How do teams share their understanding on the common goals? It is either audio or visual. Recording each talk and storing them ( tagged) is not the most effective way to share common knowledge. Sketching is not new to agile teams. We are taking it a step forward in the form of Vision Boards. Vision Board – is creative visualization of your goals. While our focus in this talk, remains on- how teams could use the board, Individuals use these in order to make their life goals into reality. There are pictures or sketches of what they want – all pasted together on one board – so they constantly remind themselves of their ultimate goals in the bigger scheme of things. These goals may not be achievable with one task. They may need a series of tasks which do not directly seem to be connected with the goal. But these visualizations captured - are very good indicators of what success means to one.

We used Vision Boards to visualize our customer experience, their reactions and expected patterns of use for our application. This board single handedly kept all our teams aligned and as many changes happened – the teams knew their true north when they were discussing how to design the screens and which features to build on (priority). Our already agile teams were constantly looking at the short term goals of prioritized features, but vision board helped them reduce chaos and clutter and saved lot of time on understanding the overall requirement - it also served as the basis for User Stories.

Success in cross-browser test automation relies on many variables. Today’s reality forces practitioners within DevOps and agile teams to join efforts in assuring quality, removing risks, and releasing fast.

To meet these goals, business testers, developers, and test automation engineers need to work together with the proper technology stack that matches their skill set.

This session will give you recommendations for achieving high coverage, high reliability, and maintainability of cross-browser test automation.

I will walk through:

• Trends in cross-browser test automation
• A comparison of the various types of cross-browser testing tools
• Executing automation at scale across all platforms within your CI
• A live demo of different test automation approaches

Testing for StartUps is very different than testing for big businesses. Mostly, because of the lack of funds and time to market – which are common constraint across the globe. But most importantly, because the startups are mostly pivoting, if not completely, then in parts. Their feedback cycle have to be super-efficient and really quick. Users are directly involved and lot of monitoring and user metrics decide the way forward for the product.

When testing for such fast moving startups , one needs to strategize smarter with their time, funds and tools. The approach taken is indeed out of the box sometimes. Unlike, existing businesses where the end goal is defined, startups are lot of times open to a new end, which is more glorious than what they had originally planned for. (This may sound like machine learning has been inherently applied.)

The ideas and responses will be radically different and pretty disruptive, for some routine questions for developing the test approach, in case of a startup- Why are we testing, what are we testing, Who will test, what will get impacted, how to test, which tools can help, what metrics are the business measuring, how much time do we have….

Learn to test for startups in the coolest and most efficient way. Be useful to your business.