You're invited to the QA Forum's annual end of year dinner!
Join us for a night of networking, learning, and great food.
A panel will
provide practical solution patterns for evolving a sustainable test automation
framework in your environment. Efficient product teams find cross
functional design and ownership of integrated test frameworks provides optimum
return on automation investments. Each panel member will offer practical advice
and on how to create sustainable automation framework, commonly owned by
development and QA, producing a test automation environment that is sustainable
and maintainable as the product evolves.
Presenters
Patrick McEnany, Sr. QA Manager at
McAfee, Inc. with
more than 12 years of experience in software development and testing. For
the past 3 years he has been successfully driving the first large scale McAfee
Automation Initiative across the company, after establishing a core foundation
centered around extensibility and maintainability. This common automation
framework continues to expand across the company with (16) Enterprise Product
Teams and (49) QA Automation Engineers contributing their efforts in a way that
allows maximum code reusability by all teams involved. Patrick will share
the most effective patterns used in this effort.
Ward Cunningham is the Chief
Technology Officer of AboutUs.org. Ward co-founded the consultancy Cunningham & Cunningham,
Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in
Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt
Software and as Principal Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research
Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice
of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and
the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the Agile Manifesto.
He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages
of Programs (PLoP) conferences which continue to be held all over the world.
Ward will discuss three test automation patterns leading to longevity.
Kevan Dunsmore, Software Architect at
Sabrix Inc, the
leading provider of transaction tax management, has been at Sabrix for 3 years,
driving new technology adoption with particular focus on Sabrix’s SaaS
offering. Kevan will discuss the “file diff” testing pattern, explaining
its use at Sabrix and how it can be employed at all levels of the testing
cycle, from unit to integration to stress testing and how test datasets
generated by QA can be re-used by development (read: shamelessly stolen) and
vice versa.
Daniel Thom is currently working as
an expert engineer at Hewlett Packard in the StorageWorks division and has been working in the
filesystem and storage industry for over a decade. He has worked in qa
and development roles and will talk about flexibility and process patterns that
lead to sustainable test automation.
Last year we packed the room at 85 - so reserve your seat today!
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