TestFlix 2020
2020-11-28
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| “Debug Thugs” | Pooja Shah | 09m |
Shows that everyday functional testers find XSS in input boxes by trying HTML/JS in search fields, using DVWA as a safe playground and a browser console to… | ||
| “A-Z of Testing Tips (Personal Advice)” | Ajay Balamurugadas | 08m |
Tips include testing awareness via who-done-it videos and using business craft.co to profile customers, always taking backups, building an ecosystem, and… | ||
| “Test Strategy for Progressive Web Apps (PWA)” | Eran Kinsbruner | 09m |
PWA testing focuses on concrete artifacts: a manifest.json and a service worker that enable offline caching, push notifications and sensor access; Lighthouse… | ||
| “Take Back the Driver’s Seat of your “Car”eer” | Melissa Tondi | 07m |
Explains concrete steps: set aside one to two hours per week for free upskilling, log quarterly accomplishments into a living highlight reel, and collect… | ||
| “Observability for testers” | Praveen Khan | 08m |
Join a new team working on a complex distributed system with no visibility and frequent production tickets blocked for lack of debug data; observability is… | ||
| “When can we make a release?” | Sergio Freire | 07m |
Claim: the single determinant for making a release is confidence. It increases by four concrete capabilities: omni testing (continuous, cross-role tests and… | ||
| “Blended Test Strategy – Humans, Bots, and Automation” | Janna Loeffler | 07m |
Claims that a blended test strategy — humans, scripted automation, and AI bots — increases coverage and tester morale, with concrete guidance: start with… | ||
| “First Attempt In Learning” | Babatunde Oduniyi | 08m |
A tester reframes failure as First Attempt In Learning, studies cognition and metacognition, and moves from terrified test-case writer to curious engineer by… | ||
| “Habits + Deliberate Practice = Mastery ” | Amy Jo Esser | 09m |
Claim: habits + deliberate practice = mastery demonstrated by concrete steps: pick a hard exploratory testing skill, sit with an experienced tester to observe… | ||
| “Visual Testing” | Sumit Mundhada | 08m |
Visual testing uses baseline screenshots compared per iteration: capture a golden image, re-run, diff, then either file a defect or update the baseline. Tools… | ||
| “API Testing in Startups using Postman” | Nina Mučibabić | 07m |
Argues that early startups trade costly UI automation for faster manual checks but should aim for automation around APIs using Postman to catch regressions… | ||
| “Leading a Testing Revolution” | Adam Auerbach | 09m |
Argues that different testing maturity levels require concrete, different actions: waterfall → automation and resource mix change, agile→devops requires… | ||
| “Leadership Potential: Do You Have it?” | Anna Royzman | 08m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| “Lessons Learned in Grating Cheese” | Michael Bolton | 08m |
A demo compares a food processor and a hand grater to show that measured activity time omits important setup and cleanup, and that cooking (and testing) is a… | ||
| “Automated Tests as quality pipeline Data Feed” | Tomasz Konieczny | 06m |
Reuses end-to-end test output as a quality-data feed: start a BrowserMob/browserup proxy in CI before tests, stop after, and save HAR files as build artifacts… | ||
| “The Forensics of Testing” | Mike Lyles | 08m |
Five concrete tactics, delivered as five quick items and the mnemonic CRIME: Collaboration, Requirements, Investigate, Mind map, Explore, guide testers to… | ||
| “Hardware and Software Testing – A Bird’s-eye View” | Sharon O’Boyle | 06m |
Defines hardware testing as validating physical and electromechanical parts plus embedded firmware, covering chips, circuit boards, IoT sensors, medical… | ||
| “Deliver & Measure Automation ROI” | Carlos Kidman | 09m |
Automation ROI becomes measurable with a six-step loop: identify decelerators, quantify them with a clear problem statement and a numeric hypothesis (example… | ||
| “Bugs We May Be Missing” | Shmuel Gershon | 08m |
Tells concrete historical near-misses — the 1947 Dead Sea Scroll jars ignored for a year, Ramanujan’s letters dismissed — and names four actual failure modes… | ||
| “Peer Power, or How to Make Use of Your Peers” | Helena Jeret-Mäe | 08m |
Sets up weekly two-hour Skype sessions (every Tuesday, sometimes three hours) with a peer to analyze real testing problems, coach each other, and practice… | ||
| “Strategies to find your dream career” | Raj Subrameyer | 08m |
Three clear steps to pick and pursue a career: do a 30-minute mind dump exercise listing likes and hates to surface strengths, pick your top three careers from… | ||
| “Changing Face of Automation Testing” | Kanwarpreet S Khurana | 08m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| “Testing applications for children” | Nadia Cavalleri | 06m |
Shows that testing for kids requires different targets: prioritize usability testing with children and involve child-psychology input, not just adult… | ||
| “Importance of Quality Assurance to a delivery team” | Vijeta Tiwari | 07m |
Asserts that embedding QA from requirements through delivery prevents production outages and reduces fix costs, illustrated by an e-commerce checkout crash… | ||
| “Reality Driven Testing” | Robert Sabourin | 08m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| “Becoming Heard As A Tester” | Irja Straus | 08m |
Argues that influence is earned by practicing leadership skills and gives concrete steps: align on quality criteria with stakeholders, build relationships by… | ||
| “Test like an Architect” | Aprajita Mathur | 08m |
Connects the civil engineering concept desired paths to software testing and shows how observing real user flows — tracking where people actually click, the… | ||
| “Three Paths to Better Developer Testing” | Alan Page | 08m |
Three practical moves: build whole team quality by shifting testing from one role to everyone; use pairing with a predictable script—ask “what have you… | ||
| “How leaders can keep testers motivated?” | Federico Toledo | 08m |
Claim: motivated testers produce better results; motivation is mostly intrinsic so leaders must plant the seeds by framing tasks around learning, impact, and… | ||
| “Guide to creating your test automation strategy” | Julia Pottinger | 09m |
Defines a concrete automation plan: state the primary goal that drives scope and ROI, pick a dedicated automation team, choose levels from the unit/service/UI… | ||
| “Testing Voicemod: Writing Selenium tests for a CEF App” | Jokin Aspiazu Jensen | 07m |
Automated test suite for a Voicemod CEF client uses Python + Selenium and requires matching ChromeDriver versions to attach to the embedded browser; the team… | ||
| “Manual Testing is Not Dead: Just the Definition” | Erika Chestnut | 08m |
Manual testing is not dead: it is reframed as a partnership with automation that uncovers integration gaps developers miss, feeds high-value cases into… | ||
| “Persona Based Holistic Testing” | Siri Murthy | 08m |
Persona-based holistic testing claims it catches system-level gaps that modular tests miss, arguing it could have prevented the Mars Climate Orbiter ~$327M… | ||
| “Quality Acceleration: delivering quality software at speed” | Huib Schoots | 08m |
Quality acceleration means tightening system, behavior and technology so teams learn faster and reduce risk, not just automating everything. Claims: automation… | ||
| “Example Mapping” | Thomas Haver | 09m |
Example mapping shows a time‑boxed 30 minutes workshop that turns one user story on a yellow card into blue business rules, green example scenarios and red… | ||
| “LOGS – Learning about the Output through a Glass like System” | Deepthi K | 08m |
Explains that logs are sequential raw outputs used as a blueprint for debugging and claims specific levels — fatal/error/warning/info/debug/trace — with debug… | ||
| “Artful Testing” | Zeger Van Hese | 09m |
Argues that treating testing like art yields concrete techniques: emulating artist personas (cubist multiple viewpoints, serialist surprises, Dadaist chaos… | ||
| “de Bono’s Thinking Hat Method for Risk Assessment” | Karthik Sundaraman | 08m |
Shows how Parallel Thinking maps to risk assessment by having testers wear hats of stakeholders in short, timed rounds to generate distinct risk perspectives… | ||
| “Positive Thinking in Quality Assurance” | Mariia Hutsuk | 08m |
Argues that moving from defect-finding to preventing defects requires a mindset shift and gives three concrete practices: use positive language when reporting… | ||
| “These 3 Career Advices Sound Easy ” | Ilari Henrik Aegerter | 06m |
A three-point plan names concrete actions: holistic model of testing that combines experimental design with technical tool use and aims for interactional… | ||
| “Quality-conscious Software Delivery” | Lalitkumar Bhamare | 06m |
A tested team-level framework called Quality‑Conscious Software Delivery shifts focus to product, project and people quality, runs a four-step loop enable →… | ||
| “A testers most powerful tool.” | Anwar El - Wakil | 08m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| “Communication Skills – getting your message across” | Julie Gardiner | 06m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| “Biases Driving 5 Misconceptions that Testers Face” | Brijesh Deb | 07m |
Five specific misconceptions get named and countered with their cognitive causes: that development is inherently superior (anchoring bias), that automation is… | ||
| “The Power Of Reputation” | Beth Marshall | 08m |
Argues reputation matters as much as technical skill and claims the hidden jobs market accounts for 25 to 90 percent of tech hires, so visibility converts into… | ||
| “Excellent Testing” | Ingo Philipp | 07m |
States 18 characteristics of "excellent testing" and makes a concrete claim: excellent testing is fast, inexpensive, credible and accountable. Describes… | ||
| “Creativity in Testing” | Adam Matlacz | 08m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| “Test Fast. Test Local. Test AWS.” | Schalk W. Cronjé | 10m |
Asserts that AWS-native apps can run full integration tests locally without AWS bills by combining LocalStack (Docker), Terraform pointed at LocalStack… | ||
| “Test Idea Catalogs for Better Testing!” | Chris Kenst | 08m |
Claims that reusable lists of high-level test ideas improve coverage and speed by capturing patterns and reusing them across projects. Build catalogs by… | ||
| “The best secret must-know practice” | Lina Zubyte | 08m |
Core claim: the single best testing practice is embracing your authentic strengths rather than chasing named methodologies. Practical moves shown: introduce a… | ||
| “Testers! Aim to Enable” | Ali Hill | 08m |
Advocates shifting tester work toward enabling the team by doing three concrete things: visualize workflow with a kanban board to spot overload and… | ||
| ““How to” Career Shift | –Manual To Automation” | Soumya Mukherjee | 10m |
More than 1,000 professionals trained and ~90% ask the same question about switching from manual to automation, common mistakes include chasing certifications… | ||
| “Quality is a Team Responsibility” | Lavanya Mohan | 05m |
A production outage prompts a hotfix that appears to work but only surfaces after customers call support, revealing that a critical change was unplanned… | ||
| “Absolutes in language and how they apply to Software Testing" | Alan Richardson | 08m |
Argues that absolute words like must, never and should blind testing and gives concrete examples: automate through the API versus GUI, do not use cucumber for… | ||
| “Essential Mathematics for Testers” | S Krishnaswami | 10m |
Argues that basic set algebra and boolean tables make test design faster and more reliable by turning vague rules into concrete combinations and outcomes. Uses… | ||
| “The Art of Asking “Stupid” Questions” | Dorothy Graham | 08m |
Claim: asking apparently “stupid” questions prevents real disasters by surfacing ambiguities early. Cites a safety-requirements review where dozens of serious… | ||
| “Qualities of a Good TESTER” | Faiz Modi | 08m |
Claims a short TESTER acronym lists concrete traits: critical thinking, effective communicator, technically sound and self-motivated are mapped to letters and… | ||
| “The Power of No” | Roman Podolyan | 06m |
A $400 million company fails in under an hour after old code remains, one production server isn’t updated, and post-release monitoring is missing, so the… | ||
| “How to interview software testers to hire the most talented ones” | Reza Taati | 07m |
When hiring, the team builds a simple desktop app seeded with real bugs and watches candidates work through timed exploratory tasks to reveal meticulousness… | ||
| “Consumer-Driven Contracts: TDD for Services” | Pramod Kumar | 09m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| RPA and the future for tester | Adou Wilfried N’guettia | 12m |
RPA is presented as software bots that mimic repetitive desktop work 24/7, combining automation, computer vision and ML to hit near 100% accuracy and deliver… | ||
| QA in an Agile environment | Asmaa Refat Abu Al Failat | 09m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| Evolving of test automation past to present | Hür İbrahim Sakman | 08m |
Eight years of hands‑on testing with five years using Sahi Pro, QTP/UFT, LoadRunner, Selenium, Appium, SeeTest, Robot Framework leads to a claim that test… | ||
| Handling Dynamic Waits in Cypress Automation Tool | Sahithi Gundu | 08m |
Shows how Cypress replaces hard waits by using cy.wait with alias for XHR calls, capturing the /entries API and asserting status 200 before interacting with… | ||
| Success mantra for newbie tester to overcome obstacles/fear | Lingesh Suresh | 04m |
Short, actionable roadmap for a junior tester to stop hesitating and level up: learn automation basics with Selenium and mobile testing with Appium, practice… | ||
| Building a professional network | James Espie | 08m |
Claims that 80% of jobs come through contacts and one referral landed a role within a week after months of fruitless applications. Practical steps: know the… | ||
| Context-Driven Practices | Aakruti Shukla | 05m |
Claims that rigid “best practices” cause harm and that 90% of sprints miss goals under enforced scrum rules, backed by a project example where allowing… | ||
| Quality Assistance vs Quality Assurance | Karim ElKhashab | 10m |
Argues that teams move from QA as gatekeeping to Quality Assistance by doing concrete work: add unit-test gating on pull requests to stop regressions, replace… | ||
| Up Your Agency | Maaret Pyhäjärvi | 08m |
Claim: giving testers real agency — freedom to choose how to test, create throwaway code, and design test automation — turns them from information providers… | ||
| Integration Testing – a thought experiment | Mike Talks | 10m |
Claim: integration tests must move between components — start at the app and expect the COTS to call back — otherwise the test is a component test. Use… | ||
| Cypress E2E Automation | Vinayak Titti | 04m |
Cypress is presented as a single bundled JS test runner that runs inside the browser (not remotely like Selenium), and it handles end-to-end, integration… | ||
| The First Step in Software Testing – A talk for youngsters | Arslan Ali | 07m |
Clear checklist for a starter: learn one application end to end, map touchpoints and create a complete interaction map, write detailed manual test cases for… | ||
| Importance of Wrapper Layer | Kunal Ashar | 07m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| How to Be More Productive | Igor Samokys | 09m |
Igor Samokys describes techniques he used while preparing for two ISTQB Advanced exams to increase productivity as a test analyst. He covers practical ways to… | ||
| 3 Essential Things We Should Not Forget After Deployment Cycle | Suci Istachotil Jannah | 07m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| Overcome the trap of reproducing test failures with smart troubleshooting | Thanh To | 08m |
Shows a concrete workflow: enable browser-level recordings so headless runs produce viewable videos, and capture a DOM snapshot at failure (HTML source) so… | ||
| Emotional Intelligence for Testers | Astrid Winkler | 07m |
Testing success depends on emotional intelligence as a concrete skill set: the mixed model lists self-awareness, self-management, empathy, motivation and… | ||
| Make the testing community a better place | Luke Liu | 07m |
Claims that everyone can test are false: testing requires a specific testing mindset, professional curiosity and the stamina to investigate beyond ticking… | ||
| What Does It Take to Become a Software Testing Expert? | Rihab Loukil | 08m |
The talk examines what truly constitutes expertise in software testing, arguing it is about personal development, understanding the nature of testing, and… | ||
| How living my companies 5 core values has made me a better QA | Belinda Goodman | 08m |
Claims that applying five SalesLoft core values measurably improves daily QA work and gives concrete tactics: quick browser time-savers for test data and… | ||
| The Rule Of Three | Karlo Smid | 08m |
Claim: the rule of three helps expose root causes by forcing at least three distinct hypotheses and tests. Explanation: human working memory 4–7 concepts… | ||
| Shift-Left in Digital Accessibility | Anuradha Biswas | 07m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| Stop the Retries in Tests & Reruns of Failing Test | Anand Bagmar | 08m |
Asserts that automatic retries and reruns hide real failures and create brittle suites by masking network and environment flakes, timing/race conditions, data… | ||
| A test strategy that actually works | Ali Khalid | 09m |
Claims that traditional test strategies sit unused and replaces them with a DevOps test strategy mind map that teams can maintain and use to move to collective… | ||
| Foundational Skills for Testers | Shrinivas Kulkarni | 09m |
A simple stack‑of‑books model maps domain skills on top and four foundation layers below claiming that sharpening observation, thinking, memory and focus makes… | ||
| Do more with a keypress | Gaurav Khurana | 06m |
Shows how to build Windows‑level keyboard shortcuts with a simple automation utility (no coding) that replaces awkward combos and types boilerplate instantly… | ||
| Testing in a complex world | Robert Meaney | 08m |
A practical claim: designing testability and operability from the start measurably cuts risk — testability lowers likelihood of failures, operability shortens… | ||
| Octonary: A QX Automation Approach | Manvi Sharma | 07m |
An automation-first QA pipeline called Octonary expands test coverage into 8 categories and claims a working toolchain that automates unit checks, code… | ||
| Testing Is (Still) Not Dead | Lee Hawkins | 09m |
Claims that testing is dead are rebutted with a concrete definition: testing is evaluating a product by learning through experiencing, exploring and… | ||
| So, When should we stop Testing? | Vaishali Desarda | 04m |
Testing stops when real contexts are covered, not when test cases pass: require exploratory testing to seek unknowns, verify diverse inputs (for example a… | ||
| Four focus areas for Next-Gen Testing team | Mahesh M | 08m |
Four operational priorities with concrete implementations: build a testing data lake (push performance, automation, security and functional results into S3 and… | ||
| API Security Risks | Sang Bui | 08m |
Gives a compact API security checklist with concrete checks: enforce strong auth including password rules and rate limiting, keep token secrets out of URLs… | ||
| You Inc! Building your personal brand to accelerate your career | Jennifer Bonine | 10m |
Shows a concrete four-step process: define a mission statement, craft a concise elevator pitch, choose a brand personality and then say no to off-brand… | ||
| My Journey as a 'Freelance Rockstar' | Aishwarya V | 08m |
Claims five years freelancing, a gold functional-testing rating and an outstanding community-contributor award; says freelancing funds university fees and can… | ||
| Rich Test Data: An Example | James Bach | 08m |
Shows using import/export JSON from CryptPad Kanban to generate rich test boards with a Perl program that produces a 4,400-line file (five columns × 50 items)… | ||
| How we Are improving our Automation Karma | Sunny Sachdeva | 08m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| Common Mistakes in Performance testing | Shailesh Gohel | 08m |
Lists five concrete failure modes and fixes: missing realistic delays between actions so scripts run sequentially instead of using JMeter timers, wrong load… | ||
| Testing In Agile | Vikas Mittal | 08m |
Argues that "Agile Testing" is a misnomer—testing remains testing—and recommends a concrete balance: keep exploratory testing as primary feedback while… | ||
| How to mingle in the mighty IT jungle | Smita Kelkar | 06m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| Emotional Intelligence @ software testing | Gaurav Mahajan | 08m |
Testers need emotional skills to deliver bad news without creating animosity and to turn criticism into solutions; the talk claims EQ helps diffuse conflicts… | ||
| Technical and Non-Technical: A false dichotomy | Aaron Hodder | 11m |
Argument: calling people "technical" or "non-technical" hides real risks and biases and forces a false identity. Examples: a dialer that maps 111‑84 to… | ||
| 2 Valuable But Neglected Skills For Test Professionals | Mayank Dikshit | 10m |
This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2020.
TestFlix 2020 had:
-107 Speakers from 44 Countries
-5200… | ||
| How Can Usability Testing Help The Economy During This Pandemic? | Michelle Chua | 08m |
Usability testing is pitched as a low-barrier income stream that can offset pandemic job losses: out of 7.8 billion people 3.3 billion work and 3.1 billion are… | ||
| Full-Stack Testing Ethos For a Progressive Team | Christina Thalayasingam | 08m |
Argues that full-stack testing means owning all layers of the app — unit, integration, end-to-end and acceptance — and not just broader skill sets; leadership… | ||
| A Message for Everyone | Ramit Kaul | 12m |
Begins by urging beginners to learn the grammar of the language and cement fundamentals before jumping to automation frameworks; advises leads to stop… | ||
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