Agile Testing Days 2024
2024-11-19..2024-11-22
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[Agile Testing Days 2011, Agile Testing Days 2014, Agile Testing Days 2016, Agile Testing Days 2018, Agile Testing Days 2023, Agile Testing Days 2024]
who it's for
test engineers, automation engineers, qa managers, engineering managers, devops engineers, security testers, product engineers
topics
historic bug heatmaps; coverage-based test selection; defect prediction with ML; chained end-to-end scenarios; flaky test mitigation strategies; monorepo with GitLab pipelines; short-lived feature namespaces; test catcher for outbound messages; OWASP Top 10 checks; dependency vulnerability scanning; employee trustee model for wellbeing; emotional testing of generative assistants
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Test Intelligence: Finding More Bugs in Less Time with AI | Elmar Jürgens | 44m |
Five concrete, reproducible analyses are shown: historic bug heatmaps that locate untested hotspots (one product had front end gaps that caused most production… | ||
| Breaking Automation Rules for Better Efficiency and Coverage | Paul Holland, Vincent Wijnen | 46m |
A team cuts full automation runtime from 47 hours to 2.5 hours and increases coverage by abandoning strict isolation: they replace repeated 10–25 minute… | ||
| The Trinity of Trust – Rethinking Relationships in Modern Management | Søren Wassard, Vincent Wijnen | 33m |
Claims that adding a powerless third party reduces employee stress and raises engagement, supported by a deployed Trinity of Trust model used for about 4.5… | ||
| Mistaken Identities – The Power of a First.Lastname Email Address | João Proença, Sanne Visser | 29m |
Chronicle of name-collision failures with concrete scale and fixes: authors log 360 misdirected emails/year, identify at least 16 distinct people (10 in… | ||
| TestOps: Transforming Chaos into Streamlined Story-Based Releases | Mazin Inaad | 30m |
Project moves from 50+ microservices split across many repos to a single monorepo, uses GitLab pipelines, Helm charts and Kubernetes to build only changed… | ||
| How to Start Security Testing Without Fear | Sander van Beek | 27m |
Covers concrete, actionable checks: follow OWASP Top 10 focus areas (injection A3 2021, broken access control, security misconfiguration), test that form, URL… | ||
| Humanizing AI – What It Means and Why It Matters | Tariq King | 01h 12m |
A digital avatar is created in five minutes from a single static image, uploaded PDFs and a hybrid knowledge setting, with voice synthesis (voice cloning… | ||
| Psychological Safety and Mental Health in Times of Crisis | Gitte Klitgaard | 01h 01m |
Defines psychological safety via Edmondson and gives concrete steps: run a quick daily mood 1–5 check-in and track trends, add a short “how are you” to… | ||
| The Impostor's Guide to Tooting Your Own Horn | Sophie Küster | 53m |
Asserts impostor syndrome is real, often rooted in organizational or cultural factors, and offers concrete tactics: fake it till you make it for short-term… | ||
| PopcornFlow | Claudio Perrone | 01h 01m |
Claims that continuous micro-changes beat big scary transformations by running small, safe-to-fail experiments on a visible board. Shows a concrete PopcornFlow… | ||
| Focus. Deliver. Learn. Repeat | Elisabeth Hendrickson | 57m |
Argues four practical habits drive repeatable team performance: focus, deliver, learn, repeat. Details concrete practices used at Pivotal: strict ordered… | ||
| How to Gain 10 - 15 Hours a Week To Do What You Love | Vernon Brown | 54m |
Clear method to reclaim 10–15 hours a week by doing three concrete actions in a 45‑minute setup: schedule 30 minutes of fun weekly to stop burnout (one client… | ||
| How To Lead a Remote Team | Cam Perry | 44m |
Covers leading remote dev teams with concrete routines: daily short check‑ins, weekly one‑on‑ones, and 10-minute meetings to keep momentum; run 5-minute… | ||
| How to Build More Effective Relationships with Your Developers | Lisa Crispin | 01h 06m |
Says poor communication costs U.S. businesses $1.2 trillion a year (~$12,506 per employee) and offers concrete fixes: stop waiting to test, adopt test early… | ||
| Agile Leadership Lessons | Selena Delesei | 59m |
Seven concrete leadership moves backed by concrete results: listen deeply and hold space so teams feel safe; fight for pay parity (secured ~ $20k raises and… | ||
| Accessibility Testing: The Manual Parts | Tolu Adegbite | 01h 03m |
Automated checkers (Wave, axe, Color Oracle) reliably flag ~30% caught by automated tools like missing alt attributes or contrast issues, but about manual… | ||
| A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps | Katrina Clokie | 46m |
Shows concrete outcomes: refactors and moving test agents to Selenium GRID and cloud provisioning with Puppet cut flaky CI + UI test cycles from ~30–40 minutes… | ||
| Quality Processes in an Agile Environment | Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin | 01h 07m |
Claims that Deming’s principles map to agile: process quality drives product quality and focusing on quality yields speed. Concrete practices shown: continuous… | ||
| Designed to Learn | Melissa Perri | 40m |
Reframes MVP as a process to minimum effort to learn rather than a first release, shows a real experiment: add a KoalaRoom JS prompt on exit, collect 5,000… | ||
| A Story of Mob Programming, Testing and Everything | Elisabeth (Lisi) Hocke | 01h 08m |
A cross-functional team runs an experiment of five sessions to try ensemble work, then adapts rotations from timers to rotate per task and drops the strict… | ||
| Owning Our Narrative | Angie Jones | 48m |
Argues that the tester role stays constant while methods change and gives four concrete lessons: automation as a tool—used to run thousands of records in a… | ||
| Breaking down silos to team cross functionality | Natalie Warnert | 27m |
Argues that true cross-functionality requires system changes not title swaps: a Fortune 100 edict to rename everyone “engineer” without time to retrain creates… | ||
| People, Principles and Pragmatism | Emily Webber | 46m |
Argues that agile’s spread masks failure: searches return 4,872 books, 486,963 Certified Scrum Masters and 2,565,526 LinkedIn matches yet only 7% of CIOs never… | ||
| How to tell people they failed and make them feel great! | Liz Keogh | 49m |
When the term "failure" makes people uncomfortable, making things safe-to-fail can help.
All across the software development sphere, people are touting the… | ||
| 20 Years of Women in Agile | Linda Rising, Esther Derby, Rebecca Wirfs-Brook, Ash Coleman | 01h 05m |
To celebrate 20 years of the Agile Manifesto the organizers of the Agile Testing Days and the Agile Alliance teamed up for a virtual panel discussion on the… | ||
| UX and an Agile Development Process | Ashley Janelle | 49m |
Explains exactly how UX fits into an Agile cycle: what UX does at requirements, design, develop, test, deploy/review, how handoffs must include visuals… | ||
| Unleashing the Black Box: Testing Machine Learning Systems | Rashmi Nagpal | 53m |
Claims that 87% of ML projects never reach production and that TDD can enforce FATE drive a checklist of concrete techniques: use SMOTE balancing to equalize… | ||
| The Future of Women in Agile | Johanna Rothman, Alex Schladebeck, Faiza Yousuf, Claudia Badell | 01h 04m |
Panelists report concrete outcomes: a Facebook group grows into women in tech pk and a directory, with an on-site coding bootcamp for girls that graduates 700… | ||
| Automation meets UX: Perfect Partners for Accessibility | Caroline Hotze, Anika Strake | 34m |
Automation scans the HTML, runs WCAG rule checks, highlights offending elements, captures screenshots and generates per‑link reports; it’s fast and cheap but… | ||
| Pivotal Moments | Janet Gregory | 43m |
Stories show growing up on a dairy farm, milking at 12, negotiating gymnastics enrollment and then building a provincial gymnastics club as president; moving… | ||
| Learning through Osmosis | Maaret Pyhäjärvi | 49m |
Teams work on one task at one keyboard so everyone learns by watching and doing, using one computer with a rotating driver who follows commands and a… | ||
| How To Onboard New Hires Into Happy and Productive Employees | Poornima Vijayashanker | 36m |
Actionable checklist: set up tech and a repeatable first-day, first-week, first-month plan, run an architecture review and roadmap walkthrough, assign a… | ||
| Culture Is More Than A Mindset | Ash Coleman, Keith Klain | 52m |
Corporate D&I programs frequently spend big but move the needle little: Google spends roughly $300M (2014–2017) and sees 1% increase (~600 hires); structural… | ||
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