STARWEST 2024 - Architecture - Design

Customize your STARWEST 2024 experience with sessions covering architecture and design.

Wednesday, September 25

Sargis Sargsyan
Align Technology
W11

Efficiency Matters: Mastering Dockerized, Scalable Grid for Selenium and Playwright Test Suites

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

UI testing tools offer a robust solution for web application assessment, yet face a bottleneck when scaling up to handle extensive UI test suites that require hours to complete. In this talk, Sargis will address this challenge by guiding you through the creation and deployment of a Dockerized Selenium grid, enhanced with autoscaling and video recording features. Capable of efficiently executing several thousand tests in a limited period, this advanced setup optimizes speed and reliability for UI tests. This deep dive will cover the strategic implementation of a high-performance Selenium...

Shawn Burke
PhoenixTeam
W14

Quality Is More Than Testing—How to Build a Test Team with a Customer-Centric Mindset

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 2:45pm to 3:45pm

Testers are not part of the process; they don’t have sufficient knowledge of the client’s business to understand the big picture. This failure to understand leads to unsatisfactory outcomes that leave the client with unanswered questions. For a client to feel testing is of value, the software must work seamlessly and exceed their expectations. The solution is to shift testing left towards discovery and include testers early in the process so they have a stake in end-to-end results. Testers must understand the subject matter, ask questions, and be a valued part of the core team....

Deepika Kale
Guardant Health
W16

Kafka and Kafka Testing: Streamlining Real-time Data Processing

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 2:45pm to 3:45pm

In today's data-driven landscape, real-time data processing is the backbone of modern applications. Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform, has emerged as a critical component in building data-intensive systems. This presentation provides an in-depth exploration of Kafka and the essential practice of Kafka testing, offering attendees valuable insights into harnessing the power of real-time data streams while ensuring robust system reliability. Key topics to be covered are: an introduction to Kafka to understand Kafka's architecture and core components, importance of Kafka Testing,...

Thursday, September 26

Dave Martin
Broadcom Inc.
T5

Automation Zero to Hero in Two Weeks

Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 9:45am to 10:45am

Several years ago, Dave was a seasoned QA Engineer starting a new job. As the new guy, he was initially tasked with the mind-numbing task of verifying that data in reports matched expected data in a spreadsheet. This task took three weeks to complete manually. He vowed he would never do that again, so the next time around, Dave automated the process in two weeks using an open source automation tool he had never used before, all while laying the foundation for an automation framework that now has over 90 contributors across 12 product lines. Session attendees will learn how to build,...