STAREAST 2020 - DevOps

Containers. Every manager thinks they want them, but few teams have experience in knowing what to DO with them. Used thoughtfully, containerization of your services can transform the way your organization thinks about testing. Gone can be the days of maintaining X different compute environments with Y different configurations. Imagine instead spinning up just the code you need, on the machine type it needs, and only for as long as you need it. In this technical training, Melissa will walk through what containerization means for a legacy code base attempting to practice continuous...

For many of us in the DevOps testing world, innovation is a spectator sport. We are invited to listen, watch, and then test the innovations that come from outside of the testing team. When testers innovate, there are few channels to iterate and implement within our daily job duties. In the past twenty years as a testing community, we are rarely recognized for massive innovations. Without that recognition, testers risk the loss of respect and credibility as a technical force. We must innovate now or face "death" to testing as we know it. Stacy will share the importance and urgency of...

Docker is the most popular containerized solution being used in the software industry for development. Like any other test automation tool, however, implementation can get complicated, tricky, and unmaintainable if all you understand is the record-and-playback features or think it is the same as using a virtual machine. Whether you are already using Docker for your automation needs or plan to start using it soon, join Aprajita Mathur as she shares her journey of using Docker for testing complex and constantly evolving data analysis pipelines. She will discuss basic concepts of...