WHY TRIBAL QONF?

There is a persisting myth that testing works like this: you get the spec, then you design test cases with expected results. You run the tests, and then you see if the results match the expectations. And then you automate. But good testing rarely works that way. Even people who tell me that’s how they test don’t actually do that, as I invariably discover when I watch them in action(unless they are really bad at testing).

What I will show in this talk is a report of a product I tested. I will demonstrate how I must learn about the product before I formalize any testing, and how that learning involves interacting with the product (if it is available). I will show how even when I use automation, which is often, that tooling is developed simultaneously with the test designs, and the test designs are simultaneously put into practice. There is no strict sequence of actions, but rather a tangle, or perhaps a weave, of different investigational threads.

Speaker Bio:

James is a founder of the Context-Driven school of testing. He created and teaches the Rapid Software Testing methodology, and has written two books: Lessons Learned in Software Testing (with Cem Kaner and Bret Pettichord) and a book about succeeding without going to a school, called Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar.

Selenium WebDriver has grown to become the default choice for browser automation for most test engineers either directly or as the underlying engine in many tools. Selenium provides building blocks for browser automation. Direct test automation code of professional quality needs a lot of thought and verbose code if directly written with Selenium. On top of this, any web UI test automation framework in a team grows over time to encapsulate test engine needs. Practical observation is that any mature web test automation framework has possibly 10-15% Selenium related code and rest is about reading of files, hooks, configuration handling, business functions, and so on. On the same lines, Page Object Model in its original form turns out to be too basic for professional usage needs.

This presentation discusses the advanced Gui Abstraction Model supported by Arjuna for Web UI Automation. It is a step by step presentation where Rahul takes raw Selenium code and discusses specific problems/challenges (Python is used as the code medium as the framework is in Python as well). Then step by step he takes it through transitioning while using Arjuna facilities.

Arjuna is a Python-based test automation framework developed by Rahul Verma. It is an open-source, Apache Licensed software. Rahul has implemented smaller variants of features in Arjuna across frameworks and organizations or given advice around it. However, Arjuna being a generic library has the most complete implementation of his ideas, away from project-specific contexts and constraints. Arjuna encapsulates Selenium completely and has its own DSL. It similarly encapsulates pytest and many of its plugins along with file readers, XML/JSON parsers, and so on. It uses Python’s advanced coding constructs to provide a very flexible and intuitive Tester Programming Interface (TPI).

To know more about Arjuna, you can check the online documentation of Arjun at https://arjuna-taf.readthedocs.io

Speaker Bio:

Rahul Verma is an Indian testing entrepreneur and an awarded thought leader for his contributions to the testing community. He is Head of Test Automation at trendig GmbH and Founder of Test Mile and Community Proxy for STeP-IN Forum. He is the creator of Arjuna – a free, open-source, Python-based modern test automation framework. He has contributed to the creation and review of various certifications. His software testing experience includes building test automation frameworks in Python and Java, web security, white box testing, and web performance testing. His research work focuses on Object-oriented design patterns applied to test automation and extending them into general-purpose models. He has presented, published articles, and educated thousands of testers in the said areas. His testing ideas and work are deeply influenced by his exposure and interest in poetry and spirituality.

Most of us assume we are adding great value. The only source of truth seems to be around the year-end discussions. We get excited about appreciation emails but is that the reality? In search of reality, Pradeep asked tough questions to employees, customers, C level people and found some answers of business value of testing. Is Testing a cost or value? Does testing improve revenues? Does testing improve profitability? Do C level people even care to know what is happening in Testing? Do V level people care? What do they care about? Find answers to those questions in this talk.

Speaker Bio:

Pradeep Soundararajan is the Chief Servant to Employees and Customers of Moolya Testing, a company he founded. He has been a Tester, Independent Consultant, Test Tool Developer (using Perl), Test Coach, Test Management Consultant, and Product Owner of Testing Tools such as Bugasura.io and whilst wearing a hat as a businessman. Pradeep is the author of the book Buddha in Testing. Too much about him. He is who he is because of the people. He is living a life that can be represented in one word – Ubuntu. Many good people make him.

Learning about risk-based testing can give us a new approach to our testing challenges. Even though Risk-Based testing may ideally be a bigger undertaking, we can begin it by simply analyzing the product as well as each sprint for the impending risk areas and then following them through during test design and development, execution and reporting. I would like to share how I convinced my team about it by using their own case study, using our previous sprint’s data, defect counts based on user stories, and calculating risk priority numbers. I will also share an example of how you can adopt a simplistic, no-frills risk-based testing approach!

Speaker Bio:

Nishi is a corporate trainer, an agile enthusiast, and a tester at heart! With 12+ years of industry experience, she currently works with Sahi Pro software as an Evangelist and Trainings Head. She is passionate about training, organizing testing community events and meetups, and has been a speaker at numerous testing events and conferences. Nishi is also a writer on technical topics of interest in the industry and has numerous articles published at numerous popular forums and her own blog https://testwithnishi.com/ where she writes about the latest topics in Agile and Testing domains.

Try to find solutions to some of the complex problems that require Lateral, out of the box thinking. Enjoy the session solving quizzes and learn the art of questioning the requirements, challenging the assumptions and getting better with the art of Testing the software.

Speaker Bio:

Ramit is Hands/hasta at TestAIng.com, An AI testing startup and CTO of IndoiAnalytics. Apart from his love for testing, Ramit says that he is a standup artist trapped in the body of a tester. Known for his witty, knowledgeable, and fun-filled sessions, he brings simplicity and articulation for even the most complex subjects, delivering great value to his audience through his talks.

The future of civic life and commerce will be driven in large part by conversational interfaces like speech-based personal assistants, chatbots, and AI-powered customer support services. Nonetheless, the current tools available to customers and brands lack the sophistication to engage users with cultural richness. This diminishes the return on automation investment capital and weakens the potency of brand engagement. Join Davar Ardalan, Founder of IVOW AI, as she shares her insights on the future of cultural intelligence in AI. In an age of hyper-personalized marketing and its emphasis on first-party data, Ardalan talks about why novel solutions and tools in AI as applied to audience and culture research are more valuable than ever.

• Use AI to search for, identify, classify, and promote all possible cultures from the past, present, and future
• Maintain a real-time culture graph based on changing external data points and human input
• Make cultural intelligence easily available to both human and machine audiences

Speaker Bio:

Davar Ardalan is a tech entrepreneur and founder at IVOW AI. Together with TopCoder, IVOW is leading a Women in History Data Ideation Challenge to gain new insights for AI products and solutions with a concentration on women. Ardalan is also co-chair of the Cultural Heritage and AI track at ITU’s AI For Good. Prior to this, she was Deputy Director of the Presidential Innovation Fellowship Program and before that a journalist at NPR News, where she was Senior Producer of the Identity and Culture Unit. Ardalan, who has also served as Managing Editor at Hanson Robotics, has been recognized with a NASA Team Leadership award for Space Apps, a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television and a shout-out in the comic strip Zippy. In May 2014, she was the recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, for individual achievement and for promoting cultural unity. 

With the fast-paced world, it’s very important to make the decisions faster and that can be possible only if you have good test coverage and faster feedback. One can use selenium grid on the local systems and achieve the cross-browser and device testing which may have constraints wrt scalability and maintainability, or use SaaS alternatives such as BrowserStack/Saucelabs which fit well for lesser no of tests (gets a bit expensive as we get into concurrent sessions and increase the browser/device combinations) or moreover containerize the automation having the limitations with coverage of IE. How to design a solution to get a scalable, on-demand, manageable, and yet cost-effective infra? Selenium Grid along with Terraform and AWS can be leveraged to write the whole infrastructure as code to prevent any human errors and manual intervention. In this talk, I shall take you through the journey of reducing the test execution pain-points in terms of time, resource availability, conflict handling, scalability, and state management with a demonstration.

Speaker Bio:

Shama Ugale

Shama is working at Thoughtworks as a Sr. QA and has worked as a Solution Consultant with focus on designing need-based test Automation solutions (Web, Mobile, Webservices, chatbots, NLP, AI, and Data), Agile and setting up a DevOps Culture with over 10 years of industry experience. She enjoys talking at conferences and sharing the knowledge across the community and mentoring.

Life has its unique ways of balancing things out. After spending 14 years of testing software, there are a few lessons that help and remind me of the ongoing journey. Some of the lessons got me fame and some taught me to be grounded. While I am proudly remembering a few lessons, some bring tears. I would not call any of them as mistakes. I would rather call them as dots whose importance can be probably realized only in the near future.

Through this talk, I would like to share some of the lessons which I feel will resonate with you and also act as a timely reminder to some of you. I am not here to inspire anyone, it is a friendly talk highlighting the key lessons from a decent 14-year-old career.

What is in it for you:
– Know what it takes to build and maintain an online portfolio
– The first steps to success and how to avoid the mighty fall
– How can software testing become a career and not just a job

Speaker Bio:

Ajay Balamurugadas, goes by the handle ‘ajay184f’ in the testing community and is continuously re-inventing his testing methodology. He co-founded Weekend Testing – a worldwide movement for skilled testing authored six small books under the theme “What If” downloadable at his blog. His latest book is available at www.leanpub.com/50mistakes. His friends associate the terms – ‘Change Agent, Idea Man, Motivational’ to him. He tweets under @ajay184f and loves to have long conversations on software testing and life in general. He is currently leading the delivery at Qapitol QA – Provider of Continuous Testing Solutions to DevOps Teams.

Many of you may be thinking this as a very simple topic, but believe me, many of our fellow tester friends still cannot answer the difference between continuous integration, delivery & deployment. This topic will enlighten you with knowledge around the same. More than that it will give a practical sense of how to leverage the power of Jenkins and Docker to run your UI, API, and other tests in large scale projects and perform the continuous testing in the pipeline.

Speaker Bio:

Over 14 years of experience in app dev & automation testing. A Machine learning & Conversational AI Expert. Ex-Cofounder of a couple of consulting companies. Creator of scriptless automation especially for manual testers and continuous monitoring platforms to check realtime mobile app performance. Creator of QBot firefox plugin to identify all the objects on the webpages at one go. Author of Book ‘Selenium Starter Pack For “Smart Manual Tester”: Automation Foundation for Non-Programmers’ published in Amazon. A father of a lovely daughter and a simple human being

“Epidemic has hit us all. Does it mean anything for the present way we are testing? What will change the post epidemic for the testing world if it does? Join us in discussing with leading experts in the field. Your beloved host Lalit (from Tea-time with Testers) will get the ball rolling for you.”

Panellists:

Aprajita Mathur:

Aprajita Mathur is a mom, inventor, mentor, and international speaker with an engineering background in Bioinformatics. She has more than 10+ years of software testing experience. She has worked on a wide range of products like instrument software, LIMS, integrated solutions, and data analysis pipelines which are used in the fields of agriculture, transplant genomics, forensics, and oncology. Currently, she leads the Bioinformatics Software Test team at Guardant Health, which builds the world’s leading comprehensive liquid biopsy. She also leads the chapter for “Women Who Test” in the bay area and hopes to grow this community. In her spare time, she loves to catch up on sleep and write new songs for her son.