TAPOST conferences – Theory And Practice Of Software Testing. Riga, October 9-10, 2019

Program

October 9 (Workshops)
October 10 (Conference)

9:30

Workshop 1: Gáspár Nagy – Write better BDD scenarios
Tutorial: Seretta Gamba – Driving Lessons for Test Automators
Workshop 2: Alexander Pushkarev – Effective test automation under extreme pressure: Feature test model
Workshop 3: Michael Bolton – Critical Thinking for Software Testers
Workshop 4: Konstantin Pletenev – Consumer-Driven Contracts approach. Workshop requirements: Laptop with IDE, Java8 SDK, GitHub account

8:05	Registration
9:00	Opening
9:20	Michael Bolton – The Secret Life of Automation
10:20	Ingo Philipp – Rediscover Exploratory Testing
11:00	Coffee Break
11:20	Track 1 (General): Jurijs Grigorjevs – From testing to quality engineering – the path to double value of testers. Track 2 (CICD): Girts Baltaisbrencis – Shift Testing Left and Defects Down with CICD Track 3 (Modern testing): Daria Lashkevich – Hear me sign: Sign language translator development and test
12:00	Track 1 (General): Polina Gorsanova, Janis Presis – Delivering on time and quality with less resources. A true project story of optimization! Track 2 (CICD): Gwen Stewart – QA in support of CD Track 3 (Modern testing): Roy de Kleijn – Tap into the world of robotics
12:40	Track 1 (General): Vitali Lashchanka – Moving to Fail-Fast approach in Frontend Development Track 2 (CICD): Vjaceslavs Lukasevics – Mastering hordes of CI jobs using Jenkins pipeline DSL Track 3 (Modern testing): Audrius Sabaliauskas – Mitigating dependencies pitfalls in app development
13:00	Lunch Break
14:00	Track 4 (TA): Seretta Gamba – Seven proven ways to ruin your Test Automation Track 5 (Agile): Szilárd Széll – Testing in DevOps – how to assess teams and give guidance Track 6 (General): Martin Boesgaard – Derive good test data from production data without breaking privacy laws
14:40	Track 4 (TA): Alexander Pushkarev – Test automation, Unicorns and other things that do not exist Track 5 (Agile): Alexey Shnyakin – Continuous micro services testing Track 6 (Performance): Igor Samokysh – Performance testing of web applications – so much more than running a script
15:20	Track 4 (TA): Andrejs Kalnacs – Flaky tests – not on my watch Track 5 (Agile): Mehmet Şevket Özdemir – Difficulties and benefits to develop a new test automation tool Track 6 (TA): Kristine Kronberga – Galen – a new way to test website layouts
16:00	Coffee Break
16:20	René van Veldhuijzen – Forget Shift Left and Shift Right. Let’s Shift Back!!
17:00	Rhian Lewis – Testing blockchain applications: challenge or opportunity?
17:40	Natalija Rokina, Jelena Smilga – Test Yourself
17:55	Closing & Networking