STAREAST 2025 - Test Strategy

Thursday, May 1

Andrew Knight
Cycle Labs
T12

Scaling Automated Tests to Infinity and Beyond

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 11:15am to 12:15pm

Testing is a risk-mitigating activity that takes time. Ideally, we want to cover as many behaviors as possible in the shortest amount of time for fast feedback. The only way to speed up is to scale up. But how? This talk outlines a playbook for the five most impactful ways to scale up tests. From improving infrastructure to arranging tests more efficiently down to refining the performance of particular steps, you will learn tried-and-true techniques for running more tests in less time. With this playbook, you could scale up to hundreds of tests running concurrently without crashing. Join...

Marcus Merrell photo
Sauce Labs
T22

Why Testing Needs to Be Part of Your Brand Loyalty Strategy

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Every experience counts – In a recent Sauce Labs study, 57% of consumers said they’d consider switching to a competitor after just 3-4 negative interactions with a company’s website, software, or mobile app. With all the options available, consumers are growing less forgiving, putting a bigger emphasis on the need for a clear brand loyalty strategy that takes the execution of the digital experience into bigger consideration. Design and engineering are key to the equation and the culmination of that is implementing a testing strategy – one that makes the rollout and updating of new features...