STAREAST 2025 - Architecture - Design
Customize your STAREAST 2025 experience with sessions covering architecture and design.
Wednesday, April 30
Expanding Your Testing Scope: Thinking Beyond System Health
A big part of testing is ensuring that you're anticipating and proactively detecting problems before they appear. This means thinking beyond bugs and errors and considering tests that assess your system's ability to meet the needs of the business and customers. For example, most businesses and architectures are designed to deliver operational and cost efficiency. The challenge is, many organizations don't actively test/measure their efficiency. Customers also have expectations about their experience. What testing do you do to evaluate how the system is meeting its experience goals? This...
Elevating Test Leadership: Strategies for Effective Team Management and Career Growth
Mastering test leadership involves not only guiding your team through complex testing scenarios but also fostering their professional development and advancing your own career trajectory. In today’s fast-evolving tech landscape, test leaders face the challenge of balancing rigorous quality assurance with identifying the talent, development of team’s skills and career trajectories. During his tenure as Practice Head of Quality Engineering at a major tech firm, Srinivas Rao Labhani implemented a comprehensive strategy of implementing a sense of belongingness to the organization, learning...
Thursday, May 1
Starting Small: Piloting Automated Testing Capabilities for an Unemployment Insurance Service
In a complex, regulated legacy environment with minimal test automation and tight deadlines, technical and non-technical challenges can make it difficult to accelerate the QA process. This session uses Mighty Acorn Digital's experience launching an automated testing program for the New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Modernization initiative as a case study on introducing automation to ensure safety across thousands of test scenarios spanning multiple different technologies. Introducing test automation in this environment presented several challenges. There was skepticism about the...
Agentic Automation for Hyper Automation
In web and mobile automation, each phase is time-consuming and requires significant manual intervention. For example, purchasing a book from Amazon involves scripting the entire process: opening the browser, entering application details, providing payment information, and completing the purchase. Rajkumar J. Bhojan has a proposal on Hyper Automation which involves using Agents and Generative AI (GenAI) to streamline these tasks. Specifically, agents will create the necessary scripts to automate each phase, with each agent communicating with others to optimize results. To achieve this, Dr....
Automating the Testing of AI/ML Models: Tools, Skills, and Best Practices
As AI and ML models become integral to software systems, ensuring their accuracy and reliability through effective testing is paramount. Traditional testing approaches often fall short in addressing the unique challenges posed by these models, such as handling large datasets, verifying model predictions, and maintaining robustness against data drift. This presentation explores Otis Elevator's journey in automating the testing of AI/ML models using cutting-edge tools and techniques. Ayisha Tabbassum's team faced significant hurdles in manually testing their AI models, from the sheer volume...
Testing Product Resiliency with Chaos Engineering
Dive into the exhilarating world of Chaos Engineering, where chaos is not a threat, but a catalyst for resilience and innovation of product and security practices. This talk explores the transformative power of Chaos Engineering in navigating the unpredictable landscapes of software testing for product resiliency, which also directly impacts operational security. Organizations are often stuck on the “build it quickly and move on” mindset, leaving opportunities for competitors and security threats to set up their home base. Learn how leading organizations harness controlled chaos to uncover...