It is common yet quite new to hear the term ‘Observability’. But what does that mean? In this talk, Parveen will share my journey of adoption of a culture of observability within the engineering team.

In this presentation, you will learn what a good retrospective looks like: stages, pitfalls, tools designed to engage your people, and techniques to get the best out of the process.

Humans avoid risk, and change creates risk. To effect change, we must appeal to the heart and the reptilian brain. Stories help us do that, and in this presentation, you will learn how and why to tell stories that win your case for change.

This talk is aimed at people that are trying to build confidence in their software delivery pipeline, whether it is automated or not. I’ll talk about the specific tools we use to supplement our pipeline testing.

In IT, skills in communication, collaboration, and leadership define success. This presentation brings you my lessons in how teams can accelerate and deliver quality software.

What’s the best approach to an effective security strategy? In this session, we’ll provide meaningful and effective guidance discussing the security areas you should invest in first, why the cost is worthwhile, and how to structure your team.

Example Mapping is a collaboration technique used by teams to help refine requirements. We will summarize examples or constraints of a user story, and ensure questions about outcomes or dependencies are documented.

In this talk, Smita Mishra will go through examples of real world apps and stories of evolving UI and UX. We will observe how these evolution, impact the User Experience for better or worse.

This talk will better arm you with skills that you can take back to help you with this arduous but much-needed activity of test planning.

As software development methodologies change, so do the roles within them.... what is the role of a tester in DevOps or CI/CD? How do we fulfill this role, what can we do to prepare ourselves?

Using the stages of the scientific method, Max will teach viewers how to create good test strategies, test plans, and develop useful test cases considering inter-dependencies and data.

In this talk we will discuss how testers can learn from the research and work of criminal investigators today, use hard facts and hidden facts, and from there determine a trustworthy conclusion.

Join our talk for a better understanding of the changing paradigm for testing and a look into the future of software testing in a changing world through lean validation and software assurance.

In this talk, learn about how, with USL, ISVs now have a new, simplified, more efficient validation and joint debugging environment and how this joint validation environment will empower ISVs to provide evergreen support for their apps.

The objective of this talk is to help organize and support your efforts as testers and test leaders to ascend the corporate hierarchy with a message about quality that is being overlooked and ignored.

Join Kirk Walton as we look at how Quality organizations evolved over the past decade, what they’ll need to do to evolve in the 2020's, and discuss tips to keep your team members' skills current with today's trends.

Join Reid Shepard for an overview of the advantages of AWS when it comes to cloud computing, a discussion on AWS’ global reach and its core architecture advantages, and a review of AWS strategies for migrating to the cloud.

This session is targeted at managers and team leaders who want to create and nurture healthy working spaces where their teams will feel comfortable taking risks, innovating, and delivering quality work.