My keynote in Czech Test 2015 about Challenges and Solutions to Quality in the Digitalized World. It's about trends and musts that help cope with quality assurance of the increasing complexity of our digitalized world.
QA in Digitalized World by Kari Kakkonen at KDS2015Kari Kakkonen
My presentation at Knowit Developer Summit 2015 on what kind of Quality challenges and equivalent quality assurance and testing solutions the more and more digitalized world brings us with the mobile, internet of things etc. complexity adding elements
How do you address an organisations’ “quality problem”? Mark will be talking about his role as Head of Quality at Cambridge Assessment and exploring how he is approaching getting the answers to that very question.
Exploratory Testing Kari Kakkonen BTD 2017Kari Kakkonen
My talk on Exploratory Testing basics and its future at Belgium Testing Days / BNTQB Test Summit 2017 https://btdconf.org/ bit of slides revamp included
Creating a pull for DevOps in an Agile TransformationTimothy Wise
This presentation was used to start a conversation with the Atlanta DevOps community around patterns for introducing DevOps in large organizations. During the session, I presented findings from coaches around the US.
BizDevOps – Delivering Business Value Quickly at ScaleQASymphony
BIZDEVOPS – DELIVERING BUSINESS VALUE QUICKLY AT SCALE
65+% of surveyed organizations are currently on the path to switch to DevOps or have already implemented the process, and the benefits of a properly implemented DevOps program are clear – quicker time to customer value, better alignment between businesses and customers, and a better ability to respond to customer input. However, when it comes to DevOps adoption, many teams rush to focus on one specific issue within one area when they would actually benefit more from aligning business, development, testing, and operations up front. The five major problems in DevOps adoption include:
Lack of Test Automation Coverage
Lack of Visibility into Testing
Maintaining Various Test Versions and Aligning Tests with Versions of Source Code
Maintaining a Single Source of Truth in the Testing Process
Understanding Where Business Value Currently is in the “BizDevOps” Pipeline
After helping hundreds of customers in their DevOps journeys, these three industry experts will cover these major problems, as well as innovative strategies to overcome them:
Bobby Smith – Director of R&D, QAS Labs
Brandon Cipe – VP DevOps, cPrime
Kevin Dunne – VP Business Development, QASymphony
Tune in to learn more about the state of the industry, the direction that DevOps adoption is moving toward, and what we like to call “BizDevOps”. You won’t want to miss this session!
QA in Digitalized World by Kari Kakkonen at KDS2015Kari Kakkonen
My presentation at Knowit Developer Summit 2015 on what kind of Quality challenges and equivalent quality assurance and testing solutions the more and more digitalized world brings us with the mobile, internet of things etc. complexity adding elements
How do you address an organisations’ “quality problem”? Mark will be talking about his role as Head of Quality at Cambridge Assessment and exploring how he is approaching getting the answers to that very question.
Exploratory Testing Kari Kakkonen BTD 2017Kari Kakkonen
My talk on Exploratory Testing basics and its future at Belgium Testing Days / BNTQB Test Summit 2017 https://btdconf.org/ bit of slides revamp included
Creating a pull for DevOps in an Agile TransformationTimothy Wise
This presentation was used to start a conversation with the Atlanta DevOps community around patterns for introducing DevOps in large organizations. During the session, I presented findings from coaches around the US.
BizDevOps – Delivering Business Value Quickly at ScaleQASymphony
BIZDEVOPS – DELIVERING BUSINESS VALUE QUICKLY AT SCALE
65+% of surveyed organizations are currently on the path to switch to DevOps or have already implemented the process, and the benefits of a properly implemented DevOps program are clear – quicker time to customer value, better alignment between businesses and customers, and a better ability to respond to customer input. However, when it comes to DevOps adoption, many teams rush to focus on one specific issue within one area when they would actually benefit more from aligning business, development, testing, and operations up front. The five major problems in DevOps adoption include:
Lack of Test Automation Coverage
Lack of Visibility into Testing
Maintaining Various Test Versions and Aligning Tests with Versions of Source Code
Maintaining a Single Source of Truth in the Testing Process
Understanding Where Business Value Currently is in the “BizDevOps” Pipeline
After helping hundreds of customers in their DevOps journeys, these three industry experts will cover these major problems, as well as innovative strategies to overcome them:
Bobby Smith – Director of R&D, QAS Labs
Brandon Cipe – VP DevOps, cPrime
Kevin Dunne – VP Business Development, QASymphony
Tune in to learn more about the state of the industry, the direction that DevOps adoption is moving toward, and what we like to call “BizDevOps”. You won’t want to miss this session!
Quality Center has been the most widely adopted test management solution in the market to date, but times are changing with the completed acquisition by Micro Focus. Unfortunately, Micro Focus’ published 4-year plan focuses on profits and cost cutting, meaning a shift away from innovation and customer service.
Join us to learn how QASymphony champions the modern tester, as we highlight our 3-year strategic plan. We’ll highlight customers who have successful made the switch from Quality Center to qTest and share our experience migrating dozens of customers from HP Quality Center, following best practices for making a smooth transition into the next generation of test management.
Tries to evoke some interest in EVM w.r.t agile values and principles based software delivery. Intention is only to invoke curiosity and aid further R&D.
Diving into the World of Test Automation The Approach and the TechnologiesQASymphony
This presentation was originally given at Quality Jam London. Elise covered test automation and the progression for test automation that you might encounter. The session agenda included:
The stages of the test team
Why are we automating?
What are we automating?
How are we automating?
What languages should we use?
What frameworks and libraries should we use?
Open source or proprietary?
Learn more at www.qualityjam.com
QASymphony Atlanta Customer User Group Fall 2017QASymphony
Thanks to all who came out and were part of our first customer user group! All our expectations for the day were exceeded and we hope you feel the same way.
If you weren't able to make it, here's what you missed:
Judy Chung, Product Manager, gave a summary of recent and upcoming features (site level fields, new UI of TestPad) as well as a sneak preview of our newest product (codename: Automation Hub).
Elise Carmichael, VP of Quality, demo-ed several best practice topics, ranging from organizing your qTest repository to reviewing the different automation integration options.
Erika Chestnut, Director of QA at Sterling Talent Solutions, shared her story as a QASymphony customer who recently replaced HP Quality Center with qTest and provided insight into leading change management across her organization.
Moving QA from Reactive to Proactive with qTestQASymphony
An overview of QASymphony's qTest product suite and product roadmap, including how qTest continues to push forward in the areas of agile testing, exploratory testing, BDD, automation integration, quality metrics and applied AI for testing, and how QASymphony is working to help test teams transition from reactive to proactive QA.
DevOps es un conjunto de prácticas que automatizan los procesos entre el desarrollo de software y los equipos de infraestructura, de manera que el software pueda ser construido, probado y puesto en producción más rápidamente y con la misma confiabilidad.
El concepto de DevOps esta fundamentado en la construcción de una cultura de colaboración entre equipos que históricamente son silos. Los beneficios aparentes incluyen confianza mutua, más rápidos ciclos de puesta en producción, habilidad para resolución de incidentes más rápidamente y mejor adaptación a los cambios.
En esta sesión revisamos conceptos clave de DevOps, el estado del arte y algunas de las tecnologías involucradas.
This ITIL® Release, Control and Validation will enables you to master the key ITIL processes needed to properly plan for service transitions; assess changes; build, test and deploy releases
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)
DevOps Maturity - How to evaluate your company's DevOps maturitylborguetti
DevOps Maturity - How to evaluate your company's DevOps maturity
In this talk I'll show you how we build a tooling for empower our software engineers to obtain succeed in the right DevOps culture.
Motivation and goals
Assessments
Results
Reflections
Challenges
Quality Jam 2017: Jesse Reed & Kyle McMeekin "Test Case Management & Explorat...QASymphony
Jesse Reed, QA Director at Questar, and Kyle McMeekin discuss how Questar made the switch to qTest and the key factors you should consider in test case management and exploratory testing.
¿Qué es DevOps y por qué es importante en el Ciclo de Software? por michelada.ioSoftware Guru
DevOps es una cultura que se centra en la comunicación e integración entre desarrolladores de software y los profesionales de operaciones en IT. Busca una entrega continua de valor al cliente así como automatización de procesos, mejorando las prácticas en cada fase del Ciclo de Software.
Presentado por: Karen Ventura
Progressive exposure using deployment rings and feature flagsWilly-Peter Schaub
How we use both rings and feature flags to progressively expose a new release in production, whether it’s a hot fix or feature release for our open source community projects, or our commercial product, affecting a few and eventually hundreds of thousands of users as the blast radius increases.
Discuss how we’re using ring-based deployments and feature flags for our open source VSTS extensions, based on these articles (see reference slide for links):
- Deploying new releases: Feature flags or rings?
- Progressively expose your releases using deployment rings
- Progressively expose your features using feature flags
In the world of digital transformation and Agile methodologies, change is the only constant. And with change comes risk. That's why adopting a test automation strategy is key to accelerating critical app projects - dramatically reducing risk. During this webinar we discussed how you can get started.
Digitalisoituvan maailman laatuhaasteet - miten laadunvarmistus muuttuuKari Kakkonen
My presentation in Finnish at Software Quality Strategies seminar by Management Events on Feb 4, 2015 on "Quality challenges in the digitalized world - how will quality assurance change"
Quality Center has been the most widely adopted test management solution in the market to date, but times are changing with the completed acquisition by Micro Focus. Unfortunately, Micro Focus’ published 4-year plan focuses on profits and cost cutting, meaning a shift away from innovation and customer service.
Join us to learn how QASymphony champions the modern tester, as we highlight our 3-year strategic plan. We’ll highlight customers who have successful made the switch from Quality Center to qTest and share our experience migrating dozens of customers from HP Quality Center, following best practices for making a smooth transition into the next generation of test management.
Tries to evoke some interest in EVM w.r.t agile values and principles based software delivery. Intention is only to invoke curiosity and aid further R&D.
Diving into the World of Test Automation The Approach and the TechnologiesQASymphony
This presentation was originally given at Quality Jam London. Elise covered test automation and the progression for test automation that you might encounter. The session agenda included:
The stages of the test team
Why are we automating?
What are we automating?
How are we automating?
What languages should we use?
What frameworks and libraries should we use?
Open source or proprietary?
Learn more at www.qualityjam.com
QASymphony Atlanta Customer User Group Fall 2017QASymphony
Thanks to all who came out and were part of our first customer user group! All our expectations for the day were exceeded and we hope you feel the same way.
If you weren't able to make it, here's what you missed:
Judy Chung, Product Manager, gave a summary of recent and upcoming features (site level fields, new UI of TestPad) as well as a sneak preview of our newest product (codename: Automation Hub).
Elise Carmichael, VP of Quality, demo-ed several best practice topics, ranging from organizing your qTest repository to reviewing the different automation integration options.
Erika Chestnut, Director of QA at Sterling Talent Solutions, shared her story as a QASymphony customer who recently replaced HP Quality Center with qTest and provided insight into leading change management across her organization.
Moving QA from Reactive to Proactive with qTestQASymphony
An overview of QASymphony's qTest product suite and product roadmap, including how qTest continues to push forward in the areas of agile testing, exploratory testing, BDD, automation integration, quality metrics and applied AI for testing, and how QASymphony is working to help test teams transition from reactive to proactive QA.
DevOps es un conjunto de prácticas que automatizan los procesos entre el desarrollo de software y los equipos de infraestructura, de manera que el software pueda ser construido, probado y puesto en producción más rápidamente y con la misma confiabilidad.
El concepto de DevOps esta fundamentado en la construcción de una cultura de colaboración entre equipos que históricamente son silos. Los beneficios aparentes incluyen confianza mutua, más rápidos ciclos de puesta en producción, habilidad para resolución de incidentes más rápidamente y mejor adaptación a los cambios.
En esta sesión revisamos conceptos clave de DevOps, el estado del arte y algunas de las tecnologías involucradas.
This ITIL® Release, Control and Validation will enables you to master the key ITIL processes needed to properly plan for service transitions; assess changes; build, test and deploy releases
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)
DevOps Maturity - How to evaluate your company's DevOps maturitylborguetti
DevOps Maturity - How to evaluate your company's DevOps maturity
In this talk I'll show you how we build a tooling for empower our software engineers to obtain succeed in the right DevOps culture.
Motivation and goals
Assessments
Results
Reflections
Challenges
Quality Jam 2017: Jesse Reed & Kyle McMeekin "Test Case Management & Explorat...QASymphony
Jesse Reed, QA Director at Questar, and Kyle McMeekin discuss how Questar made the switch to qTest and the key factors you should consider in test case management and exploratory testing.
¿Qué es DevOps y por qué es importante en el Ciclo de Software? por michelada.ioSoftware Guru
DevOps es una cultura que se centra en la comunicación e integración entre desarrolladores de software y los profesionales de operaciones en IT. Busca una entrega continua de valor al cliente así como automatización de procesos, mejorando las prácticas en cada fase del Ciclo de Software.
Presentado por: Karen Ventura
Progressive exposure using deployment rings and feature flagsWilly-Peter Schaub
How we use both rings and feature flags to progressively expose a new release in production, whether it’s a hot fix or feature release for our open source community projects, or our commercial product, affecting a few and eventually hundreds of thousands of users as the blast radius increases.
Discuss how we’re using ring-based deployments and feature flags for our open source VSTS extensions, based on these articles (see reference slide for links):
- Deploying new releases: Feature flags or rings?
- Progressively expose your releases using deployment rings
- Progressively expose your features using feature flags
In the world of digital transformation and Agile methodologies, change is the only constant. And with change comes risk. That's why adopting a test automation strategy is key to accelerating critical app projects - dramatically reducing risk. During this webinar we discussed how you can get started.
Digitalisoituvan maailman laatuhaasteet - miten laadunvarmistus muuttuuKari Kakkonen
My presentation in Finnish at Software Quality Strategies seminar by Management Events on Feb 4, 2015 on "Quality challenges in the digitalized world - how will quality assurance change"
Mobile testing and its part in testing toolsKari Kakkonen
Mobile testing and mobile test automation tools case (iOS case with Android and Windows Phone roadmaps), testing tool survey results analyzed, consideration about tool and cloud trends in general, but reflected with mobile testing tools.
Exploratory Testing Basics, Experiences, and Future in SSTC2016Kari Kakkonen
Some basics of exploratory testing coupled with experiences, hints and tools for exploratory testing, and wrapped up by a view to the future of exploratory testing. Presentation given 19.10.2016 in Soeul, South Korea in SSTC and TMMi international conference 2016.
Recent and constant changes in technology have resulted in a transition from the traditional Center of Excellence model, to an agile development model, which has made its way into the mainstream and caused a shift in how testing, particularly performance testing, is done.
Join our Webinar to learn how a top tier manufacturer transformed their ability to deliver high quality projects, faster, by adapting their load testing to fit an agile development approach.
In this webinar you’ll learn:
Why you need to think differently about performance testing in an agile development environment
How to shift Performance Testing to the left in the development cycle
What adjustments to consider in your performance testing centers of excellence model
Technology platform considerations for faster, more collaborative load testing
Utopia Solutions Founder and CTO, Lee Barnes, will dive into tips and techniques for bringing effective performance testing to your agile organization.
London Tester Gathering Workshops 2014 - Exploratory Testing Sessiontonybruce
In this session we will look at Exploratory Testing and work through some ideas which could prove useful to you.
We will look at what it means and how to explain it. We will look at different ways of keeping your notes, augmenting your testing with various tools and getting the most out of your time spent. We will do this through discussion and practical exercises, essentially, we will be Exploratory Testing, perhaps not as you know it.
What do viewers want? A look at viewer behaviors and wants. Matthew Pierce
Presentation given at Society for Technical Communicators 2014
As video becomes a popular method for communicating to the audiences of technical communicators, it becomes more important to understand how to connect with you audience. But what do viewers expect, want, and really need from the videos you create?
During this presentation, using data from a research study of 1900 participants, we’ll review what viewers want and what you should be doing to maximize the effectiveness of your videos. We’ll look at everything from appropriate video length, to techniques for engaging viewers.
Some of the questions that we’ll address during the course of the presentation include:
* How long will viewers watch informational and educational videos?
* Why do viewers stop watching videos?
* What qualities are shared by ‘great’ videos?
* What type of interactions increase engagement?
Some of the results are surprising. For instance, the advice given for length of a video tends to be about 3 minutes or less. The research conducted points to different results, depending on the type of video. For instructional videos, the result with the highest response was for videos 10-15 minutes.
In addition to just understanding behaviors, the research set out to understand what would help further engage viewers. During the presentation, and as it makes sense, practical applications and tactics that video creators can use to improve the viewing experience will be presented.
Whether you are just starting or already using video heavily, this presentation will help you focus on connecting with your viewers and improve their experience to keep them more engaged and focused.
15 Uses of Video in Technical CommunicationsMatthew Pierce
When most people think about Technical Communication they often jump to the conclusion that it means written documentation. This presentation, given at TCUK 2014 in Brighton, England, dives into a variety of potential uses of video for the professional technical communicators.
Note: Not all topics are exclusive to Technical Communicators, but all are relevant to the field in general.
How To Think Like an Exploratory Tester (FISTB Testing Assembly 2014)Aleksis Tulonen
Exploratory testing is an approach to testing that is often misunderstood. Actually it is an approach to testing that emphasizes testers ability to explore an unknown object or area through concurrent test design and test execution. In order to be skillful in it, you need to have several assets that will help you reveal relevant information about the product you’re building.
I will share many of the things that I consider essential for a person who wants to understand more about exploratory testing. Talk is focusing a lot on things that have evolved my thinking and therefore helped me be more valuable as a tester. Many of them are useful for anyone working in software development.
QA in digitalized world kari kakkonen ICTexpo2016Kari Kakkonen
My talk about how quality and quality assurance have changed in digitalized world, its new services and extreme need of security, usability and performance, to ensure great end-user experience and success for businesses.
Agile Testing – embedding testing into agile software development lifecycle Kari Kakkonen
My presentation on Agile Testing, including a tuning concept and a case study of agile testing choices in a project, held 16 of June, 2014 at a customer internal seminar.
This talk was given in GeoSTQB webinar on June 15, 2020. Several strengthening trends are discussed. Testing careers are evolving – there are entries into testing and out of testing. Testing is becoming a role for everyone. ISTQB, as the world’s largest testing association, provides guidance into different testing activities, supporting testing careers. Another influential aspect is the on-march of agile teams, where testing is a whole team responsibility. Then there is test automation - that is an ever-increasing domain within testing. Test automation is not taking tester jobs away, but it is transforming them, giving tools for testing. Then there is DevOps – placing testing in the middle of a largely automated delivery pipeline. There is a place for manual testing, too, but test automation has a big meaning here. Finally, Artificial Intelligence is transforming all IT task, including testing. Automation of activities can now or soon be done in a scale that wasn’t possible earlier. Do we have reason to fear for our jobs? No – AI is best placed as yet another aid for the increasing demand of good quality in software, that is more complex than ever. Soon, we couldn’t cope without AI.
QA in Digitalized World Kari Kakkonen WCSQKari Kakkonen
My presentation in World Congress on Software Quality 7 in Lima Peru on March 21, 2017 on how digitalization trends are tackled with quality assurance practices. Everything needs to evolve!
Enterprise QA and Application Testing ServicesHemang Rindani
Cygnet’s innovation and insight-driven software testing services have paved way for numerous path-breaking software applications. Our meticulous approach towards application testing eliminates pesky bugs, reduces the time-to-market while optimizing the total-cost-of-ownership.
Enterprise QA and Application Testing ServicesCygnet Infotech
Cygnet’s innovation and insight-driven software testing services have paved way for numerous path-breaking software applications. Our meticulous approach towards application testing eliminates pesky bugs, reduces the time-to-market while optimizing the total-cost-of-ownership.
Where Neev can help? A few Use Cases
Why Neev as an Independent Testing Partner?
Capabilities
Functional Testing (Web / Mobile / Cloud)
Non-Functional Testing
Testing Tools (Web / Mobile)
Agile Testing Expertise
Case Studies
Євген Лабунський: Agile in Enterprise. How do we do itLviv Startup Club
Kyiv Project Management Day 2016 Євген Лабунський: Agile in Enterprise. How do we do it
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Guarda il webinar su Youtube! http://youtu.be/_GlXZAuQrJc
A CHI E' RIVOLTO:
Quality Assurance Managers, Test Managers, Testers, Senior Developers, Project Managers and Compliance Managers
DESCRIZIONE:
La tecnologia avanza rapidamente, impattando quasi tutti gli aspetti delle pratiche di test: il test agile, il test basato sui requisiti, test as a service e il testing crowdsource.
In questo webinar verrà illustrato un processo in 5 step, in grado di migliorare i processi di test, riducendo i costi e i tempi dei progetti.
Questo webinar metterà in evidenza i limiti e le problematiche dello sviluppo software e le metodologie per un suo immediato miglioramento.
AGENDA:
- Creare e gestire facilmente e velocemente test cases, defects, enhancement requests e test specifications - con Polarion LiveDocs
- Definire ed eseguire test runs con the Polarion Testing Framework
- Risparmiare tempo e denaro riutilizzando tutti i testing artifacts
- Integrare nei propri processi i test cases importandoli da MS Office
- Integrare completamente la gestione dei requisiti ai test e al defect management
- Gestire con Polarion le attività con tutti gli stakeholder.
Large-Scale Agile Test Automation Strategies in PracticeTechWell
After providing an introduction to several key agile testing concepts—including the Automation Triangle and the Test Automation Quadrants—Geoff Meyer discusses approaches to effectively deliver automated testing. Geoff shares practical insights and demonstrates how they were employed in the test automation strategies developed for several large-scale agile projects at Dell. He shows how the overall test strategy and implementation of each underlying agile concept was influenced by the realities of the project’s organization structure, application architecture, incumbent tools, and tester skillsets. Geoff explores the similarities of the projects from their common goals of establishing automated regression suites, achieving in-sprint automation, and test staffing approaches. More importantly, he delves into the implications of organizational structures and how they led to divergent approaches to test strategy from the choice of automation frameworks to the decisions to automate at the REST/SOAP-based API level or UI level.
Despite the belief that a shared context and collaboration drives quality, too often, software testers and quality professionals struggle to find their place within today's integrated agile teams. This session is a practitioner’s view of testing and testing practices within an iterative/incremental development environment. We will begin with a discussion of some of the challenges of testing within an agile environment and delve into the guiding principles of Agile Testing and key enabling practices. Agile Testing necessitates a change in mindset, and it is as much, if not more, about behavior, as it is about skills and tooling, all of which will be explored.
In this presentation you will learn how Farm Credit Services of America/Frontier Farm Credit transformed their quality practices and tooling to bring visibility and consistency to Enterprise Quality, including: testing as a team approach, creating an automated test architecture, measuring progress with dashboards and standardizing on a set of testing tools.
My talk about DevOps in Knowit Developer Summit 2018 in Oslo. This talk is a condensed version of the DevOps workshop I run for management teams and technical teams to start their journey as an organization towards DevOps. We refer to DASA DevOps Agile Skills Association's definitions of DevOps. The talk includes also Knowit DevOps Maturity Model high level description.
Software Testing Process, Testing Automation and Software Testing TrendsKMS Technology
This is the slide deck that KMS Technology's experts shared useful information about latest and greatest achievements of software testing field with lecturers of HCMC University of Industry.
A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide for Designing an Agile-Friendly Automation...Calidad Infotech
In the dynamic IT world where the competition is at its peak, and every business wants to leapfrog its arch-rivals, it is challenging to thrive and accomplish a competitive edge.
Zero touch QA automation platform for DevOpsTaUB Solutions
Presentation based on the Award Winning Paper by Varadarajan Srinivasan on Zero Touch QA Automation Platform at STC Nov 2018.
Companies that are in DevOps Journey go through a rough weather in QA Automation initiatives. With the industry transformation to Digital Trend, there is always a need for an efficient streamlined Continuous Delivery.
This Webinar would talk about Zero Touch QA Automation Platform. It deals with the Solution on Integrated DevOps & Quality Approach. This would consist of Artificial Intelligence in Reporting and Data Visualization. The Complete QA Cycle is automated from Test Design to Test Closure with Continuous Monitoring, involving no manual intervention. The Webinar would also give insights on Business benefits/outcome on adopting this approach with streamlined Governance.
Neev uses a scrum based Agile Development methodology, a proven Extended Delivery Center model of engagement - all designed to ensure high quality, timely deliverables.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Testing tools and AI - ideas what to try with some tool examplesKari Kakkonen
My slides at SAST conference in Stockholm 11.4.2024.
I cover a bit of background why AI is a big thing and also testers want to use it and can use it.
Then we discuss following use cases for AI help to testing tools
- anomaly detection8 (like sorting real defects out of lots of defect reports)
- prediction (where to focus testing, based on risks, previous code data, defect data...)2
- test automation tools made more change tolerant when Software Under Test changes
- test script creation more efficiently (e.g using LLM or AI assistants in scripting software to propose you test cases, test script content)
- test automation done almost autonomously (e.g. having general or default tests run first by AI, or having test automation bots running your test automation cases continuously
AI improves software testing to be more fault tolerant, focused and efficientKari Kakkonen
My slides as Finnish Testing Meetup 28.2.2024
AI supports testing in multiple ways: test automation becomes more autonomous and fault-tolerant, test selection is easier after AI analysis and recommendation, and manual and test automation productivity goes up with generative AI. Some background too on AI in general.
AI improves software testing through test automation, test creation and test ...Kari Kakkonen
The early 2024 version of my How AI improve testing presentation that I delivery since 5 years ago in different conference, webinars and customer events abroad and in Finland.
It gives some background on AI and talks about AI opportunities: in short test automation getting more fault tolerant, generative AI bringing efficiency to test creation, and advanced test selection with AI.
Kari Kakkonen Climate Impact of Software TestingKari Kakkonen
FiSTB Testing Assembly conference slides by me about software testing impact on climate. In other words sustainability of software testing. Or green testing. Whatever you call it, software testing also has an impact on climate (the carbon footprint), which you can minimize. But you can also have a handprint which is the positive impact of our actions to the climate.
Software testing has a climate impact, there's a carbon footprint also from testing. Of course there's a carbon handprint too, as in most ICT - we get to reduce carbon emission elsewhere by implementing and testing good ICT. But we also need to take care of our own backyard, meaning we need to understand how we can minimize the use of test environments, optimize test sets etc. to use less energy.
This slide deck is my keynote presentation from the software testing confererence SANAE.BEER.EX in Bratislava 8.11.2023.
Slides from DSTB conference talk at Copenhagen 31.10.2023. Recap of the Dragons Out book project. How children can learn software testing through a fantasy story approach. Why should they? To get them interested in software early on, some of them ending up as coders and some as testers later on. Some feedback about children learning, from teachers and from children themselves. An exploratory testing checklist inspired by children. Insights into how children test and how professional testers can utilize that knowledge.
Talk at Testwarez conference. I discussed the fact the climate impact of ICT and also software testing must be reduced. ICT also carries part of the carbon footprint, and even though we can help other industries minimize their carbon footprint, we can also minimize our own carbon footprint. It is there, and it can be significant if we don't optimize what we do.
I talk about test environments, using cloud, optimizing test suites, using automation for testing and for infrastructure and for continuous delivery. Throughout you can optimize.
Early quality means less cost, which luckily also means less climate impact, so it is easily argumented when making changes into how we create and test software.
Knights of Quality: Immersive talk about software testingKari Kakkonen
My talk at Findmore Academy in Portugal, online, on Oct 11, 2023. In the slides I discuss my own journey to be Knight of Quality but I also talk about other kinds of Knights, the knights the battle dragons, in the fantasy stories. The knights represent developers and testers, and the dragons represent defects. The talk also summarize how a fun way to learn testing (a fantasy story parallel) can give additional insights into everyday testing life.
My slides at SEETEST conference in Bucharest 20.9.2023 about climate impact of software testing, which is part of sustainability in software testing. I talk about Green ICT and Green Testing, and how Testing can measure also the Climate Impact of software in addition to other quality characteristics of testing. Also I discuss how test environments and other testing actions can include climate impact minimizing activities. Testing can both help coding become more green and also minimize the carbon footprint of itself.
I shared my views about how to become a multitalented tester in the Tester of the Year award event at Tieturi on 30.3.2023. The award is given annually by TestausOSY (FAST) and Tieturi. This event announced the 2022 winner and I presented as the 2021 winner.
The presentation discussed 5 aspects of Testing Roles, routes to testing, and adding new roles and skills to become even more multitalented. I also shared my journey to become a multitalented tester.
The slides are in English even though this time I talked in Finnish.
Becoming a Multitalented Tester - at KDSKari Kakkonen
My slides at Knowit Developer Summit on 3 Feb 2023 in Copenhagen. I talked about different skills and backgrounds that make a tester, then about adding roles to your profiles, learning those skills, having the alternative visions or futures for you so that you can take the opportunities when they arrive. At the end I shared my journey to be what I am today, and gave some practical tips into learning continuously. More info at https://www.dragonsout.com and at https://www.knowit.fi
The slides (in English, expect the title) of our "How to test an AI application?" webinar. Presenters in Finnish were Mark Sevalnev and Kari Kakkonen, using English slides. The webinar slides are partially from Knowit and partially (with permission) from Knowit's AI testing course material provider STA Consulting.
We gave a quick overview to AI/ML today, as such understanding is needed to be able to test software that has AI in it. Then we discussed how to test such an AI application with some examples.
More about this topic at ISTQB AI Testing course by Knowit at Tieturi
https://www.istqb.org/certifications/artificial-inteligence-tester
https://www.tieturi.fi/koulutus/istqb-ai-testing/
https://www.knowit.fi/kurssit-ja-tapahtumat/
My talk at JMTL conference in Casablanca, Morocco - 10 minute brief on why testing is an important thing to teach to children along with coding, how I set up a book project Dragons Out to author the book to teach software testing to children, how fantasy works as a great storytelling way to teach software testing to all ages (10-99), where the book is used in schools, exploratory testing checklist inspired by children.
Ohjelmistotestauksen opetuksen kokemuksia fantasiatarinan avullaKari Kakkonen
ITK-messujen esityksen 6.10.2022 jossa kerroin miksi testausta tarvitaan, miksi testausopetusta tarvitaan koodausopetuksen rinnalle, miten tein kirjaprojektin Dragons Out, jossa loin kirjan ohjelmistotestauksesta lapsille, miten fantasia toimii hyvänä tapana kertoa esimerkkien ja vertausten kautta ohjelmistotestauksesta, missä ja miten koulumaailma on hyödyntänyt tätä lähestymistapaa (ja kirjojani ja niiden ilmaisia oheismateriaaleja) - matematiikan ja koodauksen tunnit, 10-15 vuotiaat.
Becoming Multitalented Tester - Kari KakkonenKari Kakkonen
My slides at FiSTB Testing Assembly 2022 conference on 22.9.2022 https://testingassembly.fistb.fi/
I discussed the skills of testers, the background of testers, routes to be testing and finally how to become multitalented - meaning how you know many things, and can do many things. There's also an insight to my own career of adding up many roles within testing and around it, in Agile and DevOps.
Slides from Testit 2022 conference in Malmö, Sweden. I talked about my Dragons Out! book project to educate children about software testing, fantasy as a way to teach testing, experiences of how children learn testing, and also how adults can learn in a similar fashion.
How Children Learn Testing Kari Kakkonen Odin conference.pdfKari Kakkonen
My slides at Odin conference, Oslo, 25.11.2021 about How Children Learn Testing. I talked about the book project Dragons Out, things I've learned about how children learn testing, fantasy examples of how to tell about testing in a different way.
Insights from children about testing at NTD2022Kari Kakkonen
My slides from NTD2022 (Nordic Testing Days 2022) conference in Tallinn. I talked about "Insights from children about testing; how children who've read the Dragons Out book about software testing learn". The talk included a competition of drawing a knight (that represents a tester). The flow of the presentation: Dragons Out book project recap, why children should learn testing, how fantasy provides great analogies to explaining software testing, how children have learned through this fantasy approach, what are the six takeaways of how children learn and how can adults utilize those takeaways in their own learning, and testing.
Insights from children about testing; how children who've read the Dragons O...Kari Kakkonen
My keynote slides from Live2Test online conference. I talked about the Dragons Out book project, about how fantasy can be used to teach software testing, why and how children learn software testing, some results from kids learning to test, and then takeaways how adults can learn better utilizing the similar ways as how children learn. You can find the Creative Commons version of this presentation, which is a learning material for any schools, in a great number of languages here https://www.dragonsout.com/p/presentation-for-teachers.html.
You can order the book through e.g. https://www.dragonsout.com/p/order-dragons-out-book.html
Exploring Innovations in Data Repository Solutions - Insights from the U.S. G...Globus
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made substantial investments in meeting evolving scientific, technical, and policy driven demands on storing, managing, and delivering data. As these demands continue to grow in complexity and scale, the USGS must continue to explore innovative solutions to improve its management, curation, sharing, delivering, and preservation approaches for large-scale research data. Supporting these needs, the USGS has partnered with the University of Chicago-Globus to research and develop advanced repository components and workflows leveraging its current investment in Globus. The primary outcome of this partnership includes the development of a prototype enterprise repository, driven by USGS Data Release requirements, through exploration and implementation of the entire suite of the Globus platform offerings, including Globus Flow, Globus Auth, Globus Transfer, and Globus Search. This presentation will provide insights into this research partnership, introduce the unique requirements and challenges being addressed and provide relevant project progress.
Check out the webinar slides to learn more about how XfilesPro transforms Salesforce document management by leveraging its world-class applications. For more details, please connect with sales@xfilespro.com
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Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
Accelerate Enterprise Software Engineering with PlatformlessWSO2
Key takeaways:
Challenges of building platforms and the benefits of platformless.
Key principles of platformless, including API-first, cloud-native middleware, platform engineering, and developer experience.
How Choreo enables the platformless experience.
How key concepts like application architecture, domain-driven design, zero trust, and cell-based architecture are inherently a part of Choreo.
Demo of an end-to-end app built and deployed on Choreo.
Strategies for Successful Data Migration Tools.pptxvarshanayak241
Data migration is a complex but essential task for organizations aiming to modernize their IT infrastructure and leverage new technologies. By understanding common challenges and implementing these strategies, businesses can achieve a successful migration with minimal disruption. Data Migration Tool like Ask On Data play a pivotal role in this journey, offering features that streamline the process, ensure data integrity, and maintain security. With the right approach and tools, organizations can turn the challenge of data migration into an opportunity for growth and innovation.
Quarkus Hidden and Forbidden ExtensionsMax Andersen
Quarkus has a vast extension ecosystem and is known for its subsonic and subatomic feature set. Some of these features are not as well known, and some extensions are less talked about, but that does not make them less interesting - quite the opposite.
Come join this talk to see some tips and tricks for using Quarkus and some of the lesser known features, extensions and development techniques.
Cyaniclab : Software Development Agency Portfolio.pdfCyanic lab
CyanicLab, an offshore custom software development company based in Sweden,India, Finland, is your go-to partner for startup development and innovative web design solutions. Our expert team specializes in crafting cutting-edge software tailored to meet the unique needs of startups and established enterprises alike. From conceptualization to execution, we offer comprehensive services including web and mobile app development, UI/UX design, and ongoing software maintenance. Ready to elevate your business? Contact CyanicLab today and let us propel your vision to success with our top-notch IT solutions.
Why React Native as a Strategic Advantage for Startup Innovation.pdfayushiqss
Do you know that React Native is being increasingly adopted by startups as well as big companies in the mobile app development industry? Big names like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have already integrated this robust open-source framework.
In fact, according to a report by Statista, the number of React Native developers has been steadily increasing over the years, reaching an estimated 1.9 million by the end of 2024. This means that the demand for this framework in the job market has been growing making it a valuable skill.
But what makes React Native so popular for mobile application development? It offers excellent cross-platform capabilities among other benefits. This way, with React Native, developers can write code once and run it on both iOS and Android devices thus saving time and resources leading to shorter development cycles hence faster time-to-market for your app.
Let’s take the example of a startup, which wanted to release their app on both iOS and Android at once. Through the use of React Native they managed to create an app and bring it into the market within a very short period. This helped them gain an advantage over their competitors because they had access to a large user base who were able to generate revenue quickly for them.
Developing Distributed High-performance Computing Capabilities of an Open Sci...Globus
COVID-19 had an unprecedented impact on scientific collaboration. The pandemic and its broad response from the scientific community has forged new relationships among public health practitioners, mathematical modelers, and scientific computing specialists, while revealing critical gaps in exploiting advanced computing systems to support urgent decision making. Informed by our team’s work in applying high-performance computing in support of public health decision makers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we present how Globus technologies are enabling the development of an open science platform for robust epidemic analysis, with the goal of collaborative, secure, distributed, on-demand, and fast time-to-solution analyses to support public health.
Designing for Privacy in Amazon Web ServicesKrzysztofKkol1
Data privacy is one of the most critical issues that businesses face. This presentation shares insights on the principles and best practices for ensuring the resilience and security of your workload.
Drawing on a real-life project from the HR industry, the various challenges will be demonstrated: data protection, self-healing, business continuity, security, and transparency of data processing. This systematized approach allowed to create a secure AWS cloud infrastructure that not only met strict compliance rules but also exceeded the client's expectations.
How Does XfilesPro Ensure Security While Sharing Documents in Salesforce?XfilesPro
Worried about document security while sharing them in Salesforce? Fret no more! Here are the top-notch security standards XfilesPro upholds to ensure strong security for your Salesforce documents while sharing with internal or external people.
To learn more, read the blog: https://www.xfilespro.com/how-does-xfilespro-make-document-sharing-secure-and-seamless-in-salesforce/
In software engineering, the right architecture is essential for robust, scalable platforms. Wix has undergone a pivotal shift from event sourcing to a CRUD-based model for its microservices. This talk will chart the course of this pivotal journey.
Event sourcing, which records state changes as immutable events, provided robust auditing and "time travel" debugging for Wix Stores' microservices. Despite its benefits, the complexity it introduced in state management slowed development. Wix responded by adopting a simpler, unified CRUD model. This talk will explore the challenges of event sourcing and the advantages of Wix's new "CRUD on steroids" approach, which streamlines API integration and domain event management while preserving data integrity and system resilience.
Participants will gain valuable insights into Wix's strategies for ensuring atomicity in database updates and event production, as well as caching, materialization, and performance optimization techniques within a distributed system.
Join us to discover how Wix has mastered the art of balancing simplicity and extensibility, and learn how the re-adoption of the modest CRUD has turbocharged their development velocity, resilience, and scalability in a high-growth environment.
Modern design is crucial in today's digital environment, and this is especially true for SharePoint intranets. The design of these digital hubs is critical to user engagement and productivity enhancement. They are the cornerstone of internal collaboration and interaction within enterprises.
Advanced Flow Concepts Every Developer Should KnowPeter Caitens
Tim Combridge from Sensible Giraffe and Salesforce Ben presents some important tips that all developers should know when dealing with Flows in Salesforce.
SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
However, this is neither the first nor the last activity of IntekBroker. We have compiled for you what happened in the last few days. To track such hacker activities on dark web sources like hacker forums, private Telegram channels, and other hidden platforms where cyber threats often originate, you can check SOCRadar’s Dark Web News.
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In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I ...Juraj Vysvader
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I didn't get rich from it but it did have 63K downloads (powered possible tens of thousands of websites).
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1. Quality Challenges of the Digitalized World
– How Does Quality Assurance Change?
Kari Kakkonen, Director, Quality and Competences, Knowit Oy at Czech Test, Prague June 26, 2015
22. Knowit Research 2014:
Agile test planning on company level
Strategic level
No plans
Plan in high level
Plan in detail
• Almost a quarter doesn’t plan agile
testing at all (is that agile anymore…)
• Mainly testing is planned in high level
(this is maybe the definition of agile
testing…)
• 85 % of company level testing is
documented (to some extent)
27. Use Exploratory testing
Source: Sinkkonen, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Cem Kaner, James Bach, Lisa Crispin
“In exploratory testing you learn from previous tests, and put that
learning into your next tests”
Plan
•Test charter
Test
session
•Notes
•Bugs
Debriefing
•Dashboard
Testing
Opinion-forming
Reporting
Designing
actions
Observations
33. Quality assurance in
Digitalized World
Build Quality, then also Test
• Security
• Usability
• Performance
Get faster feedback
• Team velocity
• Support of testing
• Speed to Operations