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Let’s Build a Continuous QA Strategy around your CI/CD Pipeline

Szilard Szell

09:00-17:00 CEST Tuesday 13th June

Building a Test Strategy in DevOps is not only about Test Automation, but how built-in quality can be achieved in all steps of the SW development, within and outside of your CI/CD pipeline. This is not a task to be achieved by a Test Manager alone, but a whole team exercise, involving all stakeholders. Thus, this very much supports the conference theme of ‘Software Development is a Social Activity”.

What is the goal of your testing? What quality aspects are more and what is less important for your domain? What are the major risks? What testing steps should be included in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline, and where to focus with Exploratory Testing? How to utilize the new QA opportunities available by applying DevOps practices? Don’t just string together existing manual processes! – in this tutorial, we will use simple, collaborative tools to design something better!

The interactive tutorial will help teams to learn how QA is extended to the left and to the right in DevOps, how to design your QA pipeline with simple cards and what other testing related activities to be agreed on, to have a full test strategy.

In this hands-on tutorial for teams of 5-6 people, we will use several card games, as well as Sticky notes to identify parts of a Test Strategy and to design a CI/CD pipeline into its core. (however, we do not use actual CI/CD tools as the technical implementation of the pipeline is not the scope here).

The format is a series of lectures and discussions to share the needed theory and exercises to practice what we have learned. Throughout the exercises, teams will build a full Test Strategy for pre-selected scenarios and contexts in breakout sessions, followed by presentations and discussions.

What you will learn

  1. Discuss the different product quality aspects of their given business scenario, and their importance
  2. Design a continuous delivery pipeline (using cards, not pipeline tools), in line with the business expectations
  3. To understand what else is needed to build a Test Strategy, like Testing Techniques to be used, Technology that helps to achieve the our goals, as well as skills needed in the team

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 7 Hours
  • Interactive Tutorial
  • Methods of Collaboration
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What Attendees Say

“Wonderful presentation and insights.”

“As a test manager and DevOps newbie, I found it invaluable”

“Very structured, with information I could use right away.”

Session Speaker

Szilard Szell, EuroSTAR 2023 speaker. Join his session, 'Let's Build a Continuous QA Strategy around your CI/CD Pipeline'

Szilard Szell

DevOps Transformation Lead – Eficode, Finland

Szilard is a Senior Consultant of DevOps Practice for Telco Business at Eficode. Szilard has a proven track record in large-scale Telco DevOps Transformation Programs as a Test Coach with a focus on Quality Assistance. He has experience as an assessor, trainer, facilitator, and coach in Test Automation and Testing Process improvement area. As a SAFe 5.1 SPC He is running successful training and coaching sessions for larger companies.

As a conference speaker, Szilard is ready to share his view and knowledge with Testing Fellows, which is based on 22 years of industry experience and a multitude of certificates held.
To give back to the Testing Community, Szilard is active in ISTQB. He is also an active member of HUSTEF, UCAAT, and TheDevOps Conferences Programme Committee, and in 2021 he was part of the Programme Committee of EuroSTAR. See more on: https://www.eficode.com/szilard-szell

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