Agile Testing After Work

The Agile Testing Days present to you the upcoming "Agile Testing After Work" meetup in the beautiful city of Hamburg. Get together for a lush evening where you'll be able to meet agile software testing experts Ada Pohl, Udita Sharma, Zhanat Mambetbayeva and Pierre Baum. The gathering is held in the MOIA office at the Stadthausbrücke.

This meetup is sponsored by MOIA, who are offering their office, snacks, drinks and a great atmosphere ☺️.

Agenda:

• 16:30 Entrance and welcome
• 17:00 Kick-Off & MOIA introduction
• 17:15 Talk Ada Pohl
• 18:00 Break
• 18:15 Talk Udita Sharma
• 19:00 Break
• 19:15 Talk Zhanat Mambetbayeva
• 20:00 Break
• 20:15 Talk Pierre Baum
• 21:00 Networking
• 22:00 End of event

Talk 1: Ada Pohl
Feedback Fiesta - Turning Colleagues into Customers for Specialized Testing!
Getting to know your customers and finding the best tools to learn from them

Are you building a product that is mainly used by your colleagues? And you feel like you should know how they are using and liking the product? But even though your colleagues are very accessible you are not sure how to go about it?
In this talk I will go through

• Methods for collecting feedback
• Fun and unconventional test methods

The result of these?

• Enhancing the Quality mindset of a team
• Changing communication/collaboration of a team

Key learnings will be:

• Getting to know your customer
• Practical testing with and without your customer
• Active listening
• Learning to feel your customers pain
• Using testing as a motivator for the team in matters of quality mindsets

About Ada:
I’m a Senior Quality Specialist building quality strategies since 2014. From XING’s Startpage to MOIA’s navigation system, I love technical challenges that require logical thinking and a quality mindset.

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Talk 2: Udita Sharma
You can be an explorer too!
Get inspired to write creative exploratory test ideas or to motivate your teammates to become the explorers.

Do you know what money-making blockbuster books and movies—like Harry Potter, The Girl on the Train —all have in common? They are all built around a "high concept" idea.
It is an idea that can be pitched in one sentence, immediately grabs your attention, and conveys why it is interesting.
In this talk, let me take you through the idea of “high concept” and how we can integrate it with Exploratory testing!

About Udita
I have been working in the IT industry for more than nine years. Multidisciplinary experience has helped me to learn from different perspectives and improve as a quality engineer. I consider myself not only responsible for the quality of a product but also for the quality of the whole process and the satisfaction of my team members.

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Talk 3: Zhanat Mambetbayeva
Writing effective iOS UI tests: Principles, Practices and Pitfalls

This session covers the essentials of crafting robust UI tests, including structuring test suites, handling asynchronous operations, and avoiding common pitfalls. Attendees will gain practical insights into improving test quality and reliability for iOS apps, enhancing their understanding in both foundational and advanced aspects of UI testing.

About Zhanat
As a QA Engineer, I've navigated from waterfall to agile, and from hardware to software testing, across 3 countries and a vast array of technologies. My work mirrors my personal ethos: constantly evolving and endlessly curious.

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Talk 4: Pierre Baum
From Good (process) to Great (Quality)Abstract

Even in Agile Development assessments can deliver value when they are done the right way. In this talk I will share my learnings what worked for me and what kind of mistakes I made. I will share my tips and tricks so that the audience can apply them in their next assessment.

About Pierre
Pierre Baum works as a test coach in mostly agile projects & is experienced in diverse software development roles for over 15 years. After excursions into project & product management, his passion led him back to the exploration of software products.