QA Fest 2018
2018-09-21..2018-09-22
Kiev, 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, performance engineers, security testers, mobile testers, qa managers, devops engineers
topics
regression testing strategy; exploratory vs automated checks; Ggr in Selenium grid; OWASP ZAP with WebDriver; ATDD with CodeceptJS; performance testing frameworks; ELK stack for performance; automated payment industry scanning; Metasploit for security testing; React Native end-to-end testing; Progressive Web Apps and Instant Apps; test data management
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Regression Obsession | Michael Bolton | 43m |
Argues that regression fixation is displacing deep exploratory testing, claiming no such thing as an automated test and distinguishing checks vs testing with… | ||
| UI Testing in Unity3D — Fantasy or Reality? | Yevhen Rudiev | 47m |
Describes a custom UnityDriver that automates Unity3D UI testing by finding GameObjects and emulating pointer and input events through a C# REST/socket… | ||
| Same Old Story: Foundation of the QA Department. Tips and Tricks | Andrey Myasnikov | 45m |
Describes building an in‑house QA department at a non‑IT TV company: hiring a team in about 1.5 months, replacing outsourced testing to reduce costs, and… | ||
| Mobile Testing: Pinpointing Invisible Problems | Alina Homenko | 37m |
Mobile app retention is harmed by performance issues like slow startup (>2s), battery drain, memory leaks, and excessive network calls. Practical techniques… | ||
| 1001 Reasons to Use Ggr in Your Selenium Installation | Ivan Krutov | 41m |
Ggr is a lightweight Go-based load balancer for Selenium that replaces Selenium Grid by routing sessions without a central DB using MD5-based session routing… | ||
| Gambling with the Devil: Taming All the Risks | Nikita Syskov | 45m |
Presents a practical, concrete approach to risk management for QA: identify the specific context and list risks, analyze expected outcomes and costs, then plan… | ||
| ATDD with CodeceptJS: Effective Testing Without Pain | Michael Bodnarchuk | 39m |
Presents how ATDD combined with CodeceptJS yields readable, stable, and fast browser tests that can be written before the UI exists by using runnable… | ||
| Regression Is My Profession! | Alexey Lupan | 33m |
Regression testing becomes harder as teams gain experience, so the proposed approach is to treat regression as a daily, planned service rather than ad‑hoc… | ||
| Methodology of ML in Performance Testing (How to Find Bottlenecks Automatically) | Nikita Krychko | 39m |
The talk describes an ML-based performance-testing pipeline that processes nightly load-test logs in MSSQL and a few hundred server metrics. It uses R and… | ||
| Objective Assessment of Software Product Quality | Vladimir Obrizan | 43m |
Describes turning automated tests into an objective, 0–1 quality metric by using a weighted test plan and parsers that merge reports into a dashboard. Uses… | ||
| Automated Security Scanning in Payment Industry | Michal Buczko | 47m |
Reuses existing UI automation to feed an HTTP proxy scanner so a few lines of configuration make WebDriver drive an OWASP ZAProxy session, decode HTTPS by… | ||
| Still Generating Your Report? We're Coming for You! | Artem Eroshenko | 53m |
Allure is releasing a major report update adding a plugin system that imports historical data and CI variables from Jenkins/Bamboo, explicit test attributes… | ||
| Case study: Users migration testing | Kateryna Shepelieva | 46m |
I want to talk about our experience of migrating users to a database of a 3rd party system, how we were choosing approaches and scenarios for testing, what… | ||
| Estimate everything. Practitioner toolkit. | Galyna Doksvel | 44m |
This talk is about practice of estimation and about the toolkit, that allows to improve estimation accuracy and make your forecasts more predictable and… | ||
| Using voice assistants for development and testing | Oleksandr Khotemskyi | 47m |
Voice assistants can be an interesting and fun replacement for regular chat bots. Such assistants can be used to perform almost any of your commands and they… | ||
| Agile Outside IT Companies & Departments: Real Stories of Transformations | Artem Bykovets | 50m |
Agile and Scrum practices were applied outside IT—in retail, publishing, banking, distribution and government—by introducing visible Kanban boards, one‑week… | ||
| Analytics Data Driven Testing | Slavik Pashanin | 33m |
Covers concrete workflows: Google Analytics setup and limits (tracking code, event/page/button timing, 30m lag, $150,000 premium), building an internal BI with… | ||
| Last-Minute Performance Testing | Pavlo Vedilin | 39m |
A rushed two-week performance test aimed to validate a learning platform at 20,000 users but uncovered problems with non-HTTP chat protocols… | ||
| The Secret to Successful Testing | Johan Jonasson | 49m |
Claim: testing succeeds when a concise, multi-level strategy ties clear information goals to explicit risks and test ideas, letting teams pick… | ||
| Between Two Realities: Testing AR / MR | Dariia Bondarieva | 44m |
A QA team ported large CAD turbine models into Microsoft HoloLens and evaluated real-world limitations: the HoloLens scans reliably only to about 3 m, fails on… | ||
| The Test Automation Pyramid and How It Ruins Your Life | Yaroslav Pernerovskiy | 44m |
Argues that the classic Test Automation Pyramid is a misleading metaphor that harms projects and offers concrete alternatives: a “round‑earth” model that maps… | ||
| A Cookbook for Testing Data | Aliaksei Boole | 41m |
Practical guidance for testing data advocates generating fresh test data near test execution rather than using old dumps, and recommends marking and cleaning… | ||
| What Is Metasploit? How Do I Use It to Test Project Security? | Svyatoslav Login | 36m |
A practical demo of using Metasploit together with Nmap and Ettercap to scan, fingerprint and exploit live targets, showing a full chain from discovery to… | ||
| React Native is Coming – the story of hybrid mobile application testing | Adam Stasiak | 40m |
Compares cross‑platform options (React Native, Flutter, Ionic), contrasts native tools (Espresso, XCUITest) and Appium, and demonstrates concrete end‑to‑end… | ||
| Progressive Web Apps, Android Instant Apps & Accelerated Mobile Pages - will they substitute installable mobile apps? | Diana Pinchuk | 38m |
The perspective of creating a mobile app that doesn’t need to be downloaded and reviewed in the App Store is very attractive, especially when there is more… | ||
| Performance Testing Framework | Anton Serputko | 46m |
A Dockerized performance testing framework that deploys a runnable pipeline in minutes and sends Apache JMeter samples to InfluxDB so Grafana displays live… | ||
| Shift-Left Testing | Anastasiya Aseeva | 01h 28m |
A small microservice with a database and web page was built and instrumented so tests live in code: about 30 unit tests plus API and integration checks using… | ||
| ELK Stack: Use in Performance Testing and More | Alexander Venger | 32m |
Shows how to stream JMeter CSV results live into the ELK stack by wiring Filebeat and Logstash into Elasticsearch and Kibana, including the Logstash CSV filter… | ||
| 56k Denial of Service | Denis Zhevner | 45m |
Demonstrates that HTTP application‑layer attacks like Slowloris and slow POST can saturate servers using only a 56 kbps uplink; live demos use Kali and a… | ||
| GraphQL Is the New Sexy | Sergey Pirogov | 48m |
Describes using GraphQL to reduce network load by letting clients request exact fields and combine multiple REST calls into one, with tooling examples… | ||
| Risk Analysis | Michael Bolton | 46m |
Argues that risk is not just probability times impact but concrete stories and measurements: the Pentium floating-point bug that triggers wildly different… | ||
| Lock, stock and the browser console for QA | John Klymenko | |
The deck of playing cards is the best tool for the cardsharks. Money - for the Wall Street bigwigs. Today we will discuss the browser console - what is, in my… | ||
| REACTive Automation: How to Avoid Shooting Yourself in the Foot | Sergey Korol | 47m |
Covers practical techniques for more reliable React UI test automation: add data-test attributes to encapsulated components to make locators stable; inject… | ||
| Domain Testing – Is It New or a Well-Forgotten Old? | Andrey Ladutko | 27m |
Describes domain testing as an algorithmic workflow (identify variables; define primary and secondary ranges; analyze dependencies to create tests; track… | ||
| Testing neural network, or how to convince AI love the humans | Yuriy Sychenko | 43m |
Our product's main concept is understanding the live human language via Natural Language Processing = NLP to build chatbots for US insurance companies… | ||
| How to Manage Your Test Data for Successful Test Automation | Mikalai Alimenkou | 47m |
Compares concrete methods for preparing test data for automated tests: creating data through the UI versus calling APIs with Swagger-generated clients… | ||
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