The Grand Finale!

InflectraCON closing ceremony will take place in Tatooine. This is the only spoiler you get!

See you there!

Description:

My grandmother is 85 years old, she has been struggling with the technology boom since the 1950s. For many years she was thinking that the whole technologic boom was an offense to her intelligence, but eventually, she realized that product and service providers were not keeping her in mind as an end-user. One of the most critical technological industries in the user experience of my grandma is the excessive production of radio, televisions, and associated remote controls since the 1950s. She is a frustrated end-user but at the same an expert Senior tester. But so far my grandma is still dealing with the boom of mobile apps, she does not like mobile apps. She says “if that people don't think about me, they don't deserve my money, That's it”. The usability or UX for mobile or Web apps is very important, but a well-designed website isn’t just about how easy it is to use or how elegant it looks. An aspect often overlooked is the performance of an application in terms of response times. Web and Mobile apps need to respond quickly to requests from users and this means optimizing the application with performance in mind.

Key Takeaways:

• How my grandma struggled with technology since the 1950s as an end user and also as a tester testing devices like radios, tvs, and remote control.

• How response times impact the user experience.

• How you can optimize the performance of your web or mobile application from Front End, Back End, and Perception of Web Performance.

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You are welcome to submit more than one topic for 1-on-1 discovery with Team Inflectra. The submission deadline is May 1, 2022.

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Successful software projects require corporate support and buy-in. Learn techniques to effectively gain support and increase the odds of success.

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About a decade ago people with advanced knowledge built test automation frameworks with essentially two separate layers: Test Scripts and Test Libraries. The problem with this Bi-Layer architecture is the challenges of reusability in other applications, specifically, the size and complexity of test libraries along with the application-dependent solutions being intertwined made it very difficult, sometimes impossible to reuse them.

That's how the idea of the Tri-Layer Testing Architecture was born: why not add a 3rd layer, for all the libraries that can be easily reused anywhere?

In this presentation, Peter will talk about the main differences between the Bi-Layer and the Tri-Layer architectures. The three layers are Test (runnable test scripts), Business (all the application-specific libraries), and Core (independent, reusable libraries). Peter will provide examples from his experience at big fintech and other companies, where he successfully implemented the Tri-Layer Testing Architecture and dramatically lowered the test automation costs for these big companies.

Key Takeaways:

• Attendees will be able to identify signs of a smelly architecture

• Designing a test automation architecture is way easier than you would first think

• Reusable components and properly designed layers are the heart of a great test automation framework.

The below sign-up sheet will help us offer you the best 1-on-1 InflectraCon experience. Members of our support team, product team, and expert consultants are waiting to answer your questions.

You are welcome to submit more than one topic for 1-on-1 discovery with Team Inflectra. The submission deadline is May 1, 2022.

Thank you for taking the time to be a part of InflectraCon 2022!

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In the software testing game, it is all about the details. Testing is really a simple thing to describe; does the software behave as expected? The complexity comes in knowing the details of what to expect and then designing tests to verify the behavior is as expected. Human brains are great at testing given knowledge of what the application should do. Automation tools have no knowledge. The trick is to find a way to make the tools know what you mean. Let’s discuss.

The below sign-up sheet will help us offer you the best 1-on-1 InflectraCon experience. Members of our support team, product team, and expert consultants are waiting to answer your questions.

You are welcome to submit more than one topic for 1-on-1 discovery with Team Inflectra. The submission deadline is May 1, 2022.

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We've all heard of test-driven development (TDD) (Beck 2003; Astels 2003), as an evolutionary approach to development which combines test-first development. You write a test before you write just enough production code to fulfill that test and then refactoring. Now in 2022 with the increased attention to full-stack operations and scalability, the importance of engineering attention to system performance is shifting left. This talk with introduce the adapted concepts of TDD to performance engineering and scalability: Performance-driven Development. One way to think of this is that you must think through your non-functional requirements or system design before your write your code. This implies PDD can be an inherent principle for agile requirements and agile design techniques. Another common experience in shifting-left performance testing is that PDD is a programming technique - a skill set for writing performant, efficient code and configurations that scale and are reliable.

Key Takeaways:

• What is PDD and how is it different from TDD, Agile Development, early performance testing and abstracted performance engineering practices

• An overview of different suggested implementation strategies to begin adoption or change to a PDD model

• Simple things you can change to start driving development via non-functional performance requirements.

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The world of software testing is rife with myths about automation that have been with us for years. A quick internet search, however, shows that most of these myths have been debunked by multiple people in blogs, articles, conferences, and webinars. Many of the authors debunk a specific myth with similar logic and examples; this is good because it provides consistency for the “common case”. We easily can find debunking of myths ranging from “automation is best for regression testing” to “it’s feasible to automate everything”. But do these “debunkings” hold true for all contexts? Is “Record and Playback” always a bad idea? Is partial automation at all valuable? Are technology and programming really the hard parts?

Join Paul Grizzaffi as he explores some of the classic myths, their debunking, and the myths about those myths, i.e., instances when a myth is not a myth if applied to a specific context.

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Event-Driven Architectures (EDAs) are an increasingly popular way for enterprises to create high scale, fault-tolerant, low latency, cloud-native applications. IDC recently predicted that by 2024 10% of enterprises would be using an EDA for the majority of their applications and 70% would be using EDA patterns in at least some of their ongoing applications. In this talk, we will give you a high-level introduction to how EDAs work, discuss the testing challenges they pose and look at some strategies for testing them.

Key takeaways:

• A deeper understanding of Event-Driven Architectures

• Understand challenges around testing EDA

• Practical suggestions for tackling those challenges.

Description:

Accessibility is a large topic and one that often gets a variety of approaches to deal with. Often it is seen as having to focus on a large checklist (the WCAG standard) and make sure that everything complies. While this is a great goal and focus, often it is overwhelming and frustrating, putting people in the unfortunate role of having to read and understand an entire process before they feel they can be effective. It does not have to be this way.

Key Takeaways:

My goal is to help condense this a little and give some key areas to focus on and be effective in identifying Accessibility issues quickly and helping testers become effective advocates.

We will look at ways to:

• find issues

• advocate for them

• help make strides to greater understanding and focus moving forward.

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Case study of how a small Agile ERP implementation team can use SpiraTeam to (a) rapidly collect and validate stakeholder requirements and (b) perform stakeholder UAT testing with low implementation defect rates and high user satisfaction.

Key Takeaways:

• Why formal requirements management should be used by Agile teams

• How SpiraTeam is easily used and rapidly deployed collaborative by an Agile Team

• How SpiraTeam testing and defect management in an Agile environment is a best practice to be embraced.

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Organizations and leaders are often supportive of DevOps, but they don’t always understand what DevOps is and what it will change. It isn’t a one-size-fits-all issue; different environments need different benefits from a DevOps transformation. Join Gene Gotimer as he explains the most important parts of understanding DevOps. We'll discuss how to determine what parts of DevOps your organization needs to concentrate on first and how you should measure improvement. This session boils DevOps down to its most basic parts and makes sure you have a foundation for understanding how to make it work for your situation and organization.

Key Takeaways:

• DevOps is a culture. Embrace the Three Ways.

• The Four Key Metrics are measures of DevOps maturity, not goals.

• Use value stream analysis to understand your process and find your biggest impediments.

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Are you ready to generate higher-quality tests and coverage at the push of a button? Please join me live at InflectraCon 2022 so we can take a deep dive into the driving principle behind Critical Logic, Integrated Quality Management (IQM). I will explain how our innovative technology, IQM Studio, lets you visually represent rules from requirements to validate rule statements in real-time. Take the power of industry-leading test management tools, such as Spira from Inflectra, to the next level by using IQM Studio to validate that the requirements or user stories are developed correctly while simultaneously validating that the system built adheres properly to those specifications. See you there!

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Whether you’re working on a team or in a leadership position, being able to lead is an essential skill for a professional.  Therefore, everyone needs to have a leadership voice that can inspire and influence others.

These voice skills work if you practice them whether you are fresh out of college and it’s your first job, brand new to a team, brand new to leadership, or have been in leadership for years.  Even if you aren’t a leader yet of a team and that’s your goal, you still must master these vocal skills to stand out and be recognized for your leadership.

When you have mastered your internal and external voice of confidence which is instrumental in being a leader you will become so much more powerful and empowered.  You will know how to use your voice to showcase your ideas, your leadership capabilities, and the value you bring to any business or corporate team.  Who doesn’t want to have this? 

Key Takeaways:

• Be able to make the sounds of confidence

• How to sound instantly more intelligent

• Know how to change your internal and external voice for new improved results

• Feel confident in asking for a raise