Pejman Ghorbanzade on "Continuous Regression Testing Using Touca SDK for Java"

Welcome back to JC-JUG! (Sorry no October presenter, I was on vacation last month.) Our November presenter is Pejman Ghorbanzade.

>>> About the speaker

Pejman Ghorbanzade is the maker of Touca, helping software engineers understand the true impact of their code changes on the behavior and performance of their software. Before Touca, Pejman was a senior software engineer at Canon Medical Informatics building software for advanced visualization of medical images. Pejman is interested in problems related to the design and maintenance of software at scale and over time. He is passionate about solutions to improve stability and maintainability of products with large ever-changing codebases.

>>> About the presentation

Making code changes to real-world software systems without introducing unintended side-effects is non-trivial. There are methods and tools to help us mitigate the inherent risks. One of these methods is regression testing that helps us verify the behavior of our software using a large number of test cases. But regression testing frameworks are clunky, have high maintenance costs, and produce results that are difficult to manage at scale. These limitations have largely made their use an after-thought for most software teams.

Touca is an early-stage startup trying to rethink regression testing. They offer open-source SDKs that enable describing the behavior and performance of software workflows by capturing values of variables and runtime of functions. They remotely compare this description against a previous trusted version and report differences in near real-time.

Join us for an interactive session to explore this new approach to regression testing and to evaluate Touca's implementation of that approach. We will try their new Java SDK (https://github.com/trytouca/touca-java) to see if we can safely refactor two well-known code Katas in a friendly ensemble programming session. We will take turns to share our thoughts about this new approach, and share general tips about changing real-world codebases safely and efficiently.