At Hootsuite we ship code to production multiple times a day; deployment is automated and kicked off and monitored by developers.  In this environment how does QA help contribute to safe deployments with high quality and minimal bugs?  In this talk Mike will discuss what Hootsuite's process is, what is working and some things that have proven not to work. Bio Mike Hrycyk has been trapped in the world of quality since he first did user acceptance testing 17 years…

Selenium WebDriver scripts are slow. It is common to have even simple scripts running in 10 seconds or more. The execution time gets longer and longer when adding more automation scripts. What can be done for making the Selenium scripts faster? The presentation will look into different things that, when used together, reduce the automation execution time significantly. Bio: Alex Siminiuc has been a software tester since 2004. Experienced with functional testing, test automation, performance testing, API testing. Teaches manual testers programming…

This presentation is based on the idea of creating a reusable framework to automate a web based application using Selenium so that once created, it can be used by non-developers to create automated test suites for any web based application with Excel or any other Windows interface. Session Takeaways: - What is Scriptless Automation - Framework for Scriptless Automation - Advantages - Challenges - ROI Comparison Bio: Vikas has a total of 12+ years of experience in software testing. Vikas…

This presentation will: Provide a background on web accessibility standards and legislation Discuss software tools to automate the discovery and remediation of accessibility issues Present methods for manual testing for desktop and mobile devices Presenter - Janos Sitar: Janos joined Central 1 in September 2015 as a Web Accessibility Specialist. Currently, Janos is leading projects such as improving the user experience of desktop and mobile products with assistive technologies and conducting interviews of Central 1 members with accessibility issues so…

Topic: Where is the Risk? In this discussion, Stuart will talk about his risk-based approach to testing. He will Introduce the simple steps of a risk-based approach, share some heuristics he uses to help facilitate the risk analysis discussions, and invite some interaction with an example he uses as part of the interview process at his current company. Speaker: Stuart Ashman, QA Director at Vision Critical Stuart is currently working as the QA Director for Vision Critical and has worked…

In agile, expectations from a tester are no longer limited to testing and testers are required to be active, contributing team members during entire duration of iteration. These additional roles and responsibilities may be overwhelming but in reality, this change can be really empowering for testers.