Continuous testing is an approach that aims to shift testing left and automate testing across the entire software development lifecycle. It involves automatically generating test cases from requirements, simulating test environments, accessing test data on demand, and integrating open source testing tools. Continuous testing helps ensure code quality, application quality, pipeline automation, and understanding of customer experience throughout development and delivery. Most companies currently cannot fully achieve continuous testing due to barriers like lack of test automation, slow testing bottlenecks, and complex testing tools.
Continuous Deployment and Testing Workshop from Better Software WestCory Foy
In this workshop from the 2015 SQE Better Software West conference, Cory Foy details the Continuous Paradigm companies are embracing - including Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Testing. This presentation was co-created by Jared Richardson.
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
The Three Pillars Approach to an Agile Testing StrategyTechWell
Far too often, organizations focus solely on the development teams and their technical practices as their agile adoption strategy. And then there’s the near constant focus on acquiring development tools. Often the testing activity and the testing teams are left behind in agile adoption, or even worse, they’re simply along for the ride. This is not an effective transformation strategy. Join experienced agile coach Bob Galen as he shares the Three Pillars framework for establishing a balanced strategic plan for quality and testing. The Three Pillars focus on development and test automation, testing practices, and collaboration activities that ensure you have a balanced approach to agile testing. Specifically, Bob explores risk-based testing, exploratory testing, paired collaboration around agile requirements, agile test design, and TDD-BDD-functional testing automation as tactics within a balanced framework. Leave with ideas to immediately initiate or re-tool a much more effective and balanced agile testing strategy.
Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban - TriAgile 2015Cory Foy
In this talk from TriAgile 2015, Cory Foy details the differences between Scrum and Kanban to figure out how to combine the best of both to increase the agility of your organization.
Quality Jam: BDD, TDD and ATDD for the EnterpriseQASymphony
During Quality Jam 2016 I had the privilege of presenting with one of QASymphony's earliest customers, Better Cloud, on how methodologies like BDD, TDD and ATDD scale for the enterprises. Adam Satterfield is the VP of Quality Assurance at Bettercloud and has been in QA for many years; he has taught me a lot about Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development, Acceptance Test Driven Development. In the session we share a new way of testing-- what Adam and I believe to be the next generation of testing development.
We know that there are several ways to do testing and we are just showing one new way to do it - If this session doesn't inspire action, hopefully it will at least give you and your team something to think about.
In this talk from Southern Fried Agile 2014, Cory Foy gives an overview of the patterns necessary to have successful agility when working with distributed and dispersed teams. He looks at Scrum, Kanban and various virtual tools.
Continuous Deployment and Testing Workshop from Better Software WestCory Foy
In this workshop from the 2015 SQE Better Software West conference, Cory Foy details the Continuous Paradigm companies are embracing - including Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Testing. This presentation was co-created by Jared Richardson.
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
The Three Pillars Approach to an Agile Testing StrategyTechWell
Far too often, organizations focus solely on the development teams and their technical practices as their agile adoption strategy. And then there’s the near constant focus on acquiring development tools. Often the testing activity and the testing teams are left behind in agile adoption, or even worse, they’re simply along for the ride. This is not an effective transformation strategy. Join experienced agile coach Bob Galen as he shares the Three Pillars framework for establishing a balanced strategic plan for quality and testing. The Three Pillars focus on development and test automation, testing practices, and collaboration activities that ensure you have a balanced approach to agile testing. Specifically, Bob explores risk-based testing, exploratory testing, paired collaboration around agile requirements, agile test design, and TDD-BDD-functional testing automation as tactics within a balanced framework. Leave with ideas to immediately initiate or re-tool a much more effective and balanced agile testing strategy.
Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban - TriAgile 2015Cory Foy
In this talk from TriAgile 2015, Cory Foy details the differences between Scrum and Kanban to figure out how to combine the best of both to increase the agility of your organization.
Quality Jam: BDD, TDD and ATDD for the EnterpriseQASymphony
During Quality Jam 2016 I had the privilege of presenting with one of QASymphony's earliest customers, Better Cloud, on how methodologies like BDD, TDD and ATDD scale for the enterprises. Adam Satterfield is the VP of Quality Assurance at Bettercloud and has been in QA for many years; he has taught me a lot about Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development, Acceptance Test Driven Development. In the session we share a new way of testing-- what Adam and I believe to be the next generation of testing development.
We know that there are several ways to do testing and we are just showing one new way to do it - If this session doesn't inspire action, hopefully it will at least give you and your team something to think about.
In this talk from Southern Fried Agile 2014, Cory Foy gives an overview of the patterns necessary to have successful agility when working with distributed and dispersed teams. He looks at Scrum, Kanban and various virtual tools.
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Jez Humble a...Agile India
High performing organizations don't trade off quality, throughput, and reliability: they work to improve all of these and use their software delivery capability to drive organizational performance. In this talk, Jez presents the results from DevOps Research and Assessment's five-year research program, including how continuous delivery and good architecture produce higher software delivery performance, and how to measure culture and its impact on IT and organizational culture. They explain the importance of knowing how (and what) to measure so you focus on what’s important and communicate progress to peers, leaders, and stakeholders. Great outcomes don’t realize themselves, after all, and having the right metrics gives us the data we need to keep getting better at building, delivering, and operating software systems.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8524/building-and-scaling-high-performing-technology-organizations
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Discussion about Input and Output of every Scrum Events. Inside about what to inspect and adapt within these events. Entirely based on Scrum Guide and pretty much similar to PSM workshop.
DevOps Tactical Adoption Theory tries to make the transition process as smooth as possible. It hypothesis each step towards DevOps maturity should bring a visible business value empowering management and team commitment for the next step. The innovative idea here, it is not required to add the tools/processes to stack from sequential beginning to end, but seeking benefit.
The reason behind the theory is to encourage practitioners to apply each step one-by-one and then having the benefits in projects. Consequently, each step is tested in terms of utility and proved method validity for the further steps. In contrast to previous adoption models, our model indicates concrete activities rather than general statements.
Theory built on the claim that many DevOps transition projects considered problematic, impractical or even unsuccessful causing concept to become a goal more than a technique. Basically, theory consists of different areas of interest describing various actions on a schema.
In the session, it is planned to demonstrate “DevOps Tactical Adoption Theory” with focus on Delivery Pipeline/Testing Practices sectioned "Continuous Testing in DevOps".
We’ve all been there. We work incredibly hard to develop a feature and design tests based on written requirements. We build a detailed test plan that aligns the tests with the software and the documented business needs. And when we put the tests to the software, it all falls apart because the requirements were changed without informing everyone. Mary Thorn says help is at hand. Enter behavior-driven development (BDD), and Cucumber and SpecFlow, tools for running automated acceptance tests and facilitating BDD. Mary explores the nuances of Cucumber and SpecFlow, and shows you how to implement BDD and agile acceptance testing. By fostering collaboration for implementing active requirements via a common language and format, Cucumber and SpecFlow bridge the communication gap between business stakeholders and implementation teams. In this workshop, practice writing feature files with the best practices Mary has discovered over numerous implementations. If you experience developers not coding to requirements, testers not getting requirements updates, or customers who feel out of the loop and don’t get what they ask for, Mary has answers for you.
How to Add Test Automation to your Quality Assurance ToolbeltBrett Tramposh
SQA job postings are still in abundance, but it is rare to find one that does not include some form of test automation pedigree. Brett will present the topic and then lead the discussion as we explore the various paths to building your test automation acumen, and learn how to add this valuable skill-set to your resume. If you are already an SQA with test automation experience we encourage you to participate and bring your learning forward and into the discussion where we will compare and contrast Computer Science degrees, Code Camps, licensed automation tools such as HP UFT (QTP), test frameworks and scripting tools such as jMeter and SOAPUI. There is much to explore on this topic and we want everyone to leave with a few key areas they can start building on today.
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.
In this talk from Red Hat's 2014 Agile Conference, Cory Foy talks about the conditions necessary to bring about true organizational change towards agility. In addition, he covers patterns of adoptions and a variety of techniques used at scale
Selenium DeTox for Achieving the Right Testing PyramidNaresh Jain
Our project was a classic example of Selenium gone wild! As our team embraced the test automation journey, we went crazy and implemented tons of Selenium tests, one for every permutation possible. Soon we realized our feedback cycles were delayed. Our builds were taking hours instead of minutes. And we had a set of complex, fragile tests, which resulted in a lot of false-negative scenarios and finger pointing.
At this point, our team had realized that this is not the path forward. We decided to seriously look at our Selenium tests. We pretty much moved 80% of our Se tests to lower-layers (non-GUI based) tests. And now we have the right testing pyramid on our project.
In this presentation, Naresh Jain explains IDeaS' journey (strategy, techniques, tools, mindset-change and approaches we took) through this transition.
Looking to move to Continuous Delivery? Worried about the quality of your the code? Helping your developers understand clean-code practices and getting the right testing strategy in place can take a while. What should you do to control the quality of the incoming code till then? This talk shares our experience of using PRRiskAdvisor to gradually educate and influence developers to write better code and also help the code reviewer to be more effective at their reviews.
Every time a developer raises a pull-request, PRRiskAdvisor analyzes the files that were changed and publishes a report on the pull request itself with the overall risk associated with this pull request and also risk associated with each file. It also runs static code analysis using SonarQube and publishes the configured violations as comments on the pull request. This way the reviewer just has to look at the pull request to get a decent idea of what it means to review this pull request. If there are too many violations, then PRRiskAdvisor can also automatically reject the pull request.
By doing this, we saw our developers starting paying more attention to clean code practices and hence the overall quality of the incoming code improved, while we worked on putting the right engineering practices and testing strategy in place.
More details: https://confengine.com/last-conference-canberra-2018/proposal/7294/improving-the-quality-of-incoming-code
Conference Link: https://2019.agileindia.org
DevOps Test Engineering: Putting the ‘Continuous’ in Testing, an ITSM Academy...ITSM Academy, Inc.
Presenter: Anne Hungate
President, Daring Systems
You’ve heard about Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery but what’s common as code makes its way through those processes? Testing. With DevOps Testing (also known as Continuous Testing), testing tasks are engineered to be continuously completed end-to-end across the entire development to deployment pipeline. Developers, QA analysts, security professionals, IT Operations analysts…everyone is a tester in a DevOps environment. Join us to learn more about DevOps Testing and the emerging role of DevOps Test Engineer.
5 Steps to Jump Start Your Test AutomationSauce Labs
With the acceleration of software creation and delivery, test activities must align to the new tempo. Developers need immediate feedback to be efficient and correct defects as those are introduced. The path to achieving this vision is to build a reliable and scalable continuous test solution.
All beginnings are hard. Having a well-defined plan outlining the approach for your organization to create test automation is key to ensure long term success. Join Diego Molina, Senior Software Engineer at Sauce Labs as he discusses:
The importance of setting up the team correctly from the start
Choosing the right Testing Framework for your organization
Identifying the right scenarios and workflows to test
Learning to avoid common pitfalls at the beginning of the transformation journey
Drive Continuous Delivery With Continuous TestingCA Technologies
Silos. Lack of visibility. Some agile teams… some not. Manual handoffs. Bottlenecks.
This summer, it’s time to get outside (your old processes) and take some time off (your application release cycle). Take back your weekends and spend more time by the pool. We’ll show you how to automate, orchestrate, and facilitate continuous everything – and that includes continuous testing – one of the biggest bottlenecks of all.
You’ll learn how to:
Automatically shift quality left: Orchestrate and automate testing in every phase of the SDLC with automated promotion and feedback loops
Accelerate testing in the cloud: Test web and mobile apps in parallel – achieve up to 10X improvement in testing time. Use tools of choice while optimizing every aspect of your complex, interdependent multi-application pipelines.
Get started in less than 1 hour…. and for free! Achieve truly automated, continuous delivery (including continuous testing!!!) in the cloud with CA and Sauce Labs.
Try Continuous Delivery Director free:
https://cddirector.io/#/home
Try Sauce Labs free:
https://saucelabs.com/
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Jez Humble a...Agile India
High performing organizations don't trade off quality, throughput, and reliability: they work to improve all of these and use their software delivery capability to drive organizational performance. In this talk, Jez presents the results from DevOps Research and Assessment's five-year research program, including how continuous delivery and good architecture produce higher software delivery performance, and how to measure culture and its impact on IT and organizational culture. They explain the importance of knowing how (and what) to measure so you focus on what’s important and communicate progress to peers, leaders, and stakeholders. Great outcomes don’t realize themselves, after all, and having the right metrics gives us the data we need to keep getting better at building, delivering, and operating software systems.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8524/building-and-scaling-high-performing-technology-organizations
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Discussion about Input and Output of every Scrum Events. Inside about what to inspect and adapt within these events. Entirely based on Scrum Guide and pretty much similar to PSM workshop.
DevOps Tactical Adoption Theory tries to make the transition process as smooth as possible. It hypothesis each step towards DevOps maturity should bring a visible business value empowering management and team commitment for the next step. The innovative idea here, it is not required to add the tools/processes to stack from sequential beginning to end, but seeking benefit.
The reason behind the theory is to encourage practitioners to apply each step one-by-one and then having the benefits in projects. Consequently, each step is tested in terms of utility and proved method validity for the further steps. In contrast to previous adoption models, our model indicates concrete activities rather than general statements.
Theory built on the claim that many DevOps transition projects considered problematic, impractical or even unsuccessful causing concept to become a goal more than a technique. Basically, theory consists of different areas of interest describing various actions on a schema.
In the session, it is planned to demonstrate “DevOps Tactical Adoption Theory” with focus on Delivery Pipeline/Testing Practices sectioned "Continuous Testing in DevOps".
We’ve all been there. We work incredibly hard to develop a feature and design tests based on written requirements. We build a detailed test plan that aligns the tests with the software and the documented business needs. And when we put the tests to the software, it all falls apart because the requirements were changed without informing everyone. Mary Thorn says help is at hand. Enter behavior-driven development (BDD), and Cucumber and SpecFlow, tools for running automated acceptance tests and facilitating BDD. Mary explores the nuances of Cucumber and SpecFlow, and shows you how to implement BDD and agile acceptance testing. By fostering collaboration for implementing active requirements via a common language and format, Cucumber and SpecFlow bridge the communication gap between business stakeholders and implementation teams. In this workshop, practice writing feature files with the best practices Mary has discovered over numerous implementations. If you experience developers not coding to requirements, testers not getting requirements updates, or customers who feel out of the loop and don’t get what they ask for, Mary has answers for you.
How to Add Test Automation to your Quality Assurance ToolbeltBrett Tramposh
SQA job postings are still in abundance, but it is rare to find one that does not include some form of test automation pedigree. Brett will present the topic and then lead the discussion as we explore the various paths to building your test automation acumen, and learn how to add this valuable skill-set to your resume. If you are already an SQA with test automation experience we encourage you to participate and bring your learning forward and into the discussion where we will compare and contrast Computer Science degrees, Code Camps, licensed automation tools such as HP UFT (QTP), test frameworks and scripting tools such as jMeter and SOAPUI. There is much to explore on this topic and we want everyone to leave with a few key areas they can start building on today.
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.
In this talk from Red Hat's 2014 Agile Conference, Cory Foy talks about the conditions necessary to bring about true organizational change towards agility. In addition, he covers patterns of adoptions and a variety of techniques used at scale
Selenium DeTox for Achieving the Right Testing PyramidNaresh Jain
Our project was a classic example of Selenium gone wild! As our team embraced the test automation journey, we went crazy and implemented tons of Selenium tests, one for every permutation possible. Soon we realized our feedback cycles were delayed. Our builds were taking hours instead of minutes. And we had a set of complex, fragile tests, which resulted in a lot of false-negative scenarios and finger pointing.
At this point, our team had realized that this is not the path forward. We decided to seriously look at our Selenium tests. We pretty much moved 80% of our Se tests to lower-layers (non-GUI based) tests. And now we have the right testing pyramid on our project.
In this presentation, Naresh Jain explains IDeaS' journey (strategy, techniques, tools, mindset-change and approaches we took) through this transition.
Looking to move to Continuous Delivery? Worried about the quality of your the code? Helping your developers understand clean-code practices and getting the right testing strategy in place can take a while. What should you do to control the quality of the incoming code till then? This talk shares our experience of using PRRiskAdvisor to gradually educate and influence developers to write better code and also help the code reviewer to be more effective at their reviews.
Every time a developer raises a pull-request, PRRiskAdvisor analyzes the files that were changed and publishes a report on the pull request itself with the overall risk associated with this pull request and also risk associated with each file. It also runs static code analysis using SonarQube and publishes the configured violations as comments on the pull request. This way the reviewer just has to look at the pull request to get a decent idea of what it means to review this pull request. If there are too many violations, then PRRiskAdvisor can also automatically reject the pull request.
By doing this, we saw our developers starting paying more attention to clean code practices and hence the overall quality of the incoming code improved, while we worked on putting the right engineering practices and testing strategy in place.
More details: https://confengine.com/last-conference-canberra-2018/proposal/7294/improving-the-quality-of-incoming-code
Conference Link: https://2019.agileindia.org
DevOps Test Engineering: Putting the ‘Continuous’ in Testing, an ITSM Academy...ITSM Academy, Inc.
Presenter: Anne Hungate
President, Daring Systems
You’ve heard about Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery but what’s common as code makes its way through those processes? Testing. With DevOps Testing (also known as Continuous Testing), testing tasks are engineered to be continuously completed end-to-end across the entire development to deployment pipeline. Developers, QA analysts, security professionals, IT Operations analysts…everyone is a tester in a DevOps environment. Join us to learn more about DevOps Testing and the emerging role of DevOps Test Engineer.
5 Steps to Jump Start Your Test AutomationSauce Labs
With the acceleration of software creation and delivery, test activities must align to the new tempo. Developers need immediate feedback to be efficient and correct defects as those are introduced. The path to achieving this vision is to build a reliable and scalable continuous test solution.
All beginnings are hard. Having a well-defined plan outlining the approach for your organization to create test automation is key to ensure long term success. Join Diego Molina, Senior Software Engineer at Sauce Labs as he discusses:
The importance of setting up the team correctly from the start
Choosing the right Testing Framework for your organization
Identifying the right scenarios and workflows to test
Learning to avoid common pitfalls at the beginning of the transformation journey
Drive Continuous Delivery With Continuous TestingCA Technologies
Silos. Lack of visibility. Some agile teams… some not. Manual handoffs. Bottlenecks.
This summer, it’s time to get outside (your old processes) and take some time off (your application release cycle). Take back your weekends and spend more time by the pool. We’ll show you how to automate, orchestrate, and facilitate continuous everything – and that includes continuous testing – one of the biggest bottlenecks of all.
You’ll learn how to:
Automatically shift quality left: Orchestrate and automate testing in every phase of the SDLC with automated promotion and feedback loops
Accelerate testing in the cloud: Test web and mobile apps in parallel – achieve up to 10X improvement in testing time. Use tools of choice while optimizing every aspect of your complex, interdependent multi-application pipelines.
Get started in less than 1 hour…. and for free! Achieve truly automated, continuous delivery (including continuous testing!!!) in the cloud with CA and Sauce Labs.
Try Continuous Delivery Director free:
https://cddirector.io/#/home
Try Sauce Labs free:
https://saucelabs.com/
Continuous Delivery Pipeline in the Cloud – How to Achieve Continous Everything CA Technologies
Even if your dev team is agile, there are often bottlenecks that keep your organization from achieving true continuous delivery. We’ll discuss how to eliminate spreadsheets and implement a common workflow that all teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle can rally around. Automate your CD pipeline and get the viability you need for continuous improvement – from planning to production and into performance. Learn more at:
CDDirector.io - https://cddirector.io/
CWIN17 Toulouse / Safe 4.5 and agile devops-ca technologies-r.bajulCapgemini
Though the name DevOps didn’t exist until fairly recently, the need for
partnership between development and operations teams has always been
around. Today DevOps has shifted from an emerging movement to a critical
component of most enterprises’ digital transformation strategy.
Same for Agility, with the partnership between business and development
and with the fairly recent and emerging Agility@Scale culture, frameworks and
practices.
And in the Digital Transformation and Innovations context where the Digital
Experience is the new competitive battleground, it’s no longer enough to simply
practice Agile development.
Quite simply, IT organizations need to establish a Modern Software Factory,
that combines Agility@Scale, DevOps practices, and tooling in the right ways. A
Modern Software Factory that will help organization adapt to change together
with improving quality, time-to-market and economic KPIs.
But how to consider the very dynamic Agile and DevOps tooling offerings?
What are the useful Best Practices? How to efficiently build a Modern Software
Factory? What’s new in SAFe 4.5 Agile@Scale Framework that helps? These are
some of the questions that will be addressed during this session.
Using agile testing to drive product innovationStephen Graves
Traditionally, testing is often thought of as the "Quality" function of the software development process. One that happens after the "creative work" of the product and development team are finished. Over the past decade, Agile testing methods like Test Driven Development and technology advancements in test automation have improved team responsiveness and release cycle time. Yet while Agile Testing methods have made software development more efficient there is still a great need to make it more effective - with a tighter alignment to features and capabilities that actually matter to the users and cycle times that enable faster learning.
Lean startup is a methodology for developing businesses and products, which aims to shorten product development cycles by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning. Stephen speaks on how to add the most relevant concepts of Lean Startup to your Agile Testing regime in order to guide backlog prioritization and discover new features and capabilities. The natural feedback loops of testing, especially during UAT, provide a continual opportunity to see from the users perspective. By using Lean Startup methods and making testing an integral part of the innovation process your team can make products not only that work but that matter.
Speaker Profile
Stephen Graves is currently the CEO of eTruVal, a startup providing property data and analytics to commercial real estate investors. Previously, he was Director of Global Business Operations at CA Technologies, where he ran multiple programs initiatives including New Product Incubation across all the business units. Prior to that, Stephen has held positions as a management consultant, a senior Business Analyst for a NYC government agency managing multi-million dollar projects and has founded two tech startups. Additionally, Stephen has earned an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and certifications as a Project Management Professional, Professional Scrum Master, ITSL and SAFeAgilist.
http://www.1point21gws.com/testingsummit/2017/Agile_Testing_and_Test_Automation_Devops_QA_Newyork/
DOES14 - Scott Prugh - CSG - DevOps and Lean in Legacy EnvironmentsGene Kim
10 Techniques for Flow & Continuous Delivery
Startups are continually evangelizing DevOps to be able to reduce risk, hasten feedback and deploy 1000’s of times a day. But what about the rest of the world that comes from Waterfall, Mainframes, Long Release Cycles and Risk Aversion? Learn how one company went from 480 day lead times and 6 month releases to 3 month releases with high levels of automation and increased quality across disparate legacy environments. We will discuss how Optimizing People & Organizations, Increasing the Rate of Learning, Deploying Innovative Tools and Lean System Thinking can help large scale enterprises increase throughput while decreasing cost and risk.
Live Webinar- Making Test Automation 10x Faster for Continuous Delivery- By R...RapidValue
A live webinar hosted by RapidValue Solutions on "Making Test Automation 10X Faster for Continuous Delivery".
Key takeaways:
1. Achieving test automation in a DevOps world
2. Building a business-tailored test automation framework
3. Overcoming limitations of open source tools
4. Case study: Creating 2000+ test cases in less than a month for a product development firm
5. Demo: Zero-code test automation for non-testers using AccuRate ( test automation suite by RapidValue)
"Software Quality in the Service of Innovation in the Insurance Industry"Applitools
** Webinar recording: **
Branch Insurance is disrupting the insurance industry by allowing customers to bundle home and car insurance in as little as 30 seconds.
What exactly is under the hood that helps a company like Branch to disrupt a well-established industry such as insurance?
In this webinar, Joe Emison -- Co-founder and CEO of Branch Insurance -- shared the technology he relies on. He also discussed in detail his approach to software quality, his requirements from technology partners, his tech-stack, and how AI has helped him on this journey.
Joe was joined by Erik Fogg -- Co-Founder & CRO of ProdPerfect -- and Daniel Levy -- Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Applitools -- as they demonstrate how Branch Insurance has achieved effortless, self-updating functional and visual testing that gives them an unparalleled advantage of deploying faster at lower costs, all while making QA coverage one less thing for Joe's team to worry about.
Keynote: Unlock the Power of Continuous Delivery with End-to-End, Integrated ...CA Technologies
The modern software factory relies on the ability to deliver software faster, with higher quality—while reducing risk and costs. This is only possible when an organization can delivery software continuously. Historically testing has been the major impediment to achieving continuous delivery, but new tools from CA are eliminating the testing bottleneck and enabling true end-to-end continuous testing. Come to this Continuous Delivery Keynote session from Jeff Scheaffer, General Manager for the Continuous Delivery Business Unit at CA.
For more information: http://ow.ly/mk7N50fO1fs
Keynote: Unlock the Power of Continuous Delivery with End-to-End, Integrated ...CA Technologies
The modern software factory relies on the ability to deliver software faster, with higher quality—while reducing risk and costs. This is only possible when an organization can delivery software continuously. Historically testing has been the major impediment to achieving continuous delivery, but new tools from CA are eliminating the testing bottleneck and enabling true end-to-end continuous testing. Come to this Continuous Delivery Keynote session from Jeff Scheaffer, General Manager for the Continuous Delivery Business Unit at CA.
For more information on DevOps: Continuous Delivery, please visit: http://ow.ly/bEGh50g62aQ
Efficient Performance Test Automation - Opitmizing the Jenkins PipelineJules Pierre-Louis
Shift-left testing represents a huge opportunity within the context of DevOps and Continuous Delivery, and integrating performance tests into your Continuous Integration scope greatly reduces performance risks when adding a new feature, or fixing a bug.
Even better – adding performance tests into the widely used Jenkins Pipeline is easier than you might think. In this webinar, co-presented by CA BlazeMeter and CloudBees, we’ll offer practical tips and best practices for leveraging performance test automation in a continuous integration environment.
In this webinar we’ll cover:
- How to easily implement a project’s entire build/test/deploy pipeline in Jenkins and store that alongside existing code
- How to configure and execute realistic, large-scale performance-testing scenarios as part of the Continuous Integration process
- Enabling easy test configuration maintenance using the open source test automation tool Taurus along with Jenkins Pipeline
- Analyzing comprehensive performance test results in real-time, and integrating those results as a part of the build promotion criteria
Extend the impact of performance testing across the software delivery pipeline and the popular tools your teams are already using.
Raising the Speed Limit on Mobile App DevelopmentCA Technologies
A mobile app represents a substantial commitment in time, resources and support to be successful and can consume development teams as they struggle to keep pace with the competition to add new features. Testing is key to creating a great customer experience and automated testing is even better. Learn how with CA’s DevTest porfolio.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Fail Fast and Win with Continuous Testing: Uri Scheiner – Jenkins WorldCA Technologies
At Jenkins World, Uri Scheiner, Sr. Director of Product Management in Continuous Delivery, talked about one of the most common places bottlenecks lurk (QA) and how your organization can build testing into your development cycles.
Continuous delivery orchestration, release planning and management, and end to end analytics are available to every team with just a few clicks.
Try Continuous Delivery Director free: https://cddirector.io/
With most organizations now using agile software development methodologies, the software development focus has changed to deliver faster releases—and this affects the way we test within the sprint. We largely develop applications using cloud and mobile technologies with short release cycles. Our challenges include frequent changes in requirements, the addition of incremental features to the product, and release at any point of time. Ganesh Iyer has found that continuous testing can seamlessly address most of these challenges. Continuous testing is the ability to run tests continuously in a particular environment, irrespective of product upgrades and dependent third-party systems. Ganesh highlights some continuous test approaches in practice including 24/7 reliability testing and continuous integration. Key takeaways include understanding the importance of endurance testing, practical considerations when we perform such durability testing, framework design elements for running tests continuously, and finally—what to look for in the results.
Do you have to learn code to create test automation? The answer is no. The latest technology enables business and QA teams to ensure enterprise application quality using easy to maintain, plain English tests. Powerful automated business process discovery, risk based analysis and lights-out regression tests can then be used to extend automation and create additional value – all without code!
COVID-19 heightened chronic challenges within the global healthcare industry. It became a catalyst amid fierce competition and tight regulations for health providers and payers to focus on digital health, cybersecurity, patient data transparency, and a variety of customer-centric and operational enhancements. As a result, we found the 2022 trendline pointing to improvements in access and quality of care.
Healthcare challenges such as optimizing the cost of care while simultaneously enabling personalized interventions and consumer-friendly shoppable services are long-standing − but, historically, the industry has been slow to react.
Read our Top Trends 2022 report to examine the lingering ramifications of the pandemic, responses from medical and insurance organizations, and the worldwide impact of ever-changing regulatory standards and mandates.
A combination of factors − the pandemic, catastrophic weather events, evolving policyholder expectations, and insurers’ drive for operational efficiency and future relevance − are sparking P&C industry changes.
In a post-COVID, new-normal environment, the most strategic insurers are building resilient, crisis-proof enterprises poised to take advantage of emerging and future business opportunities. They are leveraging advanced data analytics and novel technologies to assure agility and achieve positive revenue and customer satisfaction outcomes. Competitive advantage will hinge on accelerated digitalization and faster go-to-market. Therefore, win-win partnerships and embedded services with InsurTechs and other ecosystem players are critical.
Read Capgemini’s Top P&C Insurance Trends 2022 for a glimpse at the tactical and strategic initiatives carriers are undertaking to boost customer-centricity, product agility, intelligent processes, and an open ecosystem to ensure profitable growth and future-readiness.
This analysis provides an overview of the top trends in the commercial banking sector as they shift to technology high gear to boost client efficiency and battle a volatile, uncertain, competitive, and evolving landscape.
First, it was retail banking. Now, advanced technology is shifting to – and disrupting − the commercial banking space. Many commercial banks, known for paperwork, red tape, and branch dependency, were unprepared to support clients during their post-COVID-19 ramp-up. But now, the digital pivot to new mindsets, partnerships, and processes is in overdrive.
As commercial banks grapple with competition from FinTechs, BigTechs, and alternative lenders, their inability
to fulfill SME demands and pandemic after-shocks necessitates transformative process changes and a move
to experiential, sustainable, and inclusive banking models. We expect banks to strive to meet the demands
of corporate clients and SMEs by digitally transforming critical workflows and improving client experience.
Additionally, incremental process improvements in the middle and back-office that leverage intelligent
automation will keep the competition at bay because engaged clients are loyal.
Adopting newer methods to mine data and moving to as-a-Service models will prepare commercial banks
to flexibly respond to newcomers and find ways to co-exist through effective collaboration. The time has come for commercial banks to put transformation on the fast track as lending losses in wallet and market share could spill over to other functions!
How incumbents react and respond to 2022 trends could determine their relevancy and resiliency in the years ahead.
The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated the payments industry undergo a facelift, sparked by novel approaches from new-age players, fostered by industry consolidation, and customers’ demand for end-to-end experience. Crossing the threshold, the industry is entering a new era – Payments 4.X, where payments are embedded and invisible, and an enabling function to provide frictionless customer experience. As customers make a permanent shift to next-gen payment methods, Digital IDs are critical for a seamless payment experience. The B2B payments segment is witnessing rapid digitization. BigTechs, PayTechs, and industry newcomers are ready to jump in with newfangled solutions to help underserved small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
As incumbents struggle with profits, new-age firms are forging ahead to take the lead in the Payments 4.X era by riding the success of non-card products and services. The new era demands collaboration, platformification, and firms can unleash full market potential only by embracing API-based business models and open ecosystems. Data prowess and enhanced payment processing capabilities are inevitable to thrive ahead. The clock is ticking for banks and traditional payments firms because the competitive advantage is not guaranteed forever. As industry players seek economies of scale, consolidations loom, and non-banks explore new territories to threaten incumbents’ market share. While all these 2022 trends are at play, central bank digital currency (CBDC) is emerging globally and might open a new chapter in the current payments landscape.
As we slowly move out of the pandemic, financial services firms have learned the criticality of virtual engagement to business resilience. Wealth management firms will need capabilities to cater to new-age clients and deliver new-age services. This report aims to understand and analyze the top trends in the Wealth Management industry this year and beyond.
A year ago, our Top Trends in Wealth Management report emphasized how the pandemic sparked disruption and digital transformation and changing investor attitudes around Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) products. As we begin 2022, many of those trends continue to hold as COVID-19’s wide-reaching effects continue to influence the wealth management industry.
As wealth management (WM) firms supercharge their digital transformation journeys, investments in cybersecurity and human-centered design are becoming critical to building superior digital client experience (CX). Another holdover trend − sustainable investing – is gaining mainstream attention and generating increasingly sophisticated client demands. Data and analytics capabilities will become ever more essential for ESG scoring and personalized customer engagement. As large financial services firms refocus on their wealth management business while new digital players make industry strides, competition is becoming historically intense. Not surprisingly, client experience is the new battleground.
This analysis provides an overview of the top trends in the retail banking sector driven by the competition, digital transformation, and innovation led by retail banks exploring novel ways to create and retain value in evolving landscape.
COVID-19 caught banks off guard and shook legacy mindsets to the core. With 20/20 (2020) hindsight, firms are more aware, digitally resilient, and financially stable as they head into 2022. The trials of the past 18 months forced firms to shore up existing business and consider new models and revenue streams.
Customer-centricity remains at the top of most FS agendas and is a 2022 focal point. Banks will focus on achieving operational excellence as diligently as delivering superior CX. In 2022 and beyond, it will be paramount for FIs to explore and invest in new technologies to remain relevant and resilient.
Banking 4.X will arrive in full force in 2022 with platform-supported firms monetizing diverse ecosystem capabilities and aggressively harvesting data to create experiential customer journeys through intelligent and personalized engagements. The new era will compel future-focused banks to finally abandon legacy infrastructure and collaborate with third-party specialists to solidify their best-fit, long-term roles. Increasingly, open platforms will make banks invisible as banking becomes embedded into customer lifestyles. At the same time, banks will shed asset-heavy models and shift to the cloud for greater agility, speed to market, and faster innovation. The shift will act as a precursor to adopting new technologies on the horizon – 5G and Decentralized Finance.
The recent past was filled will extraordinary lessons for financial institutions. Now is the time to act on those learnings and move forward profitably.
While COVID-19 has sparked the demand for life insurance, it has also exposed the operating model vulnerabilities in distribution, servicing, and customer retention. In a post-COVID, new-normal environment, insurers need to enhance their capabilities around advanced data management and focus on seamless and secure data sharing to provide superior CX and hyper-personalized offerings. Accelerated digitalization and faster go-to-market are vital to remaining competitive, and win-win partnerships with ecosystems are critical in the journey.
Read our Top Life Insurance Trends 2022 to explore the tactical and strategic initiatives carriers undertake to acquire competencies around customer centricity, product agility, intelligent processes, and an open ecosystem to ensure profitable growth and future readiness.
Property & Casualty Insurance Top Trends 2021Capgemini
The Property & Casualty insurance landscape is evolving quickly with the changing risk landscape, entry of new players, and changing customer expectations. The ripple effects of COVID-19 on the P&C insurance industry and natural disasters such as forest fires have adversely impacted insurance firm books.
In this scenario, to ensure growth and future-readiness, the most strategic insurers strive to be ‘Inventive Insurers’ – assuming a customer-centric approach, deploying intelligent processes, practicing business resilience and go-to-market agility, and embracing an open ecosystem.
Read our Property & Casualty Insurance Top Trends 2021 report to explore the strategies insurers are adapting to remain competitive amidst the evolving business landscape and how they can explore new ways to enhance their profitability.
A combination of factors such as demographic changes, evolving consumer preferences, and desire to become operationally efficient were already spurring changes in the life insurance industry. Enter 2020 – the COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the industry.
At the peak of disruption, the focus was on ensuring business continuity, but new initiatives are cropping up to tackle the challenges as the industry is adapting to the new normal.
Furthermore, COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst, pushing life insurers to prioritize their efforts on improving customer centricity, developing go-to-market agility, making processes intelligent, building business resilience, and embracing the open ecosystem.
Read our Life Insurance Top Trends 2021 report to explore the strategies insurers are adopting to manage the changing market dynamics.
The uncertainty of 2020 is setting the global tone for the immediate future in the financial services industry. So it is no surprise banks are laser-focused on business resilience, emphasizing both financial and operational risks. The need to adapt quickly to new normal conditions through virtual customer engagement is clear.
Customer centricity continues to drive commercial banks’ solution designs. And, the pandemic compelled products that deliver immediate client value ‒ quick digital onboarding, seamless lending, and support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The onus is now on banks to go to market more quickly, which requires the implementation of intelligent processes and integrating corporates’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with banking workflows.
To achieve go-to-market agility, banks across the globe are investing in and collaborating with FinTechs. Many of these partnerships are focused on boosting digital lending and providing seamless support to anxious small-business clients in need of assurance.
With newfound impetus for FinTech collaboration, commercial banks have picked up their step on the path toward OpenX. COVID-19 made it evident that survival during turbulence is manageable through collaboration with ecosystem players.
Read our Top Trends in Commercial Banking 2021 report to explore the strategies banks are adapting to transform their businesses from a product-led, siloed model to an experiential and agile plan.
When we published the Top Trends in Wealth Management 2020, little did we foresee the pandemic that would sweep through the world and disrupt life as we knew it. Yet, when we reviewed last year’s trends, we found that many still hold and some have taken on even greater relevance. One such trend is sustainable investing, which had begun to gain prominence as investors became more aware of ESG considerations, and firms rolled out more sustainable investing offerings. Another trend that has accelerated in the post-COVID world is the importance of investing in omnichannel capabilities and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance personalization and advisor effectiveness. The pandemic has driven wealth management firms to accelerate their digital transformation journey, with some immediate focus areas being interactive client communications and digital advisor tools.
There is no denying that time is of the essence. Yes, budgets are tight, but the Open X ecosystem offers wealth management firms opportunities to reimagine their operating models and deliver excellent customer experience cost-effectively.
Top trends in Payments: 2020 highlighted the payments industry’s flux driven by new trends in technology adoption, innovative solutions, and changing consumer behavior. The pandemic has tested the digital mastery of players, who are already grappling with transition. Non-cash transactions are on a robust growth path, accelerated by increased adoption during COVID-19. Regulators are working to instill trust and address non-cash payments risk amid unparalleled growth as players collaborate to quell uncertainty. Regional initiatives, such as the P27 (Nordics real-time payments system) and the EPI (European Payments Initiative), are gaining traction in response to country-level fragmentation and competition.
Investment in emerging technologies is looked upon as an elixir to mitigate fraud, data-driven offerings are being considered for providing value-added propositions, and distributed ledger technology is in focus for digital currency solutions, efficiency enhancement, and cost gains. New players, such as retailers/merchants, are integrating payments into their value chains while technology giants are upscaling their financial services game by weaving offerings around payments as a center stage. Constrained by budgets, firms consider business models such as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide cost-effective and superior customer experience.
A combination of factors, including demographic changes, evolving consumer preferences, and regulatory and compliance mandates, were already spurring change in the health insurance industry. Enter 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, which is having sweeping implications for the industry.
At the peak of disruption, the focus was on ensuring business continuity, but new initiatives are cropping up to tackle the challenges as the industry adapts to the new normal.
Furthermore, some changes are here to stay, and it will be prudent for the industry players to be resilient to the market shifts by being agile, improving member centricity, making processes intelligent, and embracing the open ecosystem.
Read our Health Insurance Top Trends 2021 report to explore the strategies insurers are adopting to manage the external pressures.
The banking industry’s resilience is being tested as banks navigate through a remarkable 2020 filled with uncertainties. The impact of COVID-19 has been about setting the tone for future operational models. Retail banks have shifted focus towards integrated risk management with a more holistic view of operational risks. Adapting to the new normal, banks have prioritized cost transformation while engaging customers virtually. Incumbents sought to be more responsible within fast-changing environmental conditions and ESG remained a critical focus.
To provide more experiential services, banks are leveraging techniques such as segment-of-one to hyper-personalize offerings while aiming to humanize digital channels for increased engagement. Banks are also revamping middle and back offices, going beyond the front end leveraging intelligent processes. Open X is enabling banks to play on their strengths and use the expertise of ecosystem players. Going forward, banks are poised to become an enhanced one-stop shop by providing consumers value-adding FS and non-FS experiences.
To acquire customers in cost-effective manner, retail banks are tapping value-based propositions ‒ such as POS financing and mortgage refinancing. Further, Banking-as-Service provides incumbents a way to provide their high-value offerings to other players. In preparation for the future, banks will be looking to improve their go-to-market agility by leveraging the benefits of cloud. This analysis outlines the top 10 trends in retail banking for 2021.
Explore how Capgemini’s Connected autonomous planning fine-tunes Consumer Products Company’s operations for manufacturing, transport, procurement, and virtually every other aspect of the supply-value network in a touchless, autonomous way.
Financial services is undergoing a paradigm shift that is forcing incumbent retail banks to rethink growth strategies as they struggle to remain relevant. Growing competition from BigTechs, FinTech firms, and challenger banks has added to the complexity created by increasingly stringent regulatory and compliance requirements. Customers now expect a seamless customer journey and personalized offerings because they have become accustomed to top-notch individualized service from GAFA giants Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. The changing ecosystem offers established banks new, unexplored opportunities and encourages a transition beyond traditional products to meet the exacting requirements of today’s customers. Bank collaboration with FinTech and RegTech partners is becoming commonplace. Incumbents are exploring point-of-sale financing and unsecured consumer lending, while they also boost their digital channel competencies to reach a broader customer base. Banks are beginning to accept open APIs and are working with third-party specialists to create an open shared marketplace. Technological advancements such as AI are fueling efforts to evolve customer onboarding and touchpoint processes. Increasingly, banks are turning to design thinking methodology to understand the customer journey, extract deep insights, and develop a more refined user experience across the customer lifecycle.
Our analysis of the top retail banking trends for 2020 offers a glimpse into the fast-changing banking ecosystem and explores the tools and solutions being used to face new-age challenges.
Aspects of the life insurance industry have remained constant for years – and so have premiums. Traditional savings products have taken a huge hit in terms of attractiveness because low interest-rates prevail. Meanwhile, the risk landscape is shifting, and insurers need to align better with the emerging business environment, manage changing customer preferences, and improve operational efficiencies. Within today’s scenario, industry players are undertaking tactical and strategic shifts in attempts to manage unpredictable market dynamics. Insurers must develop alternative products to breathe new life into policies and leverage emerging technologies (artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and blockchain) to improve efficiency, agility, flexibility, and customer-centricity.
Read Top Trends in Life Insurance: 2020 for a look at the innovative steps future-focused insurers are considering to meet industry challenges and opportunities.
The health insurance industry is evolving and undergoing significant changes. As the risk landscape shifts, insurers are working to improve operational efficiencies, meet evolving customer preferences, and align better with the changing business environment. Accordingly, payers must adapt and align business models and offerings. An incisive tactical approach is required to accommodate members’ needs and related emerging risks — medical, health, and environmental. Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and connected devices are enabling insurers to manage these changes proactively, partner with members, and help to prevent risks, all the while continuing to fulfill payer responsibilities.
Read Top Trends in Health Insurance: 2020 to learn which strategies insurers are adopting to navigate and align with today’s challenges.
Similar to other financial services domains, payments is evolving into an open ecosystem. The EU’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2) pioneered open banking by encouraging banks and established payments players to securely open the systems to foster competition, innovation, and more customer choices. In tandem with non-cash transaction growth, regulations are driving banks and payments firms to expand their array of payment methods and channels. Governments are encouraging financial inclusion by also promoting the adoption of non-cash payments. Increasingly, merchants and corporates seek to offer alternative payment systems because of widespread popularity among consumers. Alternative payments also enable merchants to provide real-time and cross-border payments to boost business efficiency.
Banks, payment firms, card firms, BigTechs, FinTechs, and other players are continuously developing new technology to cash in on market changes. However, data breaches and fraud continue to hinder innovation as firms devote countless resources each year to address security issues. Many governments are also designing new regulations to reduce ecosystem threats. All these measures are expected to make the current ecosystem much more secure and simple for players as well as customers.
Top Trends in Payments: 2020 explores and analyzes payments ecosystem initiatives and solutions for this year and beyond
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
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Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
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Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art