QA Fest 2014
2014-11-04
Kyiv, Ukraine
QA Fest ·
[QA Fest 2014, QA Fest 2015, QA Fest 2016, QA Fest 2017, QA Fest 2018, QA Fest 2019]
who it's for
qa engineers, test automation engineers, usability researchers, security testers, test managers, integration testers, quality consultants
topics
Google testing practices; session security in web applications; usability testing workflows; usability testing from A to Z; functional tests with WebDriver; Thucydides with WebDriver; Cucumber acceptance testing; Appium mobile test automation; pairwise test case design; Enterprise Service Bus testing; pivot tables with TFS; testing high-load web systems
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Testing at Google | Cergey Tsymbal | 33m |
Presents James Whittaker’s book How Google Tests Software and explains Google’s testing practices: types of tests, testing roles, use of test plans (with… | ||
| Session Security in Web Applications | Kateryna Ovechenko | 42m |
Explains how web application sessions work and why session-related flaws are highly common (e.g., Session Fixation, Session Hijacking, CSRF). Shows live… | ||
| Usability and Real People | Tatiana Zavialova | 39m |
Discusses usability testing with real users as part of iterative product development, arguing that individual human differences (experience, skills… | ||
| Usability Testing in Practice: From A to Z on a Project | Viktor Gozhiy | 31m |
Shows how to run usability testing end-to-end on a real project: defines usability testing and its stages (preparation, test plan, test tasks, test teams)… | ||
| EU vs Ukraine Workplace: The Hidden Difference, or What I Learned Working in the EU | Alla Penalba | 47m |
Compares IT workplace expectations and hiring practices between Ukraine and Western Europe, based on the presenter’s experience job-hunting in the EU and… | ||
| Everyday Classification of Testers from a Developer’s Perspective | Nykolai Alymenkov | 46m |
Developer-perspective classification of QA engineers: presents a humorous taxonomy (e.g., "monkey" tester, "fly", "nazi", "panda" and others) to show how… | ||
| Model Thinking | Akym Boiko | 45m |
Explains how to think using models to understand complex real-world systems, presenting model-based thinking techniques. Covers practical ways to apply… | ||
| Test Automation: So What’s the Output? | Pavel Basiuk | 38m |
Covers the variety of test automation outputs—HTML reports, plain text logs and other report formats—examining who generates them, who reads them and when… | ||
| Cool as cucumber | Anna Havryliuk | 37m |
Explains Gherkin and how it works with Cucumber-jvm, showing which common and framework-specific features Cucumber provides. Covers best practices for using… | ||
| Don’t Reinvent the Wheel! Proper Functional Tests with WebDriver and Thucydides | Nykolai Alymenkov | 50m |
Shows that Selenium/WebDriver only automates browser actions, so effective functional testing needs reporting, configuration, data handling and a flexible… | ||
| Google Hacking: The Amazing Next Door | Kateryna Ovechenko | 34m |
Explains Google Hacking: using advanced Google queries to find sensitive files and information about web applications that aren’t meant for public access… | ||
| Appium Two-in-One: A Recipe for a Mobile Autotest Cocktail | Yaroslav Pernerovskiy | 36m |
Covers Appium as a mobile test automation tool and how to run the same automated tests in parallel on different mobile platforms using Appium. Describes… | ||
| Testing an Enterprise Service Bus: What? Where? How? | Aleksandra Volkova | 31m |
Covers functional testing approaches for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration platforms within SOA: what to test (product vs. integration), key test… | ||
| Using Pivot Tables Together with TFS | Yuriy Suvorov | 32m |
Shows how to combine Excel PivotTables with Microsoft TFS to simplify collecting project metrics by implementing a semi-automated metrics-collection method… | ||
| Web — The Magic of QA Processes in (Super) High-Load Systems | Anton Kapytanenko | 48m |
Wargaming Kyiv describes how they run QA for very high‑load web systems (up to 800,000 concurrent users in beta) by using pre‑production design reviews, a… | ||
| Agile Crystal: Creating a Process Aimed at Maximum Product Quality | Yhor Bondarenko | 42m |
Describes adapting the Crystal Agile methodology to build a custom development process focused on maximum product quality in a team with only one tester, by… | ||
| Slideshare Presentation: QAFest ss-41101986 | Aleksey Lupan | 53m |
Discusses how documents and requirements force testers to write test cases, strategies for handling situations when there isn’t enough time or resources to… | ||
| Defect prevention | Cergey Tsymbal | 33m |
Розкажу про перехід від процесу тестування до контролю та забезпечення якості. Поясню, що робити, щоб відкидати помилки в момент зародження та пораніше… | ||
| Developing Test Cases Using the Pairwise Method | Nikita Postolakiy | 01h 29m |
Covers using pairwise (all-pairs) testing to design test cases: theory and manual example generation, handling parameter dependencies/incompatibilities… | ||
| How to Sell Testing to Different Clients and Bosses | Viacheslav Pankratov | 39m |
Practical advice for persuading different stakeholders and bosses to allocate time and people for QA. Presents two easy-to-use typologies of managers, explains… | ||
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