Reconciliation Testing Aspects
Elena Moiseeva, QA, Exactpro
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
Innovation in Quality Assurance – What is the Impact on Trading technology?Iosif Itkin
Agile methodologies and the death of software testing.
Can finance industry adopt the same formal methods that allowed NASA to reach Pluto?
Lessons learned from the Terminator/BS Galactica and the next generation of risk controls.
What is crowd-sourced verification in the age when machines rule the market?
Cognitive technologies and building test harness for algo trading systems.
EXTENT-2015: The Four Essential Elements of LSEG QA SolutionsIosif Itkin
The Four Essential Elements of LSEG QA Solutions
QA, Exactpro
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
Reconciliation Testing Aspects
Elena Moiseeva, QA, Exactpro
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
Innovation in Quality Assurance – What is the Impact on Trading technology?Iosif Itkin
Agile methodologies and the death of software testing.
Can finance industry adopt the same formal methods that allowed NASA to reach Pluto?
Lessons learned from the Terminator/BS Galactica and the next generation of risk controls.
What is crowd-sourced verification in the age when machines rule the market?
Cognitive technologies and building test harness for algo trading systems.
EXTENT-2015: The Four Essential Elements of LSEG QA SolutionsIosif Itkin
The Four Essential Elements of LSEG QA Solutions
QA, Exactpro
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
Technical User Group
Paris, 6 October 2016
Agenda
• Introduction
• London Stock Exchange Derivatives Market & IDEM - New Version for SOLA
• London Stock Exchange Group - GTP Updates
• Borsa Italiana - MIT R9.0 (incl. RFQs)
• London Stock Exchange / Turquoise Equities - MIT R9.1 (incl. RFQs)
• London Stock Exchange Group – TRADEcho
• London Stock Exchange - MITCH Decommissioning
• Exactpro - Overview
• Q & A Session
Tellefsen and Exactpro Systems Team Up to Help Clients with REG SCI
Meeting the demanding new requirements imposed upon firms by SEC Regulation SCI
is a key issue for many firms, especially in the areas of independent systems testing
and certification. Tellefsen and Company, L.L.C. (Tellefsen) and Exactpro Systems,
LLC (Exactpro) have today announced a marketing partnership in which both firms will
collaborate to provide key industry constituents with market structure consulting, financial
technology infrastructure testing and software quality assurance testing services.
Tellefsen is a management consulting firm founded in 1984 to provide counsel and
professional services to meet the growing needs of the financial services industry. The
firm’s principals and consultants have a wealth of experience in regulatory compliance
and U.S. market infrastructure (exchanges, ATS, dark pools etc). One of Tellefsen’s core
competencies has been is assisting firms with their regulatory compliance requirements
through technology analysis, planning, testing, and evidencing.
Exactpro is a rapidly growing quality assurance services firm specializing in market
infrastructure. Exactpro provides both functional and non-functional testing for global
exchanges, dark pools and clearing houses using a range of sophisticated in-house built
testing and evidencing tools.
John Rapa, President and CEO of Tellefsen, indicates: “The implementation of Reg SCI
is another example of market regulations where market participants must provide evidence
of their comprehensive infrastructure testing, policies and procedures and market oversight
compliance. We are delighted to team up with Exactpro whom we know from other customer
engagements. We are very impressed by their capabilities, diligence and effectiveness in
planning, executing and evidencing tests that prove regulatory compliance”.
Iosif Itkin, Co-Founder of Exactpro, says: “Our firm has a great set of tools and services that
we believe can help clients meet Regulation SCI in a cost effective manner. We are very
conversant with this domain and are delighted to be working with Tellefsen on this; our two
firms’ capabilities are entirely complementary”.
Millennium Surveillance™ – Achieving Excellence
Anton Kryukov,Exactpro
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
Tradecope - Low-Latency Solution for Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading
Milan Dvorak, Netcope Technologies
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
EXTENT-2015: A Test Harness for Algo Trading Systems Iosif Itkin
A Test Harness for Algo Trading Systems
Victoria Leonchik, Exactpro
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
EXTENT-2016: Key Challenges and Lessons Learned from Testing a New Trading Sy...Iosif Itkin
EXTENT-2016: Software Testing & Trading Technology Trends
22 June, 2016, 10 Paternoster Square, London
Key Challenges and Lessons Learned from Testing a New Trading System
Dr. Matthias Burghardt, Head of Business Development, Boerse Stuttgart
Would like to know more?
Visit our website: extentconf.com
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#extent2016
#exactpro
EXTENT-2015: Quality Assurance in Russian NSDIosif Itkin
Quality Assurance in Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD)
Pavel Andrianov, National Settlement Depository
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
EXTENT-2016: Realisation of a Collaborative Approach to Test AutomationIosif Itkin
EXTENT-2016: Software Testing & Trading Technology Trends
22 June, 2016, 10 Paternoster Square, London
Realisation of a Collaborative Approach to Test Automation
A case study in post-trade settlement and reconciliation at Clearstream
Duncan Brigginshaw, Co-Founder and Technical Director, Odin Technology Ltd
Would like to know more?
Visit our website: extentconf.com
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https://twitter.com/exactpro
#extent2016
#exactpro
Technical User Group
Paris, 6 October 2016
Agenda
• Introduction
• London Stock Exchange Derivatives Market & IDEM - New Version for SOLA
• London Stock Exchange Group - GTP Updates
• Borsa Italiana - MIT R9.0 (incl. RFQs)
• London Stock Exchange / Turquoise Equities - MIT R9.1 (incl. RFQs)
• London Stock Exchange Group – TRADEcho
• London Stock Exchange - MITCH Decommissioning
• Exactpro - Overview
• Q & A Session
Tellefsen and Exactpro Systems Team Up to Help Clients with REG SCI
Meeting the demanding new requirements imposed upon firms by SEC Regulation SCI
is a key issue for many firms, especially in the areas of independent systems testing
and certification. Tellefsen and Company, L.L.C. (Tellefsen) and Exactpro Systems,
LLC (Exactpro) have today announced a marketing partnership in which both firms will
collaborate to provide key industry constituents with market structure consulting, financial
technology infrastructure testing and software quality assurance testing services.
Tellefsen is a management consulting firm founded in 1984 to provide counsel and
professional services to meet the growing needs of the financial services industry. The
firm’s principals and consultants have a wealth of experience in regulatory compliance
and U.S. market infrastructure (exchanges, ATS, dark pools etc). One of Tellefsen’s core
competencies has been is assisting firms with their regulatory compliance requirements
through technology analysis, planning, testing, and evidencing.
Exactpro is a rapidly growing quality assurance services firm specializing in market
infrastructure. Exactpro provides both functional and non-functional testing for global
exchanges, dark pools and clearing houses using a range of sophisticated in-house built
testing and evidencing tools.
John Rapa, President and CEO of Tellefsen, indicates: “The implementation of Reg SCI
is another example of market regulations where market participants must provide evidence
of their comprehensive infrastructure testing, policies and procedures and market oversight
compliance. We are delighted to team up with Exactpro whom we know from other customer
engagements. We are very impressed by their capabilities, diligence and effectiveness in
planning, executing and evidencing tests that prove regulatory compliance”.
Iosif Itkin, Co-Founder of Exactpro, says: “Our firm has a great set of tools and services that
we believe can help clients meet Regulation SCI in a cost effective manner. We are very
conversant with this domain and are delighted to be working with Tellefsen on this; our two
firms’ capabilities are entirely complementary”.
Millennium Surveillance™ – Achieving Excellence
Anton Kryukov,Exactpro
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
Tradecope - Low-Latency Solution for Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading
Milan Dvorak, Netcope Technologies
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
EXTENT-2015: A Test Harness for Algo Trading Systems Iosif Itkin
A Test Harness for Algo Trading Systems
Victoria Leonchik, Exactpro
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
EXTENT-2016: Key Challenges and Lessons Learned from Testing a New Trading Sy...Iosif Itkin
EXTENT-2016: Software Testing & Trading Technology Trends
22 June, 2016, 10 Paternoster Square, London
Key Challenges and Lessons Learned from Testing a New Trading System
Dr. Matthias Burghardt, Head of Business Development, Boerse Stuttgart
Would like to know more?
Visit our website: extentconf.com
Follow us:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/exactpro-systems-llc?trk=biz-companies-cym
https://twitter.com/exactpro
#extent2016
#exactpro
EXTENT-2015: Quality Assurance in Russian NSDIosif Itkin
Quality Assurance in Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD)
Pavel Andrianov, National Settlement Depository
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
EXTENT-2016: Realisation of a Collaborative Approach to Test AutomationIosif Itkin
EXTENT-2016: Software Testing & Trading Technology Trends
22 June, 2016, 10 Paternoster Square, London
Realisation of a Collaborative Approach to Test Automation
A case study in post-trade settlement and reconciliation at Clearstream
Duncan Brigginshaw, Co-Founder and Technical Director, Odin Technology Ltd
Would like to know more?
Visit our website: extentconf.com
Follow us:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/exactpro-systems-llc?trk=biz-companies-cym
https://twitter.com/exactpro
#extent2016
#exactpro
Non-Functional Testing at London Stock ExchangeIosif Itkin
29 November 2016
Harvard Club, New York, QA-Financial Forum
Exactpro is the specialist testing subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. In this presentation,
Iosif Itkin will cover the wide range of testing requirements faced by broker-dealers, banks and
exchanges beyond the requirements of functional testing. Plus: In Conversation with Yann L’Huillier,
CIO, Tradition and Iosif Itkin, CEO, Exactpro
- Iosif Itkin: Exactpro CEO – The London Stock Exchance Group
- Yann L’Huillier: Group Chief Information Officer – Tradition
Sibos 2017: Disruptive functional testing - the next frontier in post-trade s...Iosif Itkin
16 October 2017
Sibos Toronto
Presentation by Iosif Itkin, Exactpro CEO and co-founder
London Stock Exchange Group
Disruptive functional testing - the next frontier in post-trade systems verification
The operators of complex back office and post-trade systems interconnected by SWIFT and other communication protocols are trying to keep pace with the front office technology advances, rising data volumes and changing regulatory landscape. The industry actively adopts flexible development methodologies to speed up the software delivery process. What aspects of software quality are not covered by regular performance / failover testing and the agile development life cycle? Disruptive functional testing is a way to prepare your mission-critical infrastructure for any challenges the future may bring. Ideas for this presentation are drawn from our work with LCH, T2S, clearing and settlement systems worldwide.
Continuous Performance Testing: The New StandardTechWell
In the past several years the software development lifecycle has changed significantly with high-speed software releases, shared application services, and platform virtualization. The traditional performance assurance approach of pre-release testing does not address these innovations. To maintain confidence in acceptable performance in production, pre-release testing must be augmented with in-production performance monitoring. Obbie Pet describes three types of monitors—performance, resource, and VM platform—and three critical metrics fundamental to isolating performance problems—response time, transaction rate, and error rate. Obbie reviews techniques to acquire and interpret these metrics, and describes how to develop a continuous performance monitoring process. In conjunction with pre-release testing, this monitoring can be woven into a single integrated process, offering a best bet in assuring performance in today’s development world. Take away this integrated process for consideration in your own shop.
ClearTH Test Automation Framework: Case Study in IRS & CDS Swaps Lifecycle Mo...Iosif Itkin
Synchronize Europe
18th June 2019
Iosif Itkin, co-CEO and co-founder, Exactpro
Using the ISDA CDM Swaps application, simultaneously execute multiple end-to-end scenarios for DAML applications in capital markets - validate with actual contract data on ledger.
20 Simple Questions from Exactpro for Your Enjoyment This Holiday SeasonIosif Itkin
Warmest wishes for a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!
We look forward to our continued collaboration in 2020. Thank you for your support.
We are providing quality Online Trainings on SAP TAO, QTP, BPT, SAP CRM, SAP ABAP, SAP Manual Testing (SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP FICO, SAP HR), SAP BW/BI, MANUAL TESTING, HP QUALITY CENTER and some other modules.
Curiosity and Infuse Consulting Present: Sustainable Test Automation Strategi...Curiosity Software Ireland
This webinar was co-hosted by Infuse Consulting and Curiosity Software on 27th September 2022. Watch the on demand recording here: https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/generate-rigorous-automated-tests-webinar
Your test automation rates are too low to match the speed of CI/CD, while suboptimal coverage is constantly letting bugs slip through. What do you do?
Many organisations treat this as a resourcing problem, often approaching services providers to navigate an automation skills shortage. Yet, hiring more people to perform the same processes is unsustainable, as the demand for automation persists sprint-over-sprint. In-house testing further risks growing dependent on a scripted framework that they can’t easily access or target for coverage. They risk throwing money constantly at external engineers to write repetitive scripts, fix brittle tests, and source test data. These suboptimal processes must be fixed first – people alone cannot fix test automation ROI.
This webinar will explore approaches to sustainable test automation that grows more efficient sprint-over-sprint, while targeting testing to de-risk the latest system changes. Nalin Parbhu, CEO of Infuse, and Curiosity’s George Blundell will draw on automation project experience from a range of different organisations. They will discuss collaborative approaches that automate processes surrounding test execution, while maximising reusability and optimising in-sprint test coverage. You will see solutions to perennial test automation barriers, including:
1. Collaborative test modelling, future proofing automation frameworks by maintaining intuitive living documentation.
2. In-sprint test and data generation, rapidly creating scripts from reusable flowchart models.
3. Automated test maintenance, targeting in-sprint coverage as requirements and systems change.
Как совместить, казалось бы, несовместимое: Пирамиду Тестирования Майка Коэна и ROI калькулятор? Как добиться синергетического эффекта от использования обоих инструментов. Как эффективно использовать «парочку» от pre-sales до post-release активностей? Как адаптировать полученное решение для нужд вашего конкретного проекта. Давайте попробуем ответить на эти и многие другие вопросы в процессе нашей беседы.
IT due diligence, software audit and software quality standards are very important for startups that want to sell to or partner with large companies and corporates. In this invited talk the importance of quality is discussed from a startup perspective.
Using JMeter and Google Analytics for Software Performance TestingXBOSoft
Ed Curran, VP of Engineering at XBOSoft, shares some of his hands on experience in working with JMeter for load and performance testing. In the webinar, he provided explanations of different types of performance testing and how you can use Google Analytics to understand what users are really doing on your web apps and then how to leverage JMeter and analyze the results to improve your app's performance.
Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT and AI in Testing - NextSteps, presented by Ap...Applitools
Gain insights into the practical applications of ChatGPT, Bard, and other AI-based technological advancements, including GitHub CoPilot and Applitools Self-Healing Cloud, in this session with Anand Bagmar. Through specific use cases, Anand demonstrates how to enhance test automation processes—making them faster, more stable, and easier to implement.
Session recording and more info at applitools.com
Uncover how these tools can revolutionize your testing strategies and stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving world of test automation.
Foundations of Software Testing Lecture 4Iosif Itkin
This lecture is a part of the online course on Software Testing for Complex Intelligent Systems and Autonomous Vehicles. The course lectures provide the theoretical basics of testing autonomous systems based on artificial intelligence.
The fourth lecture of the course entitled Foundations of Software Testing reviews the ‘absence-of-errors fallacy’ and other principles of software testing, as well as the types and levels of software testing. The lecture also provides a fuller picture of the understanding of test objectives and methodologies by different schools of thought within the software testing domain.
QA Financial Forum London 2021 - Automation in Software Testing. Humans and C...Iosif Itkin
Speaker: Iosif Itkin, co-CEO & co-founder, Exactpro Systems
9th November 2021
Hilton Canary Wharf
Exactpro is an independent software testing business focused on mission-critical financial market infrastructures, primarily exchanges and clearing houses. In his presentation, Iosif will give a brief overview of research on the concept of model-based testing and the principal challenges of its application while testing complex distributed systems. He will also outline the broader context of interaction between humans and complex computer models.
Exactpro FinTech Webinar - Global Exchanges Test OraclesIosif Itkin
Global Exchanges series webinar to discuss Test Oracles. A test oracle is a mechanism for determining whether a test has passed or failed. The use of oracles involves comparing the output(s) of the system under test for a given test-case input, to the output(s) that the oracle determines the product should have. We will review various types of test oracles using examples from Exactpro’s Global Exchanges division projects and protocol-based interactions in trading systems.
Exactpro FinTech Webinar - Global Exchanges FIX ProtocolIosif Itkin
Exactpro’s Global Exchanges Division training session on FIX Trading Protocol.
The essence of the FIX protocol and its place in the overall structure of network protocols, FIX message attributes and the internal data types of the protocol.
Operational Resilience in Financial Market InfrastructuresIosif Itkin
A4Q World Congress 13-16 April 2021
Iosif Itkin
Exactpro provides independent software testing services for mission critical technology that underpins global financial markets – exchanges and clearing houses. Half of the top 20 global exchange groups on all continents around the globe rely on processes, platforms and people from Exactpro to improve their quality and reliability. The company has spent the last 11 years studying operational resilience in this crucial sector. The presentation will outline the key principles for software testing of the systems that process hundreds of millions of orders per day with roundtrip latencies below one hundred microseconds.
QA-Financial Forum 2019 in New York
13 November
Iosif Itkin, CEO and co-founder
Elena Treshcheva, Business Development Manager and Researcher
An October 2019 survey by BoE and FCA found that ML in financial organizations has already passed an initial development phase, and the usage of live ML applications is about to dramatically increase over the next three years. Artificial Intelligence systems are used in market surveillance, they are providing intellectual analysis of news feeds, and they are an important part of the conversational agents facing users and helping them with their business needs from identity verification to trading and portfolio management. How to ensure that an AI-powered system is up to its task? And what would that mean from the software testing perspective?
EXTENT 2019: Exactpro Quality Assurance for Financial Market InfrastructuresIosif Itkin
On Complex Software Systems Testing — Alexey Zverev, co-CEO & co-founder, Exactpro
Software Testing and Machine Learning
Mind the Gap. Applying Process Mining
Learning from Failure is not just for Humans
Dancing with Whales. Adaptive Log Classification System
On Traceability and the Illusion of Control
Building Partnerships
Demystifying DLT Testing One Network at a Time
Get the MOST from FIX
Georgia on My Mind
Build Software to Test Software — Iosif Itkin, co-CEO & co-founder, Exactpro
EXTENT Talks 2019 Tbilisi: Failover and Recovery Test Automation - Ivan ShamraiIosif Itkin
Ivan Shamray, Senior NFT Analyst, Exactpro
20 April 2019 EXTENT Talks, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi QA Community
EXTENT Talks is a meeting place for IT specialists working in various industries and seeking professional growth, practitioners from IT firms, as well as Quality Assurance enthusiasts of all backgrounds interested in actively participating in local IT events.
EXTENT Talks QA Community Tbilisi 20 April 2019 - Conference OpenIosif Itkin
EXTENT Talks is a meeting place for IT specialists working in various industries and seeking professional growth, practitioners from IT firms, as well as Quality Assurance enthusiasts of all backgrounds interested in actively participating in local IT events. The first EXTENT Talks were held in Tbilisi on 22 February 2019, initiating the creation a QA Community in Tbilisi and laying a foundation for an international platform for exchanging experience and knowledge in the field of software testing, development and IT. The program of the inaugural event included presentations on ISTQB, Software Testing, and Agile methodology from senior specialists. The next EXTENT Talks in Tbilisi will take place on 20 April 2019.
User-Assisted Log Analysis for Quality Control of Distributed Fintech Applica...Iosif Itkin
The First IEEE International Conference On Artificial Intelligence Testing (2019 IEEE AITest)
Iosif Itkin, Anna Gromova, Anton Sitnikov, Elena Treshcheva, Rostislav Yavorskiy, Evgenii Tsymbalov, Andrey Novikov and Kirill Rudakov
1 Exactpro, UK, Georgia, USA, Russia
2 Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
3 Higher School of Economics, Russia
Speakers: Iosif Itkin, CEO and Co-Founder and Elena Treshcheva, Business Development Manager and Researcher - Exactpro
Exactpro provides software testing services for mission-critical technology that underpins global financial markets. Exactpro clients are regulated by FCA, Bank of England and their counterparts from other countries. During this session, Elena and Iosif will talk about end-to-end software testing for post-trade systems in financial market infrastructures. What are the key challenges in quality assurance at this scale? What kind of cognitive biases affect SDLC? How precise is the knowledge about the systems under test? What constitutes good test evidence? How to deal with complexity in regulated environments?
Behaviour Driven Development: Oltre i limiti del possibileIosif Itkin
The QA Financial Forum: Milan 2019
23 January at the Excelsior Hotel Gallia.
Anna-Maria Lukina, Exactpro Business Development Director
The QA Financial Forum: Milan is one of the leading fintech conferences in Italy. The event focuses on the latest achievements in software risk management and automation of software testing. The predominant theme of the Milan event will be Quality Assurance for the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
The topics under discussion will feature:
- Technologies for Automation & AI
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Value Stream Management
- Test Data Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- App Security & DevSecOps
- Testing and quality assurance of Blockchain platforms
The official language of the event is Italian.
On 17th January 2018 Exactpro successfully completed a management buyout from London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), signed a new multi-year master services agreement with LSEG, and opened its head office in London.
What else has happened in 2018?
I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on what has been an unusual year for Exactpro.
Integration front to back - Mr. Custodian tear down that wall
The scope of the application level has been continuous extended over the years, albeit with a focus on the area of pre-trade and trade.
Recently, there has been an increased interest to move further into the area of post-trade which is predominantly driven by the ISO 20022 standard. Is there really a need for new FIX messages in areas such as payments and
what are the integration problems needing a resolution?
Panellists
- Iosif Itkin, CEO, Exactpro
- Jim Northey, Co-Chair Global Technical Committee, Americas Region, FIX Trading Community, Chair Elect, ISO TC68 Financial
Services Technical Committee, and Consultant and Industry Standards Liaison, Itiviti
- Barry Young, Director, Aladdin Product Manager, BlackRock
BDD. The Outer Limits. Iosif Itkin at Youcon (in Russian)Iosif Itkin
Exactpro is supporting the 3rd annual IT-conference YouCon to take place on 14th October in Saratov, Russia. Over 900 programmers, systems engineers and architects, software QA engineers, and marketing specialists will gather to discuss the latest trends in programming technology. It is the largest IT industry event in Saratov.
Iosif Itkin, CEO of Exactpro, part of London Stock Exchange Group, will deliver a "BDD. The Outer Limits" presentation named after Iosif's favorite Sci-Fi series.
The topics to be covered are:
Behavior Driven Development concepts
Applying BDD in trading and clearing systems
Specification by Example and using production data
Combining Model-based testing and BDD
The Outer Limits
There will be an opportunity to ask questions, share thoughts and expertise in BDD, or just chat with a representative at the Exactpro stand at any time during the event.
Don't miss out, stop by and ask how you can get your Exactpro souvenir :)
We look forward to meeting you there!
#Exactpro #Youconsaratov
Using Cluster Analysis for Characteristics Detection in Software Defect ReportsIosif Itkin
Anna Gromova and Olga Moskaleva, Exactpro Researchers, participated in the Sixth International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2017
AIST is a conference on the Analysis of Images, Social Networks, and Texts. This year, it was held at Moscow Polytechnic University on June 27-29. The conference is intended for computer scientists and industry professionals whose research interests involve applications of data mining and machine learning techniques to various problem domains: image processing, analysis of social networks, and natural language processing. AIST boasts its interdisciplinary nature, bridging the gap between researchers and practitioners.
All research papers submitted to the conference went through a double-blind reviewing process and were reviewed by at least three program committee members. The accepted papers were presented by their authors on July 27 and 28.
Anna Gromova’s research on Using Cluster Analysis for Characteristics Detection in Software Defect Reports was among this year’s accepted papers. Anna, who is an Exactpro researcher, presented her work in the General Topics of Data Analysis section of the conference.
Anna’s research focuses on the metrics and predictions of defect reports. In her research paper, Anna explores the workings of how extended bug attribute analysis can effectively reveal software weaknesses and improve the testing strategy, and how machine learning techniques can facilitate the process of building an automated recommendation system for project managers and QA team leads. Such a system would help them get a better picture of the risks associated with software defects, as well as obtain more accurate information about a bug's lifecycle.
“In future, we are planning to build an automated recommendation system based on the cluster analysis of our defect reports. A system like that could be used by all QA team members to improve the existing processes of developing the testing strategies and plans”, says Anna Gromova, Exactpro Researcher.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
"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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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EXTENT-2015: Big Button 2.0
1. Big Button 2.0Big Button 2.0
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A new approach to automated regressionA new approach to automated regression
Alexey Zverev, CEO ExactproAlexey Zverev, CEO Exactpro
11 November 201511 November 2015
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Goal: to execute a test regression and make it:
•as extensive as possible (A)
•as efficient as possible (B)
How do people usually achieve that?
•They develop software which performs the tests and ensure that it requires
an adequate amount of maintenance when the software under test changes
Test Automation
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Test Automation Classics
1. Design Test Library 2. Develop Test Harness
• Script execution framework
• GUI injectors
• DPI injectors
• Upstream / Downstream
systems stubs
3. Develop Test Case 4. Develop Many Test Cases
5. Team Of QA Engineers Runs Regression
Login A
Login B
A send Order (…)
B Send Order (…)
A verify Ask (…)
B verify Trade (…)
A verify Trade (…)
Login A
Login B
A send Order (…)
B Send Order (…)
A verify Ask (…)
B verify Trade (…)
A verify Trade (…)
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The Job is not finished
The next task is to make test execution more efficient:
•We need a “Big Button”, i.e. software allowing executing a large number of
automated test scripts with minimum human attendance
•When successfully implemented it can reduce up to 80% effort (in man
days) spent on regression
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Big Button 1.0 concept
1. We have many automated
test cases
2. Prepare multiple
test environment
3. Prepare reference data 4. Redesign test library multiple threads
5. Develop orchestrating
test harness
Login A
Login B
A send Order (…)
B Send Order (…)
A verify Ask (…)
B verify Trade (…)
A verify Trade (…)
6. Run regression
- SHELL
- CRON
- ...
Login A Login B Login C
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Limitations of Big Button 1.0
• Complete control over test environments is required
• Automated GUI tests are not stable
• Dependent test cases are not stable
• Independent test cases require overhead
• A lot of copy/paste code
• Executing tests consecutively, one by one, takes significant time
• Big Button conditions are not similar to production (discussed later)
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Alternative approach - “Load with Trades”
• This was a success
• We have learned that it is called HiVAT (High volume automated
testing)
• Unfortunately it is still not a regression
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Meanwhile - Robots!
• The Trading Industry lives and breathes High Transaction Volumes
• High Volume is created by Trading Algos and we have created a test
tool called Minirobots to simulate that
• The tool good for simulation of production conditions
• Classical test scenarios are still not validated
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Big Button 2.0
• A set of Minirobots Algorithms allowing to perform a complete test
regression of a trading system within a few hours
• All Robots work concurrently against the test environment
• Robots are independent from each other, and their actions are based on
current conditions on the order books
• Robots use an abstract Test Library and their main goal is to cover all
test cases within the library
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How it will work
1. Random load “Pace Maker” 2. Variety of Passive Liquidity
3. “Agressors” try to interact
with the market to increase
number of test cases
happening in the environment
4. Analyze situation in retrospective
Make sure that what happened is correct
Tick checkboxes against test that was
actually executed
Updated
test
library
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Example
1. Read book 2. Search for appropriate test case
3. Try to test the scenario
4. Wait for full trade
or auto cancel
5. Iterate through actual event
orders:
6. Conclusion
•We hit only 2 orders
•Another robot cancelled 3rd
order
•Ticking box against this test case
IOC hits 3 passive orders at exact price
PFILL PFILL
CANCEL ASK
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Discussion
+ It can work really fast
+ Maintenance is limited (with adequate robot design)
+ A challenging and motivating task for QA
- May be too complex to implement
- It is not clear how to incorporate DLC related scenarios and manual
tests
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Q&A
Thank You!