DevOps is spelled with a silent QA

Abstract:

This proposed talk is to serve as a reminder that DevOps is about breaking down the walls between Dev, Ops, and QA. Despite not being in the name, it is essential to include QA in the conversation within a DevOps organization and work cycle. As the DevOps community has matured, more and more attention is given to programmatic machine and network configuration, and it is time to do the same for the many tasks of QA.

This talk will highlight how QA is important and relevant to DevOps, outlining the new roles of QA such as the necessity of automated testing, but allay fears of QA professionals being rendered obsolete. I will also discuss tools and programming concepts (such as the Page Object Model) which can be applied to improve communication between QA and Devs/Ops.

Speaker:

Jonah Stiennon is a Software Developer at Sauce Labs on the Ecosystem and Integrations team. Sauce Labs provides a cloud hosted Selenium Testing API, which allows developers to run Functional tests against websites and mobile devices, in parallel across a large number of platforms. The Ecosystem is team made up of developers whose responsibility is to create/maintain open source projects which people use to run tests through Sauce Labs. Most recently he has been working on Appium, an open source project equivalent to Selenium that allows for simulating user interaction with iOS and Android devices.