I will be speaking on the topic 'Improving Agile Team's Efficiency via TDD and BDD.'

As the adoption of agile in software develoment has increased in the past decade, we have also seen the accelerated adoption of continuous development, continuous testing and continuous deployment. This new approach in software development has made the overall development process more dynamic by giving the developers the ability to introduce new changes in the applications and prevent bugs or breakdowns from impeding the scalability of applications.

We will talk about how test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD), as test-first approaches has helped developers to produce bug free software. While we look at the difference between the two approaches, we will also explore how each one is different from the other, drawbacks and benefits of each approach. We will finally look at how these practices have improved the overall efficiency of the develpment team.

Senior Technology Leader with 25+ years of experience in diverse operational and strategic leadership roles in Banking, Financial Services, Logistics, Hitech and Retail domains. Expertise in Digital transformation, Enterprise product/platform development, building offshore delivery centers and leading Technology Businesses (PnL)

Prabhas has proven ability in cultivating executive relationships, building cross-functional high-performance teams with focus on User Journey, Customer Experience & Innovation. His success in realizing business outcomes is a result of his customer-focused, collaborative and outcome driven style of operation. He has been successful in growing and scaling existing footprints as well as incubating and accelerating new initiatives.

we will understand what is microservices & containers | why microservices & containers. We will understand what is the story behind containers and what drives or the needs it, we will know why companies moved from traditional solution architecture to Microservices and how this put containers as the perfect solution for running them, we will get quick intro to clear some definitions, tools and keywords related to this ecosystem. We will understand how the orchestration and clustering work for containers by managing the underline nodes which host the containers. We will understand also different technologies and services around container, like Docker, Docker Hub, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes.

experienced in leading & creating Secure, Digital, Analytics-Driven, IoT, Mobile, eCommerce, complex enterprise integration projects , API gateway, ESB, and message-oriented middleware, Automated, Unified, Personalized, Cloud/Hybrid, Highly Available, Omni-channel, Intuitive, Engaging User Experience for customers, at the same time enable the disruptive nature of technology with Microservices, MuleSoft, EDA, Hybris, ATG, WCS, Magento, DAM, Content Mgmt System, CRM, Loyalty, Angular JS, AWS Solution Architect, Node.js, Salesforce, Chatbots.

Given the complex domain of software product development where change is the only constant, feedback loops are our friends. They enable us to sense and respond to an ever emerging landscape. The tighter the feedback loops, the better our ability to respond to change and to newly discovered information. As we focus on improving our feedback loops, we improve our ability to work on the right things, work on them in the right way and do it fast!

The Shift Left mindset is directly tied to tighter feedback loops.

Through this talk, Vinaya will share the centrality of feedback loops to Agility, What needs to Shift Right for Agility, What needs to Shift Left for Agility. As a way of tying the mindset back to action, Vinaya will also share pragmatic ways of shifting left that organizations can adopt right away!

With over 20 years of IT industry experience with a decade in the Agile Transformation space, Vinaya brings a mix of development, delivery and trasnformation experience to her engagements to enable businesses to be more agile.

She has worked with several large organizations in Telcom and Banking and Financial Services and has also worked as an independent consultant.

Vinaya helps organizations focus on value delivery at speed and quality in a sustainable manner.

She has been leading teams of Senior Agile Coaches for the last 5-7 years and is a strong proponent of transformation through enablement and coaching.

She enjoys learning from and contributing back to the global Agile community.

She is committed to the cause of diversity and inclusion at the workplace and leads and participates in several programs within and outside her organization in this area.

What is Web scraping
What is beautiful soup
Visualization of information using bokeh plotting library
Analysis of model on real time data from one of the leading websites
Demo
Conclusion

Knowledge work in the context of ever increasing complexity and speed of change. Organizations report me that they experience an ever increasing pressure to deliver, that the priorities keep changing and that people feel undervalued. People run around the whole day to get things foreword and at the end of the day they are exhausted and realize that they still have to start doing the stuff they planned for that day. In our new context of increasing complexity just working harder is only going to make things worse. This talk is a visual simulation of work. You will see what causes these symptoms and above all what you can do about it. Work smarter not harder.

The last 10 years of his career Jan is active as an organizational coach. He is helping organizations to deal with and even thrive in a world where complexity and the speed of change is ever increasing. The bottom-up approach usually used in agile transformations is morphing into cultural transformations. This means the whole company in all his aspects are changing. Moving from static to dynamic organizations.

During the course of this talk, we will look at some of the customer journey snapshots and how an inconsistent digital implementation is turning out to be a landmine in auditing these journeys. We will look at how the story from the data changes drastically due to the tagging gaps. Some of the examples that we are going to see will help us understand the need of global variables while implementing these features and how they can smartly avoid the needs of complex tagging. Finally, all these questions will lead us to the million dollar question “Should we compromise on data volumes by capturing less just to keep it simple” and that’s when I will showcase you some of the solutions that are available in the existing market leading tools that will help us answer address all key business requirement questions with very minimal implementation. We will look at how having simple data layers on the site can help us tackle big business problems.

Format of the talk: This talk will be a mix of talk + use case demos. We will get into certain websites via sreensharing mode in between this talk.

Santosh leads the Digital analytics team for a Fortune 30 and leading Home Improvement retailer, Lowes. His team focuses on building the next gen analytics in house products for the Lowes apart from delivering insights / recommendations from digital and offline data. As a digital enthusiast, Santosh is a technical hands on person with expertise predominantly on Adobe and Google platforms.

Prior to Lowes, Santosh worked with companies like Adobe, Tesco, JCPenney where he gathered the end to end expertise on the digital domain for retail and ecommerce.

The Japanese concept of kaizen fits perfectly into DevOps by pushing people to take responsibility for their operations and fix mistakes as they crop up. Kaizen, a Japanese term that refers to the practice of continuous improvement, is a core DevOps principle.
- Elements of a DevOps Kaizen programme
- Improvement Storyboards (A3 management process)
- Establish program elements
- Make the work visible
- Build into your Operating Model
- Focus on Continuous Improvement

Vin has more than 20 years of experience in Advisory and Delivery roles and leads both large enterprises and lean startups including company ventures on their Digital Transformation journeys. With experience in diverse and sometimes contrasting industry sectors like Financial Services, Food and Agriculture, Retail and Healthcare, Vin has the ability to align the stakeholders on what is the step change that would be instrumental in moving their organisations away from inertia and towards a more client driven organisation. With his broad understanding of Customer Experience and Technology toolsets including UX and DevOps, he works closely with his team to reach out to the grass-roots rather than just stop at breaking the silos to get the job done and make the organisations good at getting better!

How can we make use of AI/ML to classify generic errors of any type and use the model to predict the cause of any given error messages. This will for example in test automation space, where automation failure cause can be found by passing the error messages and get to know why a test failed.

Throughout my 19 years in Software Industry, I have worked as Test Automation engineer across various domains like Network Management, Mobile, comparison sites, online security and online travel. Currently working in Expedia as Principal Software Engineer in Test , guiding all teams on the best practices of UI automation, trying various new technologies for mobile, responsive automation, tools for parallelisation, cloud based solutions for cross browser and device automation. I like new technologies, my current role gives me the freedom to continue to evaluate new solutions for various challenges we are facing in the fast moving test automation domains like mobile web automation, cross browser automation, responsive automation, etc.

Cloud computing has a large momentum and new cutting-edge technologies are available compared to traditional on-premises architecture. Benefits are numerous and include lower upfront costs, impressive scalability, faster setup and many more. That's why a large number of projects are being migrated to the cloud. At the same time, a vast majority of new projects use cloud services. Even though cloud technology provides a lot of benefits, the challenge of testing these systems still exists, especially in testing business logic. Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft,one of the biggest cloud providers at the moment. I will share my experience in working on an Azure-based solution.
Key takeaways:
This presentation will:
Provide ways of monitoring what is going on in the Azure cloud;
Explain the differences between traditional and cloud testing;
Provide ways to automate cloud testing.

Jayesh G Salgaonkar, 14+ years in the IT industry, had an opportunity to work with distinguished organizations in
Consulting - Quinnox Consultancy, Capgemini, Palo IT
Product Development - Oracle
Banking Industry - Barclays Bank (Retail, Private & Wealth Banking), IndusInd, Lloyds Bank, NAB, CIC, DBS, SCB, etc... Industry.
Started my journey as a pure manual functional tester, in Aug 2007 with Quinnox working for Barclays Bank (Retails division). The First 4 years spend, learning different aspects of functional, nonfunctional, Business-centric requirements, expectations & deliveries. The move to Oracle (as a consultant from Capgemini) in 2010, mark my first step diving deep into project engineering - write from requirement gathering, requirement analysis, use case documentation, business flow diagram, helping in prototyping, understanding development challenges, developing feature - performing functional, non-functional tests. Spend about 20 months with Oracle, as a member of the core team developing NGP, which is now known as OBP (Oracle Banking Platform) for National Australi Bank (NAB).