QA Fest 2015
2015-10-31
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, qa managers, qa leads, security testers, mobile testers
topics
polyglot automation; making functional tests faster; JBehave reporting; JIRA to GoogleSheets reporting; XPath tips and tricks; JavaMail API testing; cross-platform mobile testing with Xamarin; XSS and common web vulnerabilities; mutation testing resilience; load testing process and planning; BDD for testers; verification of smart meters in IoT
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Organizing Embedded Systems Testing in a Company from Scratch | Vladymyr Skliar | 23m |
Describes setting up testing for embedded PLC-based systems supplied to the nuclear power sector, addressing the need to demonstrate compliance with… | ||
| Monthly Operations Review | Yuriy Malyy | 15m |
Presents a six-metric operations report used for six months across 13 projects to give a clear view of project health and support timely decisions. Data is… | ||
| XSS — From Simple to Complex! | Yuriy Fedko | 21m |
Explains cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, covering XSS types, their possible business-impacting consequences, and which testing tools should be used to find… | ||
| Verification of Smart Meters in an IoT Environment | Akym Boiko | 20m |
Presents verification of smart electricity meters in IoT environments using automatic measurement data. Compares supervised and unsupervised machine learning… | ||
| Optimizing Agile Practices: The Retrospective | Anton Kapytanenko | 20m |
Describes improving agile retrospectives across multiple teams by sharing successful techniques and how effective retrospective practices were developed and… | ||
| What Do QA People Talk About? | Olha Lytvyn | 50m |
Roundtable for QA managers discussing QA organization and processes in outsourcing companies: whether to unify processes and aim for evolution or revolution… | ||
| Top 5 Vulnerabilities You Should Know About | Kateryna Ovechenko | 20m |
Overview of the five most common web/cloud security vulnerabilities that teams should know, how to find them, and how to mitigate them. Covers practical… | ||
| Test Design Techniques, or How to Properly Cover an Application with Tests | Artem Bykovets | 18m |
Overview of test design techniques for QA, focusing beyond exploratory testing and equivalence partitioning to cover core methods and when to apply them… | ||
| SCRUM in a QA Team and How to Live with It | Viktor Gozhiy | 22m |
A QA team’s experience adopting Scrum: history of the rollout and team composition, an outline of ideal Agile testing processes and expected benefits… | ||
| The Tester in Agile — Who Is That? | Yhor Khrol | 21m |
Describes how testing practices change when using Agile (Scrum or Kanban) and shows concrete practices used at Toptal to keep releases fast and high-quality… | ||
| The Role of the PMO in Organizing Project Activities | Maksim Ilnitskiy | 22m |
Describes why and how a Project Management Office (PMO) is created, its purpose and main operating principles, and how a PMO is used to organize project work… | ||
| First Steps of a Self-Organized Team. Management 3.0: Moving Motivators | Bohdan Mysiura | 24m |
Introduces Management 3.0’s Moving Motivators tool for understanding and motivating individuals and teams in agile settings. Explains how the technique helps… | ||
| Practical Visualization of the Value of Testing for the Client | Yulyia Zavertailo | 22m |
Shows how to quantify and visualize the business value of testing for clients by using concrete metrics and KPIs. Covers which test metrics to collect (for… | ||
| Automating Custom Reports from JIRA to GoogleSheets | Vladymyr Prymakov | 22m |
Demonstrates automating custom reports from JIRA into Google Sheets to avoid manual work — examples include a product quality report and other bespoke… | ||
| UX Testing: Planning, Preparation, Execution and Analysis | Tatiana Zavialova | 24m |
Describes how to conduct UX testing for complex systems: plan the tests, prepare tasks and environment, let real users interact (give them chances to click)… | ||
| Lessons learned: When the worlds largest dating site got hacked | Per Thorsheim | 45m |
Ashley Madison, the adultery-promoting dating site got hacked in July 2015. More than 30 million users had their most intimate details exposed when hackers… | ||
| QA Dream Team or How to Build and Grow Your Own Team | Dmitriy Gorin | 23m |
Describes how a QA department is formed and develops: explains when a group becomes a team and what changes occur at different stages, shares the speaker’s… | ||
| BDD Crash Course for Testers | Gáspár Nagy | 41m |
I'm a developer. Similarly to other developers, I like dealing with technologies, architectures and solutions. I also like thinking about ways how to do this… | ||
| Motivation in IT: Theory and Reality | Sergey Novik | 49m |
Overview of well-known motivation theories (management-focused) and concrete examples of applying those theories in IT practice; includes the presenter’s… | ||
| The Brain as a Learning Tool! | Mikhail Dyrda | 18m |
Overview of how the human brain works as a learning tool, presenting interesting facts about brain function and describing existing effective learning methods… | ||
| Test Documentation: How-To and Common Mistakes | Aleksandr Kuzniak | 30m |
Covers types of test documentation (test plans, test cases, checklists), why each is needed and which to choose for different tasks. Describes effective… | ||
| Is Your Web App Friendly with Mobile? | Tatiana Liuliuchenko | 21m |
Explains common problems web applications face on mobile devices and examines the Mobile First strategy for web development. Discusses functional testing… | ||
| Secrets of a Successful Project Through the Eyes of a Test Manager | Alena Chernenko-Dyba, Aleksey Lupan | 39m |
A test manager lists the key questions a test-team leader should ask others before each project to ensure successful delivery, focusing on practices for… | ||
| Cross-Browserness, What Are You Doing?.. Ah-ha-ha, Stop It! | Tatiana Skrypnyk | 20m |
Coverage of cross-browser testing practicalities: which browsers and versions to test, key visual and control-rendering differences between popular browsers… | ||
| Interviews: How Successful International Companies Hire the Best of the Best | Stanyslav Trubyn | 23m |
Covers how leading tech companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, Redfin) design and run engineering interviews to hire top developers. Describes… | ||
| IQ vs EQ: Why Underachievers Hire High Achievers | Nikita Postolakiy, Yulyia Oboznaia | 22m |
Defines Emotional Intelligence and emotional competence, compares EQ and IQ in importance, and explains how emotionality relates to leadership effectiveness… | ||
| Overview of Future Testing Technologies | Hleb Bakhmutov | 17m |
Survey of emerging web testing techniques: using data-coverage instead of code-coverage, testing inaccessible code (e.g., inside private JavaScript closures)… | ||
| XPath yourself: Tips & Tricks | Yvan Pashko | 19m |
Concrete, practical rules for writing more reliable XPath selectors: use explicit axes (e.g., ancestor::, following::) instead of chains of .. or //, avoid… | ||
| Web Grey-Box Testing: The Next Level | Denys Pavlenko | 27m |
Overview of web grey-box testing: explains the web technologies involved in client–server interactions and details the key technologies, commands and usage… | ||
| Testing Email: JavaMail API | Vadym Chekhovych | 20m |
Uses the JavaMail API to automate testing of project email campaigns: verifying delivery (recipient delays, inbox vs. spam), checking message content and mail… | ||
| 10 Automation Principles I Will Not Betray | Aleksandra Volkova | 40m |
Covers ten practical principles for creating maintainable test automation to avoid common mistakes that shorten test lifetime or make suites unusable. Names… | ||
| Test Automation: Cut the Noise and Verify the Essence | Yhor Khrol | 21m |
Discusses automating black-box testing beyond simple record-and-replay of user actions, arguing that reproducing user steps “as is” is easy but limited. Covers… | ||
| Beautiful JBehave Reports | Sergey Pirogov | 16m |
Describes why a custom reporter was needed for JBehave and the solutions used to implement it, then shows how Allure Report was integrated with the Java BDD… | ||
| Load Testing Process and Its Planning | Vladymyr Prymakov | 47m |
Describes a practical approach for planning, organizing, and executing load testing based on experience running load-testing services for over a dozen projects… | ||
| The Mutants Are Coming — Will Your Tests Withstand? | Yaroslav Pernerovskiy | 17m |
Talk explains mutation testing as a technique to reveal weaknesses in your test suite by introducing small code changes (mutants) and checking if tests detect… | ||
| Cross-Platform Mobile Testing: Xamarin | Vasiliy Slivka, Yhor Rozdobudko | 37m |
Overview of cross-platform mobile test automation using Xamarin. Covers automating apps on two platforms quickly and painlessly, referencing expertise from the… | ||
| Process: How to Fix It, Not Mess It Up | Andrey Myasnikov | 43m |
Defines what a testing process is and explains how to set up (not sabotage) a testing process, including criteria for a successfully established testing… | ||
| Polyglot automation | Yakov Kramarenko | 44m |
Shows that choosing the right programming language and tools makes automation simple by writing unit-like tests and injecting data directly instead of driving… | ||
| How to Make Your Functional Tests Truly Fast | Nykolai Alymenkov | 39m |
The talk addresses making functional (end-to-end) tests much faster by going beyond naive parallel runs. It describes problems like tests sharing the same… | ||
| How It Was | 02m | |
A short recap of QA Fest 2015, presented as video footage showing how the biggest QA conference event in Ukraine unfolded; includes links to the conference… | ||
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