Testing Talks Conference 2024 Melbourne
2024-10-17
Melbourne, Australia
[Testing Talks Conference 2019 Melbourne, Testing Talks Conference 2022 Melbourne, Testing Talks Conference 2024 Melbourne]
as the organisers put it
We want Testing Talks Conference 2024 to be a reunion for our community. A fun event for all; to share, learn and reconnect in-person.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering | Elena Zagari | 56m |
Case study of moving Coles from QA to Quality Engineering by building a federated Center for Enablement rather than centralizing testing, working with a… | ||
| Stop Automating, Start Investigating: Slow Down 2 Speed Up | Toby Martin | 32m |
Argues that indiscriminate automation fails to catch real problems and shows concrete alternatives used at Pushpay: a risk-based testing approach, shift left… | ||
| See how AI-Powered DevOps can Accelerate your Testing | Ray Ffrench | 45m |
OpenText demos show an AI component that reads feature text, generates manual and automation tests, converts video recordings into reproducible test steps and… | ||
| Why Quality Coaching is Bad for your Business | Dean Cornish | 37m |
Argues that quality coaching reduces specialist tester roles—dozens made redundant across Australia—illustrates with a Selenium RC era story about a 36‑person… | ||
| Testing != Quality | Anne-Marie Charrett | 35m |
Claim: testing is an information provider, not the same as quality. Argues quality = value to people who matter, so teams must cover discovery, delivery and… | ||
| Real-Life Solutions for Test Environment Challenges | Nick Singh | 38m |
Claims concrete savings: environment issues cause 20–30% of defects and can consume up to 50% of test effort. Real builds and results: a Melbourne Cup… | ||
| Interactions Shapes Testing: Collaboration for Success | Brenden Heinitz | 36m |
16 years experience informs practical rules: testing’s job is to build confidence in product quality, not just find bugs; processes (define defect severity and… | ||
| Unleashing the Power of Practice-Based Teams | Brent Robinson | 42m |
Product organisations scale practice teams by classifying work into seven types and classify work into seven types (Discovery, Delivery, Continuous… | ||
| How ANZ Leverages GenAI to Transform Testing Activities | Tim hogi, Tim Hogarth | 01h 00m |
ANZ describes productionizing GenAI to ingest internal docs and generate test requirements, scripts and realistic data, running models behind the firewall on… | ||
| Service Virtualisation and AI for Shift-Left Testing | Thanh Le | 36m |
Argues that shifting tests left cuts defect cost and shows a concrete pipeline: use OpenAPI specs to generate service stubs and API tests, run hundreds of… | ||
| Best Practices for Accelerating Delivery | Tafline Ramos | 37m |
Claim that a $40,000 investment in visual modelling prevents $120,000 of defects and finds 6 of 30 requirements flawed (about 20%), demonstrated by converting… | ||
| The Perf Testing Trifecta for Optimal End User Experience | Robert Healey | 43m |
Explains how an integrated stack (Perfecto + BlazeMeter + Delix) creates cloud device farms with device vitals, uses virtual services and synthetic PII‑safe… | ||
| Building Team Buy-In for a New Automation Framework | Namrita Anchan | 46m |
Panelists give concrete tactics: assess current tool usage (about 80% in-room use), pilot a prototype team, include training baked into rollout with… | ||
| Explore LLMs and Multimodal Approaches in Test Automation | Manoj kumar kumar | 33m |
Claim: LLMs plus multimodal models can augment test automation by analyzing screenshots and generating runnable tests. The demo runs Llama/Lava via AMA… | ||
| The Path to Autonomous Testing | Anand Bagmar | 42m |
Claim: autonomous testing requires more than UI scraping — it needs test discovery tied to historical requirements and source code, built-in test data… | ||
| Highlights | 03m | |
A short event highlight reel that contains only ambient clips and music, no technical points or demos, so it does not teach testing techniques. Expect a few… | ||
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