Do not miss out on the most updated Software Testing Conference!
World Conference Next Generation Testing 2018 will be happening in Bangalore on July 2018, with focus on Technical Sessions featuring over 25+ Presentation exploring the depth and breadth of Software Testing. The Summit will be a key meeting place for Test Professionals and Executives from leading IT organizations globally .
India Testing League 2018 :This will be a quiz contest to identify India's most knowledgeable Software tester. This globally has run successfully by Next Gen Testing Community in Singapore, UK, USA, Australia & India and is organised annually in India.
India Testing Awards 2018 :India Testing Awards will recognise those organisations and practitioners that have stepped away from legacy tools and processes to create Testing programs that define the future of IT Software Development, services and support. Executives and teams leading IT and Testing at these companies will be recognised among their peers at the India Testing Awards ceremony co-hosted with World Conference Next Gen Testing 2018 on July 2018, in Bangalore.
Test Leadership, Agile Testing and Test Automation, Testing for Developers, Testing in DevOps, Test Strategy, Planning and Metrics, Big Data, Analytics, AI/Machine Learning for Testing and Security Testing
2 Individual Categories
5 Corporate Categories
08.30AM
09.00AM
Unicom
10mins
Speaker Profile
Anand Ramamoorthy is the Managing Director, South Asia. His key responsibilities include driving enterprise centric product revenues, strengthening the customer base across verticals, fostering the channel ecosystem and positioning India for rapid non-linear growth in the coming years. An energetic and results-driven technocrat with over 18 years of experience, Anand’s career has been marked by continuous growth and company recognition across segments spanning engineering, marketing, sales and strategy in various leadership roles, both in the US and India. He brings a solid legacy of profitably growing every business that he led during his career, managing both, small and large businesses with ease. He enjoys a strong relationship with leading telecom operators, local brands in the handset and internet space, government bodies, retail channels and software/ application partners. Prior to McAfee, Anand was Director, Sales & Marketing at Intel, South Asia. In this role, he was responsible for driving sales across all product categories with OEMs, LOEMs, enterprise and government businesses. Prior to Intel, Anand was Managing Director (India) at Harman, a leading consumer electronics company, leading both the product development center as well as sales and marketing group. Anand spent a considerable part of his career overseas in the USA, where he held senior leadership positions in large multinational corporations with an impressive body of work.
20mins
Topic Abstract
I will start my introduction with the inadequacies in testing that pushed me to be an early adopter of Agile and Xtreme Programming in the nineties, culminating in the founding of my own test automation company (Infuse) in 2002.
My aim is to cut through the confusion surrounding the ideologies and methodologies of testing, and offer a candid, pragmatic view of modern technologies and tools available today, and how their inability to change over the last two decades is the real issue. Infuse has always been an innovator in this space, and I will show you how we are pushing to make test architecture more capable to adapt to changes in the application under test, without being a major consumption on both time and resource.
30mins
LAST MILE CONSULTANTS
Harman Connected Services
CityMandi
Capgemini
CGI
11.00AM
Topic Abstract
With most of the processes getting automated, Test Processes are not left behind. While Test Automation has come of age with various tools & frameworks around them, the artificial intelligence and machine learning is just getting integrated with Test Automation.
The topic will cover the areas & aspects of Test Processes for applying AI & ML methods that are more meaningful.
45mins
Track 1
Topic Abstract
What is the feedback loop in Software Development? How do you measure it? Is there a “magic” formula to understand this data received? How to you add value to your product using this data?
Lets discuss in this interactive session, using a case study of a B2C product to answer the above!
45mins
Track 1
01.00PM
Topic Abstract
With Digital slowly becoming the D'fault, businesses are Re-imagining their processes, products, models and the way they engineer. Today, with the capability to transform businesses and offer superior customer experiences, the need to innovate rapidly demands that the QA and engineering functions evolve. Re-imagined Quality rests on three pillars: Process, Technology and People. Processes made agile, with Technology enabling intelligent and ML powered test automation, along with which People adapt and are taught new skills. Learn Unlearn and Relearn, the new Re-Imagined way of assuring Quality in the digital era.
45mins
Track 1
Topic Abstract
The art of Microservices teaches us:: High trust, low process, no handoffs leading to culture of freedom and responsibility. It is a way to organize your system that provides both opportunities and difficulties for testing. I recently worked with a company transitioning away from a monolithic architecture, and helped them to re-design their automated testing strategy for the new architecture. Crux is simple patterns combined with automated tools. Self-service cloud makes impossible things instant. In this talk I’d like to share some concrete automated testing techniques that I found useful, including selective deployment, approval testing, and event monitoring. I’ll also relate some challenges we encountered enabling the teams developing the various services be able to test and deploy independently of one another.
The key philosophy behind microservices testing is :: write programs that do one thing and do it well. Key approaches are
45mins
Track 1
03.30PM
Topic Abstract
Test Automation can no longer be considered as an optional element. To get the releases out on time, to bring the costs down to what it should be and to reduce person dependence, all organizations should focus on embracing test automation and building the capability. Test automation should go hand-in-hand with various Dev Ops initiatives and is a key element in leveraging the benefits of adopting an Agile framework. What are the key challenges in implementing test automation – ranging from framework to staffing and processes to metrics? Also, what are the key benefits of implementing test automation? This session will cover some of these key aspects from a business perspective.
45mins
Track 1
QUIZMASTER
30mins
05.15PM
08.30AM
09.00AM
Unicom
15mins
Speaker Profile
Anand Ramamoorthy is the Managing Director, South Asia. His key responsibilities include driving enterprise centric product revenues, strengthening the customer base across verticals, fostering the channel ecosystem and positioning India for rapid non-linear growth in the coming years. An energetic and results-driven technocrat with over 18 years of experience, Anand’s career has been marked by continuous growth and company recognition across segments spanning engineering, marketing, sales and strategy in various leadership roles, both in the US and India. He brings a solid legacy of profitably growing every business that he led during his career, managing both, small and large businesses with ease. He enjoys a strong relationship with leading telecom operators, local brands in the handset and internet space, government bodies, retail channels and software/ application partners. Prior to McAfee, Anand was Director, Sales & Marketing at Intel, South Asia. In this role, he was responsible for driving sales across all product categories with OEMs, LOEMs, enterprise and government businesses. Prior to Intel, Anand was Managing Director (India) at Harman, a leading consumer electronics company, leading both the product development center as well as sales and marketing group. Anand spent a considerable part of his career overseas in the USA, where he held senior leadership positions in large multinational corporations with an impressive body of work.
20mins
Topic Abstract
I will start my introduction with the inadequacies in testing that pushed me to be an early adopter of Agile and Xtreme Programming in the nineties, culminating in the founding of my own test automation company (Infuse) in 2002.
My aim is to cut through the confusion surrounding the ideologies and methodologies of testing, and offer a candid, pragmatic view of modern technologies and tools available today, and how their inability to change over the last two decades is the real issue. Infuse has always been an innovator in this space, and I will show you how we are pushing to make test architecture more capable to adapt to changes in the application under test, without being a major consumption on both time and resource.
30mins
LAST MILE CONSULTANTS
Harman Connected Services
CityMandi
Capgemini
CGI
11.00AM
Topic Abstract
Test automation is a more involved task than what simplistic solutions can solve in a generic manner. Page object design pattern became popular in the field of UI Automation because of its level of abstraction and robustness it provides. However, for any decent project with medium to high complexity, it is too simplistic to provide a solution by itself. Rahul has developed MEANINGful model of UI automation, which is an OOP model with 7 components. This presentation would introduce the attendees to the model. The presentation also marks the announcement of an open-source, free framework developed by Rahul, which implements the said model. Attendees can use the framework as a reference or use it directly in their work.
45mins
Track 2
Topic Abstract
Behaviour driven development which can trace its roots to Test Driven Development process has been around us for quite some time. In philosophy, it tries to create a synergy between different aspects of the software product development process. As per Dan North, created a BDD framework, BDD is an outside-in, pull-based, multiple-stakeholder, multiple-scale, high-automation, agile methodology. It describes a cycle of interactions with well-defined outputs, resulting in the delivery of working, tested software that matters. Testing and test automation are one of key stakeholders of this approach, and rightly so. For any behaviour based approach requires a constant feedback for its continuous improvement. It becomes rather imperative that we should design our test softwares and frameworks which can keep up with this demanding approach. For such approach, behaviour becomes one of the fundamental unit and we can construct the entire test lifecycle by properly framing and chaining these behavioural units together. If we are able to introduce automation to this process, then it becomes a long term reaping reward where we get benefited not just by having a robust user level documentation which all the stakeholders understand, a validated product with clearly defined user perspective also a regression suite which will help in other functional integrations. Furthermore, this behaviour based scripts could be treated as source of truth for all future developments and/or improvements as they have been vetted by different stakeholders!
45mins
Track 2
01.00PM
Topic Abstract
Developing a test automation framework is not an easy task, especially when you're dealing with multiple products that require to work in sync with each other. A typical example is the aggregator of data from various sub-systems. In general, this problem surfaces when you are using custom-built platforms, proprietary SDKs and/or micro-services to build end-user products. Although these sub-systems can be regarded "products" in their own respects, from an end-user perspective all of this roll up into one, and must be used/tested thus. All this demand more than black-box level automation of tests. At the same time, a unit level coverage on each of these will fail to exercise the integrated environment.
Following are some of the benefits of constructing automation APIs:
45mins
Track 2
Topic Abstract
By Embracing DevOps, the software world’s evolution continues and it keeps on embracing new technology and keeps pushing engineers to innovate and to make customer’s happy. The time to market is accelerated that has resulted in improvement of overall customer experience. However, just like any other evolution, this is equally challenging both in terms of technology as well as culturally. Although the name suggests that only development and operations are the key areas, testing is equally affected here. With each experience and each project, there are new obstacles that come in front of teams. Embracing DevOps doesn’t mean all that has be done and achieved goes waste and we have to do everything from scratch. Biggest challenge is to apply it keeping existing organizational structure as-is. This can be possible only when the communication and collaboration between all IT teams, dev, QA and ops is improved. The traditional mind set of running organizations saw developers, testers and operations engineer functioned as three teams, each having their own responsibilities and challenges. They just function as distinct teams with few managers that ensure to keep them connected. With DevOps, the onus falls on testers to see if they can remain connected and unified under DevOps Flag. This paper is my journey to answer this question and explain the approach adopted in my organization.
45mins
Track 2
03.30PM
Topic Abstract
Join me on #Microsoft’s ongoing journey to #DevOps. This journey has #inspiration, #suspense, #humour, #heartache, and a happy ending. #GetInspired to implement #DevOps in your organization with recommended test practices. At VSTS in Microsoft, we’ve been on a DevOps journey and have moved 82,000+ Microsofties to DevOps. An important part of this journey has been our strategy to "Test Early, Test Continuously". We’re not perfect, we didn’t do this in six months and we’re not done. We had major milestones along the way and the pattern that we followed is very similar to the pattern we see customers following. They start with, “Gosh, I want to have continuous testing, I want test automation, I don't have a tester role, I want to shift quality left”. Yes, that’s what we asked too
This session will cover our journey and sub topics covered will be
45mins
Track 2
QUIZMASTER
30mins
05.15PM
08.30AM
09.00AM
Unicom
15mins
Topic Abstract
The digital world is enabling new possibilities at a pace that we have never seen. At the same time it is introducing extraordinary level of complexity in the way systems are developed, systems behave and how experiences are consumed by end users. Testing as a function needs to radically transform it self for it to be able to validate new and existing systems to perform well in this new digital era. This talk will focus on describing 8 new dimensions of the digital world that presents new opportunities and challenges alike to the testing professionals.It will focus on issues like device diversity, cognitive effectiveness of AI applications, new scalability and security dimensions and dimensions like testing execution paradigms in agile projects to name a few.
40mins
Topic Abstract
This keynote aims to bring the fact, that testing is integral part of software supply chain. Developers who were doing unit testing initially and gave the piece of code to third party as in testers to test . Testers tested the product independently in unbiased fashion and provided defects. Developers were asked to shift right and testers where asked to shift left. They came a full circle as SDET ( Software Development Engineers in Testing) . Testers worked closely with Developers in Agile World and the concept of “ Software Supply Chain Engineer” evolved.
1. I am the tester. I am proud of it. I own the product, I can somersault it.
2. I am proud to be a tester. I can shift left, shift right, Shift up. Though I am shot by the customer , I am a proud postman.
3. I am the customer advocate , I am at the center of Universe.
4. I test because I love, I test not because I don’t know to code
5. I test because I love, I have arrived, I can work with machines and work with them in tandem, harmoniously
6. I am all along the software delivery chain, you can see me from concept to finish. Right from
7. I am the shiva, the destroyer, I destroy the product and help the brahma ( creator) in co creating it too.
8. I don’t have a religion , manual or automation, I am learning it all, Try me out, give me time, I can help and will help
9. I am a generalizing specialist
10. I am the king. I am the context imperial king. At the stroke of midnight, when the whole IT industry is seeing job losses, No one can touch me , as I have embraced the future , I have seen the future, ………….Testers Zindabad..
DEVELOP THE PRIDE AS TESTER AND DON’T HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX AS “ DEVELOPER BHI KABHI TESTER THA AND TESTER BHI DEVELOPER HOGAYEGA…. AAKIR SAME KA MALIK EK HAI …. KYUNKI TESTING CENTER OF UNIVERSE HAI….
20mins
Harman Connected Services
Benefitalign
Robert Bosch
Evolvus Solutions Pvt Ltd
11.00AM
Topic Abstract
Intelligent and Innovative test automation approach to suite the current trend of software testing in Agile and DevOps platform is the need of the hour. The dynamic technology landscape has warranted / demands a change in the current automation approach. The standard approach that focuses on the happy path of test and building scripts with several scenarios against limited set of data is the beset with pitfalls.More reliance / inclination on readily available solutions, framework and tool features might be good initially for us to develop easily and time to market but many a times it will be short span solutions to suite target requirement.Moreover, frequent failures and longer development / enhancement time increases frustration within the testing team and may revert back to manual testing fully or partially. The confidence, success rate and coverage of test automation will ultimately get reduced, which need to be avoided at any cost. The standard phrase like “Test automation approach” or “Framework” is very commonly used but will be more accomplished to suite our needs which will leads to success of the automation in long run. My long journey (17 Years in Test Automation) and passionate towards the Test automation. I would like to share the approach adopted for successful test automation of several projects and products using many tools. The current need of the hour is result oriented automation with cost effective solution and most importantly in-line with organisation testing strategy. Developing automation solutions or framework is a challenging for a phase of testing (functional testing) but the challenges with common framework across few open-source tools (SoapUI, Selenium, Appium and Jenkins) supporting different phase of testing (API, Integration, Functional, Regression, Mobile testing ) in DevOps environment in cloud. Framework facilitates to develop automation scripts with minimum code and moving towards NO code or script-less automation. Automatically developing the test case / test data. Tracking time at transnational level to measure performance. Custom reports, Dashboards to track results and quality matrix .
45mins
Track 1A
Topic Abstract
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!” – Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist. The industry today has awakened to the fact that testing is actually more important than programming. Testing apps requires a bigger budget for tools and resources compared to programming. Every organization today is hunting for the best possible talent. Earlier software developers used to write code and testers checked it for quality. This won’t suffice today. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDETs) are skilled professionals who are adept in the arena of both QA Engineering and Software Development.
Though it’s great to have someone with skills and expertise that are high in demand, it also creates a bit of confusion as to what really comprises the duties and responsibilities of SDETs. A regularly faced ambiguity is regarding the difference between an SDET and a QA Engineer.
While the roles of SDETs may seem very similar to those of QA Automation Engineers, with even most of the tools and language expertise required being same (Selenium, Java, and Jenkins), there are certain very obvious and clear differences between the two roles.
An SDET, in layman terms, is a developer who instead of working in the product development team, works as part of the test team. In essence, SDETs are responsible not only for writing code, but are required to test the code as well. SDETs are required to continuously write, test, and fix the code they write. Their roles and responsibilities are based on the Agile lifecycle model. SDETs usually are professionals who have very strong analytical, technical, and problem solving skills.
Following is a list of a few tasks that SDETs are usually responsible for:
45mins
Track 1A
01.00PM
Performance being one of the top critical non-functional requirements (NFR) for any e- business application, the way performance test assessment & assurance strategies are proactively designed for a digital solution becomes greatest priority in IT.
The way Performance tests needs to be planned & strategized might differ based on the software development methodology adopted for the product development. This session covers crux of the best practices to be adopted for Performance Testing in Waterfall versus Agile versus DevOps environments. With DevOps culture becoming prevalent, there is a strong push noticed in many organizations to acquire new skills (both technical & collaboration skills) & how Performance Testers can overcome this challenge without much of stress & embarrassment will be discussed in this session. This session will be useful for anyone who is interested in Performance Testing or who wants to setup a new Performance testing team/COE or transition traditional team to DevOps Performance Testing team.
45mins
Track 1A
Topic Abstract
Digital Transformation is disrupting the industry across domains like retail, media, travel, marketing etc. The average spend has increased by 17% in 2018 and trending at $1.3. Expected to be $2.1 by 2021. The major drive is competitive pressure and ready to market. Situation demands high quality, customer experience, ready to market, faster delivery etc. The traditional Test Organizations are transforming towards engineering mindset to ensure predictable releases in shorter development cycles.
The session will cover the evolving test approach, strategy, methodologies & learnings to address the change and the proven KPI's to pursue.
45mins
Track 1B
03.30PM
Topic Abstract
Security being a major stake holder these days to any project. The best way of building a security product is adopting security
from the start. Threat modeling is a first step to do that on any
agile project. This talk speaks all about Threat Modeling, What it
is, why it is required, when to do it, how to do it, what are the
ways to do it and so on.. also about once you identify threats how
do you prioritize them. How to define the future of these Threats.
Also about how this helps in building a secure product.
Major Take Aways:
1. What is Threat Modeling
2. How to do Threat modeling
3. How will help in building a secure product.
4. How to prioritize Threats identified.
5. How to address the identified Threats. This is going to be an
interactive talk with lots of things extracted from questions.
45mins
Track 1B
08.30AM
09.00AM
Unicom
15mins
Topic Abstract
The digital world is enabling new possibilities at a pace that we have never seen. At the same time it is introducing extraordinary level of complexity in the way systems are developed, systems behave and how experiences are consumed by end users. Testing as a function needs to radically transform it self for it to be able to validate new and existing systems to perform well in this new digital era. This talk will focus on describing 8 new dimensions of the digital world that presents new opportunities and challenges alike to the testing professionals.It will focus on issues like device diversity, cognitive effectiveness of AI applications, new scalability and security dimensions and dimensions like testing execution paradigms in agile projects to name a few.
40mins
Topic Abstract
This keynote aims to bring the fact, that testing is integral part of software supply chain. Developers who were doing unit testing initially and gave the piece of code to third party as in testers to test . Testers tested the product independently in unbiased fashion and provided defects. Developers were asked to shift right and testers where asked to shift left. They came a full circle as SDET ( Software Development Engineers in Testing) . Testers worked closely with Developers in Agile World and the concept of “ Software Supply Chain Engineer” evolved.
1. I am the tester. I am proud of it. I own the product, I can somersault it.
2. I am proud to be a tester. I can shift left, shift right, Shift up. Though I am shot by the customer , I am a proud postman.
3. I am the customer advocate , I am at the center of Universe.
4. I test because I love, I test not because I don’t know to code
5. I test because I love, I have arrived, I can work with machines and work with them in tandem, harmoniously
6. I am all along the software delivery chain, you can see me from concept to finish. Right from
7. I am the shiva, the destroyer, I destroy the product and help the brahma ( creator) in co creating it too.
8. I don’t have a religion , manual or automation, I am learning it all, Try me out, give me time, I can help and will help
9. I am a generalizing specialist
10. I am the king. I am the context imperial king. At the stroke of midnight, when the whole IT industry is seeing job losses, No one can touch me , as I have embraced the future , I have seen the future, ………….Testers Zindabad..
DEVELOP THE PRIDE AS TESTER AND DON’T HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX AS “ DEVELOPER BHI KABHI TESTER THA AND TESTER BHI DEVELOPER HOGAYEGA…. AAKIR SAME KA MALIK EK HAI …. KYUNKI TESTING CENTER OF UNIVERSE HAI….
20mins
Harman Connected Services
Benefitalign
Robert Bosch
Evolvus Solutions Pvt Ltd
11.00AM
Topic Abstract
As AI is defining the future applications, we will invariably dealing with text, voice based applications. The challenges are multifold from understanding utterances, syntax, part of speech et al. As a testing community, how can we test these applications to scale. There are techniques like text processing using word2vec, deep learning methods, cosine similarity, text classification that can help. We will explore any toolset and newer methods evolving in this space. The session would be a combination of challenges, methods in research and how to get deeper into natural language applications. Also to break the myth that it is only developer’s forte and how quality engineers/testers can help automating the testing life cycle.
45mins
Track 2A
Topic Abstract
Organizations are under pressure to build, deploy, and scale applications faster to be competitive in the market. This requires companies to relook at their current traditional testing approach and seek disruptive models for progression and regression testing to deliver agility, reduced cycle time and cost by optimizing the test portfolio. Many organizations are already adopting Model Based Testing approach to drive Test case optimization using machine learning (ML) algorithms by automating the test case generation and drive downstream automation by generating Automations scripts aligning with popular execution engines based on Selenium or UFT. While MBT has supported progressive automation intelligently through optimization, the larger questions remain is that how to optimize the existing large regression packs. The traditional approach of regressing all Test cases all the time may not be efficient in terms of cost and cycle time. Regression test suit keeps growing after each release. Often this leads to over burning of effort when a critical change request comes in. Testers do not have systematic framework that would identify subset of critical test cases from the entire pack to execute for achieving optimal coverage balancing risk when under release pressure. In the absence of this, the decision made is random and not accurate resulting in defect leakage to production. The current paper talks about how AI and ML is applied to develop Business rules driven Analytics framework that delivers the key asks like Testcase optimization and prioritization based on defect severity levels. The Analytics model keeps learning with new streams of Test data and creates risk profiling of the critical testcases for optimization/prioritization consideration.
45mins
Track 2A
01.00PM
Topic Abstract
This session will cover a real-life case study on how we applied a comprehensive 5 steps process to set-up an application security program for an e-Commerce company. This led to greater alignment with their digital transformation story while generating greater value for their security initiatives. The session will cover the challenges while rolling out this program and practical recommendations.
40mins
Track 2A
03.30PM
Topic Abstract
Nowadays, threat to confidential data and theft of private infrastructure resources is very high. Hence the importance of security testing is of utmost focus. But in practice, most of the expert tools are commercial and caters for a specific type of testing. This makes the whole exercise complex and higher on budget. Also that invites multiple skillset, which makes the human resources also costly.
45mins
Track 2A
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IBM
Was an excellent event!
Hewlett-Packard
Well done – an excellent event! We were very happy with the number and quality of delegates
Oracle Corporation
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