The sixty eight words in the Agile Manifesto written in 2001 had revolutionised software development and also business in general. Almost every business sector is “doing Agile” in some form or another. But there also has been criticism of the approach and some have struggled and failed. Twenty years on, recent survey shows a high level of Agile immaturity as it appears that the simple principles are hard to do well. One reason could be the uncertainty in the current work world, so organisations need to shift the Agile ways of working, and investigate how they adopt and use agile practices. They should examine how others have done so and what practical value they found – adapt agile-based, practices suited to their particular needs over technical practices and defined methodologies.
The term DevOps is about eight years old but it continues to gain momentum as big organisations have made validating investments in it. This isn’t exactly new. Many industry watchers believe it’s no longer a question of if your organization will adopt these practices, but when. And yet DevOps is still evolving, as are the tools and technologies that support it. There are, now, a number of technologies that weren’t initially considered, but are now have become quite essential. Industry analyst Gartner says of this evolving discipline now “demands a linked tools chain of technologies to facilitate collaborative change”. So the question to you is what you’ll be adopting.
Testers have always been at the coal face of ensuring that “stuff works as it should”. Is there anything different in the actual testing of new digital products, new interfaces with clients which must always provide the optimum user experience? How are testers coping? What are the stories coming in? What is working well and what can be done better?
Popular DevOps tool chain products and supporting technologies: Jenkins continuous integration server ● Docker containerization platform ● Git version control system ● Apache Maven Build Management Tool ● New Relic analytics platform ● Splunk operational Intelligence Platform ● Puppet, Ansible ● Chef Configuration Management Systems.
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Jette Pedersen, QA system engineer, Ebay Classifieds Group Denmark
There is so much more to quality than just testing. It is not just bugs we need to look out for, but also the UX should be high quality for the users.
When I talk to the teams, I would rather talk about how we ensure good quality for our products, than just about which tests we need to do.
CHANDRASHEKHAR KACHOLE, DEVOPS DIRECTOR, INGENICO EPAYMENTS
Agile practices are common for almost two decades. DevOps implementation is getting traction in many organizations in past five years. However most of the DevOps organization get stuck to fully implement DevOps as they get confronted by the leadership within their company. Their leaders are not equipped with Agile Leadership mindset. Agile Leadership becomes essential when you need to build and run a successful DevOps organization specially when the organization starts growing exponentially. Let’s explore how to apply Agile Leadership principles in scaling DevOps organizations.
BERND BORNHAUSEN, DIRECTOR QUALITY ASSURANCE, LOGIBEC
In today’s faced paces software delivery world, a high-quality set of automated acceptance tests helps in delivering value to the customer rather sooner than later. But that does not mean that it is an easy task as it requires skills, practice, and discipline. It also requires a design pattern that is applying SOLID design principles. The Screenplay pattern is such a design pattern, and this talk will show the implementation using pytest as an underlying framework.
BEN BEATTIE-HOOD, SENIOR DEVELOPER AND STAFF MENTOR, PAGEUP
Let’s look at how we test, question some of the underlying practices, and explore whether it’s possible to remove the boilerplate and config until it’s possible to test an entire codebase in just two lines of code.
SACHIN THUKRAL, VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL HEAD OF BFS DELIVERY & TECHNOLOGY (EUROPE, UK & IRELAND), COFORGE LIMITED
STUART MANN, ENTERPRISE AGILE COACH, STANDARD BANK
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KIMBERLEY MILLER, INDEPENDENT AGILE CONSULTANT
The role of QA and Testing has gone through some radical changes over the years. By looking at the role through the lens of People over Process, we can start to understand the uncomfortable position Testers find themselves in when Agile Methods are introduced. I hope to share some strategies for how to best help our Testers adapt and thrive in a new Agile world.
SANJIV SRIVASTAVA, ASSOCIATE PARTNER, IBM
In today’s digital world speed to market and ensuring consistent customer experience is key for success of any organization. Though implementation of DevOps is pivotal to achieve this objective, it’s challenges and solutions are different for Financial services organizations.
A case study from a financial institution on the challenges and how DevOps solutions were implemented to achieve the desired outcomes.
VEERESH ERCHED, SENIOR DIRECTOR – ENGINEERING, AMADEUS
AI & ML are fostering Digital transformation across various industries in solving the business problems. Talk covers demystifying AI & ML, the changes that these technologies are bringing to software testing. Is the advent of AI & ML an opportunity or threat to the QA community. Mindset & Skill set changes required by QA fraternity to adapt to the changes. Will demonstrate with a cast study and ending with key takeaways
PagerDuty with guest speaker from Morgan Stanley
DevOps is about more than just pipeline. It’s also about culture. Find out how Morgan Stanley leverage PagerDuty to optimise feedback loops and reinforce ownership, improve team visibility into incident management processes, and better understand metrics and observability to make real-time operations a reality.
DR. GAYE SAGLAM, PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT TEAM LEADER, SIEMENS TURKEY R&D CENTER; TOLGA AKTAŞ, GLOBAL TEST MANAGER | EXPERT TEST ENGINEER, SIEMENS TURKEY R&D CENTER
Continuous testing means testing over the whole software development lifecycle (SDLC) while testing at digitalization era means much more as it requires a significant paradigm shift in quality mindset; i.e. “Shift Left of Testing†which means any quality assurance topic needs to be initiated as early as possible in the SDLC. In Siemens way of enabling better test management, this implies introduction of a new role called “Test Owner†to govern the testing process more efficiently.
Jette Pedersen, QA system engineer, Ebay Classifieds Group Denmark
There is so much more to quality than just testing. It is not just bugs we need to look out for, but also the UX should be high quality for the users.
When I talk to the teams, I would rather talk about how we ensure good quality for our products, than just about which tests we need to do.
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