PNSQC 2024
2024-10-14..2024-10-16
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[PNSQC 2013, PNSQC 2014, PNSQC 2020, PNSQC 2021, PNSQC 2022, PNSQC 2024, PNSQC 2026 Quality Jam]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Do We Really Need A Test Automation Engineer? | Bas Dijkstra | 38m |
Claims that test automation is an activity not a siloed role, backed by 18 years of experience and repeated automation+isolation equals failure outcomes; early… | ||
| AI in Testing: Hip or Hype? | Matt Heusser, Michael Larsen | 54m |
Begins by explaining how LLMs work conceptually, then tests specific claims: debunks a 10x productivity claim, shows real gains around 3–6% productivity for… | ||
| What are we thinking in the age of AI? | Michael Bolton | 01h 04m |
Shows empirical failures with LLMs: 480 attempts to generate simple JSON test data produce a 57% failure rate, 60 iterations reveal frequent self-repudiation… | ||
| Humanizing AI | Tariq King | 51m |
AI is becoming human—more human in the way it communicates, responding based on context, and matching the tone that we articulate.
AI is becoming human—quite… | ||
| Building The Taj Mahal (One Popsicle Stick At A Time) | Linda Wilkinson | 50m |
Built six or seven QA departments from scratch and shows how to assess company needs, hire the right leader, and deliver measurable wins rather than vague… | ||
| Optimizing Your Testing Team | Melissa Tondi | 57m |
Technology Enablement sets testing strategy across people, process and tools and compares three concrete org models: centralized, decentralized, hybrid. It… | ||
| Leading for the 21st Century: Building Resilient Learning Teams | Diana Larsen | 43m |
Argues that blame wastes time and that organizations need lead without blame practices, citing a 2022 study linking dominant managers to more zero-sum thinking… | ||
| Mistakes I Made So You Don't Have To | Rachel Kibler | 33m |
A mentorship program documents concrete outcomes and changes: eight 30-minute sessions with 30–45 minutes of homework, a two-week internship pathway, and a… | ||
| AI-Augmented Testing: How Generative AI, Prompt Eng Turn Testers Into Superheroes | Jonathon Wright | 41m |
Claims an AI-augmented testing stack that moved from a code-generation tool to a broader platform and records 15–20% productivity gain in real projects. It… | ||
| TDD with ChatGPT | Llewellyn Falco | 51m |
In this talk, Llewellyn does a live coding demo where he writes the tests and ChatGPT writes the code.
Together we’ll learn how to break problems into… | ||
| AI-First Testing | Jason Arbon | 55m |
Claim: AI generates a fleet of ~40 virtual testers that, given only a URL, explore pages, write and execute test suites, find accessibility, usability and… | ||
| As a Constellation We Shine: Mentorship Through the Lens of Shine Theory | Sophia McKeever | 46m |
Argues mentorship is a bidirectional practice where mutual investment yields measurable growth: mentees take roles (example: acceptance of an Apple offer) and… | ||
| One Is The Loneliest Number: Allyship And Survival Strategies For The "Only" On Your Team | Elaine Hsieh | 52m |
Panelists give concrete survival tactics: enroll in Toastmasters training or public speaking courses to claim space, buddy up with at least one colleague from… | ||
| Pragmatic Approaches To Building Secure Software | Brian Myers, Timothy D. Morgan, Cory Perkins, Bhushan B Gupta | 49m |
Panelists lay out concrete tradeoffs and controls: competing priorities and uneven security expertise leave thousands of scanner alerts and dependency issues… | ||
| Leadership In QA: The Future of Enterprise Software: Requirements, Domain Knowledge, & Beyond | Jeff Sing, Ron Wilson, John Connolly, Jon Bach, Ying Ki Kwong | 53m |
Panelists argue concrete practices: a battery product with a 20-year guarantee forces build of a physical test facility and long‑duration validation, a recent… | ||
| Quality Beyond Testing: Jenkins to GitHub Actions Migration: Optimized Processes & QA | Sagar Aghera | 46m |
Case study reports a migration from Jenkins to GitHub Actions that runs in about three months, replacing three Jenkins instances and ~45 plugins with migrated… | ||
| Scaling Test Automation Using A Metadata-Centric Architecture | Donald Maffly | 41m |
Claims a metadata hub for ETL test orchestration that replaces many copied tests with one generic routine, using SSIS + SQL Server + MSTest and object mapping… | ||
| Achieving Software Quality Excellence Thru Software-Hardware Co-Design & Co-Verification | Monica Bao | 47m |
Robotics team reports concrete results: in a 2m30s match regimen they add an IR sensor plus an LED panel so intake detection becomes consistent (15–20 trial… | ||
| Enhancing Validation Through Attestations | Brent Clausner | 46m |
Demonstrates using intoto 3.0 to generate chained attestations (build → internal → release) for a Rust binary (cargo build, Cargo clippy, package.tar) and… | ||
| The Test SDK: The SDET's Best Friend In Monolith-To-Microservices Migrations | Wayne Ng | 52m |
uShip builds an internal Test SDK (published to an internal npm registry) to centralize test data creation and core helpers so one API change no longer forces… | ||
| Greater Quality Through Tactical Domain-Driven Design | John Connolly | 54m |
Claims that untargeted logic causes most waste—60–80% of code is business logic—and cites CISQ estimates of ~$2.08T (2020) to $2.4T (2021) in software-related… | ||
| Software And Methods Supporting Legal Proceedings | Kal Toth | 56m |
Tens of thousands of copyright lawsuits use proprietary BitTorrent monitoring tools that are not commercially available or third‑party qualified and that… | ||
| Quality Maturity Model: Driving Excellence In High-Growth Orgs | Vidhya Ranganathan | 51m |
Proposes a customizable Quality Maturity Model that maps 14 concrete dimensions (static testing, unit/integration, use case docs, system and performance… | ||
| Influence Of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning In Test Data Management | Praveen Bagare | 43m |
Claim: AI/ML cuts the half of testing effort spent on sourcing and cleaning data by automating discovery, masking and generation. Demonstrations use open… | ||
| SQA Skillset, AI And Advancing Medical Research | Tracy T. Burridge | 23m |
Uses ChatGPT-4 and Google Gemini to treat the human body as a program, building mind maps and iterative tests to evaluate the vitamin D → MS hypothesis. Finds… | ||
| Revolutionizing Test Automation: Generative AI To Empower Prod Mgmt, Accelerate SDLC | Artem Golubev | 39m |
Claims a 95% time reduction in test automation by moving 90–100% of routine automation work into product management and using AI agents to write and execute… | ||
| IoT In The Matrix: Mocking External Dependencies For IoT Systems Using Physical Hardware | Bart Hsu | 50m |
Argues that low‑cost COTS hobby hardware can replace expensive lab gear to mock Wi‑Fi, GNSS, battery and GPIO interfaces so an IoT device is unaware it’s not… | ||
| Secure Software, Inside and Out: Seven Steps | Joye Purser | 37m |
Veritas lays out seven SecDevOps phases and a concrete claim: its process plus chaos engineering drives a backup product used by 95% of global Fortune 100… | ||
| Enhance Software Performance Testing Using Artificial Intelligence | Rini Susan V S | 42m |
Proposes concrete AI tasks for performance work: generate test plans, synthesize large unique datasets, and generate Gatling or JMeter scripts from an API… | ||
| Signals-Based Testing Of Microsoft Office With An AI-Driven Robot Army | Wayne Roseberry | 34m |
Builds an AI-driven robot army that interacts with Office by emitting labeled state-action-state traces, uploading them to a server that trains models to… | ||
| Integrating Generative AI for Quality Eng. Into The Software Lifecycle | Anastasiia Udovychenko | 38m |
Shows an end-to-end integration that uses GPT‑4/LLaMA/PaLM via an enterprise platform called Alita plus connectors for Jira, GitHub, Confluence and a browser… | ||
| Agent-Based Digital Identity Architecture | Kal Toth | 33m |
Claims an agent-based identity architecture that moves control to personal devices and uses identity agents to manage public-private key sets (often six keys… | ||
| 2024-Emerging-Wolf-Macielinski | Justin Wolf, Damien Macielinski | 18m |
QA automation Engineers own end-to-end automation and push testing down the pyramid, using Cucumber BDD for component tests and JUnit for integration while… | ||
| Team Leadership In The Time Of Remote Silence | Michal Buczko | 48m |
A fully remote five‑person quality team in Poland uses concrete rituals and calendar hacks to cut meeting overload: a start-of-day optional sync that recreates… | ||
| Scaling Tech Work While Maintaining Quality - Hint - Community Is The Answer | Katherine Payson | 28m |
Cobalt scales freelance pentesting to 450 testers in three years by shipping a pentas platform that shows findings live and integrates with ticketing, plus… | ||
| Shifting Out: A Crucial Dimension To Left And Right | Jon Bach | 55m |
Argues for a third axis beyond left/right called Shift-Out that demands zooming to program-level causes, signals, and responses; describes using eBay’s tell us… | ||
| The Test Automation Blueprint: A Case Study | Jeff Van Fleet | 44m |
A case study of a transportation company shows a practical roadmap: a monthslong proof of concept, two years to build a foundation, then organization-wide… | ||
| What Would You Say You Do Here? Reframing Your Role In The QA Field | Jeff Sing | 45m |
Reframes QA as QA as a Service offering a pipeline of technical tooling, developer enablement, governance and culture work rather than just test cases; builds… | ||
| Exceeding Expectations, Inspiring Quality | Nishadhi Nikalandawatte | 44m |
Project implements a layered quality mindset across executive, program and delivery teams, pulls unit testing and defect metrics into a Confluence red-to-green… | ||
| Product Owner In Test | Srilu Balla | 37m |
Proposes a new role, Product Owner in Test, that owns product‑level testing, release signoffs and org standards independently of engineering; requires ~5 years… | ||
| Leveraging LinkedIn in your QA Job Search | Sue Loth | 51m |
Argues that blind online applications rarely work (roughly 10%), and prescribes a five‑minute process: use Indeed keyword alerts and a push notification… | ||
| We Need To Talk...(More) About Mental Health At Work | Veronika Betzel | 37m |
One slide shows 1 in 8 worldwide (about one billion) with mental health issues and a mentimeter-style poll finds many affected but only ~37% willing to talk… | ||
| Data Quality Assurance in Credit Card Fraud Detection | Yuqing Yao | 36m |
Claims that 2023 fraud causes about $10B in US losses and that fraud makes up only 0.5–1% of transactions drive a focus on data quality. Practical fixes… | ||
| Mutating Test Scenarios | Baubak Gandomi | 34m |
A framework called phase tests evolves into “mutational” scenarios that actually mutate data, inject events, and reorder steps; implemented in Java with… | ||
| AI-Driven Techniques for Noise Filtration in Software Validation Logs | Tarun Arora | 46m |
Claims a production pipeline that combines NLP tokenization + TF-IDF vectorization with a Random Forest Classifier (RFC) trained on years of human-labelled… | ||
| Bringing the Dawn of Security & Compliance to Project Teams | Vivek Mathur | 45m |
A lightweight, org-wide 14-question assessment lives in an emailed Excel workbook, uses a non‑linear (Fibonacci) scoring scale, and feeds a database to produce… | ||
| Inside Scoop on Risk-Based Testing | Robin Goldsmith | 46m |
Claims that risk-based testing is a special last-resort technique are false; all testing is risk-based and undocumented, implicit risk choices are unreliable… | ||
| Vulnerabilities in Deep Learning Language Models (DLLMs) | John Cvetko | 36m |
Defines attack paths that actually change neuron weights during training: federated fine‑tuning spreads parameter updates over peers, enabling label‑flipping… | ||
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