Creating Dissonance: Overcoming Organizational Bias toward Software Testing
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Overcoming organizational bias toward software testing can be a key factor in the success of your testing effort. Negative bias toward testing can impact its perceived value—just as inaccurate positive bias can set your team up for failure through mismanaged expectations. A structured approach to identifying, understanding, and overcoming bias is an integral part of any successful enterprise testing strategy. Keith Klain describes the origins of organizational bias and what it means for your testing effort, including what the test team and the industry do—and don’t do—to support those perceptions. He explores what you can do to identify your particular organization’s bias toward testing, how it evolved, evidence of those attitudes, and what you can do to change perceptions. Through case studies, Keith shares his successes and failures in navigating and running change programs focused on software testing and discusses the obstacles he’s encountered—and overcome.
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Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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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.
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Bob Boule
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Creating Dissonance: Overcoming Organizational Bias toward Software Testing
- 1. creating DISSONANCE Overcoming Organizational Bias towards the Value of Software Testing 1
- 2. CULTURE EATS STRATEGY FOR BREAKFAST Ford Motor Company 2
- 3. Bias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives. 3
- 5. testing is… TOO SLOW DOESN’T UNDERSTAND OUR BUSINESS UNNECCESARY NEEDS TO BE AUTOMATED NOT TECHNICAL EXPENSIVE 5
- 6. developersDSDM scrum V-Model agileLEAN metrics KANBAN x-treme programming RUP Cost of Quality YOU RAD test maturity TDD TEST TOOL VENDORS process improvement models certification outsourcingconsultants 6
- 8. YES 8
- 10. YOU WILL FAIL 10
- 12. YOU WILL FAIL 12
- 14. YOU WILL FAIL 14
- 15. Changing culture is HARD! (but if you want to do it anyway…) 1. determine your value system 2. define principles underpinned by your values 3. create objectives aligned to your business 4. be continually self reflective 5. do not accept mediocrity 15