March 25, 2021

<break>point summit 2021, 23-24.03 by BrowserStack, Summary

-= Day 1 =-

Detox: The unobtainable test stability (or is it?)

  • Mobile Testing, End-to-end
  • Tracking test results -> TeamCity
  • Why automate? Replace QA time? Free up time?

Shift Left – How to create ‘Production-ready’ changes by focusing to the left side of your pipeline

  • Tests close to the code
  • Know faster: Fail earlier, Fail fast, Fail often -> Save time and money
  • Pull-Request management

Agile Tester Toolkit

  • Who is impactful QA? Understand Agile and QA.
  • Why toolkit? Testing Concepts and Execution
  • Test Automation -> Data? Framework? etc.
  • Document, Track your work -> Blog -> Summarize
  • Best practices, mentors

Visual Regression Testing: Why, What and How

  • Canva UI: Testing Animations, Visual Effects etc.
  • Percy visual testing
  • Test at scale

-= Day 2 =-

Contemporary Exploratory Testing

  • What is Contep? = Learning <-> Agency, Invest -> Results, System Thinking
  • Test Automation is Documentation!
  • No proper exploratory test without Automation and other way around

Whole team holistic quality: For Product, Processes and People by Alexandra Schladebeck (!!!)

  • Quality in Product: Do we still need testers, if we have QA conscience on Dev side. Yes!
  • Encourage Dev to do explorative testing <-> Tester to write code, Do pair-everything
  • Quality in Process: Where usually Testers help? Ask more questions?
  • Quality in People: Problem is always a People-Problem! Healthy and Happy! Conflicts is a chance to change.
  • Where to start? : Skill matrix & expectation matrix
  • Whole team value -> team quality
  • Aim for enabling specialists
  • Agile Chameleons, not Chimeras! :) (Actually, Combs...)
  • Keep learning and teaching and sharing
  • Talk to people. It's magic!

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