2019 Conference At-A-Glance |
Printer Friendly PNSQC 2019 Full Proceedings [12 MB] |
World Trade Center 121 SW Salmon St. Portland, OR 97204
PNSQC 2019 Full Proceedings [12 MB]
The links on this page allow you to access the abstract of each paper. This is provided to make your attendance as enjoyable as possible. Full text of all papers and slides will be publicly available sometime after the conference.
Monday, October 14, 2019
| 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 | |||
| 8:15-9:20 AM |
Keynote (Auditorium Level 3) Testing the Untestable |
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| Level 3 Auditorium | Level 1 Plaza Room | Level 2 Mezzanine Room | Level 3 Skybridge Room | |
| Invited Speaker |
Quality Engineering |
Security & Performance | People, Mgmt, and Leadership | |
| 9:30-10:10 AM |
The QA/QE Role – Supporting DevOps |
Transition from monolith to microservices: a dream or a tester’s nightmare? Natalia Pletneva |
Serverless Security: What are we up against? Atul Ahire |
Timeless Skills for Modern Testers: Communication, Collaboration and Creativity Gerie Owen |
| 10:20-11:00 AM |
Michael Larsen |
Panel Discussion moderated by Ying Ki Kwong Information Security : Practices & Trends in Agile Enterprises |
Ian Savage |
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| 11:00-11:20 AM | Break in Exhibit Hall Level 2 Mezzanine | |||
| Quality Engineering | Automation | People, Mgmt, and Leadership | ||
| 11:20-12:00 PM |
Guru Jam Session with Lightning Talks |
Technical Practices for Agile Engineering Moss Drake |
Using Promises with the Page Object Model Hal Deranek |
Building Automation Engineers from Scratch Jenny Bramble |
| 12:10-12:50 PM |
On-Premises to Cloud: Ephemeral Scale Testing Andrew Graham |
How to start a test automation framework and not die trying Juan Delgado |
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| 12:50-1:50 PM | Grab n’ Go Lunch Specials Level 3 Skybridge Terrace | |||
| Patio Level 3 | Level 2, Oregon Room | Level 2 Mezzanine | Level 3 Skybridge | |
| Enterprise IT Forum | Games We Play | Panel Discussion moderated by Michael Larsen & Bill Opsal The Release Day Crime Scene |
Every Metric for a QA Team Has Pitfalls Jenny Bramble, Willowtree Apps |
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| Level 3 Auditorium | Level 1 Plaza Room | Level 2 Mezzanine Room | Level 3 Skybridge Room | |
| Quality Engineering | Automation | People, Mgmt, and Leadership | ||
| 1:50-2:30 PM | Product Planning for Quality with Frank D’Andrea |
Why We Need New Software Testing Technologies Carol Oliver |
Adding process to increase quality without adding tests Michael Millerick |
Quality Guild: Creating a Culture Philip Daye |
| 2:40-3:20 PM |
Test Scenario Design Models: What Are They and Why Are They Your Key to Agile Quality Success? Robert Gormley |
Implementing a Test Automation Solution; One Valuable, Trusted Test at a Time Joel Gerbino |
Software Based Disruptive Change Initiatives Require a Culture of Quality Ying Ki Kwong |
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| 3:30-4:10 PM | Poster Paper Jam Session – Lobby Area |
Advanced Test Case Design Methods – Going Far Beyond Boundary and Equivalence Testing Subei Liu |
Test Automation and DevOps, Where to Begin Robert Taylor |
What It Takes to Be a Successful Scrum Master Anh Chi Nguyen |
| 4:10-4:30 PM | Break in Exhibit Hall Level 2 Mezzanine | |||
| 4:30-5:30 PM |
Keynote (Auditorium Level 3) Surviving The AI Testing Apocalypse |
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| 5:30-6:30 PM | Networking Happy Hour with Poster Paper Jam Session | |||
| 6:30 PM | Dine Around Portland | |||
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
| 7:00-10:00 AM | Registration and Wake Up with Coffee & Tea Level 2 Mezzanine | |||
| 8:00-8:15 AM | Welcome and Highlights for the Day Level 3 Auditorium | |||
| 8:15-9:20 AM |
Keynote (Auditorium Level 3) Remember This! The Science of Learning and Memory |
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| 9:20-9:40 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 |
Quality Engineering |
Technologies and Tools | Processes, Practices, and Methods | |
| 9:40-10:20 AM |
Agile Without Dedicated QA |
What Your UI Tests Need to Say Joseph Ferrara |
Testing for cognitive Bias in AI Systems Peter Varhol |
Being More Agile without Doing Agile Dawn Haynes |
| 10:30-11:10 AM |
Standards Are Necessary But Not Sufficient For Excellent Software David Card |
Writing Efficient Unit Tests for C++ Libraries Easa El Sirgany |
Moving to Continuous Delivery Culture: Cutting Releases Cadence Andy Peterson |
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| 11:20-12:00 PM | Poster Paper Jam Session |
Testing Mobile Software with Machine Learning: an introduction Jennifer Bonine |
Creating Quality with Mob Programming Thomas Desmond |
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| 12:00-1:00 PM | Grab n’ Go Lunch Specials Level 3 Skybridge Terrace | |||
| Patio Level 3 | Level 2, Oregon Room | Level 2 Mezzanine | Level 3 Skybridge | |
| Enterprise IT Forum | Games We Play | Panel Discussion with Sion Heaney DevOps in Context and Practice |
Engineering Quality Beer Jarek Szymanski, Tektronix |
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| Level 3 Auditorium | Level 1 Plaza Room | Level 2 Mezzanine Room | Level 3 Skybridge Room | |
| Invited Speakers |
Security and Performance |
Technologies and Tools | Processes, Practices, and Methods | |
| 1:00-1:40 PM |
The Dark Side of Test Automation |
Integrating Security into Software Development Life Cycle Bhushan Gupta |
Understanding and testing Blockchain John Cvetko |
Agile Where Agile Fears To Tread! Thomas Cagley |
| 1:50-2:30 PM |
Performance Testing with AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch, and RDS performance tools Daniel Kranowski |
Semi-autonomous, site-wide A11Y testing using an intelligent agent Keith Briggs |
Why Test Automation Initiatives Fail Jim Zuber |
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| 2:40-3:20 PM |
Panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Bramble |
Starting a Security Program on a Shoestring Brian Myers |
Achieving a Culture of Software Quality for Android Robots Vivek Kumar |
Behavior Driven Development – A Case Study in HealthTech Le Xiao |
| 3:20-3:40 PM | Break in Exhibit Hall Level 2 Mezzanine | |||
| 3:40-4:45 PM |
Keynote (Auditorium Level 3) Testing AI and Bias |
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| 4:45-5:00 PM | Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks | |||
| 5:00-6:00 PM | Networking Happy Hour, Level 3 Skybridge Terrace | |||
Wednesday, October 16, 2018
| 7:30 – 8:30 AM | Workshop Registration Opens | |||||
| Breaks 10:00 AM 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. | ||||||
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8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
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W01: Use Mind Maps to Increase Team Velocity and Communication to Customers Jan Jaap Cannegieter Squerist |
W02: Introduction to Automated Visual Validation Angie Jones |
W03: Demystifying AI-driven Test Automation Tariq King |
W04: Efficient Testing Melissa Tondi |
W05: System Performance Estimation, Evaluation and Decision (SPEED) Kingsum Chow |
W11: Hands-on Selenium Alan Ark |
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W06: CMD+CTRL Hackerthon Chad Holmes |
W07: Test Driven Development without Mocks James Shore |
W08: Augmenting Your Test Pyramid with Layered Front-End Testing Dionny Santiago |
W09: Unit Testing: What Every Developer and Tester Should Know Tariq King |
W10: Continuous Improvement beyond Retrospectives Adam Light |
W11: Hands-on Selenium Alan Ark |
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