DevOps: Find Solutions, Not More Defects

Happy New Year! We will be moving VanQ this month to Monday, January 18th to accommodate Andreas Grabner who will be visiting Vancouver from Austria. Andreas has been working in Software Quality for the past 15+ years and we are excited to have him speak at VanQ. In 2015 he presented at international testing conferences such as Agile Testing Days Berlin, StarWest, STPCon, Copenhagen Testing Days as well as in front of Testing Groups such as Sydney Testers.

Topic: DevOps: Find Solutions, Not More Defects
The promise of DevOps is that we can push new ideas out to market faster while avoiding delivering serious defects into production. Andreas Grabner explains that testers are no longer measured by the number of defect reports they enter, nor are developers measured by the lines of code they write. As a team, you are measured by how fast you can deploy high quality functionality to the end user. Achieving this goal requires testers to increase their skills. It’s all about finding solutions—not just problems. Testers must transition from reporting “app crashes” to providing details such as “memory leak caused by bad cache implementation.” Instead of reporting “it’s slow,” testers must discover “wrong hibernate configuration causes too much traffic from the database.” Using three real-life examples, Andreas illustrates what it takes for testing teams to become part of the DevOps transformation—bringing more value to the entire organization.

Session Takeaways:

• How to “Level-Up” and become part of a “DevOps” Team.
• Top Problems that crashed apps in production and how to find and solve them in testing.
• Tooling to use beyond your current test tool set.

Presenter Bio: Andreas Grabner
Andreas is a performance enthusiast who has been working in this field for the last 15 years. He helps organizations find the real problems in their applications and uses this knowledge to teach others how to avoid these problems by sharing up their engineering best practices.