Full Program
All InflectraCon sessions will be available on-demand - watch anytime from midnight to midnight (EDT/GMT-4) of that day. Enjoy!
Keynotes | September 29 - October 2, 2020
Jennifer Bonine will discuss the current state of technology in the AI world. She will discuss what AI Bots do and how engineers and technology professionals should adapt to stay on the cutting edge.
In this keynote, Jeffery Payne will discuss how, where, and why Agile has been co-opted to mean everything OTHER than Agile and why the same thing is inevitable for DevOps. Learn what to focus on when building high-quality software and how to get rapid feedback from customers.
In this Keynote, Raj Subrameyer discusses the basics of how AI-based systems work, the key factors to consider when developing and testing these systems, and how to develop an enterprise-wide strategy.
“Testers [do|don’t] (help) [prevent|detect] problems.” The session begins with an overview of semantics, which sets the stage for an in-depth analysis of each individual word and its potential meaning.
Join Paul Grizzaffi as he explains responsible ways to approach automation, describes some of the knowledge needed to be responsible, and shares insights about automation responsibility from his career.
Julie Gardiner’s Keynote talks about re-evaluating and transforming how we test in order to deliver more value to organizations. Join Julie as she shares current experiences of transformations and lessons learned within different organizations.
In this keynote, Melissa Tondi will share the shifts that have been major milestones in the industry over the years. We will learn how these shifts increased the view of software testing and the value that it provides.
Workshop A: Quality Assurance using Spira | September 29, 2020
Learn the basics of Exploratory Testing and SpiraCapture
Explore the basics of Parameterized manual testing.
Learn Test Set best practices: when they are needed, how to create and analyze results.
Gain a deeper understanding of Test Runs and how they affect the Status of Requirements and Releases
Learn the Manual Test Execution methods, testing views, and Incident Creation
Learn how to establish traceability with Requirements and Releases and analyze requirements and release coverage.
This session will focus on the best practices for how to structure and organize your tests, as well as make the best use of linked test cases and traceability.
Partner Summit | September 29, 2020
Thought Leadership | September 29, 2020
The objective of this talk is to help organize and support your efforts as testers and test leaders to ascend the corporate hierarchy with a message about quality that is being overlooked and ignored.
Join Kirk Walton as we look at how Quality organizations evolved over the past decade, what they’ll need to do to evolve in the 2020's, and discuss tips to keep your team members' skills current with today's trends.
In this talk, Adam Sandman highlights the ways to nurture the next generation of testers and QA talent, help people transition into the software testing discipline, and be successful in their fields.
Join Reid Shepard for an overview of the advantages of AWS when it comes to cloud computing, a discussion on AWS’ global reach and its core architecture advantages, and a review of AWS strategies for migrating to the cloud.
This session is targeted at managers and team leaders who want to create and nurture healthy working spaces where their teams will feel comfortable taking risks, innovating, and delivering quality work.
Workshop B: Programs and Portfolios | September 30, 2020
Understand how you can use the program management features of SpiraPlan to manage your backlog of user stories and epics across a program, including tracking the impact of risks and incidents across a program.
Learn about the program and portfolio management features in SpiraPlan, including how you can best organize your projects, track progress using the dashboards, and drill down to products and releases using the integrated Gantt charts.
This session will introduce how to use Spira throughout the agile product management life cycle.
This session will introduce how to use Spira throughout the agile product management life cycle.
This session will introduce the context of risk response in delivering projects, programs, and portfolios within SpiraPlan.
This session will introduce the context of risk management in delivering projects, programs, and portfolios within SpiraPlan.
This session will differentiate major and child releases for a phased approach, and release and sprint for iterative releases.
This session will focus on how to elicit, validate, track, and monitor requirements and tasks using Spira along with how to map requirements to releases and iterations to deliver value.
Advanced Topics: Quality Assurance using Spira | September 30, 2020
This session demonstrates how you can create custom graphs in Spira to be used by members of your team on the reporting dashboards.
In this session, we will share recommendations and best practices for using Spira and TaraVault to manage your source code, with examples using both Git and Subversion.
In this session, we will discuss the different workflows available in Spira (requirements, test cases, tasks, documents, releases, and incidents) and how you can combine them to create a project workflow that works for you.
In this session, we will walk you through how to set up the integration between Spira and Atlassian Jira and Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO), with a live demonstration of synchronizing defects, user stories, and tasks (ADO only) between the different systems.
This session introduces the use of Entity SQL to create data queries that can populate sections of the report. The session will demonstrate some basic queries, including using joins, aggregations, and calculations.
This advanced session focuses on taking an existing report and modifying its template and format to display the data differently.
This session will cover the basics of setting up a CI pipeline in Jenkins, connecting it to Spira, and adding some simple unit tests, API tests, and Rapise UI tests.
Discover how Inflectra’s Remote Launch helps orchestrate automated tests for automation tools that integrate with Spira, including Rapise.
This session outlines some of the more advanced features available in SpiraTest for authoring test cases: use of linked test steps to create modular, componentized tests, and test case parameters to create a hierarchy of test cases.
Inflectra IRL | September 30, 2020
In this session, Geoff Horne will demonstrate an Excel-based tool for estimating software testing projects. By using science & mathematics, the tool provides a more accurate estimate than the usual gut-feel processes.
We will demonstrate how Critical Logic’s Model Base Testing technology - IQM Studio integrates with SpiraTest and Rapise.
Learn how the Spira toolset can be used in a DevSecOps pipeline, giving you the tools needed to get rapid feedback and quickly find and fix defects.
In this session, Frank Heise will reflect on the best practices and lessons learned from years of using a complex set of criteria to help companies choose the ALM technology stack for their enterprise needs.
In this interview with Remco Putker, he describes the benefits that EY found adopting the SpiraPlan platform for managing the entire implementation and rollout of SAP SuccessFactors.
How SpiraPlan was implemented in an Australian neo-bank to help organize, manage, and test ready for the initial launch.
Thought Leadership | September 30, 2020
Using the stages of the scientific method, Max will teach viewers how to create good test strategies, test plans, and develop useful test cases considering inter-dependencies and data.
In this talk we will discuss how testers can learn from the research and work of criminal investigators today, use hard facts and hidden facts, and from there determine a trustworthy conclusion.
In this talk, learn about the importance of effective test automation in DevOps success, common obstacles to effective test automation in DevOps, and techniques for implementing test automation practices in your DevOps pipeline.
Join our talk for a better understanding of the changing paradigm for testing and a look into the future of software testing in a changing world through lean validation and software assurance.
In this talk, learn about how, with USL, ISVs now have a new, simplified, more efficient validation and joint debugging environment and how this joint validation environment will empower ISVs to provide evergreen support for their apps.
Workshop C: Test Automation Fundamentals | October 1, 2020
In this session, Denis Markovtsev will show the architecture of mobile testing and perform the basic configuration of a mobile testing board.
In this session, Alexey Grinevich will cover where and what to look for in a desktop application to make your automation efforts more effective. Some desktop applications have an API.
In this session, Alexey Grinevich will cover where and what to look for to automate a desktop application effectively. Keyboard and mouse are primary ways to control a desktop application, we see how it affects automation.
In this session, Alexey Grinevich will cover where and what to look for in a desktop application to make your automation efforts more effective as efficient.
In this session, Denis Markovtsev will discuss how to start testing Web applications with Rapise. He will talk about Web UI elements, browser automation, and how automated Web testing differs from manual.
In this session, Denis Markovtsev will demonstrate the fundamental building blocks of a functioning automation framework. You will learn how to organize testing efforts in a manageable and effective way.
The session will explore the core concepts of test automation, help participants set their automation priorities right, and unveil the Rapise feature-set that is optimal for most users’ needs.
The session will explore the key activities in UI test automation and will highlight the main differences between manual and automated approaches to testing.
Advanced Topics: Programs and Portfolios | October 1, 2020
This session aims to cover a lot of ground and explore some power tips, expert tricks, new features, lesser-known hacks to help you impress your colleagues and get your work done faster.
In this session, we will discuss how you can organize your products into templates, what customizations can be part of your template, and how you can clone products and templates.
In this session, we will present a roadmap to helping users adapt to the concepts in the Inflectra toolset (primarily Spira and Rapise) and give you handy tips and quick wins to keep your users happy and engaged.
In this session, we will discuss how the project associations work for requirements and other artifacts. We will also cover some of the more common use cases that take advantage of this unique feature.
In this advanced session, we will explore the mechanics of creating an end-to-end DevOps toolchain using Spira plus associated tools such as Jenkins, Git, AWS, xUnit, RemoteLaunch, and Rapise.
This session will look at the different ways you can scale your agile projects into programs and portfolios using SpiraPlan.
In this session, we will build on our earlier discussions of Spira's risk management, analysis, and mediation functionality and dive into the how's of implementing FMEA using Spira's risk management module.
In this session, we will explain the concept of product baselines and why you may want to use them. We will create baselines at critical points during a release and then review the change history.
Inflectra IRL | October 1, 2020
In this session, Neil Price-Jones will explore the testing of Covid-19 masks under varying conditions as well as the transit application.
Join Aaron Athfield from Ceefa Software as he showcases the WorX Manual Testing Accelerator plugin for Spira.
This case study focuses on growing an on-premise implementation from 20 users to 1350 with redundancy and load-balancing for Spira administrators and architects.
During this talk, Henrik Rexed, Partner Solution Evangelist at Neotys will deep dive into how to automate your performance test and start testing earlier, reminding you of the value of the integration between NeoLoad, SpiraTeam, and Rapise.
Thought Leadership | October 1, 2020
In this talk, Peter and Alejandro will share simple yet powerful testing strategies and a mindset to ensure confidence in defining a quality gate and strategy to implement reliability, recovery, and robustness tests into your QE pipeline.
What’s the best approach to an effective security strategy? In this session, we’ll provide meaningful and effective guidance discussing the security areas you should invest in first, why the cost is worthwhile, and how to structure your team.
Example Mapping is a collaboration technique used by teams to help refine requirements. We will summarize examples or constraints of a user story, and ensure questions about outcomes or dependencies are documented.
In this talk, Smita Mishra will go through examples of real world apps and stories of evolving UI and UX. We will observe how these evolution, impact the User Experience for better or worse.
This talk will better arm you with skills that you can take back to help you with this arduous but much-needed activity of test planning.
As software development methodologies change, so do the roles within them.... what is the role of a tester in DevOps or CI/CD? How do we fulfill this role, what can we do to prepare ourselves?
Workshop D: Bending Spira To Your Will | October 2, 2020
How to customize settings at the product level and troubleshoot user issues within a product.
How to control when email notifications go out and to whom.
How to manage your types and priorities across artifacts.
How to manage your types and priorities across artifacts, and use Custom properties.
Discover how a user role affects permissions on a product.
Discover how system admins can create, edit, and approve users and how to give special access to individual users.
Familiarize yourself with the different workspace types in SpiraPlan and understand how these workspaces fit together and how to manage them.
Advanced Topics: Test Automation Fundamentals | October 2, 2020
This session aims to cover a lot of ground and explore some power tips, expert tricks, new features, lesser-known hacks to help you impress your colleagues and get your work done faster.
In this session, Denis Markovtsev will demonstrate the benefits of Rapise’s built-in intelligence that significantly reduces the maintenance costs of tests.
In this session, Denis Markovtsev will demonstrate how to set up the recorder at the beginning of a test automation project to ensure the generation of resilient XPATH locators and readable object IDs.
This practical session will demonstrate the best practices of automating the testing of a complex system using Rapise while iterating on the process and verifying and refining the approaches.
In this session, Alexey Grinevich explores Inflectra’s own scriptless language - Rapise Visual Language (RVL) - a module that offers benefits far beyond easy test scripting.
In the session, Alexey Grinevich and Denis Markovtsev unveil awesome new features that improve the test automation experience for every Rapise user.
Hallway Conference | October 2, 2020
Book reading and a chat about the book titled: Organized Common Sense: Why Project Management Skills Apply to Everyone | Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D.
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Book reading and a chat about the book titled: Skyrocket Your Career | Raj Subrameyer.
Book reading and a chat about the book titled: The Drive-Thru Is Not Always Faster | Mike Lyles
Thought Leadership | October 2, 2020
In this presentation, Anna Royzman, the Test Leadership Summer event founder, will recap the insights from the experts across the globe, and discuss trends and opportunities for leadership and career growth of test and quality professionals.
It is common yet quite new to hear the term ‘Observability’. But what does that mean? In this talk, Parveen will share my journey of adoption of a culture of observability within the engineering team.
In this presentation, you will learn what a good retrospective looks like: stages, pitfalls, tools designed to engage your people, and techniques to get the best out of the process.
Humans avoid risk, and change creates risk. To effect change, we must appeal to the heart and the reptilian brain. Stories help us do that, and in this presentation, you will learn how and why to tell stories that win your case for change.
This talk is aimed at people that are trying to build confidence in their software delivery pipeline, whether it is automated or not. I’ll talk about the specific tools we use to supplement our pipeline testing.
In IT, skills in communication, collaboration, and leadership define success. This presentation brings you my lessons in how teams can accelerate and deliver quality software.
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