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7:00 - 7:50
Breakfast
East Ballroom (2nd Floor)
8:00 - 9:00
Leading Quality: How the world’s most successful tech companies deliver high-quality software and accelerate growth
In this talk, Ronald will cover 3 main ideas: how to create a culture of quality that supports growth, how to align teams to your Company growth metric, how to drive better customer experience with Local Personas.
Ronald Cummings-John
East Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
9:15 - 10:15
Pragmatic Automation Practices
A grounded conversation regarding implementation and optimization of test automation.
Jerren Every
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
Quality Engineering Bingo Night
A critical look at some of the common arguments for Quality Engineering, both their benefits and limitations, and whether there's still a place for dedicated testing specialists.
Caleb Crandall
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
How You Can Trick Your Company Into Hiring ChatGPT
I had my company hire a model software engineer with a fantastic resume and perfect answers, that doesn't exist. In this this talk we will walk through the circumstances that allowed us to hire ChatGPT.
Daniel Pries
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
Sell Testing - Enabling Quality Breakthroughs
Learn how to find champions for quality and make breakthroughs in your quality processes & toolsets.
Kayla Hildebrandt
Senate Chamber
(2nd Floor)
Shift Left - From Start Up to SAFe
What is Shift Left? How does it work? Come see how this can, and has, been implemented in Start Ups to Federal Contracts.
Brian Hamilton
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Test Data Management: There is no silver bullet but we can nuke it from orbit
How to leverage tooling, training, and process changes to effectively manage test data
Thomas Haver
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
10:30 - 11:30
Component Testing: Bridging the gap for frontend applications
This session demonstrates how component testing enables more immediate feedback during UI development, functioning as “unit tests” for individual web page components.
Zachary Hamm
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
Breaking Barriers: become Automation Tester in 258 minutes.
1-hour of showcasing how Karate delivering powerful blows to bugs and saved our back in backend.
Anastasia Kutafina
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
Cypress for API Testing: Beyond UI Automation
Uncover the uncharted territory of API testing with Cypress as we explore its robust capabilities beyond UI automation, revealing how it seamlessly integrates into testing workflows, complements UI efforts, and empowers software development teams to achieve comprehensive and efficient validation of backend functionalities.
Anna Patterson
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
Continuous Testing: Helping QA Succeed in a DevOps World
Agile cycles are increasing our release frequency for delivering those features. DevOps is disrupting the entire pipeline and enabling organizations to truly differentiate themselves from the competition. No matter where you are on your Continuous Testing journey, the audience will learn how a pragmatic roadmap and high-quality delivery that will help your organization maximize quality while keeping pace with today’s business requirements.
Terry Brennan
Senate Chamber
(2nd Floor)
Engineering the Future: A Deep Dive into Prompt Engineering
This session provides a valuable insight into Prompt Engineering and how an effective prompting makes the AI produce better responses.
Krishna Bandarupalli
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Automating Your Way to Quality: How TQL Slashed Testing Time and Boosted Confidence
From 100% manual to CI/CD pipeline automation …with leadership buy-in!
Jeff Van Fleet
Alexander Grantz
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
11:30 - 12:45
Lunch
East Ballroom (2nd Floor)
12:45 - 1:45
Back to Basics (or Maybe the Obvious), but Often Forgotten
Those who cannot remember the basics (or the obvious) are condemned to keep struggling
Newton Olivieri
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
Dude, Where's my Bottleneck
Explore Azure application performance testing with JMeter, uncover bottlenecks, optimize environments, and learn hands-on techniques for and right-sizing environments to ensure optimal responsiveness.
Josh Kulp
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
Pair testing and other radical ideas
How collaboration can make testing more effective and fun.
Aaron Evans
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
Confirmation Bias - Monkey Wrench in Automation?
Software testing like any science can be affected by confirmation bias, so we must recognize it and address our testing pyramid to make sure we don't let it negatively impact our quality?
William Bell
Senate Chamber
(2nd Floor)
Team Leadership in the time of remote silence
How to build and lead teams in the current remote work time.
Michal Buczko
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Bad Tests Running Wild – Concurrency, Test Data, and Minimal Human Interaction in Test Automation DevOps
For effective test automation concurrency, teams need to focus on test data, environment configuration, and whether their test automation is "concurrency-ready"
Paul Grizzaffi
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
1:55 - 2:55
Egos & Silos: Why NOTHING is working!
This spirited conversation will address the common barriers to successful testing programs, including individual agendas, organizational structures, and funding availability.
Jeremy Emberling
Chad Brace
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
Beyond Automation: Crafting Successful Quality Engineering Transformations
As our tech landscape rapidly evolves, teams increasingly face pressure to evolve their approach to software quality. In this talk, we'll explore the human side of quality transformation efforts, common challenges along with strategies and tactics to overcome them, and how to ensure your team is truly ready to transform testing.
Darrel Farris
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
We need to talk… (more) about mental health at work
Learn practical tips and insights, making mental health conversations integral to work culture.
Veronika Betzel
Interfaith Room
(3rd Floor)
Performing as Expected: When and Why to Implement Performance Testing
A deep dive into how and when to approach performance testing given the needs of the business.
Bret Gregersen
Senate Chamber
(2nd Floor)
Active Career Management
These are thoughts and ideas that have been hardened through Coffee Chats with hundreds bootcamp and college students over several years.
Bob Fornal
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Testing AI at the Scale of Big Data
One person's journey into successfully testing AI at the scale of big data and what you can learn from it.
Chris Harbert
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
2:55 - 3:05
Snacks & Refreshments
Traditions Room (2nd Floor)
3:05 - 4:05
Path to Becoming a High-Value Test Automation Engineer
Do you want to be than just be a “tool jockey” with shallow/naïve approaches to test automation? This talk gives you a roadmap for ensuring you have the right foundation and roadmap to add maximum value to your organization - and ultimately become a Test Automation Rockstar!
Lee Barnes
Great Hall 1 & 2
(1st Floor)
Breaking Barriers: Achieving Continuous Testing @ Scale
Join us as we unravel the intricacies of continuous testing at scale, equipping your team with the tools and insights necessary to embrace a paradigm shift toward accelerated delivery without compromising on quality.
Wilhelm Haaker
Great Hall 3
(1st Floor)
The 3 A’s: Agile, Automation, and AI
Agile, Automation, and AI. These three elements can make or break the testing on your project.
David Leslie
Senate Chamber
(2nd Floor)
AI and the Future of Testing
In this talk we will use AI to validate how how we can or can not use Generative AI in Testing
Jordan Powell
Student Alumni Room
(2nd Floor)
Optimizing Performance Testing: Unveiling the Performance Testing Pyramid
In this talk, Federico Toledo will introduce the "Performance Testing Pyramid," a novel adaptation inspired by the Cohn pyramid for automated functional tests, a model that he and Leandro Melendez elaborated based on their experiences in different projects
Federico Toledo
West Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
4:15 - 5:15
Fixing a Bug: The Automation Panda Goes Manual
How I learned a few things from cars that transferred into my software practices. Come learn from my mistakes so that you can build things better, whatever you choose to build.
Andrew Knight
East Ballroom
(2nd Floor)
This session list is not complete and will continue to grow as the committee recieves confirmation from the selected speakers. We are planning 30 session talks and 2 keynotes.