Book Talk: Eran Kinsbruner, The Digital Quality Handbook, DevOps guide @ iZotope

Come hear Eran Kinsbruner, Mobile Technical Evangelist at Perfecto, talk about his just released book, The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692885994/), just released on April 28, 2017!

Perfecto Mobile will be sponsoring this event. Pizza and soda will be served.

About the The Digital Quality Handbook, according to Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692885994/):

"As mobile and web technologies continue to expand and basically drives large organizational business in virtually every vertical or industry, it is critical to understand how to take existing release practices for mobile and web apps to the next level, including software development life cycle (SDLC), tools, quality, etc. Organizations which are already enjoying the power of digital are still struggling with various challenges that can be related to many factors, such as:

• "SDLC and processes maturity

• "Expanding test coverage to include more non-functional testing, user condition testing, etc.

• "Coping with existing limitations of open source tools and frameworks

• "Sustaining correctly sized and up-to-date mobile test labs

• "Getting proper quality insights upon each test cycle prior and post production

• "Branching wisely cross-platform and cross-feature test suites

"The issues above are just a few out of probably many others existing today. However, this book tackles those and provide working best practices to overcome them. Each chapter in this book addresses a key challenge and provides practical examples and real life 'recipes' to overcome the difficulties and eventually help other organizations who might be facing the same difficulties".

Come say hello to the author, fresh off of the STAR East software testing conference (https://stareast.techwell.com/) in Orlando, Florida.

About the Author, Eran Kinsbruner (https://twitter.com/ek121268):

Eran Kinsbruner (https://twitter.com/ek121268), ( @ek121268 (https://twitter.com/ek121268) ), Blogger for Perfecto (http://blog.perfectomobile.com/author/ek121268/), talks about in his article "How the 'Digital Quality Handbook' Was Born (http://blog.perfectomobile.com/digital-experience/digital-quality-handbook-born/)" how he wanted to write

"A book. A practical book. A 'how-to' for DevOps practitioners, designed to make them better, faster, and more… perfect(o)".

He spoke to many people to get their input: Microsoft's Donovan Brown, Applitools' Adam Carmi, TestFairy's Yair Bar-On, Applause's Doron Reuveni, BlazeMeter's Jonathon Wright, Noga Cohen, Jacob Sharir, InfoStretch's Manish Mathuria, Rabobank's Wim Selles, Utopia Solutions' Lee Barnes, Angie Jones, Jean Ann, Harrison, Lior Kinsbruner.

In his book he collects stories from people with topics such as:

• The best way to include visual analysis testing as part of your test code, using any available open-source framework

• How to develop API tests that complement your mobile UI test automationHow to include non-functional performance testing and UX as part of your overall test strategy

• How to extend open-source tools like Protractor to better test your hybrid app

• The bible of UX testing

• What a valid and high-ranked XPATH should look like (with link to an online free tool that provides that rank to you)

• How to include chatbots testing into your existing mobile testing plans

• Where in the overall SDLC strategy does crowdsource testing and beta testing fit

About Perfecto:

From https://www.perfectomobile.com/company

"We're transforming the way businesses go digital by making Continuous Quality (https://www.perfectomobile.com/continuous-quality) possible. The world's leading brands trust Perfecto to test (https://www.perfectomobile.com/solutions/perfecto-interactive), monitor and deliver better apps, faster.

"Before Perfecto was the leader in digital experience quality, we were a team of innovative, relentless techies, dedicated to helping customers deliver great apps. As customer engagement moved to the web, and then to mobile devices (https://www.perfectomobile.com/list-of-supported-platforms), the need for a complete solution drove our innovation. Today, our Continuous Quality Lab™ goes beyond 'real-devices in the cloud' to stand as the only total mobile quality (https://www.perfectomobile.com/mobilematurity) solution".

Where to Meet:

The event will be held at iZotope’s office https://www.izotope.com , in their spacious lunch room. It is an eleven minute walk from the Kendall / MBTA Red Line stop. For Directions, see https://goo.gl/maps/Dx28yK8zLmB2 … signs inside will direct you from the front door to the lunch room.

T.J. Maher is 5 foot 7 with short brown hair, blue eyes, a “Hello My Name is T.J.” nametag and a red MEETUP sign attached to his black messenger bag.

Agenda:

6:00 pm to 6:30 pm: Meet and Greet

6:30 pm onward: The talk begins!

About iZotope:

Without iZotope, and their generous donation of their office space, the Ministry of Testing - Boston would not exist. They are looking for a Web QA Analyst. Please check them out (https://www.izotope.com/en/company/careers/jobs/it/web-qa-analyst.html)!

From their site: https://www.izotope.com/en/company/about-us.html

“iZotope makes innovative products that inspire and enable people to be creative. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iZotope has spent over a decade developing award-winning products and audio technologies for professionals and hobbyists alike. Used by millions of people in over 50 countries, iZotope products are a core component of GRAMMY-winning music studios, Oscar and Emmy-winning film and TV post production studios, and prominent radio studios, as well as basement and bedroom studios across the globe. iZotope also powers products made by industry partners such as Adobe, Avid, Microsoft, and Sony. iZotope was recently honored with an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development for its flagship audio repair suite, RX® (https://www.izotope.com/en/solutions/repair-and-edit/rx.html)”.