Experiences In Modern Testing - Alan Page

Talk Description

While software testing has always been changing and evolving, the changes many of us are seeing recently go well beyond the scope of changes we’ve seen in the last two (or more) decades. Independent test teams are fading in favour of testers embedded into the development team. Large portions of automation are now owned by developers. Data analysis and monitoring are taking on a prevalent role. Technical skills well beyond writing code are becoming critical knowledge. The scope and breadth of the test role is requiring more and more expertise and depth of knowledge.

Alan Page has led (and is leading) teams through the transformation to modern, advanced testing. In a talk filled with experiences, anecdotes, and practical examples – as well as warnings about potential traps, he shares everything he knows (or at least everything he can fit into this session) about modern testing in 2018 and what it means to every software tester.

Takeaways:

• Knowledge of technical skills beyond automation valuable to testers
• Ideas and examples of "new" tasks and approaches that testers can use to provide value to their team
• Examples of how to lead changes in testing on your own teams

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

Alan Page

Director

Alan has been improving software quality since 1993 and currently leads an organization that includes software infrastructure, tools, documentation, and quality coaching. Previous to Unity, Alan spent 22 years at Microsoft working on projects spanning the company – including a two-year position as Microsoft’s Director of Test Excellence. Alan was the lead author of the book “How We Test Software at Microsoft”, contributed chapters for “Beautiful Testing”, and “Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation”. His latest ebook (which may or may not be updated soon) is a collection of essays on test automation called “The A Word: Under the Covers of Test Automation”, and is available on leanpub .