: Expert Talks Pune: How your Test Departments are Killing your Businesses
About the talk
A test department is a group of testers, sometimes also called the test team or QA team, that reports to a different manager than those developers who implement the production code. Many companies still have test departments, and are more or less unaware of the fatal consequences. In this talk, Christian Hujer explains the inevitable mechanics about how organization structures with separate test departments are negatively impacting the businesses of corporations in multiple ways and shows simple ways out of the situation.
Speaker
Christian Hujer, founder of Nelkinda Software Craft, carries a tremendous experience in software development and software craftspersonship over 20+ years. He is a polyglot in languages (Prolog to Java), frameworks and development environments (smart card to server). He is keen at following best coding and software development process related practices for example XP, Clean Code practices, TDD. He always strives for better software and better environment.
Who should attend this talk
The target audience of this talks is everybody who is involved into software development: business analysts, CTOs, department heads, developers, line managers, product owners, project managers, quality assurance, scrum masters, testers.
Highlights of the talk
- Agile philosophies: Inspect and Adapt, XP Feedback Loop
- The Term "Team", Agile Teams
- Courage vs Fear
- How Important is Testing?
- Acceptance Test vs Integration Test vs Unit Test - How and When to Decide?
- Test Pyramid vs Test Cone
- Defect Detection or Defect Prevention
- KPIs for Teams
- Matrix vs Project Organization