PNSQC 2024 Conference At-A-Glance

Hosted in person and online from the Pacific Northwest

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. All times are Pacific time zone.

Note: This is a preliminary schedule. Times and locations are subject to change.

Monday, October 14, 2024

7:00 - 10:00	Registration and Wake Up with Coffee & Tea
8:00 - 8:15	Welcome and Highlights for the Day
8:15 - 12:15	W1 Leveraging the Power of AI in Software Testing Rachel and Carl Kibler	W2 Stop Wasting Time on Ineffective Retrospectives! Start Pursuing Real Continuous Improvement! Diana Larsen	W3 UI Automation using a Hybridization of Page Object and Logical Function Models Sophia McKeever	4 The New Tester's Handbook Heather Wilcox	W5 What’s Security Got To Do With It? Security Risk Management & the SDLC Caroline Wong	W10 Rapid Software Test Automation Michael Bolton
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch in the Ballroom
13:15 - 17:15	W6 Prompt Engineering for Software Quality Professionals Tariq King	W7 Solving the integration testing puzzle with Contract Testing Bas Dijkstra	W8 Lean Software Testing Michael Larsen & Matt Heusser	W9 Fully Autonomous Software Testing with Gen AI Jason Arbon	Open Lab	W10 Rapid Software Test Automation Michael Bolton

NEW FOR 2024: The opening night reception is on MONDAY night, after the workshops!

Join us at the University Place Hotel for an opening night reception from 6-9pm.

Conference Rooms

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

7:00 - 10:00	Registration and Breakfast - Ballroom
8:00 - 8:15	Welcome and Highlights for the Day
8:15 - 9:15	Keynote by Bas Dijkstra Do We Really Need A Test Automation Engineer?
	Track 1 Invited Speaker Sessions Ballroom	Track 2 Process & Tools Crater Lake	Track 3 Emerging Technologies & Concepts Coos Bay	Track 4 Management, Leadership & People Astoria	Track 5 Virtual Presenters Pyramid Lake
9:30 - 10:20	Building The Taj Mahal (One Popsicle Stick At A Time) Linda Wilkinson	Achieving Software Quality Excellence Through Software-Hardware Co-Design and Co-Verification Monica Bao	Secure Software, Inside and Out: Seven Steps Joye Purser CISSP PhD	What would you say you do here? Reframing your Role in the QA Field. Jeff Sing	Bringing the Dawn of Security & Compliance to Project Teams Vivek Mathur
10:30 - 11:20	Leading for the 21st Century: Building Resilient Learning Teams Diana Larsen	Software and Methods Supporting Legal Proceedings Kal Toth	IoT In The Matrix: Mocking External Dependencies For IoT Systems Using Physical Hardware Jovan Araiza	'Shifting Out': a crucial dimension to Left and Right Jon Bach	Mutating Test Scenarios Baubak Gandomi
11:30 - 12:20	Optimizing Your Testing Team Melissa Tondi	Tester's Handbook Heather Wilcox	Zero day bugs and the risk of a long deployment cycle Llewellyn Falco	Scaling tech work while maintaining quality (Hint: community is the answer) Katherine Payson	EMPTY
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch in the Ballroom
	Track 1 Invited Speaker Sessions Ballroom	Track 2 Process & Tools Crater Lake	Track 3 Emerging Technologies & Concepts Coos Bay	Track 4 Management, Leadership & People Astoria	Track 5 Virtual Presenters Pyramid Lake
13:30 - 14:20	Mistakes I Made So You Don't Have To Rachel Kibler	The Future is Finding Zero Bugs (in QA) Leslie Brooks	SQA skillset, AI and advancing medical research Tracy Burridge	Product Owner in Test Srilu Balla	Inside Scoop on Risk-Based Testing Robin Goldsmith
14:30 - 15:20	Panel: One is the Loneliest Number: Allyship and Survival Strategies for the "Only" on your team Elaine Hsieh, Moderator	Enhancing Validation Through Attestations Brent Clausner	Vulnerabilities in Deep Learning Language Models (DLLMs) John Cvetko)	Exceeding Expectations, Inspiring Quality. Nishadhi Nikalandawatte	EMPTY
15:30 - 16:20	AI-Augmented Testing: How Generative AI and Prompt Engineering Turn Testers into Superheroes, Not Replace Them Jonathon Wright	Integrating Generative AI for Quality Engineering into the Software Lifecycle Anastasiia Udovychenko	Signals-based Testing of Microsoft Office with an AI-Driven Robot Army Wayne Roseberry	Data Quality Assurance in Credit Card Fraud Detection Yuqing Yao	AI-Driven Techniques for Noise Filtration in Software Validation Logs Tarun Arora
16:30 - 17:30	Closing Keynote by Tariq King Humanizing AI
18:00 - 19:00	Happy Hour & Poster Presentations
19:00 - 21:00	Dine Around Portland

Conference Rooms

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

7:00 - 10:00	Registration and Breakfast - Ballroom
8:00 - 8:15	Welcome and Highlights for the Day
8:15 - 9:15	Keynote by Matt Heusser and Michael Larsen AI in Testing: Hip or Hype?
	Track 1 Invited Speaker Sessions Ballroom	Track 2 Process & Tools Crater Lake	Track 3 Emerging Technologies & Concepts Coos Bay	Track 4 Management, Leadership & People Astoria
9:30- 10:20	As a Constellation We Shine - Mentorship Through the Lens of Shine Theory Sophia McKeever	Quality Maturity Model: Driving Excellence in High-Growth Orgs Vidhya Ranganathan	Scaling Software Development Teams through QA Automation Justin Wolf, Damien Macielinski	Team Leadership in the time of remote silence Michal Buczko
10:30- 11:20	When Humans Tested Software Jason Arbon	The Test SDK: The SDET's Best Friend in Monolith-to-Microservices Migrations Wayne Ng	Agent-Based Digital Identity Architecture Kal Toth	Leveraging LinkedIn in your QA Job Search Susan Loth
11:30 - 12:20	Panel: Pragmatic Approaches to Building Secure Software Bhushan Gupta, Moderator	Greater Quality Through Tactical Domain-Driven Design John Connolly	Enhance Software Performance Testing using Artificial Intelligence Rini Susan V S	Leveraging Principles from Wiring The Winning Organization for Organizational Transformation Ron Wilson
12:30- 13:30	Lunch in the Ballroom
	Track 1 Invited Speaker Sessions Ballroom	Track 2 Process & Tools Crater Lake	Track 3 Emerging Technologies & Concepts Coos Bay	Track 4 Management, Leadership & People Astoria
13:30 - 14:20	TDD with ChatGPT Llewellyn Falco	Scaling Test Automation using a Metadata-centric architecture Donald Maffly	Revolutionizing Test Automation: Harnessing Generative AI to Empower Product Management and Accelerate SDLC Artem Golubev	We need to talk...(more) about Mental Health at work Veronika Betzel
14:30 - 15:20	Panel: Leadership in QA - The Future of Enterprise Software Ying Ki Kwong, Moderator	Quality Beyond Testing: Jenkins to GitHub Actions Migration for Optimized Processes and Quality Assurance Sagar Aghera	Influence of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Test Data Management Praveen Bagare	The Test Automation Blueprint: A Case Study Jeff Van Fleet
15:30 - 16:30	Closing Keynote by Michael Bolton What are we thinking in the age of AI?
16:30 - 17:00	Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks
17:00 - 19:00	Closing Reception @ The Cheerful Tortoise