. Chances are that you have heard some or all of these words being passed around at your daily stand ups or company meetings.
However, where does QA and testing fit into the story of DevOps? Some would say that developers and operations teams are all you need for a successful DevOps pipeline, while others show that Dev, Test and Ops need to be included to ensure quality at every step in your pipeline.
In this webinar, Ryan Yackel, QASymphony's Director of Product Marketing, and Sunil Sehgal, Managing Partner at TechArcis, will share their experiences as they navigate you through the DevTestOps waters. In this webinar you will learn:
Overview of the State of DevOps
Common misconceptions of DevOps and QA
How testers must adapt to the DevOps process
The tools testers need for continuous testing
Can't make the webinar? Sign up and we will send you the recording.
DevOps Continuous Integration & Delivery - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
In this whitepaper, we will deep dive into the concept of continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment and explain how businesses can benefit from this. We will also elucidate on how to build an effective CI/CD pipeline and some of the best practices for your enterprise DevOps journey.
Principles and Practices in Continuous Deployment at EtsyMike Brittain
Presented at ALM Forum 2014.
Like what you've read? We're frequently hiring for a variety of engineering roles at Etsy. If you're interested, drop me a line or send me your resume: mike@etsy.com.
http://www.etsy.com/careers
Matt Callanan takes the 15 chapters of the famous "Continuous Delivery" book by Jez Humble & Dave Farey and distills it down into 1 hour of convincing arguments, walking through the pieces involved to make it happen including cultural challenges, automated testing, automated deployment & deployment pipelines. Not sure how to get started with DevOps? Finding it hard to convince colleagues & managers that CD is the way forward? Matt has used this presentation to help facilitate enterprise-wide adoption of Continuous Delivery. Slides from a presentation given at DevOps Brisbane March 2014.
How Netflix tests in production to augment more traditional testing methods. This talk covers the Simian Army (Chaos Monkey & friends, code coverage in production, and canary testing.
Continuous Deployment: The Dirty DetailsMike Brittain
Presented at ALM Summit 3 in Redmond, WA. January 2013.
Like what you've read? We're frequently hiring for a variety of engineering roles at Etsy. If you're interested, drop me a line or send me your resume: mike@etsy.com.
http://www.etsy.com/careers
Making Continuous Security a Reality with OWASP’s AppSec Pipeline - Matt Tesa...Matt Tesauro
You’ve probably heard many talks about DevSecOps and continuous security testing but how many provided the tools needed to actually start that testing? This talk does exactly that. It provides an overview of the open source AppSec Pipeline tool which has been used in real world companies to do real security work. Beyond a stand alone tool, the OWASP AppSec Pipeline provides numerous docker containers ready to automate, a specification to customize with the ability to create your own implementation and references to get you started.
The talk will also cover how to add an AppSec Pipeline to your team’s arsenal and provide example templates of how best to run the automated tools provided. Finally, we’ll briefly cover using OWASP Defect Dojo to store and curate the issues found by your AppSec Pipeline. The goal of this talk is to share the field-tested methods of two AppSec professionals with nearly 20 years of experience between them. If you want to start your DevSecOps journey by continuously testing rather then hear about it, this talk is for you.
Leandro Melendez - Switching Performance Left & RightNeotys_Partner
Since its beginning, the Performance Advisory Council aims to promote engagement between various experts from around the world, to create relevant, value-added content sharing between members. For Neotys, to strengthen our position as a thought leader in load & performance testing. During this event, 12 participants convened in Chamonix (France) exploring several topics on the minds of today’s performance tester such as DevOps, Shift Left/Right, Test Automation, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
End-to-end performance testing, profiling, and analysis at RedisFilipe Oliveira
High-performance (as measured by sub-millisecond response time for queries) is a key characteristic of the Redis database, and it is one of the main reasons why Redis is the most popular key-value database in the world.
To continue improving performance across all of the different Redis components, we've developed a framework for automatically triggering performance tests, telemetry gathering, profiling, and data visualization upon code commit.
In this short presentation, we describe how this type of automation and "zero-touch" profiling scaled our ability to pursue performance regressions and to find opportunities to improve the efficiency of our code, helping us (as a company) to start shifting from a reactive to a more proactive performance mindset.
Key takeaways
- Continuous “everything” is at the heart of agile and devops
- Continuous activities result in faster delivery and higher quality
- Rapid feedback and practice are essential for confidence in your delivery process
View webinar recording - http://testhuddle.com/resource/continuous-everything/
JavaOne - Performance Focused DevOps to Improve Cont DeliveryAndreas Grabner
These are the slides of my JavaOne presentation. The abstract goes like this:
How do companies developing business-critical Java enterprise Web applications increase releases from 40 to 300 per year and still remain confident about a spike of 1,800 percent in traffic during key events such as Super Bowl Sunday or Cyber Monday? It takes a fundamental change in culture. Although DevOps is often seen as a mechanism for taming the chaos, adopting an agile methodology across all teams is only the first step. This session explores best practices for continuous delivery with higher quality for improving collaboration between teams by consolidating tools and for reducing overhead to fix issues. It shows how to build a performance-focused culture with tools such as Hudson, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Selenium, and Compuware APM/dynaTrace
StarWest 2013 Performance is not an afterthought – make it a part of your Agi...Andreas Grabner
This presentation was given at StarWest 2013 in Anaheim, CA and also broadcasted through the Virtual Conference.
It shows how important it is to focus on performance throughout continuous delivery in order to avoid the most common performance problem patterns that still cause applications to crash and engineers spending their weekends and nights in a firefighting/war room situation
AppSec Pipelines and Event based SecurityMatt Tesauro
Presented at AppSec California 2017, this is a continuation of earlier talks about AppSec Pipelines and demonstrates 1st and 2nd Gen Pipelines, how OWASP is creating a pipeline for its projects and how several companies have benefited from combining DevOps, Agile, CI/CD and Security into an AppSec Pipeline to move beyond traditional AppSec testing.
Where Testers & QA Fit in the Story of DevOpsQASymphony
Where Testers and QA Fit in the Story of DevOps
Continuous delivery. CI. GitHub. Scrum. CD. Jenkins. Continuous testing. Continuous integration. These are just some terms that are supposed to describe the word soup that is DevOps. Chances are that you have heard some or all of these words being passed around at your daily stand ups or company meetings.
However, where does QA and testing fit into the story of DevOps? Some would say that developers and operations teams are all you need for a successful DevOps pipeline, while others show that Dev, Test and Ops need to be included to ensure quality at every step in your pipeline.
In this webinar, Ryan Yackel, QASymphony's Director of Product Marketing, and Sunil Sehgal, Managing Partner at TechArcis, will share their experiences as they navigate you through the DevTestOps waters. In this webinar you will learn:
Overview of the State of DevOps
Common misconceptions of DevOps and QA
How testers must adapt to the DevOps process
The tools testers need for continuous testing
Can't make the webinar? Sign up and we will send you the recording.
DevOps Continuous Integration & Delivery - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
In this whitepaper, we will deep dive into the concept of continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment and explain how businesses can benefit from this. We will also elucidate on how to build an effective CI/CD pipeline and some of the best practices for your enterprise DevOps journey.
Principles and Practices in Continuous Deployment at EtsyMike Brittain
Presented at ALM Forum 2014.
Like what you've read? We're frequently hiring for a variety of engineering roles at Etsy. If you're interested, drop me a line or send me your resume: mike@etsy.com.
http://www.etsy.com/careers
Continuous Testing for CTOs (Webinar Slides)Rainforest QA
Watch on-demand: http://info.rainforestqa.com/webinar-continuous-testing-for-ctos
Slides from the Continuous Testing for CTOs webinar with Laks Srini (CTO, Zenefits) and Russell Smith (CTO, Rainforest QA).
QA testing is often a bottleneck to true continuous deployment, and traditional processes are ill-suited for CI/CD environments. As your company grows, the cost of scaling traditional QA practices to meet the needs of a larger audience with more complex products can overextend bandwidth. With continuous testing, you can keep your growing organization's QA costs down and empower your team to test more effectively.
- How Zenefits uses continuous testing to speed up their QA cycle to match their CD environment
- How continuous testing minimizes the cost of scaling your QA team
- How to plug continuous testing into your existing Agile or CD workflow for minimal disruption
- How to speed up manual QA activities to ensure fast but comprehensive testing
Looking at Swagger and Pact to handle REST API specifications and contracts. Swagger allows for a JSON first specification of the API as well as generating and discovering service controllers. This can be done coherently across multiple technology stacks. We also look into using Pact to create consumer-driven contract between services in a micro service architecture to improve development confidence.
What to test in web services. Approaches and tools.
SOAP and RESTful web services. Postman, SoapUI and automation framework (Java + TestNg + RestAssured)
Testowanie aplikacji mobilnych to kluczowy element i tmnichwyzwanie podczas procesu tworzenia oprogramowania. Proces testowania aplikacji może być jeszcze bardziej efektywny, jeżeli wzbogacimy go o automatyzację testów.
Jak zapewnić i utrzymać jakość aplikacji mobilnych na system iOS opowie Ewa Bielska i Tomasz Mnich. Przedstawią aplikację, która zostanie poddana testom za pomocą przykładowych narzędzi do automatyzacji.
Nie wiesz jak można zautomatyzować testy funkcjonalne aplikacji mobilnych lub nie jesteś przekonany którego narzędzia użyć? Ta prezentacja jest dla Ciebie.
DevOps Summit 2015 Presentation: Continuous Testing At the Speed of DevOpsSailaja Tennati
Continuous delivery is frightening to enterprise IT managers who see each new private, public or hybrid cloud infrastructure software change potentially causing service outages or security concerns.
This presentation by Marc Hornbeek, first shared at the DevOps Summit 2015 in London, explains Spirent’s comprehensive Clear DevOps Solution to support:
- Rapid paced continuous testing without compromising coverage or service quality
- Orchestration of service deployments over physical and virtual infrastructures
- Best practices for integrating continuous testing into CI infrastructures
- How to use continuous testing analytics for deployment decisions
Testy A/B na landing page’u dla początkujących
Czego dowiesz się z prezentacji?
-Czym są testy A/B
-Dlaczego warto je przeprowadzać
-Jak przeprowadzić testy krok po kroku
-Co testować na landing page’u
[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!
Despite the belief that a shared context and collaboration drives quality, too often, software testers and quality professionals struggle to find their place within today's integrated agile teams. This session is a practitioner’s view of testing and testing practices within an iterative/incremental development environment. We will begin with a discussion of some of the challenges of testing within an agile environment and delve into the guiding principles of Agile Testing and key enabling practices. Agile Testing necessitates a change in mindset, and it is as much, if not more, about behavior, as it is about skills and tooling, all of which will be explored.
Our DevOps Journey
Transforming 6 Month Waterfalls to 1 Hour Code Deploys
https://info.dynatrace.com/17q3_wc_from_agile_to_cloudy_devops_na_registration.html
In the 2nd part of our webinar series, Anita Engleder, DevOps Lead at Dynatrace reviews and dissects lessons learned during the transformational journey moving Dynatrace from an on-prem culture to one that is cloud native. She will lend her perspective as a key member of the team that executed on the original vision: to “implement a new cloud native offering and deploy a new feature release every 2 weeks. Additionally, be able to support a 1-hour lead time from Code Change to Production”.
On November 17th at 1pm/10am PT Anita will present the challenges she and her team faced transforming 6 Months Waterfall to 1 Hour Code Deploys.
In this webinar Anita will discuss:
How to enable a complete cultural shift across multiple teams, in terms of thought process AND execution
What the specific role of her DevOps team is and how it played into the transformation
The role of Feature teams and why continuous feedback is critical for them
How to successfully influence key stakeholders for complete alignment
Today Anita’s team runs 170 production changes every day, running across several AWS Data Centers as well as On-Premise – something that would have been thought impossible only a few years prior.
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
Large-Scale Agile Test Automation Strategies in PracticeTechWell
After providing an introduction to several key agile testing concepts—including the Automation Triangle and the Test Automation Quadrants—Geoff Meyer discusses approaches to effectively deliver automated testing. Geoff shares practical insights and demonstrates how they were employed in the test automation strategies developed for several large-scale agile projects at Dell. He shows how the overall test strategy and implementation of each underlying agile concept was influenced by the realities of the project’s organization structure, application architecture, incumbent tools, and tester skillsets. Geoff explores the similarities of the projects from their common goals of establishing automated regression suites, achieving in-sprint automation, and test staffing approaches. More importantly, he delves into the implications of organizational structures and how they led to divergent approaches to test strategy from the choice of automation frameworks to the decisions to automate at the REST/SOAP-based API level or UI level.
Zero touch QA automation platform for DevOpsTaUB Solutions
Presentation based on the Award Winning Paper by Varadarajan Srinivasan on Zero Touch QA Automation Platform at STC Nov 2018.
Companies that are in DevOps Journey go through a rough weather in QA Automation initiatives. With the industry transformation to Digital Trend, there is always a need for an efficient streamlined Continuous Delivery.
This Webinar would talk about Zero Touch QA Automation Platform. It deals with the Solution on Integrated DevOps & Quality Approach. This would consist of Artificial Intelligence in Reporting and Data Visualization. The Complete QA Cycle is automated from Test Design to Test Closure with Continuous Monitoring, involving no manual intervention. The Webinar would also give insights on Business benefits/outcome on adopting this approach with streamlined Governance.
Life Has Not Been That Rosy With Agile : Rahul SudameoGuild .
In my experience, Agile adoption started in some of the organizations with lot of hype and inflated expectations. And in such cases, if Agile transformation is not handled properly, it can result in multiple challenges rather than providing the expected benefits.
This practical experience sharing session would cover some such problems I faced while applying Agile in different environments. The audience practicing Agile can relate some of these challenges with their own environment as well. The attendees who are on their path to Agile transformation can learn from the lessons and mistakes shared by the speaker.
The session would cover challenges observed due to nature of the project, customer-vendor engagement model, application of processes, attitude of people rolling out agile, unrealistic expectations, conflict in roles and responsibilities. It would also highlight challenges introduced to some of the roles (like Project/QA Manager/Manual Tester etc.) in Agile environment and impact on billing / project contracts / SOW etc.
Still after over 10 years its hard to do good test automation. This presentation highlights what and how we need to approach test automation in order to create reliable, resilient and repeatable tests.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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2. Tomas Riha
Architect @ VGT/WirelessCar
Passionate about creativity, change and improvement
Horrible at following instructions and performing repetitive tasks
MAJOR Project Liability
mail: triha74@gmail.com
twitter: @TomasRihaSE
blog: continuous-delivery-and-more.blogspot.com
3. Agenda
Why do we want to do Continuous Delivery
Intro to Continuous Delivery
Principles of Continuous Delivery
Look at a Pipe
Test Automation for Continuous Delivery
Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery
Exploratory Testing and Continuous Delivery
Some words on Tooling
Areas not covered
4. Why do we want to do Continuous Delivery
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.
5. Why do we want to do Continuous Delivery
Decreased lead time not only improves our time to market
but also our ability to learn and improve through a faster
feedback loop
6. Why do we want to do Continuous Delivery
As soon as we have added value to the application it needs
to be in the hands of the customer or else we have just
added cost.
7. Why do we want to do Continuous Delivery
Reduced risk through delivery of small changes.
8. Are we really delivering as soon as possible?
Pre
Planning
Dev Sys Test Reg Test
Pre
Planning
Dev Sys Test Reg Test
Scrummerfall happens because its hard for developers to have
something deployable for the testers to test.
System testing on something that has not been regression tested is
fundamentally flawed.
Cost of regression test tends to bloat sprint content.
Sprint 2-4 weeks
9. Continuous Delivery
Build Release Deploy Test Prod
Your application always builds, passes its unit tests,
deploys and passes system tests.
10. Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deploy
Continuous Integration
Your application always builds and passes its unit tests.
Continuous Delivery
Your application always builds, passes its unit tests, deploys and passes its
system tests making it always ready to deploy to production through an
automated process
Continuous Deployment
Your application automatically deploys to production through a fully
automated process
11. Continuously as in all the time?
Yes!
End of sprint isn't continuously.
Weekly isn't continuously.
Nightly isn't continuously.
Every code commit is continuously!
12. What Tests? Unit? Component? System?
Yes!
Unit
Component
System
Integration
Rollback
Load
Failover
13. Principles of Continuous Delivery
1. The process MUST be repeatable, reliable and
independent of key personnel
22. The pipe - Build once!
Build Release
Build and Unit test then release it!
23. The pipe - Release everything!
Build Release
Build Release
Build Release
Build Release
Code
DB Scripts
Server Config
Deploy script
Feedback Feedback
24. The pipe -Bundle released artifacts
Build Release
Build Release
Build Release
Build Release
Assembly
Feedback
25. The pipe - Use Same Deploy Mechanism
Function TestAssembly Deploy
DB
Server
Function Test
Function Test
Pipe Status
Feedback
Feedback Feedback
26. The pipe - Use Same Deploy Mechanism
Deploy
DB
Server
Pipe Status
Server
DB
Server Server
DB
Server Server
Deploy
Pre Prod Prod
UAT
FeedbackFeedback Feedback
27. Continuous Delivery
Build Release Assemble Deploy
Deploy
PreProd/Prod
Test
Summary
We build once
Release everything
Automate everything
Fast feedback
Automate all tests except UAT
28. Obvious benefits
Continuous Regression Testing gives instant feedback.
Continuously deploying to test servers tests deploy mechanism several
hundred times per release.
Always ready to push new release into UAT
We can get customer feedback as soon as value has been added
31. Testing in the past
What we have done
100s of manual tests that..
... verify our requirements
... ensures bad input doesn't break system
... data is stored in the right place
... find bugs
32. Testing in the past
We have automated it!
We have tried to automate the 100s of manual tests that..
... verify our requirements
... ensures bad input doesn't break system
... data is stored in the right place
... find bugs
We do it through instrumenting the GUI and verifying
Database, GUI and System resources.
With very bad results....
33. Robust and Fast Test Automation
Tests that execute 100s of times per day have to be...
... executable without any human interaction
... robust and give the same response every single time
... robust and have to survive refactoring
... fast and parallelizable as adding 10 tests should not slow
down the feedback
34. We need to change the way we look at Test
On System Level we do verification of Use Case
Acceptance Criterias. Requirement Verification.
On Component Level we do testing of Component
Functionality. Testing.
35. We need to change the way we look at
Architecture
Remember “Build quality in”.
We need to improve testability of our applications through...
...isolation of functionality into independent services with
life cycles of their own.
...building interfaces for defined test points.
40. Continuous Delivery
Build Release Deploy Test
Build Release Deploy Test
Build Release Deploy Test
Build Release Deploy Test
Build Release Deploy Test
Assemble Release Deploy Test
Component Pipe
100s of tests run in parallel testing
System Pipe
10s Use Case Requirements Verified
41. Test Driven Development
Pre
Planning
Dev Sys Test Reg Test
Pre
Planning
Dev Sys Test Reg Test
Scrummerfall happens because its hard for developers to have
something deployable for the testers to test.
System testing on something that has not been regression tested is
fundamentally flawed.
Cost of regression test tends to bloat sprint content.
Sprint 2-4 weeks
42. Test Driven Development
Pre
Planning
Dev
Test
Automation
Reg Test
Design Requirement Verification and Tests on multiple levels with the feature.
Develop test automation in parallel with feature development.
Cross functional pairing to improve quality of Tests, Test Architecture and Feature
Testability
Pre
Planning
Reg Test Reg Test
Verification
Verification
43. Test Driven Development
Who should automate the tests?
Test Design - Done by Testers
Test Automation - Done by ????
Coding - Done by Developers
44. Test Driven Development
Tests as Code
Test Automation IS Code and needs to be treated as first
class application.
Test Architecture is super important and needs to be
worked with in parallel with Application Testability
Architecture.
45. Test Driven Development
Tests as Code
Internal
Service
DSL
Glue Code
SpecificationText or Code based Specification
Implementation of Specification
Domain Specific Language packaging
service testability
46. Test Driven Development
Internal
Service
DSL
Glue Code
Specification
Give a valid user name and password
when login is called
then user is authorized
boolean authorized = loginService.authorizeUser(“triha”,”cdrockz”);
assert(authorized, true);
public boolean authorizeUser(String userName, String password){
//Implementation of REST call to internal service
return true;
}
47. Test Driven Development
Tests as Code
Specification & Glue Code IS the Test
DSL is testability
Test Automation is Code
48. Test Driven Development
Pre
Planning
Dev
Test
Automation
Reg Test
Specifications of Requirement Verification written during Pre-Planning.
Specification of Component Tests written during Pre-Planning.
Implementation of DSL and Glue Code in parallel with feature development.
Implementation of Component Tests in parallel with feature development.
Pre
Planning
Reg Test Reg Test
Verification
Verification
49. Test Driven Development
Tomorrow Agile Team Member
Developers with Testing skills
Testers with Development skills
WILL BE SUPER HOT AND EARN SUPER NICE $$$$
Will be the only ones who get assignments
53. Exploratory Testing
Exploratory Testing should be...
...done without knowledge of requirements.
...in time based sessions with specific focus area.
...outside the release lifecycle of the application.
54. Benefits
Continuous Regression testing gives instant feedback.
Continuously deploying to test servers tests deploy mechanism several
hundred times per release.
Always ready to push new release into UAT
We can get customer feedback as soon as value has been added
Test Driven Development
Everyone is responsible for Quality
Sustainable Quality
55. Tools Used
We love to talk about what tools are best and spend ages arguing about it.
We need to understand what we must do before we pick the tools.
Still which ever tool we pick it will be insufficient and crap.
56. Tools Used
Don't use one tool to rule them all.
Cucumber and Fitnesse are ok for system level testing
RESTAssured, JUnit or pure Groovy, Ruby or Python scripts are often better for
component level.
For Load testing one should use load testing tools such as JMeter
Continuous Delivery Process should execute tests through interface such as
maven or gradle so that it can be Test Tool agnostic.
57. Areas Not Covered
To do Continuous Delivery well we also have to...
Reproducible Test Environments
Production like Test Environments
“Non functional requirements” as functional requirements
A/B testing
Power of Metrics
and lots more...