Compiled by Phil Lew from the 2015 survey
We understand how difficult it can be to come up with a topic you feel is worthy of presentation. There are so many things to consider: Has it been done, is it interesting, will anybody care? To help you in your search, we’ve done some of the work for you and have assembled a list of “Hot Topics” for presentations.
These are ideas that are on everyone’s mind and that people want to hear and talk about. Some topics are old favorites like “Coding for QA”, while others are more timely – “Did Windows 10 matter?” Then there are the constantly evolving ones where, even though the name is the same, the content is completely different every year: “The OWASP Top 10”. We have a long list of thoughts and ideas to help get you energized and inspired!
Agile
- Agile in an Enterprise
- Agile testing management
- Agile, data, current issues and problems
- Future after Agile
- Best practices using Agile management tools (JIRA, VersionOne, etc.), Idea User story/Defect workflows
- When to quit following the agile book and adapt
Development and DevOps
- Coding for QA
- Code quality
- Best design/coding practices
- Legacy app development
- Cucumber Behavior Driven Development testing
- Code coverage: is it worth the trouble?
- Code Review
- Continuous Deployment in the Cloud
- Eclipse/IDE tutorials
- Dependency Injection
- Development engineers as QA engineers
- Test Driven Development
- Lean
- Mocks and stubs
- Acceptance Test Driven Development
- Developing a product versus web services
HR and Management
- Bringing new QA hires up to speed
- Changing mindset, industry trends
- Ways to motivate team members
- High performing teams
- Overcoming technical debt
- Startup SW Quality
- Best practices for managers going through acquisition process
- Deciding on the best thing to work on next (Impact Mapping)
Miscellaneous
- Embedded systems
- Internet of Things
- Did Windows 10 matter?
- Robotics
- 3-D printing
- Machine Learning
- Data Analysis
Performance and Security
- Cloud performance
- Web Security — OSWASP Top 10, etc.
- Security implementation + automation + tools
- Testing Cloud Computing
Process improvement and measurement
- Anything that had tangible/measurable results
- Metrics gathering that are useful aside from bug output
- Transforming internal process to improve
- Enforcing Quality Metrics through Automation
- Metrics that inform management and don’t make software teams cringe
Test Automation
- Automation reliability
- Automation using languages/technologies other than Selenium
- API automation
- How to approach automation i.e. the psychology of how to approach starting with these steps rather than a certain language or tool
- How to rapidly write test automation
- Test automation at UI level
- Test automation and CICD
- Test automation at unit test, end point and driver level, micro services architecture and automation
Test Management
- Tips on being a new manager for a resistant organization
- Manual test case management strategies
- QA Integration in development lifecycle
- Testing in uncertainty
- Test Case Writing
- Test driven design
- Test Metadata (how well do we know what we think we know)
- Ways to improve functional testing
- Unit testing
- Interplay and integration between tools (bug tracking versus test case management versus automation)
- Overview of different testing tools with pros and cons of each
User Experience
- User-centered approaches
- Usability – Getting started
- Mobile user experience
- Mobile usability
