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It is a story of reorganizing line management and leadership in my teams. The motto of this change was “We are all engineers.” It describes a transformation that happened inside me, a shift from a narrow perspective (the Head of QA) to a wide scope of engineering (business, delivery, architecture, solution), and caused a move to the Engineering Manager role. What you will hear about: - How to kill silos? - How to assess your line manager? - How to empower line managers and - How to encourage employees to take responsibility for their development?
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Presentation from first Poznań Testing and Quality group meeting. I with Lukasz presented how we build and share knowledge in QA team in Cognifide
Authors: Zbyszek Moćkun, Łukasz Morawski
Test Strategy
Presented on Poznań University of Technology where I had a lecture for students how to choose test approach.
Between Scrum and Kanban - define a test process for Agile methodologies
Presented on Testwarez 2012 (The biggest Polish conference about testing and quality). If you are interested, please read article on the same topic published in c0re magazine:
http://pl.coremag.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/redaktion/coremag_pl/Downloads/Core_magazineTestWarez_2012.pdf
Automated Exploratory Tests
automated exploratory test tools for web application. Make your test agile. Do not overpay for your automation. Test all aspects (performance, layout, analytic) not only concentrate on one specific thing.
Selenium - The Way Of Success
The authors discuss their experience using Selenium for web application testing over several years. They found Selenium IDE useful for getting started with automation but moved to Selenium II for more advanced tests. Selenium II allows tests to be written in Java or C# for more flexibility compared to the HTML-based Selenium IDE. The authors created their own testing framework with Selenium II to test additional aspects like layout, standards compliance, and analytics. They believe the future of testing involves "exploratory automated tests" that learn from manual tests and focus on finding symptom of issues rather than verifying specific cases.
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Exploratory testing in practice, short story how approach influenced on strategy
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Crescat is industry-trusted event management software, built by event professionals for event professionals. Founded in 2017, we have three key products tailored for the live event industry.
Crescat Event for concert promoters and event agencies. Crescat Venue for music venues, conference centers, wedding venues, concert halls and more. And Crescat Festival for festivals, conferences and complex events.
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Over 125,000 events have been planned in Crescat and with hundreds of customers of all shapes and sizes, from boutique event agencies through to international concert promoters, Crescat is rigged for success. What's more, we highly value feedback from our users and we are constantly improving our software with updates, new features and improvements.
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Allez au-delà du battage médiatique autour de l’IA et découvrez des techniques pratiques pour utiliser l’IA de manière responsable à travers les données de votre organisation. Explorez comment utiliser les graphes de connaissances pour augmenter la précision, la transparence et la capacité d’explication dans les systèmes d’IA générative. Vous partirez avec une expérience pratique combinant les relations entre les données et les LLM pour apporter du contexte spécifique à votre domaine et améliorer votre raisonnement.
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SWEBOK and Education at FUSE Okinawa 2024
Takashi Kobayashi and Hironori Washizaki, "SWEBOK Guide and Future of SE Education," First International Symposium on the Future of Software Engineering (FUSE), June 3-6, 2024, Okinawa, Japan
Hand Rolled Applicative User Validation Code Kata
Could you use a simple piece of Scala validation code (granted, a very simplistic one too!) that you can rewrite, now and again, to refresh your basic understanding of Applicative operators <*>, <*, *>?
The goal is not to write perfect code showcasing validation, but rather, to provide a small, rough-and ready exercise to reinforce your muscle-memory.
Despite its grandiose-sounding title, this deck consists of just three slides showing the Scala 3 code to be rewritten whenever the details of the operators begin to fade away.
The code is my rough and ready translation of a Haskell user-validation program found in a book called Finding Success (and Failure) in Haskell - Fall in love with applicative functors.
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UI5con 2024 - Keynote: Latest News about UI5 and it’s Ecosystem
Learn about the latest innovations in and around OpenUI5/SAPUI5: UI5 Tooling, UI5 linter, UI5 Web Components, Web Components Integration, UI5 2.x, UI5 GenAI.
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Empowering Growth with Best Software Development Company in Noida - Deuglo
Do you want Software for your Business? Visit Deuglo
Deuglo has top Software Developers in India. They are experts in software development and help design and create custom Software solutions.
Deuglo follows seven steps methods for delivering their services to their customers. They called it the Software development life cycle process (SDLC).
Requirement — Collecting the Requirements is the first Phase in the SSLC process.
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Design — in this phase, they start designing the software.
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Testing — in this phase when the coding of the software is done the testing team will start testing.
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Measures in SQL (SIGMOD 2024, Santiago, Chile)
SQL has attained widespread adoption, but Business Intelligence tools still use their own higher level languages based upon a multidimensional paradigm. Composable calculations are what is missing from SQL, and we propose a new kind of column, called a measure, that attaches a calculation to a table. Like regular tables, tables with measures are composable and closed when used in queries.
SQL-with-measures has the power, conciseness and reusability of multidimensional languages but retains SQL semantics. Measure invocations can be expanded in place to simple, clear SQL.
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Freestyle your leadership
- 1. Freestyle your leadership A story of reinvention
- 2. Agenda 1. Starting point 2. Restructure 3. Empower Line Managers 4. Summary
- 4. Typical Line Management structure - Line Managers rarely work with mentees - Employee assessment based on gathered feedback as they do not work together - No frequent contacts / small talks, rather official bi-weekly meetings
- 5. Scaling up issues - Variety of Line Managers who are rather subjective - Head unable to challenge the assessment, as does not work in projects anymore - Line Managers not seen as leaders/mentors anymore - Siloses (we called them practices) concentrate on narrow specialization, not delivery - And each Practice believes to be the most important one
- 6. Ongoing change confuses Line Managers - Diversity makes the excel rules ineffective due to an increased number of exceptions during the assessment process - Career path not up to date as the company and business change constantly - Ongoing change turns annual objectives into a fiction
- 7. Delivery model issue - Practices over “We are all engineers” philosophy - Lack of equality on senior levels across practices
- 8. Restructure Let the change begin
- 9. Choose your leader rules - It is employee’s responsibility to find a line manager - Look wide, even outside your practice (silos) - Choose someone who allows you to make another step in your career - It is ok to change line manager if it helps you to make that step
- 10. Choose your leader as a game changer - Majority of the seniors choose line managers outside of their practice to grow as engineers - QA picked by developers - Good managers (from the Head’s perspective) were passed over - People need a leader not a parent - The first step was taken to kill practices (siloses) - Alignment between practices (it’s not easier to be a senior anymore) - Long-term: QAs transform to leadership & engineering roles (Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, …)
- 12. It’s all about employee happiness
- 13. All roads lead to Rome - Each engineer has a different experience and needs, and requires a different approach - Each Line Manager is free to choose their own Ways of Working with a mentee - No need for paperwork (annual objectives, appraisals, …)
- 14. Employee assessment - Line Managers have a say in the assessment of each employee, not only their people - Assessment is carried out collectively by LMs from all practices - Common definition of grades (senior, …) - Far more objective assessment - Supporting the Engineering approach (T-Shape, M-Shape)
- 15. Summary People can take care of themselves And make smart decisions if you give them the freedom of choice