Testing
Past Presentations
Continuous Performance Testing
In our world of continuous delivery with repeatable builds and automated deployments, performance testing is often bolted on as an afterthought. This can be an acceptable strategy until your application becomes popular, after which customers can start complaining about application response. As...
After Acceptance: Reasoning About System Outputs
Modern software development allows us to prove that new work is functionally complete. We write a set of executable specifications. We automatically execute them in the form of acceptance tests as part of our continuous delivery pipeline. When all the tests pass, we are done! This approach is...
Property-Based Testing In Practice
Testing is a cornerstone of modern software development. It provides us with a safety net against bugs and regressions – without testing, it would be impossible to write large-scale applications. The traditional approach to testing relies on hard-coded examples: fire some specific inputs into...
Inside a Self-Driving Uber
Over the course of three years, Uber’s self-driving vehicles have driven over 2 million miles and have completed over 50,000 passenger trips in Pittsburgh and Phoenix. Many of you might be curious as to how we built a fleet of self-driving vehicles capable of driving autonomously in varying...
Testing Observability
The days of trying to build systems that always work are gone. Fast, frequent releases and self-healing platforms can reduce, or even remove the risk of production incidents. So what does this mean for software testing? In this talk, Amy will look back on a long test career, and a recent Platform...
Automated Test Design and Bug Fixing @Facebook
The talk describes the deployment of Sapienz, a system for automated test case design that uses Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) that has been deployed at Facebook since October 2017 to design test cases, localise and triage crashes to developers and monitor their fixes. It also describes...
Interviews
Leading a Journey to Better Quality
What is the focus of your work these days?
I work as Head of Quality at Thought Machine, and my focus has been one to enable teams to bake quality in the entire process, but not only engineering, it's also focused on how we work with clients, how we create processes, are we creating the right processes and so on. I work on measuring a lot of metrics as part of this....
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