STARWEST 2024 - Project Manager

Customize your STARWEST 2024 experience with sessions covering project management.

Sunday, September 22

Hajer BenMoussa
Code Lingual LLC

Fundamentals of Agile Test Automation

Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 8:30am to Monday, September 23, 2024 - 5:00pm
Jonathan Kauffman
Coveros, Inc.
Tom-Stiehm
Coveros

AI for Testers

Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 8:30am to Monday, September 23, 2024 - 5:00pm
Jeff Payne
Coveros

Fundamentals of AI—ICAgile Certification (ICP-FAI)

Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 8:30am to Monday, September 23, 2024 - 5:00pm
Jeff Pierce
Coveros

Agile & DevOps Leadership—ICAgile Certification

Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 8:30am to Monday, September 23, 2024 - 5:00pm

Monday, September 23

Chris Loder
BluWave-ai
MK

Automation Framework Essentials

Monday, September 23, 2024 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Automation is critical in today’s software delivery lifecycle, and yet many organizations struggle to keep their automation running. How can we mitigate difficulties and get consistent automation runs and results we can trust? The secret is implementing a solid automation framework, but that isn’t as easy as it seems. Chris Loder has built several automation frameworks over his career and has learned what works—and, more importantly, what doesn’t. This tutorial will cover what an automation framework is, the benefits of having one, and the keys to a successful framework, including...

Péter Földházi
EPAM Systems
ML

Become Your Company's Quality Consultant

Monday, September 23, 2024 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Companies of all sizes face difficulties in achieving higher quality standards within their organization. As quality engineering includes various roles and activities, it is also challenging to find the right people to analyze the current state from a wide perspective and provide the recommendations that will allow these organizations to mature their teams, improving their DevOps culture in the process. Join Péter Földházi as he illustrates the knowledge and skills necessary to become your company's quality consultant. Péter's goal is to involve engineers from beginner to advanced levels...

Tuesday, September 24

Phil LaFrance
Coveros
TA

Supercharge Your Workflow: To GitHub and Beyond

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 8:30am to 12:00pm

Whether you are new or experienced with GitHub this class is for you! Supercharging your workflow caters to anyone who wants to enhance their Agile and DevOps process with the capabilities of GitHub. GitHub has long been the premier site for open-source projects and is now turning a pivotal corner into becoming the predominant platform for all aspects of the development lifecycle. Some examples of this include; protecting company code through various GitHub Products or curating marketplace actions and workflows prior to use. This tutorial will look at how to leverage GitHub Actions (CI/CD...

Mike_Sowers
Coveros
TD

Quality and Testing Measures and Metrics

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 8:30am to 12:00pm

To be most effective, leaders—including development and testing managers, ScrumMasters, product owners, and IT managers—need metrics to help direct their efforts and make informed recommendations about the software’s release readiness and associated risks. Because one important evaluation activity is to “measure” the quality of the software, the progress and results of both development and testing must be measured. Collecting, analyzing, and using metrics are complicated because developers and testers often are concerned that the metrics will be used against them. Join Mike Sowers as he...

Wednesday, September 25

Priyanka Halder
HealthEdge
K2

Engineering Love Stories or Nightmares: Can QA Be Happily Ever After?

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 10:00am to 11:00am

Priyanka Halder, VP of QA, will delve into the fascinating journey of quality engineering over the past decade, highlighting the dynamic evolution and innovative strategies that have underpinned the success of billion-dollar health tech and media companies. The talk traces the early days of experimentation with various quality assurance models, both in-house and outsourced, reflecting on the lessons learned and the pivotal decisions that shaped the future of quality in the industry. A significant milestone in this journey was the strategic partnership with the developer experience team and...

Thursday, September 26

Richelle Bixler
Edward Jones
Panikar
Atlas Revolutions, Inc.
T14

Writing Great Objectives

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

A good objective has five components that effectively communicate a business outcome and why it matters: Activity: What will we be doing? Scope: What are the boundaries of the work we will touch? Beneficiary: Who is the intended recipient of the new work? User Value: Why does this work matter to the new user? Business Value: Why does this work matter to the business? PI Objectives can be daunting but can be made much easier when you add in some key components or a formula: [Activity] + [Scope] so that [Beneficiary] have [User Value] to [Business Value]. In this session, Richelle...

James Wood
Trimble PPM, Inc.
T22

Leveraging and Measuring the Use of Formal Testing Methods in Product Development

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Without training in software testing that includes formal methods such as equivalence class partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, state diagrams, and others, an engineer, in good faith, will test the code intuitively until reaching “qualitative confidence” that testing is sufficient. The team at Trimble, Inc. provided training to engineers in a wide variety of formal testing methods so they could gain “quantitative confidence” that code has been tested sufficiently, by using methods known to achieve concrete coverage in requirements and code. Subsequently, Trimble...

K5

You Don't Talk about That at Work!

Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 4:15pm to 5:15pm

There are things you don't discuss with your colleagues—even less so with your boss. Mental health issues are certainly a big no-no. Sophie Küster will discuss her experiences talking about the big workplace "No-Nos" and how that led her to support herself, as well gaining support from her boss, co-workers, and mentors. Ultimately, being able to discuss these workplace taboos led to her and others becoming their most authentic selves. When Sophie started working as an agile tester, she kept her history a secret. She didn't speak openly about topics that were close to her heart: mental...

Friday, September 27

Igor Dorovskikh
Engenious.io
SMT3

Balancing AI Innovations with Fundamental QA Principles

Friday, September 27, 2024 - 8:45am to 9:45am

The pressure to adopt new technologies like AI and automation without a strong foundation in core QA principles is fraught with risk.  Jumping into AI without understanding how to best leverage AI within QA for business success can cause quality issues. But lagging behind your competitors when it comes to utilizing AI can result in loss of market share. Join Igor Dorovskikh as he guides QA leaders on creating a balanced approach that integrates the use of AI capabilities within essential QA fundamentals. You'll learn how to define and implement these core principles, identify the pitfalls...

Dona Sarkar
Microsoft
WWT2

Feeling Lucky, Won't Delete Later

Friday, September 27, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am

How many of you know someone who just seems to be REALLY lucky? Good things just seem to happen to them over and over again? A few years ago, I noticed this with people in my life and wondered…is there a way to be lucky on purpose? And turns out--it's very possible! Luck is not a singular binary thing, where you are or are not lucky. Instead it’s 5 (or more) different things, many things you can DIY yourself. In this talk you will learn about the many different kinds of luck, how you can do them on purpose and change your life for good, just like I did!