MiniCAST 2021
who it's for
testing engineers, software engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, engineering managers, data engineers
topics
stress-case personas; premortems; product review checklists; undo or confirmation heuristics; Jupyter notebooks for fast feedback; architecture decision records; testing in production; staging environments; Cypress end-to-end testing; ROC AUC model quality; total variation data shift detection; earth mover's distance for drift
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Real Life is not an Edge Case | Rachel Kibler | 32m |
Compares “edge case” to concrete stress case failures and shows how common features actually hurt people: Facebook’s 2014 real‑name lockouts and Year in Review… | ||
| Developing Product Review Practices (That Work) | Irja Straus | 30m |
Product review practices that catch real risks: a requirements review checklist that asks show me the data, verifies business rules, and scores consistency and… | ||
| Computational Thinking | Sarah Aslanifar | 47m |
Computational thinking means building executable models and iterating on them until their outputs are observable and falsifiable, not just writing code or… | ||
| Testing Processes, One Size Does Not Fit All | Bailey Hanna | 25m |
Argues that company-wide testing processes migrate through three concrete stages—standard → specializations → static individual → dynamic living—with teams… | ||
| Testing Machine Learning Modules in Production | Alex Eftimiades | 42m |
FINRA builds and deploys a monitoring stack that: measures model quality with ROC AUC, detects data shifts with total variation and earth mover’s distance, and… | ||
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