TestFlix 2021
2021-10-23..2021-10-24
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| "Being a Visual Thinker" | Anuj Magazine | 08m |
A three-year sketchnoting practice compresses a 90-minute lecture into a single-page memory aid, captures live quantum-computing and product-management notes… | ||
| "Contract Testing 101" | Marie Drake | 09m |
Explains that consumer-driven contract testing uses Pact to record JSON contracts from consumer tests, spin up a mock provider during consumer CI, then push… | ||
| "How to Log a Bug" | Kristin Jackvony | 08m |
Explains a concrete bug-report template and shows a full example: a contact form where editing an existing contact with an invalid email prevents saving… | ||
| "The significance of mobile exploit applications" | Ankit Giri | 07m |
Defines exploit applications target other apps rather than the OS, arguing Android/iOS sandboxing and per-app UIDs prevent systemic compromise… | ||
| "Automation in Accessibility" | Rajini Padmanaban | 08m |
About this Talk:
"Automation in Accessibility" by Rajini Padmanaban
The talk will focus on the current state of digital accessibility, why automation is… | ||
| Mindful Leadership | Sreekala Sunderrajan | 09m |
Argues that mindful leadership is three concrete practices: being self-aware, being journey focused and deliberately creating inspirational team members… | ||
| "Jumpstart Python Testing in 5 Minutes Flat" | Andrew Knight | 06m |
A 5-minute demo uses Python 3.8.4 and pytest 6.2.2 to create a simple accumulator class, write tests in a test/ test_accum.py module, and show concrete code: a… | ||
| "Are you a good or bad manager?" | Suman Bala | 07m |
Argues that managers must set weekly/fortnight/monthly one-to-ones tailored to each report, ask “what do you need from me” and act on the answers, and give… | ||
| "Outperforming in the Chaotic World!" | A Shrish | 06m |
Argues that matching hardware alone fails and shows how to recreate chaotic field conditions by injecting real network variability (Jio SIMs mentioned), load… | ||
| "How I use SFDIPOT to learn and explore about applications" | Sharon O’Boyle | 08m |
Explains using SFDIPOT — the guide words structure function data interfaces platform operations time — to systematically explore a new file‑upload feature… | ||
| "It is not automation when..." | Corina Adina Pip | 07m |
Claims that code is "automation" fail when tests need manual intervention like pausing to comment out test code or continuing steps in the browser, when… | ||
| "Informal Leadership and You" | Jess Ingrassellino | 05m |
Argues that leadership often comes from everyday habits rather than titles, showing specific behaviors that create influence: consistently relationship builder… | ||
| "The Problem With Testing" | Peter Walen | 07m |
Job listings emphasize tools and languages while missing the actual craft: testing is not a checkbox or cookbook but a set of skills learned before automation… | ||
| "A Case for an Edge Case" | Lalit Bhamare | 09m |
Three concrete failures and their costs: an iPhone SOS froze UI that triggers emergency alerts and causes two to four hours of lost family time; a Lufthansa… | ||
| "The Future of Work - The Pre-Covid ERA by S. Raj | Raj Subrameyer | 08m |
Covid triggers layoffs at thousands even at big firms like Microsoft and Airbnb and forces work-from-home into a permanent hybrid norm. Five concrete actions… | ||
| Running an Appsec Program with Open Source Projects" | V. Vandana | 08m |
Presents a practical AppSec framework: starts with inventory and requirements, runs threat modeling with the OWASP Threat Modeling Tool (desktop installable)… | ||
| "10 Usability Heuristics| & Testing" | Nithin SS | 08m |
About this Talk:
"10 Usability Heuristics & Testing" by Nithin SS
As users, we always wish to have a seamless user experience and user interfaces. If an… | ||
| "5 Work Appreciation Languages for QAs" | B Tamoya | 08m |
Explains five concrete appreciation methods for testers: words of affirmation, quality time, acts of service, gifts, physical touch (virtual: listening and… | ||
| "Why and how not to be a gatekeeper" | Lina Zubyte | 09m |
Argues testers stop being a release gatekeeper and become an informant by doing three concrete things: use a “crystal ball” risk forecast (e.g., this feature… | ||
| Spice Up Selenium Test Automation" | S. A. Kushan | 08m |
Demonstrates concrete extensions to Selenium: using Apache PDFBox to download and assert PDF text, pdf-util 0.03 to extract images and do pixel‑to‑pixel… | ||
| "Improving Accuracy of AI-based Applications" | U George | 06m |
About this Talk:
"Improving Accuracy of AI-based Applications" by U George
It has been sixty-seven years since Newell and Simon wrote the first AI program… | ||
| How YOU doin | Lanette Creamer | 09m |
Workforce mental health worsens in the pandemic: 4 in 10 adults report anxiety or depression (up from 1 in 10 in a normal year), therapy access is slow and… | ||
| Reviewing your test automation strategy" | T. Federico, F. E. Matias | 08m |
Three concrete review strategies: run a checklist of what to automate and who decides, audit test code for flaky selectors and undocumented setup (they use… | ||
| "Testing MQTT based IoT Applications" | Balaji Ponnada | 09m |
Claims that MQTT suits unstable networks and shows exactly how QoS 0 vs QoS 1 behave: a simple Python script test connects a publisher and subscriber, sends… | ||
| "Better Bug Reports" | Paul Holland | 08m |
Writes concrete rules: keep titles short and front-load what happened then what caused it (example: System crashes when sorting lists with over 500 items)… | ||
| "Agile Communication ToolBox" | Priyanka Halder | 09m |
About this Talk:
"Agile Communication ToolBox" by Priyanka Halder
In today's Agile world, communication is a key challenge and how we can use the agile… | ||
| "Mobile App Performance Testing" | JeanAnn Harrison | 06m |
Defines four measurable performance goals: response time, load, stress, endurance and applies them to architectures — native needs storage limits caused… | ||
| "There’s no such thing as ‘no code’ " | Bas Dijkstra | 08m |
Claim that no code exists is false it is actually low code where tools like Robot Framework and Postman provide an abstraction layer that translates into real… | ||
| "Softs you need to run the Perfect Load Test" | Christina Thalayasingam | 09m |
About this Talk:
"Softs you need to run the Perfect Load Test" by Christina Thalayasingam
There seems to be a very wrong perception of conducting load… | ||
| "Where do I fit into this Continuous Testing World?" | Larissa Rosochansky | 08m |
A concise history claims testing shifts from a 1961 V&V mandate to formal methods in the 70s then abandonment in the 90s and recovery in the 2000s leading to… | ||
| "Selecting a framework that documents your product" | Dmytro Shpakovskyi | 08m |
Compares concrete metrics for Selenium, WebDriverIO, Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright and TestCafe — GitHub stars, npm weekly downloads, feature sets and… | ||
| "Selenium 4.0 Grid Observability, Setup & Execution" | Aditya Garg | 06m |
Demonstrates setting up Selenium Grid 4 traceability by running OpenTelemetry instrumented grid components and collecting spans in Jaeger UI started via Docker… | ||
| "My Testing Dreams" | Ajay Balamurugadas | 06m |
A six‑month restart plan that replaces vague learning goals with a checklist: read Testing Computer Software and Lessons Learned in Software Testing, build a… | ||
| "The A-Game" | Amy Jo | 08m |
Describes a concrete plan: set a clear goal, inventory required skills, meet experts (Angie Jones / Automation Test University cited) and execute a daily… | ||
| "Manage your Emotional Intelligence at work and in life" | Astrid Wrinkler | 09m |
The talk explains a concrete EI technique called emotional agility that replaces "I am angry" with "I'm noticing that I feel..." and urges testers to look… | ||
| "Finding my QA Superpower" | Belinda Goodman | 07m |
Uses Daniel Pink’s Drive to argue that QA happiness comes from autonomy, mastery, purpose and identifies a concrete superpower: exploratory testing. Describes… | ||
| "So You Want to Shift Right Over into DevOps?" | Claire Moss | 08m |
A career tester moves into SRE work and shows which testing skills map to DevOps: using exploratory testing templates to design charters, running small… | ||
| "Word Smatter" | Damian Synadinos | 07m |
Claims that word choice changes perception and legal exposure, using a box metaphor (words contain nested definitions) and everyday analogies (teddy… | ||
| "Whose fault is that? It’s the wrong question" | Dorothy Graham | 07m |
Claims that blaming increases hidden errors and that more people in the U.S. die from preventable medical mistakes than from traffic accidents; contrasts two… | ||
| "Effective ways of using BDD concept for Testing" | Giridhar Rajkumar | 09m |
Argues that BDD is not just plain-language test scripts but a collaborative workflow where three amigos produce acceptance criteria in Gherkin, testers convert… | ||
| "How test can support the first principle of agile" | Gitte Ottosen | 06m |
Testers claim that supporting the first agile principle means turning test design into modeling to create a shared business understanding, not just test cases… | ||
| "Using schemas in your API Automation" | Julia Pottinger | 07m |
About this Talk:
"Using schemas in your API Automation" by Julia Pottinger
API automation provides fast feedback and a wide test coverage of key areas. When… | ||
| "Assistive Technology Solutions for people with challenges" | Mahathee Dandibhotla | 07m |
States that more than 1 billion people currently need assistive products and projects over 2 billion by 2030 while only about 1 in 10 have access, argues… | ||
| "The Joys of Managing Engineering Teams" | Maryam Umar | 09m |
Advice: always document every one-to-one and keep a shared notes document so promotion and performance decisions trace back to concrete conversations. Follow… | ||
| "Getting Rid of Test Cases – Serious This Time" | Matt Heusser | 04m |
Argues that formal test cases can be replaced by a visual coverage artifact and editable documentation, because people keep test cases for management control… | ||
| "The Tester’s Role: Balancing Technical Acumen and User Advocacy" | Melissa Tondi | 09m |
Argues that quality engineers must equally balance technical acumen and user advocacy by shifting from “test everything” to targeted strategy: adopt automation… | ||
| "Small Changes for Big Wins" | Penny Howard | 06m |
Team moves from three‑week to two‑week sprints and adds one tester, cutting cycle time while keeping coverage. A modular test matrix in Excel becomes the… | ||
| "Let the API requests talk to each other!" | Pricilla Bilavendran | 08m |
Uses Postman to chain two requests against the Calendarific API: one request lists supported countries, the other returns holidays for a given ISO code. A… | ||
| "Feedback matters. Really Matters!" | Sandeep Garg | 09m |
Requests peer review of a draft data‑science talk, receives constructive critical feedback from experienced colleagues, and discovers the slide deck is… | ||
| "The Rise and Benefits of Robotic Process Automation" | Thomas Haver | 09m |
Defines RPA as UI-level bots that emulate human actions and explains four categories: assisted, unassisted, autonomous, cognitive with examples from simple… | ||
| "Which Path Should I Follow" | Vikas | 08m |
Argues that testing careers don’t require only automation and that viable alternatives include Scrum Master/Product Owner, Platform consultant, and DevOps &… | ||
| "How to Start a QA Department" | Anna Ondrish | 08m |
Built QA twice from one hire to a team, first using spreadsheets then adopting PractiTest integration with defect tracker to organize test cases; recommends… | ||
| "Managing Up: How to Lead when You are not the Boss" | Anna Royzman | 08m |
Managing up means deliberately improving your manager’s efficiency by framing problems and offering concrete help rather than dumping emotion. Core rules… | ||
| "QA & UX" | Anuradha Raman | 09m |
QA expands beyond UI to test usefulness, findability, accessibility and credibility; start by naming the artifact—wireframe or mock-up or prototype—and a clear… | ||
| "Introduction to Accessibility Testing" | Aparna Gopalakrishnan | 08m |
Quick primer that defines web accessibility, cites WCAG and ARIA as the guiding standards, and argues a small checklist plus mixed testing uncovers most common… | ||
| "Fail.lure" | Ashok Thiruvengadam | 04m |
Claim: deliberately make systems fail to produce cleaner code, using a simple three-part framework that groups ignore / lure / allure into actionable steps. It… | ||
| "Testing MQTT based IoT Applications" | Balaji Ponnada | 09m |
Explains why HTTP fails for low‑power, intermittent sensors and demonstrates a concrete test: a Python script attaches publisher and subscriber to a broker… | ||
| "Training Software Testers: A Ten Step Guide" | Beth Marshall | 09m |
Practical ten-step checklist for creating tester training: believe in your baseline skills, ask for help (used Danny Dayton at Test Automation University for… | ||
| "A few things about Agile Testing" | Brijesh Deb | 09m |
Defines Agile Testing via Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory as continuous, collaborative testing that builds quality in and urges Agile ≠ Scrum as a core… | ||
| "Soft Skills for Testers" | Daniel Knott | 07m |
Lists five concrete tester skills: clear structured communication by tailoring messages and practicing presentations and meetups; strict organization with… | ||
| "Cypress Advanced Capabilities Declassified" | Eran Kinsbruner | 07m |
Cypress is presented as a fast, in-browser E2E framework with concrete advanced features: cy.clock and cy.intercept let tests freeze time and control network… | ||
| "Accessibility! Why should I care?" | Gagana B | 08m |
Argues that small accessibility fixes drive measurable business value, showing how adding alt text, enabling keyboard navigation and fixing contrast move users… | ||
| "Testing is everyone’s responsibility.” | Geetika Gagneja | 09m |
About this Talk:
"Testing is everyone’s responsibility. We need to bring the change in our mindset of “who will do it” from “How can it get done” by Geetika… | ||
| "7 things I learned in 7 years of my career" | Geetima Dutta | 08m |
Seven concrete habits: set deadlines and work consistently toward goals; prioritize core testing skills over chasing automation; learn OOP, data structures and… | ||
| "Power of Pair Testing – ‘PPT’" | Himani Yadav | 09m |
About this Talk:
"Power of Pair Testing – ‘PPT’" by Himani Yadav
Quality is many times considered only a Tester’s responsibility, whereas its everyone’s… | ||
| "You want to be efficient?" | Isabel Evans | 08m |
Replans Euro2020 to illustrate how a blind efficiency drive strips purpose: proposes cutting each 11-player squad to one catcher per side, automating kicks by… | ||
| "You don’t need to be an expert!" | James Espie | 07m |
Claim: junior testers can contribute now without being experts. A concrete story shows a grad who knew select and insert statements but said he "didn't know… | ||
| "Scrum Ceremonies & Cognitive Engagement of Quality Engineers" | Jayesh G Salgaonkar | 07m |
Provides a concrete questionnaire for 4 ceremonies (Inception, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Story Kickoff) that maps which quality questions to ask when… | ||
| "BDD: NOT The Given-When-Then Thing" | John Ferguson Smart | 08m |
Claims that BDD equals Cucumber or Given-When-Then misuse are false and costly: structured collaboration is the point. Teams that adopt example mapping and… | ||
| "RIGID PERC: A Program Manager’s role" | Jon Bach | 07m |
Program management treats projects like tests: it asks hard questions, confirms rumors, schedules deep dives, builds dashboards and mediates across silos to… | ||
| "Build An Appium 2.0 Plugin In Under 8 Minutes" | Jonathan Lipps | 08m |
Builds a working Node.js plugin in under 8 minutes that extends Appium 2.0 and removes "XCUIElementType" from iOS page source. The code uses npm, adds the… | ||
| "A Story about Design and Experience" | Lavanya Mohan | 03m |
Everyday examples show adjacent controls causing repeated errors: elevator open/close buttons, two lamp switches, bookmark hidden under share. The claim is… | ||
| "How to bring accessibility into your teams." | Laveena Ramchandani | 09m |
Companies miss users: at least 1 in 5 people in the UK have a long‑term impairment and a study finds 4 in 10 local council homepages fail basic accessibility… | ||
| "Why caring about good performance?" | Leandro Melendez | 08m |
About this Talk:
"Why caring about good performance?" by Leandro Melendez
On this talk, Leandro will quickly go over what is performance testing, first… | ||
| "Better Ideas at Test Design" | Maaret Pyhäjärvi | 08m |
Frames test design as a continuous pipeline of ideas that turn tester skill into actionable information, and uses risk-based domain testing and… | ||
| "What does system design mean to tester?" | Mahesh M | 07m |
Claims that Heisenbugs dominate crashes in mature distributed systems and urges testers to treat architecture as testable evidence. Shows a built video… | ||
| "Mobile App Testing | in 2021" | Michelle Lagare | 09m |
Starts with five concrete test dimensions: persona, device profile, user location, internet, competitors. Prioritizes three measurable focuses — functionality… | ||
| "You’re On Mute" | Mike Lyles | 08m |
Eight-minute motivational pitch that gives one concrete framework: three things anyone can change — yourself, those around you, and the world — using coaching… | ||
| "Testers belong in production…" | Mike Talks | 07m |
Argues that testers should lead push-to-prod scripts because frequent releases need an automated pipeline, not ad hoc instructions. Describes merging feature… | ||
| "The case of a missing item!" | Niranjani Manoharan | 09m |
An e‑commerce site shows HTTP 500s when adding items; logs contain 85,000 events for 24 hours, filtered to ~3,000 in the last hour and then 200 failing adds… | ||
| "APIs Thinking : Don’t Make it complicated" | Nishant Gohel | 09m |
About this Talk:
"APIs Thinking: Don’t Make it complicated" by Nishant Gohel
Many Testers think that APIs are ghost stories and It’s difficult to learn. I… | ||
| "Bad Spin! Don’t Ignore Your Automation Ecosystem" | Paul Grizzaffi | 07m |
Organization ignores strategy, audience, environment and chooses BDD + open source by fiat; teams resist, developers refuse to make code automatable, and test… | ||
| "Why you should write a book even if you don’t intend to publish?" | Pradeep Soundararajan | 08m |
A 2020 book, Buddha in Testing (2020), demonstrates the core claim: writing a book—even if you write but don't publish—forces simplification, creates a… | ||
| "How to be a customer obsessed tester?" | Prashant Hegde | 09m |
Testing goes beyond functional checks and automation and must drive measurable customer outcomes: first-screen reviews often decide purchases and poor UX… | ||
| Solo tester doesnt always mean a lone tester" | Parveen Khan | 07m |
Claim: a solo tester converts isolation into influence by pair with developers during implementation and testing, pair with BAs on acceptance criteria and pair… | ||
| "Testing is Applied Epistemology" | Rahul Parwal | 09m |
Claim: testing is applied epistemology, meaning testers use ways of knowing to justify software quality. The talk maps four Indian pramanas — perception… | ||
| "Learn how no-code/low-code can make you more productive." | Ralf Roeber | 07m |
No-code/low-code claims to let non-developers author and repair tests by providing parameterized test steps that can call a URL and resize the browser and be… | ||
| "Test Repeatability" | Robert Sabourin | 08m |
Claim: variability trumps repeatability for finding new, important bugs. Evidence: run the same checks with different inputs, different platforms (even… | ||
| "8 Things I wish I knew before" | Sahana Kuppusamy | 08m |
About this Talk:
"8 Things I wish I knew before" by Sahana Kuppusamy
This talk is about the soft skills that will be required for tester. Based on my… | ||
| "Testers Mindset!" | Saurabh Kumar | 06m |
About this Talk:
"Testers Mindset!" by Saurabh Kumar
The talk will be on importance of mindset for the testers and how its different from skills of testers… | ||
| "Hamburger automation vs soup automation" | G Seretta | 06m |
About this Talk:
"Hamburger automation vs soup automation" by Seretta Gamba
Together with Dorothy Graham (Dot) we collected the issues that come up in system… | ||
| "Share of Experience : Test Automation" | Shruthy Ramesh | 05m |
Early-career automation work uses Robot Framework to automate alarm-trap tests and shows concrete fixes: flaky tests come from a fixed sleep timeout that… | ||
| “Test Recommendation Engine” | Soumya Mukherjee | 08m |
A probabilistic test-selection pipeline that ingests code-coverage (via OpenClover or JVM instrumentation), build meta and historical execution data into a DB… | ||
| “Tools for functional testers to become powerhouse” | Srinivas Kantipudi | 09m |
Functional testers can run small tools and become primary support for non‑functional teams by doing concrete checks: run a Lighthouse report to flag… | ||
| “AI ML in Test Automation, Are you ready?” | Sumit Mundhada | 07m |
AI/ML in Testing is a crucial skill in today's ever-evolving landscape of software testing. While you're mastering this essential area, why not expand your… | ||
| “8 Performance testing tips that every Test Engineer should know.” | Sundaresan Krishnaswami | 08m |
Defines eight concrete checks: measure CPU cores not just utilization, inspect RAM vs swap and JVM stack vs heap behaviour (stack overflow vs heap OOM) and… | ||
| “The power of Mocks and Postman” | Viv Richards | 08m |
Shows how to stand up a Postman mock server, save its URL as an environment variable, and create multiple example responses for the same endpoint (200 and… | ||
| Journey to Becoming a Software Tester Without an IT Background | D. Yanique | 06m |
Transition from chemical engineering to software testing includes earning CTFL certification, studying via Google and YouTube, attending a boot camp, and… | ||
| “Taking the lead – Building psychological safety at work!” | Faiza Yousuf | 09m |
Argues that psychological safety is a core leadership competency that measurably increases learning, innovation and engagement by removing fear of… | ||
| #TestFlix Global Software #Testing Binge, 2021.- Roundup Video | 05m | |
Roundup video compresses TestFlix 2021 into a fast highlights reel that lists hard metrics and sponsors and shows crowd shots and applause rather than… | ||
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