Agile, Testing and DevOps: Are they a separate conversation or a progression of capability?
DevOps, Testing and Agile have shared environments that facilitate working together. These three methods are more than simply adopting new tools and processes and the synergy involves building a development and a stable Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure, as well as an automated pipeline that moves deliverables from development to production. They can work together, and the entire build process should be transparent, and it should enable and support development and operations. This transformation depends on significant changes in culture, roles & responsibilities, team structure, and tools & processes.
At this showcase we are aiming to include many case studies as well as high quality technical/review presentations. We will also feature the popular and interactive round table discussions where all participants can join in, shape their learning, share their own experiences, and hear fresh ideas. This session is for 45 minutes. The speaker at each table will have a set theme and delegates join any table that they are interested in. They are given all the topics with their joining instructions and again at the time of registration and so make their choice on the topics that they want to attend. This is a discussion group and so no presentation slides are necessary, but please submit a topic if you would like to chair a discussion on a topic related to Testing, Agile and DevOps.
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We are inviting speakers – thought leaders, subject experts and start up entrepreneurs – to share their knowledge and enthusiasm about their work and their vision in the field of Agile, Testing and DevOps Showcase.
Please complete the speaker’s response form and submit a proposal to present at this event.
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The programme features a morning plenary session, then splits into two tracks: Agile & DevOps and Testing.
Sabine Wojcieszak, getNext IT
Like Cinderella´s “The good in the potty, the bad in the croppy” this talk will focus on common habits on individual, team and organizational level, which will either support or harm your DevOps initiatives. It will give some ideas of how to foster the good ones or to solve the bad ones.
This talk is made to stick in your mind, to help you to discover habits in your own environment and start to work on them!
Chris Verlinden, CEO, Adjugo
DevOps is primarily a new culture, one of close collaboration with business and software development. The culture needs to move away from command and control and needs to embrace self-governing, autonomous teams aligned with the goals of the company. This presentation will cover some of the biological background of the challenge.
Carole Malinge, Micro Focus
This session will start with an introduction on AI & NLP approaches and will show how these can apply to test automation. Come & see how Micro Focus implements these new technologies to simplify creation & maintenance of automated tests, enabling greater productivity.
Pieter Gheysens, Xpirit Belgium
Releasing software to production has always been a risky job but it doesn’t have to be like that. Tools and automation can help a lot to increase the reliability and quality of your code. In this session I will show how Azure DevOps has made it extremely easy and intuitive to use the power of integrated features for all stakeholders in the software development process.
Renaud Montulet, Eygues & Bentrix
An overview of the challenges facing the Agile Coach while introducing the Agile way of working in just in time (TITO) delivery environment. How to marry the aim for X-functional and self organizing teams with specialized expertise and legacy management reporting.
Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse, Formica Digital
According to the Scrum Guide, the product owner is the person responsible for maximising the value of the work done by the development team. But how does he/she do that?
We will talk about how the criticality of the product owner rol; how the product owner is accountable for building the right product; and how he/she can enable everyone involved in reaching the overall objective: make end-users happy!
Pierre Hervouet, EDIDIA SPRL
Rico Trevisan, Agilar
I will share how a computational fluid dynamics company transitioned to agile not by focusing on improving how the IT department works. But how they transformed the IT department by focusing on understanding the user, the user’s challenges, and how the user interacts with the product.
Sabine Wojcieszak, getNext IT
Like Cinderella´s “The good in the potty, the bad in the croppy” this talk will focus on common habits on individual, team and organizational level, which will either support or harm your DevOps initiatives. It will give some ideas of how to foster the good ones or to solve the bad ones.
This talk is made to stick in your mind, to help you to discover habits in your own environment and start to work on them!
Chris Verlinden, CEO, Adjugo
DevOps is primarily a new culture, one of close collaboration with business and software development. The culture needs to move away from command and control and needs to embrace self-governing, autonomous teams aligned with the goals of the company. This presentation will cover some of the biological background of the challenge.
Carole Malinge, Micro Focus
This session will start with an introduction on AI & NLP approaches and will show how these can apply to test automation. Come & see how Micro Focus implements these new technologies to simplify creation & maintenance of automated tests, enabling greater productivity.
Pieter Gheysens, Xpirit Belgium
Releasing software to production has always been a risky job but it doesn’t have to be like that. Tools and automation can help a lot to increase the reliability and quality of your code. In this session I will show how Azure DevOps has made it extremely easy and intuitive to use the power of integrated features for all stakeholders in the software development process.
Daniël Maslyn, Sogeti Belgium
In June 2018, Sogeti launched the book ‘Testing in the digital age: AI makes the difference’. A year later, the story of AI enhanced testing is growing fast. Testing in Agile and Dev Ops contexts are converging with AI and machine learning tools, technologies and ways of working which lead to a “new normal”. This cooperation between human testers, aided by AI guided automation leads to possibilities in Cognitive QA that will be increasing in the coming years.
This session will cover some of the key elements in this Digital Testing story and will cover topics such as new AI driven quality attributes, things the tester should now to best include this AI driven way of testing into their end-to-end testing process and will in general offer practical guidelines for how this approach can greatly assist daily test practices. This approach can help meet the challenges we see growing such as increasing product complexity, larger data volumes and the need to be flexible enough to anticipate testing trends and be able to be better positioned to let the AI help so that we can better focus on testing scope and take on product releases in a more time to market driven and continual manner. As companies continue their transitioning to Agile and Dev Ops ways of working and so too this session will also cover the stages or “hops” your company may consider on such a journey to transition to this digital testing future. This session will cover these and other insights into the topics from the book and how you can start this journey to Testing in the Digital Age.
Viktorija Manevska, beQualified
When Viki heard for the first time about unlearning it sounded a little bit confusing to her. Why should she unlearn something that she already knew? But than she started to read and research more on the topic of unlearning and she realized that unlearning doesn’t mean erasing everything you know and going back to zero. It’s just the opposite, unlearning is opening yourself to new learning’s, to new ideas and options. Understanding the unlearning process makes you open to a new perspective which was previously blocked by existing knowledge and old habits.
Unlearning is similar to clearing the cache from your phone, you don’t erase everything you have on the phone, you only free some space so you can again make some space for some new data.
During the talk Viki will share how she used unlearning for her personal learning experience, the struggles she went through and the results she achieved. Also, she will share how you can facilitate your team to go through the process of unlearning. This will help the team to more easily adopt and implement new approaches and ideas. Team members will become more open to new ideas and not blocked by holding on to old habits.
Inggita Arundina, FlixBus
The user’s behaviour might vary from one to another. It can be influenced by their own culture, habit, and perception that differs from each country. The product result that is introduced and released in one country might be invalid in another. When a product is available in several regions, then how can we decide the testing strategy in the same code base and release?
This session will share my experience regarding the decoding testing strategy based on diversity and the user’s behaviour and cultural perspective. How we overcome cultural differences in testing by utilizing diversity.
Kevin Wittek, codecentric AG
Unit testing is fine, but without proper integration testing, especially if you work with external resources like databases and other services, you might not know how your application will actually behave once it has been deployed to the real production environment. Before Docker, configuring the environment for integration testing was painful – people were using fake database implementations, mocking servers, usually it was not cross-platform as well. However, thanks to Docker, now we can quickly prepare the environment for our tests. In this talk I would like to show how you can use Testcontainers – a popular Java testing library that harnesses Docker to easily, reliably, spin up test dependencies.
