More and more organizations are moving away from monoliths towards microservices so that they can dev elop in parallel. But the organizational coupling of testing, release coordination, performance testing, etc still create the same bottlenecks, impeding the ability to deliver value at speed. Resolving these coordination points requires an entire set of organizational and technical tools. Service virtualization is one such tool, embodying the shift away from coordinated end-to-end testing while enabling production releases with confidence. In this talk, Brandon Byars, author of Testing Microservices with Mountebank, will share lessons learned to help build an automated test strategy that can keep pace with the distributed world we live in.

In this session, we will explore what it means to live and work in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world. We will explore the domains of reactive tendencies versus creative competencies related to how all humans approach their day-to-day lives. We often hear about how our external skills are the most important to develop, yet over the year’s human, social and organizational development studies have clearly discovered that it is our inner skills that are the most important and yet we ignore them. To learn to scale your ability and your Adult Mindset to survive in our VUCA world
We will discuss and explore how the two major movements happen in the self (in its inner game) as it transforms from Reactive to Creative Leadership. The first movement has to do with a shift in how we optimize the tension between purpose and safety. In the second parallel movement, identity shifts from the outside-in to the inside out.
You will be introduced to the Leadership Circle Profile, which is the only instrument that measures these two primary leadership domains – Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies – and integrates this information so that key opportunities for leadership development immediately rise to the surface. Creating an opportunity to become aware of how your inner-self maybe impacting how you face the world each day.

Technology Industry has been vanguard of massive Digital Disruption. Digital has touched every Business in the Industry and adoption of newer technology on mobile, web, voice, Including ML/AI, AR/VR has enabled this transformation. Delivering unique and personalized customer experience (CX) across these touchpoints is a key success determinant. Much like these technology, NextGen Quality Engineering models are evolving too. Organization have started adopting newer approaches to infuse these dimensions in their ecosystems. Join me in the conversation on how Cognizant has transformed and reimagined quality of many of our clients and delivered Digital at Scale and Quality at Speed.

Agile development and testing isn’t just for software. At Weir, we have turned mechanical and IOT product development on its head by using Agile. In this session, you will get a peek into how we have implemented Agile Testing and Automation for the highly regulated energy sector for not only quality products, but also for Safety.

Starting with a review of the Testing Pyramid, this talk covers how different kinds of tests combine to balance confidence, quality and speed of delivery. Learn when to write unit, integration and other kinds of tests to rapidly delivery high quality software.

The topic will be covering the things that will lead to be a successful agile team with focus on tester and examples from the past, this involves the mindset shift, cultural challenges, technical challenges, team logistics etc. This will also cover a road map on tester transformation in Agile projects and how they are required to uplift their skills and adapt to the changing environment. ,

Siva is an Agile coach having over 18+ years of versatile IT experience coming from a strong development and testing background. Over last 10 years he has handled multiple Agile transformation programs and played various roles as Agile coach, Agile project manager and Scrum Master. He has experience working in various industries like manufacturing, finance, e-commerce and insurance with various technology background.

In the last fifteen years we have witnessed a vast spread of new methods for managing projects within software development. In 2001, the Agile Manifesto stated the common values and principles of these methods, all aimed at producing better software. Several of these values and principals are specifically expressed for designing and programming software products. Since then, the benefits of these methods have led to a widespread use of agile project management even in non-software development contexts. But, how does these values and principals affect projects in non-software areas since some values and principals are not applicable? Do they perceive the same benefits? This talk presents the case study to identify benefits of adopting Agile for Non-Technical Teams.

How can the AI play a role in testing, The AI can bring benefits like test case optimization, Test Cases coverage improvements and predict the defect trends in releases. Also exploring of test objects optimizations across automation. Defect analysis in reporting. Help in Data Analytics, Visualization and it also had in-built Testing domain knowledge and ability to make QA centric decisions It makes data-driven decisions that help organizations to cut short the long testing cycles.

• Concepts containerized testing
• Conventional shift-left testing .vs. containerized shift left
• Applying BDD and Hybrid approach to containerized testing
• Challenges and success factors
• A practical use-case of containerized testing