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Keith Watson, Director Of Devops, Adp Uk Limited

Agile Development and Continuous Delivery using DevOps tooling is seen at the modern mode of software development. Adopting these patterns has allowed organisations to improve the cadence of delivery and self-sufficiency of individual software development teams. This however can lead to a proliferation of tools, artifacts and operational models throughout the organisation. What if it were possible to imagine a future where Continuous Delivery was based on an integrated supply chain model similar to that used in current manufacturing processes? This talk explores what that might mean and what has to change to realise that vision.

Rukmangada Kandyala (KR), Founder & CEO, testsigma

We engineers have always loved to build from scratch – and homegrown test automation frameworks are a favourite. But if we engineers love building so much, shouldn’t we rather be building more software and less frameworks? Join us for a 30-minute talk on why we believe the role of an SDET should evolve and so should the scope of software quality.

Aruna Potteti, Programme Release, Test and Governance Lead, Deutsche Bank

Carlos Gutiérrez, Application Delivery Product Group Leader, Micro Focus

DevOps, cloud-native design, microservices—all have pushed software development and delivery forward. But these same innovations can also cause more complexity and inefficiency.

Having siloed development teams doesn’t help. Working across separate groups can lead to fragmented and disconnected decision-making, which slows down your response to enterprise-wide change.

So, what’s the solution?

Join this session to hear how your organization must easily identify and resolve conflicting priorities by shifting focus to value-based delivery.

Bill Watson, Test Manager, BBC

In this session I will look at an area of testing that isn’t always visible to the wider testing world, User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Even if you don’t run UAT yourself if you deliver software to external clients the chances are they will be running UAT on your system. In this talk I’ll look at what UAT is, why we conduct it, when it’s run and by whom and why it’s important.

Baubak Gandomi, Test Automation Architect, Adobe, France

We introduced Phased Testing to allow the validation of product upgrades. We discovered soon that the design and methodology can be applied to other domains such as Chaos Testing, but also Permutation testing, where tests will attempt unplanned execution paths to reach the same results. We identify these methods as Evolutive Test Design and Execution, since we are able to leverage a normal test scenario, by allowing it to go way beyond its original use.

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Table One: Professionalism in Testing – what is it and how do we get there?
Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting

Table Two: Mental Health in Testing
Andy Shaw, BCS Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST)

Table Three: XP practice of Test Driven Development : what to do and what definitely “not” to do
Jeewan Bhatt, Principal Consultant, Infosys

Table Four: Build your own test automation framework or go the low-code way for scalable test automation?
Rukmangada Kandyala (KR), Founder & CEO, testsigma

Stuart Clark, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

In today’s increasingly digital business environment, the need to continue honing and upgrading skills is a given. Whether you’re a CTO reimagining a corporate technical strategy, or a developer creating systems that bring that plan to life, to improve your IT acumen you will need to translate the “people skills” you’ve built through your own unique experience – even if you started out as a hairdresser, like me. Those 15 years behind the chair taught me that success is 50% technical skills and 50% communication skills.

In this talk I will share the “soft skill” lessons from my salon days that have shaped my developer career and will help you apply your own personal experiences in furthering your professional journey

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Jeewan Bhatt, Principal Consultant, Infosys

The right team structure has been an elusive task for some, with teams moving to build and run mode, microservices or components-based application, moving to Agile from waterfall mostly leads to split of working ,all these always poses a challenge to attain the right team size.

In this session we will see what are the different ways in which teams can be effectively structured – Effective Product backlog, Modelling for scaling, Scrum or Kanban and many others.

Krista King, Product Manager, mabl

Continuous testing enables teams to get fast feedback on the impact of changes throughout their software delivery pipeline. Teams who have adopted continuous testing can increase deployment frequency with improved software stability and reduced team burnout. But once you have continuous testing in place, how can you scale it to achieve more holistic quality?

In this session, Krista King from mabl will go over the benefits of adopting a low-code, unified solution for your test automation strategy that can help your team scale test automation two-fold: by scaling test authoring across your team with low-code, regardless of technical aptitude; and by scaling quality with a unified solution across functional (UI and API) and non-functional accessibility (a11y, performance) domains.

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Colin Deady, Agile Lead, PPS

Software development is unusual in that standing in a queue, waiting, is often considered the norm for many teams: “Please raise a ticket for better service.” We wait, repeatedly, at every step of the journey to get our products live, and our customers suffer as a result. Yet, in the Real World we are constantly seeking opportunities to minimise queueing by rerouting our GPS, changing aisle in the supermarket, or delegating a task to a friend.

In this presentation we will look at aspects of the Queueing Theory and how they can be applied to the Kanban and Lean practice of identifying and removing waste to enable us to accelerate delivery of customer value. We will pledge to ourselves to stop embracing the waste.

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Beth Marshall, Coders Guild

Come and join me as I take a practical look at Flows, Postman’s latest beta feature for low/no code API test automation.