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Two leading developers — from Jira/ Atlassian and Pushpay — shared their insights, tip, tricks, and best practices on how to maintain quality across the Dev-Test-Release cycle, without losing speed or coverage.

Branch Insurance is disrupting the insurance industry by allowing customers to bundle home and car insurance in as little as 30 seconds.

What exactly is under the hood that helps a company like Branch to disrupt a well-established industry such as insurance?

In this webinar, Joe Emison — Co-founder and CEO of Branch Insurance — shared the technology he relies on. He also discussed in detail his approach to software quality, his requirements from technology partners, his tech-stack, and how AI has helped him on this journey.

Joe was joined by Erik Fogg — Co-Founder & CRO of ProdPerfect — and Daniel Levy — Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Applitools — as they demonstrated how Branch Insurance has achieved effortless, self-updating end-to-end testing — functional and visual — that gives them an unparalleled advantage of deploying faster at lower costs, all while making QA coverage one less thing for Joe’s team to worry about.

Watch this on-demand session to discover what are the must-have features of codeless automation solutions, which testing challenges they help solve, and how to choose the solution that is right for your team.

Manual testing is necessary for certain types and modes of testing — but its inability to properly and quickly scale up creates major setbacks and bottlenecks for companies.

So what’s the answer?

We see organizations turning their attention and resources to codeless automation solutions in the hopes of solving the issues of speed, coverage, and maintenance — but how do you choose a solution that is right for your team?

In this session, we dived into the 5 key features you should look for in a codeless automation solution, discussed how each of those features helps solve different testing challenges, and demonstrated how those features work.

Discover how Fiserv solved their challenge with automated PDF testing.

Business organizations are taking advantage of advancements in digital technology to grow their customer base and revenue at an increasing pace.

Simply put: the faster that new customer agreements, forms, and documents can be processed — the faster that companies can grow revenue from their expanding customer base.

How does a software testing team respond to the business challenge of “increase the pace of business growth, increase the revenue”?

Specifically, how does a testing team effort improve their own efficiency in validating dynamically-generated PDF documents that are mission-critical to the pipeline of creating & establishing new business?

How can a testing process improvement effort — that includes automated visual validation — calculate ROI? What other opportunities does automated visual validation testing offer testing teams when they want to deliver increased value to their project and product teams?

In this hands-on session, Dave Harrison – Software Testing Practice Lead, Fiserv Global Business Systems — and Christopher Kane — Software Test Engineer, Fiserv Global Business Systems — discussed these challenges, and how they have made progress in taking them on. A walk-through of automated PDF document generation and visual validation was also shown.

Design systems are one of the most popular new ways to create and document the UI building blocks that make up a product.

When it comes to a design system, your components will be used by multiple teams on different platforms.

So how do you ensure that you help deliver a high-quality product?

In this talk, Marie Drake — Principal Test Automation Engineer @ News UK — shared her experience at News UK, and how they came up with a testing strategy for their newest offering (NewsKit Design System).

Marie covered the following talking points:

• A brief introduction to News UK’s tech reset and Product Platforms Team
• Why a Design System?
• A look at our Testing Strategy and overview of testing tools

Building a culture of quality excellence in your organization is absolutely necessary to compete in 2020 and beyond. Every team member must be accountable for the quality of the application, and understand their role in delivering it. We need our teams to emphasize quality over quantity, work smarter, and set the right expectations, while delivering amazing results.

In a world of agile development — and even more so for those of us moving to CI-CD — testing all the things in a fast-paced development environment is challenging if not impossible. So what can we do about it?

One foundational aspect of success is to acknowledge where you are on the quality maturity rubric. By understanding your maturity curve, you will know how to best to set quality goals, diagnose needs, and identify interests for 2020 and beyond.

In this session, Greg Sypolt — VP of Quality Assurance @ EverFi — shared how he measures the quality maturity rubric in order to set the right execution path and set expectations in the quality journey for huge enterprises with dynamic, mission-critical applications.

Greg explored his experiences in building a quality platform that helped companies achieve elite quality status, and drive more business value, quality accountability, and shared responsibility with clear ownership.

Watch this on-demand webinar — for these takeaways:

• The 3 pillars of app quality excellence as a foundation of your quality journey — and why establishing them is vital
• How to start building a culture of quality excellence — right now!
• How to measure the quality maturity rubric — and your team’s place on that curve
• How to start building a quality platform in your organization — and how to emphasize its cultural importance
• Reaping the savings and ROI of the quality platform

Design systems are one of the most popular new ways to create and document the UI building blocks that make up a product.

Component-based frameworks — such as React, Angular, and Vue — have taught teams to break apart their application interface into reusable pieces, while projects like Storybook have allowed us to document and test these components at scale.

What happens when you make design changes using a central system, instead of individual screens? How do you make changes with confidence when your update impacts every screen in the product?

In this webinar, Tyler Krupicka — Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit — shared how Intuit tests design system changes for TurboTax, a product with thousands of reconfigurable screens that share a common design language.

He also discussed why design systems have become so important to his team, the tools his team uses, as well as providing a deep dive on how Intuit routinely changes thousands of screens simultaneously.

Watch this in-depth live session, and discover:

• What are design systems, and how they can help you build consistent experiences
• How Intuit uses design systems to build thousands of unique screens in TurboTax
• How we test and release widespread changes with confidence in:
  • Performance
  • Accessibility
  • Visual Consistency
• How you can build and maintain your own design system at scale

While most people are still using Java 8 from six years ago, new versions of the language are being released every six months!

The latest Java versions provide an abundance of new features, such as functional programming capabilities, switch expressions, local variable type inference, additions to the Stream API, new factory methods for Collections, text blocks and much more.

With so much content, your Java upgrade should be more than simply the update of a jar file. Your test code no longer has to be as verbose as it once was — this means less code to write and maintain!

This talk by Angie Jones introduces the new features of Java 9 – 14 and provides examples of how these features can be used for test automation.

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction of new features in the latest 6 releases of Java (Java 9 – 14)
• Examples of how the features can be used for test automation projects
• Greater command of the programming language

While test automation is a struggle for most teams everywhere, there are companies who have mastered their technique and are executing a very successful test automation strategy.

In this talk, Angie Jones shares the research on how top companies and global brands are approaching test automation strategy, and successfully implementing it.

Angie was joined by a panel of QA executives, who also shared what they are seeing in the industry in regards to successful (and not so successful) test automation practices:

• Theresa Neate – QA Practise Lead @ Real Estate Group
• Amrit Sadhab – Digital Practise Lead @ Origin Energy
• Karen Mangio – QA Practise Lead @ NAB Mobile
• Cameron Bradley – Head of QA @ Tabcorp

In November 2019, 288 Selenium, Cypress, and WebdriverIO quality engineers spent a combined 1.5 years of time writing traditional and Visual AI tests against 5 common use cases.

In this webinar, we will reveal what they learned, and explain how you can apply these lessons in less than an hour to your own test suites and build Visual AI-driven test automation for:

• Testing UI elements using minimum locators, texts and labels
• Data-driven testing and functional testing
• Testing table sorting and filtering functionalities
• Testing graphical displays such as bar-charts
• Testing highly dynamic content

Watch this webinar and see how Visual AI can radically improve your ability to author new tests faster, reduce test maintenance, and catch more early-stage bugs faster than ever before possible.

Automated tests are a key component of CI (continuous integration) pipelines. They provide confidence that with newly added check-ins, the build will still work as expected. In some cases, the automated tests have the additional role of gating deployments upon failure.

With such a critical responsibility, it’s important that automated tests are developed to meet the needs of continuous integration.

In this webinar, Angie Jones (Applitools) and Jessica Deen (Microsoft) discussed key factors that should be considered when writing tests that will run as part of CI.

Angie and Jessica also showed a live demo of integrating frontend tests to your pipeline within an Azure DevOps build — so we can see all those theories come to life.