2018 Conference At-A-Glance

World Trade Center 121 SW Salmon St. Portland, OR 97204

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Monday, October 8, 2018

7:00-10:00 AM	Registration and Wake Up with Coffee & Tea Level 3 Skybridge Terrace
8:00-8:15 AM	Welcome and Highlights for the Day Level 3 Auditorium
8:15-9:30 AM	Keynote (Auditorium Level 3) Taking the SAFe 4.0 Road to Hyper Speed and Quality; How High Performance Teams Disrupt Their Marketplace and Drive Change Michael Mah QSM Associates Inc.
9:30-9:50 AM	Break in Exhibit Hall Level 2 Mezzanine
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Automation*	*Security & Performance*	*People & Management*
9:50-10:30 AM	INVITED SPEAKER Testers and Teams on the Agile Fluency™ Path Diana Larsen FutureWorks Consulting	Mobile Testing Beyond Physical Reach Juan de Dios Delgado Bernal Mobica	Influence of Architecture Validation on Performance Engineering Krithika Hegde, Amith Shetty McAfee	Growing Engagement – How to Shape and Grow Your Team or Organization Levi Siebens Ascentis
10:40-11:20 AM		How to Automate Testing for Next-Generation Interfaces (BOTs, Alexa, Mobile) Andrew Morgan, Sanil Pillai, Anu Raturi Infostretch	Enhancing Product Security Design Through Product Performance Testing, a New Dimension in Testing Vittalkumar Mirajkar, Sneha Mirajkar, Narayan Naik McAfee India	Quality & Risk Management Challenges When Acquiring Enterprise Software Systems Ying Ki Kwong State of Oregon Phillip Lew XBOSoft
11:20-12:20 PM	Grab & Go Luncheon, Quality Panel & Presentation SkyBridge Terrace, Dessert in Exhibit Hall, & Mezzanine Lobby
		Level 1 Oregon Room	Presentation Level 2 Mezzanine 2-4	Panel Discussion Skybridge A-B
11:20-12:20 PM		Game On! Quality Mind Challenges	On the Road with PDX Bike Share Steve Hoyt-McBeth Portland Bureau of Transportation	Panel on Defining & Measuring Quality Kathy Iberle, John Hagar, moderated by Rick Anderson
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Automation*	*Security & Performance*	*People & Management*
12:20-1:00 PM	INVITED SPEAKER Future Proofing Your Software: Design Inclusively Michael Larsen Socialtext	Automated Visual Regression Testing with BackstopJS Angela Riggs Consultant	Eliciting Application Security Requirements – Its a Complex Undertaking! Bhushan Gupta Gupta Consulting, LLC	Why is Communication so Difficult? Peter Hartauer QualityMinds GmbH
1:10-1:50 PM		Structure, Design, Extensible and User Experience – Foundations for an Automation Framework Arvind Srinivasa Babu, Hemant Prasad, Abhishek Sharma McAfee	Chaos Engineering and Testing for Availability and Resiliency in Cloud Amith Shetty, Krithika Hegde McAfee	How to Get There From Here: REI’s Journey Toward the Right Data and Environments for Their Enterprise Testing Ecosystem. Bob Stuart, James Wilson, Penny Allen REI
1:50-2:10 PM	Break in Exhibit Hall Level 2 Mezzanine
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Automation*	*Security & Performance*	*People & Management*
2:10-2:50 PM	PANEL DISCUSSIONS The Impact of AI on Testing How can we apply AI to the testing problems of today? Jason Arbon and Tariq King AI for Software Testing Association Driving Change and Transformation, Agile Fluency and Improvement Michael Mah, Alan Page, Diana Larsen, Les Grove moderated by Alan Ark	Effective CI using Automated Quality Checker Ruchir Garg Red Hat	$, $$, $$$ Which QA Tools Are Worth it at Their Respective Price Points. Victor La, Dain Charbonneau Parametric Portfolio Associates	Collaborating with Students to Produce High-Quality Production Software Sean Murthy, Andrew Figueroa, Steven Rollo Western Connecticut State University
3:00-3:40 PM		How to Fix “Test Automation” for Faster Software Development at Higher Quality Matt Griscom MetaAutomation	On the Road to Reliability for Android Robots in a Physical World Krishna Saxena, Torin Perkins, Catherine Lee, James Menezes, Bo Li High Schools, Portland, Oregon	Diverse Teams Are Essential for Quality Software Rebecca Long Future Ada
3:50-4:30 PM	Speed Networking, Level 3, Patio, Auditorium Lobby Join us at Speed Networking for a fast-paced and fun way to meet some of your fellow conference attendees in a short amount of time. We’ll provide a list of sample questions to spark your conversations, and we’ll shift gears and change seats every 5 minutes to maximize your new connections! Questions to get you in gear!	Automated Detection of Individual Anomalies and General Behavioral Changes in Timeseries Metrics Tifany Yung, Renato Martins Groupon, Inc.	Security Tsunami! SDL Fundamentals and Where to Start Tania Skinner Intel Corp	From a Controlled Chaos to a Well-oiled Machine: Agile & Devops Complement Each Other Rajasree Talla New Relic Inc.
4:40-5:40 PM	Networking Happy Hour with Poster Papers Mezzanine Level 2
5:40 PM	Portland Dine Around Dinner

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

7:00-10:00 AM	Registration and Wake up with Coffee & Tea Level 2 Mezzanine
8:00-8:15 AM	Highlights for the Day Auditorium Level 3
8:15-9:30 AM	Keynote – Auditorium Level 3 Rise of the Machines: Can Artificial Intelligence Terminate Manual Testing? Tariq King Ultimate Software
9:30-9:50 AM	Break with Poster Papers Level 2 Mezzanine
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Testing*	*Technologies & Tools*	*Processes, Practices, and Methods*
9:50-10:30 AM	INVITED SPEAKER Adventures in Modern Testing Alan Page Unity Technologies	Is the Testing Role Relevant? Ratna Josyula, Jonathan Li On Wing Zillow	Addition by Abstraction: A Conversation About Adding Value to an Automated Test Suite Though Dynamic Coding and Abstraction Concepts Jerren Every Huntington National Bank	A Case Study in Improving Cross Functional Collaboration Dain Charbonneau, Victor La Parametric Portfolio Associates
10:40-11:20 AM		Better Testing Through Process Automation Rick Tracy Hapalion Consulting	The Path Beyond Cucumber 3.0 Thomas Haver Huntington National Bank	Quality Assurance in an Agile Development Team Michelle Wu Parametric Portfolio Associates
11:30-12:10 PM		Risk Based Testing: Communicating Why You Can’t Test EVERYTHING Jenny Bramble Willowtree Apps	Hardening Your Development Process Nicolas Guini, Andres More McAfee	I Love Your Maturity But Why Are You Always Late? Emanuel Baker, Betsy Clark, Angela Tuffley, Adrian Pitman Software Engineering Consultants, Inc.
12:10-1:10 PM	Grab & Go Luncheon, Quality Panel & Presentation SkyBridge Terrace, Dessert in Exhibit Hall, & Mezzanine Lobby
		Level 1 Oregon Room	Presentation Level 2 Mezzanine 2-4
12:10-1:10 PM		Game On! Quality Mind Challenges	Look Both Ways on the Road to Software Quality – Confidence and its Enemies Ward Cunningham New Relic
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Testing*	*Technologies & Tools*	*Processes, Practices, and Methods*
1:10-1:50 PM	INVITED SPEAKER Software Test Architectures and Advanced Support Environments for IoT Jon Hagar Grand Software Testing, LLC	AI-Driven Test Generation: Machine Learning from Human Testers Dionny Santiago, Tariq King, Peter Clarke Ultimate Software	Gating Code Commits, Approaches Taken by Two Large Scale Open Source Projects Jack Morgan, Clark Boylan Intel	Talking About Quality: How to Define Quality Targets in an Agile World Kathleen Iberle Iberle Consulting Group, Inc.
2:00-2:40 PM		The “Do Nots” of Software Testing Melissa Tondi Rainforest QA	Virtual Platforms Driving Software Quality in Pre-Silicon Amith Pulla Intel Corp	Finding and Fixing Your Agile Organizational Potholes Les Grove Catalyte
2:50-3:30 PM		Testing All the World’s Apps Jason Arbon test.ai	An Engineering Approach to Public Speaking Phil Lew XBOSoft Brian Gaudreau Avanade	Changing Engineering Culture with SDETs Sheetal Hulloli, Santosh Sahu, Mayur Premi McAfee
3:30-3:50 PM	Break with Poster Papers Level 2 Mezzanine
3:50-4:30 PM	CLOSING KEYNOTE (Auditorium Level 3) The Lost Art of Live Communication, Get Connected to Your Customers Jennifer Bonine TapQA
4:30-4:45 PM	Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks
4:45 – 6:00 PM	Networking Happy Hour Mezzanine Level 2

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

7:30 – 8:30 AM	Workshop Registration Opens
Breaks 10:00AM and 2:45 PM, Level 2 Mezzanine Lobby
Lunch 12:30-1:30 PM Level 3 Skybridge Terrace
Plated service on the covered terrace, please dress for the weather.
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM	8:30am-12:30pm	8:30am-12:30pm	8:30am-12:30pm	8:30am-12:30pm	8:30am-12:30pm	8:30am-5:30pm
	W01: Use Mind Maps to Increase Team Velocity and Communication to Customers Jennifer Bonine TapQA	W02: Unit Testing: What Every Developer and Tester Should Know Tariq King Ultimate Software	W03: Quality and Productivity Benchmarking, Estimating, and Release Planning Michael Mah QSM Associates Inc.	W04: Software Testing for Mobile, Embedded and IoT Devices Using Data Analytics Jon Hagar Grand Software Testing	W05: CMD+CTRL Hackerthon Joe Basirico Security Innovation	W11: Hands-on Selenium Alan Ark Duo Security
	1:30pm-5:30pm	1:30pm-5:30pm	1:30pm-5:30pm	1:30pm-5:30pm	1:30pm-5:30pm	continued…
	W06: Quality and Risk Management in the Acquisition of Enterprise Software Systems Ying Ki Kwong Office of the State CIO	W07: Building a Testing Framework from Scratch Michael Larsen Socialtext	W08: Understanding and Implementing Accessibility Amelia Abreu UX Night School	W09: Cancelled	W10: Testing Today’s Web Applications: Tools You Can Use Alan Page Unity Technologies	W11: Hands-on Selenium Alan Ark Duo Security

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Delete 2018 Conference at a Glance

2018 Conference At-A-Glance

World Trade Center 121 SW Salmon St. Portland, OR 97204

Monday, October 8, 2018

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

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