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Continuous Delivery is now the holy grail of IT organizations, but most companies are still struggling with the transition into shorter release cycles and faster, more frequent deployments. A key challenge that companies are facing in that transition lies around test automation, and in this talk we will cover these challenges in details and demonstrate […]

Tell Your Story! – But Keep it Short! On Thursday, April 4th, after lunch, STPCon introduces “Testing Stories.” During this time, we will hear from 8 attendees; each will share their story, pitch, strategy or approach to testing, new methodology or a better way of using a common tool. Anything that they think the audience […]

If tests are poorly designed, their automation is not going to be a success, even if the automation engineers involved are very skilled. That puts the ball for test design firmly in the court of the testers, who in turn might not always have a design background. Introducing Action Based Testing (ABT), the pragmatic methodology […]

Done strategically, test automation increases efficiency and speeds up delivery. But many QA teams struggle to find scalable solutions to automated testing. By combining automated browser testing with manual testing, Rainforest is able to offer the resiliency of manual testers at the speed of automation. No need for programming scripts, no need for hours long […]

As engineering organizations make the shift from waterfall to Agile development practices, they find that one of the most difficult, and expensive bottlenecks to achieving true CI/CD is continuous testing. This presentation will show how to get this critical piece of your pipeline right, and properly implement automated testing in a DevOps environment. Shadab Siddiqui, […]

In this workshop you will learn about the importance of automated testing in a continuous development/deployment process. You will also learn how to set up a continuous deployment pipeline to incorporate testing in isolation/branch testing, as well as understanding how to design efficient tests and test suites for testing in isolation. Prerequisites Attendees should have […]

How do you know that all of your requirements have been tested? Are you currently reliant on spreadsheets and documents? Do you have to juggle between separate tools such as Jira, Jenkins, and Selenium to keep track of it all? Do you wish your requirements management, testing tools, and defect trackers were all in sync? […]

Congrats! You’ve figured out that automation will be helpful for your mobile testing and you want to start building. The next decision will set the tone of your future work: how will you design your framework? When you are automating one platform and device type, you can have a simple implementation. Once you start increasing […]

Responsive web design has become the preferred approach for building sites and apps that provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience on any phone, tablet, desktop or wearable device. However, automatically testing these responsive sites and apps can be quite a challenge, due to the need to cover all supported layouts, their respective navigation, and […]

Everyone has heard the buzzwords about DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Testing. Yet understanding what that actually means is a different story. For while everyone seems to believe it’s a desired goal, not everyone understands the changes that will have to take place to facilitate it. Automated tests, no matter the tool, cannot be built […]