Productionize Your Testing

About the Presentation: Testing infrastructure is often treated as less important than other software in an organization. Problems find their way into the test suites and result in expensive to maintain, slow, and unreliable tests. Through a simple shift in mindset and hard work, you can have fast, reliable, easy to maintain test suites. Topics covered in the talk will be:

• Versioning Your Tests
• Avoiding Code Duplication in Tests
• Coding Tests To Embrace Change
• Monitoring and Supporting Testing Infrastructure
• Deploying Your Tests and Frameworks
• Testing the Tests
• Staffing for Success

About the Speaker: Chris Harbert is the Founder and CEO of Testery, a company that helps organizations from startup to Fortune 50 improve quality through DevOps and test automation. After years as a software developer doing pair programming and test-driven development (XP), he followed the technical management track and became the Director of Information Quality for Resonate, a big data, consumer analytics startup in Northern Virginia. While building out their test automation team, processes, and infrastructure, he realized that despite having many options available, there is still a need for better test automation platforms in the industry. Testery has now built and is continuing to develop a next generation testing grid, which can run complex integration and end-to-end tests at high levels of concurrency. Chris has an Executive MBA from the University of Maryland (College Park), a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Missouri (Columbia), and is a father of two.

Food will be provided by Testery