Arjun Gadhia will be in charge of the opening keynote of QA&TEST. He is Software Engineer in Test at the Financial Times. He will explain how FT.com has evolved in many ways over the last few years. From a monolith to microservices. From a desktop site to a responsive site. From a small team to a large team. From QA to Engineers in Test. From deploying once every six weeks to deploying several times a day. This talk will be about some of the things he and his team have learnt in that process, and some of the things that they broke along the way.

During the second keynote, Michiel Vroon will show the best practices based upon the experiences in testing road tunnels. In 2006 the Netherlands introduced a specific 'road tunnel law'. This Dutch 'road tunnel law' is based upon the European directive combined with some additional requirements. A tunnel (> 250 mtrs) in the Netherlands must have more than 30 different systems. These are systems like fire safety systems, video monitoring systems, intelligent traffic monitoring systems, air ventilation systems, pumps and lights. They must provide safety to drivers and emergency services (fire brigade, police, ambulance people etc) in case of accidents. All systems must work together via an independent software control layer on top of this.

And last, Ron Werner will talk about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, with a presentation entitled "Hey Google, will AI kill the traditional Mobile Tester?" Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are new integral parts of the latest mobile operating systems Android 9 and iOS 12. While you're still wondering how in the world to test these advancements, you might find yourself outpaced by technology itself… AI producing, self-testing and self-healing its own produced algorithms, at the acceleration and speed of a supercharged Tesla Model S… So, was that it, then? Will we testers get overtaken by AI, just like the world's best Go player was recently beaten by Google's AI?

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Philip Lew is the CEO at XBOSoft and he will give this 4-hour tutorial on software quality metrics. When implementing software quality metrics, we need to first understand the purpose of the metric and who will be using it. Will the metric be used for measuring people, the process, illustrate the level of quality in software products, or drive towards a specific objective? QA managers typically want to deliver productivity metrics while management may want to see metrics that support customer or user satisfaction or cost related (ROI) initiatives. With agile development methods, we often lose sight that our primary objective is the same, quality. Many organizations are myopic on the primary objective of velocity. However, velocity means little without quality. Define quality for your organization with an agile looking glass with intermediate metrics that lead to both quality and velocity. Learn to develop and implement software quality metrics with actions toward improving on these two primary objectives.

Derk-Jan de Grood works for Valori as senior test manager and agile transition coach and will make an approach on CI/CD to empower organisations to bring their solution in production fast and frequent. In this interactive session Derk-Jan de Grood will share the benefits of this concept and introduce eight conditions that from a testers perspective need to be met in order to make CI/CD a success. We will discuss various levels of CI/CD and how this impacts the condition, and e.g. how outsources maintenance department fits (our does not) in the picture, How Embedded products releate to s/w only products and how automation is crucial.

QA & TEST offers you a unique opportunity: two full-day courses, which will take place at the same time of the conference. During these courses, you will learn about the basics of testing, test automation and load and performance testing. You will share the social events with conference attendees, so you can establish relationships with professionals in the sector, who will share with you their knowledge and expertise.

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