STARCANADA 2019

PRESENTATIONS

Taming Your Dragon: From No QA to Fully Integrated QA

Many companies struggle with their QA processes and think of them as bottlenecks to their releases. Join Priyanka on her journey of transforming QA and improving its reputation and reliability.
Priyanka Halder
Testers: The Unsung Data Heroes

Data is the most valuable commodity in the world, and testers generate the most valuable data in the product development organization. When effectively tracked and presented, that data can inform release schedules, aid in decision-making, and shape the direction of the product.
Connor Dodge
Testing as a Top-Notch Service

Noha Gomaa champions "testing as a service" to project teams, helping them implement testing in different lifecycle models for major infrastructure transformations and highly custom, product-specific projects. Noha will share how this service model can work in any organization.
Noha Gomaa
Testing in Production

 If something breaks in production, how will you know? Will you wait for a user to report it to you? What do you do when your staging test results do not reflect current production behavior? In order to test proactively as opposed to reactively, why not test in production?
Talia Nassi
Testing Uncertainty—and a Chatbot Named Ginger

Uncertainty has always been a key challenge for testers. But testing a chatbot adds a completely new level of uncertainty. There are a lot of platforms and tools available for chatbot development, but what we lack is a standardized chatbot testing strategy.
Rajni Singh
The Hidden Testers in Your Organization

The market demands that high-quality software is released at an increasing pace, yet resources remain fixed. How can organizations expand and improve testing under these conditions and help prevent costly and embarrassing bugs in production software?
Carrie Hughston
The Lazy Student’s Guide to Test Automation

Do you loathe regression? Do you tire of the repetitive tasks that are part of your product's lifecycle? If you do, then you might be lazy like Chris Loder. Since his Grade 4 teacher wrote “Chris is lazy” on his report card, it has become his way of life.
Chris Loder
The ROI of One-On-Ones

Having regular one-on-ones is the key to supporting employee performance. As a leader, you know regular conversations are important. When can you find time? How can you make them more productive? What can you do to make them valuable to both you and your team member? What is the benefit to the organization? As a manager of a 50+ testing team, Dawn has successfully rolled out a one-on-one format that produced an increase in team performance across the organization.
Dawn Jardine
Virtual Insanity: Overcoming the Pains of Managing Remote Test Teams

Globally distributed software teams are no longer just a trend—they are industry commonplace. Creating these teams allows companies to lower their costs by tapping into developing markets and to provide support around the clock.
Matthew Weinstock

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