Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2023
2023-10-09..2023-10-11
Portland, United States
who it's for
quality engineers, test automation engineers, engineering managers, platform engineers, security engineers, site reliability engineers, product managers
topics
migrating tests to AWS; git-leaks and secrets management; Jenkins with Docker parallel agents; FAST meeting scaling method; IoT test harness and virtualization; pentesting as a service integration; Quality Practices Assessment Model; requirements traceability and decision tables; generative AI for test generation; flaky test mitigation and go for green; service delivery reviews with DORA; CI/CD smoke and production tests
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Transformation Path For Moving Applications Public Cloud | Amol Patil | 43m |
Company moves decades of apps and 70–80,000 legacy tests to AWS and preserves most automated checks by converting secrets, logging, and CI patterns rather than… | ||
| A FAST Way To Scale | James Shore | 46m |
FAST organizes large product groups into a single collective that meets twice weekly in a 10–20 minute fast meeting where product priorities are stated, team… | ||
| Exits on the (QA) Highway to Hell | Jan Jaap Cannegieter | 41m |
Lists 10 concrete bad practices and gives remedies: use product risk assessment / customer value poker to prioritize; don’t replace testers with devs or blind… | ||
| Testing The Next Generation Of Technologies: IoT | Costa Avradopoulos | 46m |
IoT testing requires a different playbook: Gartner data shows applying old strategies yields 89% fail rates, 59% of orgs lack a specific IoT test strategy, and… | ||
| The Practicalities Of Pentesting At Scale | Caroline Wong | 33m |
Enterprises historically test only 10% to 63% of apps but Cobalt's data shows real improvement: 10,000+ manual pentests since 2016 and analysis from ~3,000… | ||
| Amplifying Agile Quality Practices | Selena Delesie | 40m |
Presents a practical assessment called the Quality Practices Assessment Model that maps 10 quality aspects across four dimensions (beginning, unifying… | ||
| Quality Begins With Requirements | Karl Wiegers | 01h 00m |
Claim: quality starts with better requirements and that following a compact set of practices prevents most expensive rework. Recommends 20 core practices… | ||
| TestGPT: Generative AI (AutoGPT, ChatGPT & VisualGPT) | Jonathon Wright | 48m |
A working pipeline turns requirements into tests and runnable code: a free Testers GPT released four weeks ago ingests docs (including 50 million words of… | ||
| Empathy as a Technical Skill | Andrea Goulet | 01h 04m |
Argues empathy is a learnable, technical skill with concrete practices: six interoperating domains (resonating, regulating, reasoning, reflecting, resourcing)… | ||
| Seven Fundamentals Of A Successful Testing Team | Greg Paskal | 43m |
Seven concrete steps for building a testing org, with a claimed methodology called METS minimal essential test strategy, a focus on automate critical tests (no… | ||
| Establishing Quality Roadmaps Via Service Delivery Reviews | Jeff Sing | 38m |
Uses a quarterly Service delivery review to force alignment: baseline DORA benchmarks and a normalized bug ratio (bugs per PR) show that 17 recent incidents… | ||
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