Tester Meets CI System
28th March 2023
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Locked
Tobias Geyer
Tester
Talk Description
What happens if a curious tester meets a Continuous Integration (CI) system and decides to take care of it? Is that even possible for someone who isnāt ātechnicalā?
When I started my current job I didnāt know the domain, I didnāt know the product but I did know about testing and feedback loops. Since I wanted to provide value to the team right away I began to improve the things I knew. Analyzing the feedback loop turned my attention to our CI system.Ā
In this talk Iāll look back on the past eight years and report my experiences on how I made a positive impact on the CI system. The audience will learn which possible changes in our CI system I could do myself, which ones I needed to collaborate on with others and which changes turned out to be mistakes.
Stories from my experience:
- Asking ādo we need this all the timeā resulted in a hugely improved feedback time
- Not running all tests all the time turned out to be a good idea
- Migrating our build system from legacy technology (Apache Ant)Ā to modern technology (Gradle) was a team effort and worth it
- Enforcing code coverage metrics was a mistake and resulted in unexpected problems
I will explain how typical skills of a tester can be applied in more areas than just the product the users see. These skills include asking critical questions, measuring, observing and the willingness to improve things.
In the end I will explain how all of that happened without me becoming a bottleneck in a new area.
What youāll learn
By the end of this talk, you'll be able to:
- Achieve great testing results by looking beyond the product under test
- Understand how to provide impulses for your team and make impactful suggestions even if you canāt implement the changes yourself
- Discover practical examples how a CI System does benefit from a tester looking into it
Tobias Geyer
Tester
Tobias Geyer is a tester by profession and bug magnet by nature. He worked in big companies with waterfall processes and small agile teams. He co-founded and ran the āSoftware Testing User Group Hamburgā until he moved to the other end of Germany. Together with his great team he won the āNRG Global test competitionā in 2014 and was a judge in the first Software Testing World Cup.
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testbash-spring
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continuous-integration
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technical-testing