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Read nowTech talk about Smoke Testing. We take a look at some first hand experiences of mine when it comes to smoke testing. We also get into a hands on demo where I'll be walking through the automated smoke tests I built for my personal hobby project (My Stable), which is horse racing web application with playwright and github actions. You'll be able to take away some do's and don'ts weather you're just getting started in QA, automation, or a seasoned professional. It was smokin!
Is it possible to test millions of healthcare records for the entire country? Sure it is. But what about in an agile environment that requires a quick feedback loop? This session will share a case study on how Dan Reale and his team were up against a tight deadline and struggling to test a data migration. With two testers on their scrum team and constantly shifting requirements, the team tested one state a day for their MVP launch. They realized this was not sustainable if they wanted to test all 50 states, so they implemented an automation framework that could help test faster. Taking their testing from one state per day, to one state in an under an hour quickly increased the feedback loop. Dan and his team learned that their automation, while cutting testing time drastically, had now changed the entire way the team worked. This case study will cover all aspects of the data migration journey and how the team ultimately shifted left.
Formed a team with other members of the program that consisted of a product owner, two developers, and two quality assurance engineers. Our idea was to create a QA dashboard that pulled in testing metrics from all the different tools that produced testing artifacts. We built a prototype dashboard using AWS QuickSight that showcased the sprint level end to end test results. These metrics were pulled in from the TestRail api, which is where the QA team's testing results were stored.
Placed on a team with other members within the engineering organization. The goal was to successfully set up a GCP environment and have a live running app.