TestFlix 2024
2024-10-19..2024-10-20
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TestFlix ·
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Staying Relevant in Test Leadership | Rob Sab | 15m |
Forty-two years of practice yields concrete methods: diagnostic inference engines (1997–2000) use three independent experts per knowledge-base change to… | ||
| Advanced Playwright Techniques for flawless testing | Debbie O'Brien | 14m |
Shows concrete Playwright recipes: use locators and Playwright assertions to auto-retry, attach annotations clickable in HTML report, group actions with… | ||
| Defending the unknown using AI and cybersecurity | Vandana Verma Sehgal | 18m |
Covers concrete attacks and fixes: demonstrates prompt injection exploits that let chatbots leak secrets (an interactive Gundal challenge reaches level seven… | ||
| Optimizing Query Performance in Big Data Systems | Sandra John | 15m |
Compares Hadoop MapReduce (rule‑based, batch) to Spark (DAG, Catalyst optimizer) and shows Spark cutting iterative query time by using in‑memory caching to… | ||
| Beyond Compliance Creating Inclusive and Usable Digital Products | Vrushali Kulkarni | 15m |
Accessibility affects about 15% of the world population and compliance is only a baseline; the talk argues for shifting accessibility left across the SDLC and… | ||
| Early Test Strategies in ML Model Development Phase | Venkatesh Ch | 14m |
Early QA participation locates overfitting, underfitting and data drift during model engineering rather than after validation, using staged training data and… | ||
| LLMs and Test Automation: A New Era of Self Healing | Shray Sharma | 15m |
System pulls test cases from Jira and converts JIRA steps to Playwright code, then runs them against the live DOM so LLMs see current state. Two models… | ||
| The Era of Intelligent Testing Transforming Testers into Skilled SDETs | Siddhant Wadhwani | 16m |
Claims a practical path from testers to SDETs via six staged shifts (reactive → cognitive) with measurable wins: raising a 5:1 tester ratio toward 5:2, moving… | ||
| Show impact on Company's topline by testing using KPI they understand | Vikas Mittal | 17m |
Built a KPI dashboard for a denim D2C company that ties testing to revenue and cost savings, proving testing shifts from cost center to profit driver. Shows… | ||
| An Insight into PDF automation strategy | Samar Ranjan | 17m |
Shows a concrete PDF test strategy that splits API/data tests from PDF-creation tests and follows the test pyramid, with demo code in a repo. Uses Apache… | ||
| Five Steps to Getting the Testing Job You Want | Kristin Jackvony | 12m |
Five concrete steps: decide the exact testing role and platform you want (manual, automation, API, UI, mobile, security), craft a mistake‑free resume with… | ||
| Mastering Mocking in Playwright: Simplify API Test Automation | Siddharth Shukla | 16m |
Live demo shows Playwright’s built-in mocking replacing external tools like WireMock or Mockito and working end-to-end: tests redirects requests to a different… | ||
| Leading Agile Teams to Success: Lessons from the Trenches | Nishi Grover Garg | 11m |
Claims that letting teams pick sprint tasks raises ownership and velocity, with one switch from top-down to team-chosen work reported to increase morale and… | ||
| An always upto date Developer's CV | Nicolas Fränkel | 14m |
Argues that a GitHub profile can act as an always‑current CV by generating a profile README from live sources and committing it automatically. Uses GitHub… | ||
| Smoke signals our journey towards Environment Reliability | Ashok Kumar | 17m |
Built a smoke pipeline on Jenkins with multiple OS agents and parallel executors that runs 40 atomic checks across 21 applications and returns a full-cycle… | ||
| Vector Databases: Why QA professionals Needs to Care About them in the Age of AI? | Toni Ramchandani | 12m |
Claims that traditional SQL cannot handle unstructured AI workloads and that vector databases become the storage and retrieval layer for embeddings… | ||
| Using a Martial Art To Do Tests | Andres Damian Sacco | 11m |
Builds integration and end-to-end tests with Karate, claiming Karate is framework-agnostic so tests survive migrations (Quarkus → Spring Boot) and act as… | ||
| Improve continuous delivery by target quality aspects by your tests | Gáspár Nagy | 15m |
Argues CI/CD should measure and build confidence not test count, and prescribes breaking quality into functional, operational, strategic aspects then choosing… | ||
| May the Requests Be With You: Playwright API Magic | Butch Mayhew | 16m |
Uses Playwright to intercept and assert live API calls (api.practice-software-testing.com/products), capturing the products response and running route.fetch… | ||
| Prompt Tweaking Engineering - A Case Study in Test Design | Rahul Verma | 17m |
Shows that raw LLM prompting produces about 10–11 pairwise tests while a deterministic Python library returns 22 test cases, proving LLMs struggle with the… | ||
| Introduction to Behavioural Interviews | Lavanya Mohan | 06m |
Behavioral interviews aim to surface alignment signals through open-ended questions about concrete achievements, failures, motivations and values; the talk… | ||
| Staying Ahead: The Future of QA Leadership | David Ingraham | 17m |
Claims that matter: adopt an automation-first approach using Playwright/Cypress/Selenium or a no‑code tool, and prove ROI by tracking metric improvements… | ||
| Prompt Engineering Impacts to Software Testers : Staying in Demand | Jon Hagar | 14m |
AI generates test scripts and executes thousands to millions of tests in automated frameworks while producing huge datasets that require AI-driven analytics… | ||
| Shall we Explore the Blockchain Maze? | Gomathi Ramalingam | 14m |
Argues that hands-on exploratory testing finds real-world failures that formal proofs miss, showing techniques: simulating network and node failures, running… | ||
| Uplifting the Art of Code Review from Testing Perspective | Mesut Durukal | 11m |
Concrete checklist that shows what to look for not vague exhortations — readability and commit messages separated by feature, document intent in commits, code… | ||
| Data Driven VSM for Quality Excellence | Ashwini Lalit | 16m |
Shows how a team integrates ALM and DevOps tools via webhooks and APIs to attach get commit records and Jenkins pipeline pass/fail status to backlog cards… | ||
| Navigating the Future: Principles of Responsible AI | Gaurav Khurana | 12m |
A checklist of six principles—fairness, reliability/safety, privacy/security, inclusiveness, transparency and accountability—frames concrete tester actions… | ||
| Frankenstein Tests | Gil Zilberfeld | 11m |
Claims that autogenerated Playwright tests become unreadable Frankenstein code by mixing JavaScript, Playwright code generator locators and no domain language… | ||
| Exploring Customer Data Platforms and Testing | Harish Pandalangatt | 16m |
CDP explained as a single database that assigns real outcomes like a loyal shopper badge when a user buys >5 items in six months or a cart abandoned tag when… | ||
| Mastering LLM Chatbot Testing: Metrics, Methods and Mistakes to Avoid | James Massa | 10m |
15 minutes that maps practical failures to the actual pieces to test: routing to multiple micr‑chatbots via a knowledge graph, verifying logged SQL from… | ||
| API First Mindset | Ajay Balamurugadas | 14m |
Argues that shifting testing to APIs cuts fragility and speeds feedback, claiming teams can automate up to 75% via APIs instead of brittle UI suites; gives a… | ||
| From Leading Followers to Leading Leaders in IT | Mike Lyles | 15m |
Claims three concrete trust questions to measure connection — Do you care for me, can I trust you, can you help me — plus the law of contribution and the… | ||
| Ultimate Guide on Starting Your Open Source Journey | Puja Jagani | 15m |
15-minute practical checklist for starting with Selenium and other open source projects that goes beyond theory: how to pick projects by passion, pick good… | ||
| Transforming Code Review into a Learning Tool for QA Teams | Mesut Durukal | 11m |
Argues that code review can be a learning loop for QA by replacing ad hoc feedback with a concrete checklist and lightweight process changes that actually… | ||
| Human Virtues That AI Can’t Replace | Anuj Magazine | 13m |
AI becomes a tool to amplify, not replace, five concrete human strengths: consequentialist thinking (anticipate societal harms from deployed models), clearer… | ||
| 7 Must-Know Techniques for Effective REST API Testing | Júlio de Lima | 13m |
Seven concrete techniques with code and results: decode and assert JWT payloads using jsonwebtoken + chai to validate token structure; find a real bug via a… | ||
| Transforming Test Automation with AI and Machine Learning | Larry Goddard | 16m |
AI and ML are used to auto-generate edge test cases, prioritize test suites by risk, and run tests in parallel to cut execution time; models predict likely… | ||
| New Challenges in Software Quality Brought by GenAI and LLMs | Federico Toledo | 13m |
Users now expect chunked, near‑instant conversational responses and systems must track tokens, response times and logs for each invocation. Models change every… | ||
| Combining Automation Frameworks with Design Patterns | Raneesh Chaudhary | 13m |
Concrete steps and code-level examples for making an automation framework more maintainable and scalable: use a Facade class to expose a single add-to-cart… | ||
| How to (not) write a flaky test | Filip Hric | 15m |
Defines flakiness as inconsistent test results and pins causes to three growing axes: coverage (DOM and network race conditions), execution (bad isolation and… | ||
| To AI or Not to AI—a framework to evaluate whether AI/ML should be used | Bharath Kumar | 17m |
Provides a practical decision framework: break into subprocesses to spot which step is automatable, use cases like synthetic test data generation or automation… | ||
| Defining Quality | Craig Risi | 15m |
Defines quality as alignment with business goals and measures across the whole system not just code including integrations data hosting environments monitoring… | ||
| Playwright: Revolutionizing Cross-Browser Compatibility | Vignesh S | 18m |
Demonstrates running the same OrangeHRM login/logout script across Playwright, Cypress and Selenium and claims Playwright simplifies cross‑browser runs with a… | ||
| From network tab to automated API test with GenAI | Anaïs van Asselt | 13m |
Automates generation of API tests from a HAR file by extracting GraphQL queries, saving query, variables and response, then using a PNPM NX TypeScript… | ||
| Program with GUTs | Kevlin Henney | 15m |
Asserts that the common pattern of one test per method is wrong and increases test maintenance debt, demonstrates concrete examples using a stack to show one… | ||
| The Rise and Impact of Edge AI | Sumit Mundhada | 10m |
Edge AI deploys models on cameras, sensors and phones to cut latency, keep sensitive data local, and drop bandwidth and power use; examples shown include… | ||
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