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Agile Testing in Large Scale Organizations[presentation]
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Mary Thorn has had the opportunity in the past twenty years to work at many startups, creating several QA/test departments from scratch. For the past ten years, she has done this in agile software companies.

Mary Thorn
STAREAST 2018 Machine Learning Heralds the End of Selenium[presentation]
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Selenium has been the cure for free and low-cost browser testing for years, and—in the world of agile, mobile, DevOps, and browserless interfaces—it is showing its age.

Jason Arbon
 STAREAST 2018 Continuous Testing vs. Test Automation: Three Key Differences[presentation]
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The past few years have brought a sea change in the way applications are architected, developed, and consumed—increasing both the complexity of testing and the risk of software failures.

Wayne Ariola
STAREAST 2018 Mindmapping: A General Purpose (Test) Planning Tool[presentation]
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MindMapping is a general technique of organizing your thoughts, aligning your ideas, and breaking things down. It’s uses are, in fact, mind blowing.

Bob Galen
STAREAST 2018 Make Your Team Awesome—Yes, You Can![presentation]
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The key to creating high-performing teams is psychological safety—the ability to be vulnerable in front of others even when they hold diverse viewpoints, and the opportunity to take risks and trust that everything will be OK.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Automated Security Scanning for Your Delivery Pipeline[presentation]
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Matthew Grasberger
STAREAST 2018 Thirteen Patterns of Testers Thriving in Agile Teams[presentation]
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Shaun Bradshaw
STAREAST 2018 AI-Driven Testing as a Service: Fad, Fiction, or Future?[presentation]
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Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are leading to a new generation of software, which is becoming self-adaptive, autonomous, and smart.

Tariq King
STAREAST 2018 Automated Testing: Beyond the Basics[presentation]
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Jim Holmes
STAREAST 2018 Migrating from Test Cases to Real-World Telemetry Measures[presentation]
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Ken Johnston sees today’s software ecosystem in the light of Everything as a Service (EaaS). Operating systems like Windows, Android, and Chrome OS all ship regularly like a service.

Ken Johnston
STAREAST 2018 IT Poetry: Distilled Learning from Our Experiences[presentation]
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What Sue Uyetake calls IT Poetry—or distilled learning—is a great communications approach. A way of distilling “What Is” statements as a troubleshooting tool and a way to lighten the moment, IT Poetry has resonated with Sue and her teams.

Sue Uyetake
Release management Why DevOps Still Needs Release Management[article]

Release management is still critical in a DevOps environment. You likely will just have to change your current process. You will no longer need to track implementation or back-out plans as part of change orders; you just need to be able to track the application, its components, and its promotion schedule. The key to maintaining these change orders is automation.

Adam Auerbach's picture Adam Auerbach
STAREAST 2018 Transformation from QA to Engineering: Testing in the Fast Lane[presentation]
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Jennifer Scandariato
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan Overcoming the Hurdles of Continuous Delivery: An Interview with Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan[interview]
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In this interview, Jeff Morgan, the chief technology officer and cofounder of LeanDog, explains how continuous delivery and continuous deployment have changed how software teams do business. He breaks down funding projects versus teams and validating quality as you build your product.

Jennifer Bonine's picture Jennifer Bonine
How Agile Has Shrunk Documentation How Agile Has Shrunk Documentation[magazine]

Agile teams enjoy focusing their time on product features while keeping documentation to a minimum. But every team needs to consider what documentation is really needed. How much is enough?

Sandeep Maher's picture Sandeep Maher

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